80K-100K To Be In The Pro's?

[derekxec]

See the thing about me is that I don't believe in luck.  I believe in hard work will get you what you want.  

 

 

hard work is BS...you dont get rich famous and #1 by doing hard work

[Zach Dunham]

hard work is BS...you dont get rich famous and #1 by doing hard work

 

I really hope you are joking.

[SirSnookalot]

derekxec, on 28 Aug 2013 - 13:03, said:

hard work is BS...you dont get rich famous and #1 by doing hard work

Smart work not hard work.

[ChrisAW]

I wouldn't say that is luck at all. Aaron Martens changed the probability distribution of the outcomes by making a long run in dangerously rough water. He made a breakdown more likely than it should have been and it happened. It is all just a risk/reward system. He may have had better fish there but he also may not make it back in time or at all. He knew this and made the choice to do that anyways.

 

Actually, the conditions were a bit rough but not dangerously bad. Aaron Martins said it himself -

 

 

Here's the rest of the story, as briefly as possible, according to Martens and verified by Mason:

 

"The area I was fishing got calmer than it had been all day the last two hours I was there," Martens said. "I didn't think it was going to be rough going back, but I still left myself plenty of time. After about 20 miles, I started running into 4-footers. I knew then it was going to be bad.

 

"I didn't expect that at all. But I was still OK on time. About a mile from the gas dock, just before you get to the river, the boat wakes were huge."

 

Martens had planned to gas up at a dock that was about 36 or 37 miles from the weigh-in site. As Lake Erie narrowed into the Detroit River, Martens took the middle between three big boats that were cruising by – two in one direction, one in the other – a 50-footer on one side, two 30- to 35-foot boats on the other. The wind and three big boats combined to create the perfect storm.

 

"You want to back off plane in that situation," Martens said. "I just caught a wave wrong. It was like a perfect drop-kick into the corner (of a football field). It wasn't that we hit it so hard, we just kind of twisted (upon landing)."

 

 

Sounds like bad luck more than anything. No one else had a breakdown, and quite a few other anglers went to Erie as well. Maybe if he would have made a couple more casts, he wouldn't have happened into that "perfect storm" of waves that cause a failure with his jack plate.

 

Not sure why you're trying to deny the fact that luck is part of fishing, whether you want to call it that, or "probability distributions." Freak things happen, good or bad, that change a persons day, things that skill or hard work cannot help you avoid or stop them.

[J Francho]

Random.  Luck.  Probability.  Some things math and science can't explain. 

[Glenn]

We have about 100 videos from the pros talking about all of this, including the costs involved.  This is where sponsorship comes into play.  These guys can't do what they do without the help of sponsors.

 

Check out the videos

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-videos/#1