02-04-2017, 05:11 AM
Responding to this part:
[quote The_Red_Leaker]... Lesson learned for me. If you're looking for a lottery go ahead and play. If you're looking to test your skills against other competent anglers, look elsewhere.[/quote]
Thanks! Advice I needed to know!
Even being very interested, I took this long to finally read about this tournament because I was somewhat regretting missing it.
I've been thinking of tournament ice fishing a lot over the last few years. I missed the latest two opportunities for what could have been my first tournament. It looks like from the posts on both that my relaxing in comfort at Flaming Gorge was time much better spent because they got their tents and gear blown off Fish Lake and this one sure wasn't what I studied in preparation for being competitive and maybe winning a tournament.
Over the years, I've read many articles from professional ice fishing tournament competitors. They described what worked is a lot of dedication, scouting and pre-fishing and even then a lot of physical work running around drilling holes to find the fish and it was a challenge with great physical endurance they had giving them the greatest advantage in sharp contrast to luck the way it was set up in this tournament as described.
I took what I studied seriously and to prepare to have endurance to win, I resumed my bicycling with that also in mind though I would have anyway for health and physical fitness for living a good life.
I've ice fished running around drilling many holes and using advantages of my MarCum LX-9 to locate structure advantages or suspended fish. I bought the best of equipment. I even have digital depth indicators on my reels to run from hole to hole as the fish move and quickly get to their exact depth. I've been preparing for a real ice fishing tournament.
The leveling the playing field is my main notice of this one as not what I'm seeking because it's negating the advantages I've strived to gain and to me the whole point of competition I seek. As pointed out, this one has greater similarities to the lottery only with an ice fishing theme and family friendly. I shouldn't criticize that because people want that, so it should be available as it is.
But, I'm glad I didn't mistakenly enter this one and now realize that the tournament I seek to enter is a professional ice fishing tournament. I'm not saying I would do well against professionals with much greater skills and experience, at least for my first, but that's the type of tournament I seek.
People will be watching something called the Super Bowl this Sunday though it isn't really important like ice fishing
They're interested in watching the best of the best compete. The conditions of that game preclude it from being family friendly with players having their children with them on the field. If it were that, it likely wouldn't have it's huge devotion of fans. I don't think picnics in the park with touch football are televised.
I do work on having advantages for competition. I remember as a summer job when I was in high school as a bicycle mechanic, the shop owner saw me repairing a rear tire puncture on my bicycle during lunch. When he came back a while later, knowing I was the first choice of local professional racers for wheel building, seeing me still "repairing" the same one, he exclaimed that it shouldn't take that long! I said it didn't and I had practiced it over a hundred times in that short amount of time and getting much faster. He asked why would you practice for speed? I said: "That's racing, too!"
Yes, that sure sounds silly, but not long after that in a large event that attracted professional bicycle racers, I was in the front pack with them when I got a rear tire puncture. The professionals instantly knew by the rotating hissing sound that the race was over for me as I quickly pulled out and braked hard to stop before rolling on a fully deflated tire.
You should have seen the expressions on their faces just minutes later as I joined them again from a hard sprint! That was memorable! I exclaimed: "That's racing, too!"
Anyway, now I know there are "tournaments" and then there are tournaments and it's important to know the difference!
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[quote The_Red_Leaker]... Lesson learned for me. If you're looking for a lottery go ahead and play. If you're looking to test your skills against other competent anglers, look elsewhere.[/quote]
Thanks! Advice I needed to know!
Even being very interested, I took this long to finally read about this tournament because I was somewhat regretting missing it.
I've been thinking of tournament ice fishing a lot over the last few years. I missed the latest two opportunities for what could have been my first tournament. It looks like from the posts on both that my relaxing in comfort at Flaming Gorge was time much better spent because they got their tents and gear blown off Fish Lake and this one sure wasn't what I studied in preparation for being competitive and maybe winning a tournament.
Over the years, I've read many articles from professional ice fishing tournament competitors. They described what worked is a lot of dedication, scouting and pre-fishing and even then a lot of physical work running around drilling holes to find the fish and it was a challenge with great physical endurance they had giving them the greatest advantage in sharp contrast to luck the way it was set up in this tournament as described.
I took what I studied seriously and to prepare to have endurance to win, I resumed my bicycling with that also in mind though I would have anyway for health and physical fitness for living a good life.
I've ice fished running around drilling many holes and using advantages of my MarCum LX-9 to locate structure advantages or suspended fish. I bought the best of equipment. I even have digital depth indicators on my reels to run from hole to hole as the fish move and quickly get to their exact depth. I've been preparing for a real ice fishing tournament.
The leveling the playing field is my main notice of this one as not what I'm seeking because it's negating the advantages I've strived to gain and to me the whole point of competition I seek. As pointed out, this one has greater similarities to the lottery only with an ice fishing theme and family friendly. I shouldn't criticize that because people want that, so it should be available as it is.
But, I'm glad I didn't mistakenly enter this one and now realize that the tournament I seek to enter is a professional ice fishing tournament. I'm not saying I would do well against professionals with much greater skills and experience, at least for my first, but that's the type of tournament I seek.
People will be watching something called the Super Bowl this Sunday though it isn't really important like ice fishing
They're interested in watching the best of the best compete. The conditions of that game preclude it from being family friendly with players having their children with them on the field. If it were that, it likely wouldn't have it's huge devotion of fans. I don't think picnics in the park with touch football are televised.
I do work on having advantages for competition. I remember as a summer job when I was in high school as a bicycle mechanic, the shop owner saw me repairing a rear tire puncture on my bicycle during lunch. When he came back a while later, knowing I was the first choice of local professional racers for wheel building, seeing me still "repairing" the same one, he exclaimed that it shouldn't take that long! I said it didn't and I had practiced it over a hundred times in that short amount of time and getting much faster. He asked why would you practice for speed? I said: "That's racing, too!"
Yes, that sure sounds silly, but not long after that in a large event that attracted professional bicycle racers, I was in the front pack with them when I got a rear tire puncture. The professionals instantly knew by the rotating hissing sound that the race was over for me as I quickly pulled out and braked hard to stop before rolling on a fully deflated tire.
You should have seen the expressions on their faces just minutes later as I joined them again from a hard sprint! That was memorable! I exclaimed: "That's racing, too!"
Anyway, now I know there are "tournaments" and then there are tournaments and it's important to know the difference!
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