First of all, my ego is allowing me to enjoy every comment on this thread. You people are great.
Secondly, let me predict for you how I think I'd do if I fished ten tournaments against 100 really good bass pros.
Here's my finish by tournament:
97th
94th
99th
5th
90th
98th
6th
91st
95th
99th
I think that if the patterns were something that I was familiar with I'd do really well, but when it would come time to do something that I'm not experienced at, I'd get killed--at least for a couple of years until I refined my techniques.
The worst part is this. I did an analysis this morning of what my time availability looks like for the next few years while my kids are at home, and you know what I found? I found that I'd have to give up pondmeistering to be able to do this.

I think that I'd love to try a local tournament though.
Sue, do you think you could bring your boat out this way?
