Joe I've read parts of the book too. It seemed like Tom Mann was just blowing his own horn throughout the book. I did read one part that really bothered me. During practice for a tournament he found some scattered brush on the edge of a channel near a marker buoy. Another competitor saw him catching bass, so when Tom left the other competitor came over to fish the spot. After the tournament meeting (the night before the first day) Tom went out on the lake, hooked up the channel marker to his boat and towed it 100 yards away. Tournament day, the other angler went to the channel marker and caught nothing, while Tom went to the spot and loaded the boat. My problem with this is the following two things:
1. It is illegal, and dangerous to relocate a channel marker.
2. B.A.S.S. and every other tournament trail has it in the rules that an angler is not allowed back on the water after the tournament meeting. I'm not sure if that was a rule at the time Tom did this, but it makes me wonder.
After reading that part of the book, I had no desire to continue with it.
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Tim Carini : Bassin' USA Prostaff : New York