Originally Posted by bowtarist
I don't really have a problem with the tournaments I don't guess. It's mainly hate the rude behavior that most of them have. I have met several of the pro's and 95% of them seemed like good guys and when I've seen them on the water the good ones seemed very respectful. The ones in the other smaller tournaments are the real pricks. The ones that I guess are trying to make a name for themselves and your in their way. I had one about run me over last saturday. I was scanning a small creek mouth and he blew out of there on plane and I had to floor it to get out of his way. He had about 80 yards before he got to me to set his boat down but when he come around that last S curve, he gunned it. This is a creek channel thats only big enough for one boat. If he would have met me in the creek channel, it would have been a disaster.


Unfortunately we have fools in every sport. An idiot behind the wheel of a bass boat is an accident waiting to happen.

A few years backI was fishing a tournament on Guntersville, out of Goose Pond. I left in the first flight andI was in the front, headed to Mud Creek. Just before the B.B. Comer bridge I ran into a solid wall of fog, I immediately let off the throttle and idled as fast as possible to get through it, hoping the guys behind me had enough sense to do the same. After about 10 seconds of idling a bass bait blew by me to my left about 25 yards! He was headed south and had blasted off in a tournament out of Mud Creek. Too many idiots run through hazardous conditions while relying on their GPS!!!