were most of the tourney fish caught deep?

Was KVD fishing shallow on Sunday?

I read somewhere a couple of years ago that in anything that's mastered, violin, golf or even fishing one had to put in around 10,000 hours of practice in your craft to truly master it. That's 1250 8 hour days or 3.42 years.
That's why we're seeing these youngsters winning at golf like they do, that's all they do. I'm sure the professional fishermen are the same way, them guys eat, sleep & flat out live fish. Must be tough!
My name is Gunzel and I suck at fishing,

Welcome Gunzel, we all suck too, or at least the ones that will admit to it.

Interesting thing is the lack of overs. I think we would love to be able to count our slot fish. It doesn't happen a lot, but there are days where you can get on 8 slot fish or so in a day with a few unders sprinkled in. Doing it three days in a row, that's a different story. But fishing a tourney at fork makes you fish different. You target unders, and then go for an over, or focus solely on overs. Different rules, different approach.

These pros have their electronics dialed in so well that they do not any waste time. I don't have a clue what's underneath me as compared to what they see. Find baitfish find fish, period. They prefish and then hope what they've found is still there on tourney day. If not, they look for the same stuff.

Fork kicks me every time I go there. My name is Okie and I suck at fishing and reading electronics.

I fished Saturday morning on Fork

I had ZERO pros come into the cove I
fished

I caught ZERO fish

Yes......suck

it would be interesting to find out which local guides tutored which pros with information, and then see how they did.

remember every community hole has that certain sweet spot, that we "weekenders" never find, and if we do we rarely take notice.

Imagine fishing at least 5 days a week regardless of where you live.you do this for years. Honing your fishing skills. Using a graph almost every day. Being able to interpret what you're looking at and efficiently use your gps. You know your going to Fork months ahead of time so you begin to study maps and research the lake for months. You program everything into your graph and have everything plotted out already. You have 2 or 3 days to practice. You are on the water at daylight and off at night. You barely cast a bait the entire time. You graph and graph and graph while eliminating water. Each day you get a little closer to knowing what spots/Areas you will want to fish. How you want to fish. Exactly how each spot is laid out. What will give you the best chance to be successful. I can go on and on, but By the time these guys are ready for day 1 they are so dialed in to everything.
How in depth these guys are is incredible. It's no different than a skilled professional who has a trade that they've done for years and years. Day in and day out. Pro fisherman are in the zone 24/7 even when they have a tough day. Mother Nature is tough. Most avg fisherman have a day or two if they're lucky to go fish. We make do with the time we have to go and done days we get em and some we don't. Imagine what you could do with all the preparation on and off the water. I'm done babbling.

First of all, they put in more TOW in a month than I put in for 2 years.

Second, you've got to look at both ends. The bottom 10 weighed in 285 lbs in 2 days. Averaged less than a 3-lber when a large number of hungry 6-10 pounders were out there for the taking. And these are the best of the best - they proved themselves to be better than hundreds and thousands of other tournament fishermen. So for them to struggle like that proves to me that sometimes it just a tough lake.

There's always someone catching them on Fork and always someone blanking - just the nature of the beast. Even the pros struggle sometimes on a lake like Fork.

That being said, I agree with Mark. Mostly, it just proves how much we suck compared to them. But they're pros, and that's to be expected. I'm a decent golfer, but I wouldn't go hit balls next to Tiger, Rory or Spieth and expect to see no difference between the two of us.

First off I don't think that's legal to hire a guide before such a big tournament like that. Second of all these pros don't need guides. They would out fish most guides on fork any day.

These guys key on the things that most of us weekend warriors do not. I'm telling you..after having shared a boat with many of them in the last 4-5 years they got it down to a science. It's scary how good they are.

Yep. Razorback, you're dead wrong about network. Greg Hackney and Jared Lintner stayed at my place. Both struggled. You don't think the reigning AOY could get all the Lake Fork help he wanted and struggle do you? Neither of them got any info. KJ got no info. I fished with Jacob Powroznick in the ProAm. All his holes were community deep holes. He had been there once before and learned those holes on his own.

I could go on and on but can assure you there is much less of a network these days than there used to be. The guys were off limits for a month and Fork changed completely in that month. You believe what you will and I'm not saying it doesn't happen at some level, but frankly, we just suck!

They call it fishing.....not catching.....and I like it like that.....

I wish I had a community hole.

Wait, that didn't come out right.....


BTW - I still suck

Well wait, carp, nothing is going right today

I get all messed up with the Rangers give up 11 in 4 innings.