Poacher, it aint just about the top pros. It's every Saterday at every major boat ramp in the spring, and summer.

I get to the boat ramp and am told to wait until all of the tourny fishermen have launched thier boats. When I finally get my boat in the water there is nowhere to park.

Aperently the faster they go the more fish they catch. pull up to a spot throwing wake all over whoever is around, make 3 cast and then try to swamp your boat again.

Pull up and start fishing right infront of you.

When back at the boat ramp, get preached at about catch and release, while they waistfully thow back dead fish. At least I cook mine.

While it is true that noone owns the public waters, this crap makes it very difficult to enjoy fishing in bodies of water near my home, when being flooded with out-of-towners coming to fish favorite places of mine just for competition. Afterall he is trying to make a few bucks on places that I like to go to relax on my day off work.

Yes, I know all tourney fishermen do not think this way, but it is the majority of them, or is at least enough of them to cause major headaches.