Ml, I too do not have a big bass boat but have more problems with boaters and jet skiers, etc than tournamanet fisherman. The tourneys do alot of good gettng kids involved. These kids may not have like you and I learned this from our dads taking us when we were young. They have kids casting days etc.
For 4 yrs I was responsible for data entry for tournament reports. This was required by every Bass Fed club in GA. ABout 300-500/yer. It supplied great trend data on catchbaility, etc. By professor reported some this info in In-Fisherman a few years ago from his 20 yrs of doing this. IMHO this supplies bilogist better info they can get from one afternoon of boat shocking. So this is another example of teh beneftis from these tournaments.
