First of all, you really have to love this sport to want to try to make a living at it. It is somewhat like starting your own business. You give it 110 percent, along with every ounce of energy, money, time and enthusiasm that you ve ever had. Then you hope and pray that you get a return. And, like most businesses, that usually doesn t happen overnight.
Most success comes from being prepared.
However, at tournament time, there are always a few things over which you have no control. Consider a few of the more humorous things that a tournament angler gets to deal with. When I started tournament fishing, I honestly thought Mother Nature was trying to tell all of us women to go home. It seemed as if every tournament week brought bad weather. When I had fished recreationally, I could choose the days that I wanted to go fishing.