A long time ago I fished the Southern Kingfish Association circuit. The goal was always to become a sponsored team because this a pretty expensive endeavour. We'd fish about ten weekends and hope to accumulate enough points to make it to the year end finale in Biloxi. That's where the boat manufacturers would take notice a d our goal was to get a deal. The low end sponsored teams would get a boat at cost and a couple of bucks per tournament and then sell the boat at the end of the year to recover some expenses, so once you got a boat the pressure was crazy each week to get fish on the board.
Typically we would pre-fish a couple of days before the tournament to learn the area. One day of the tournament the committee boat was stopping and searching coolers on the way out, and you guessed it, most of the company boats already had a fish from the day before. No fish big enough to win and have to take the lie detector, but big enough to earn points towards Biloxi. My two buddies and I decided that day we could find something else to do with our time and money.
Typically we would pre-fish a couple of days before the tournament to learn the area. One day of the tournament the committee boat was stopping and searching coolers on the way out, and you guessed it, most of the company boats already had a fish from the day before. No fish big enough to win and have to take the lie detector, but big enough to earn points towards Biloxi. My two buddies and I decided that day we could find something else to do with our time and money.