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Originally Posted by GregAndrew

The most entertaining part of this thread are the interpretations of some guys about what other guys just typed. But that is true about almost every forum. Some of the arguments on both sides are just about as funny too. Assuming that everyone has time to put in 20 trips to catch their first target species is about as dumb as believing that everyone in favor of the school of hard knocks fell into a code group putting them on bites. It is amazing how ingrained hyperbole (look it up) has become in our daily arguments. I will say that it is highly unlikely that anyone is going to start off regularly catching "trophy" fish without some excellent mentoring. And it is also unlikely that anyone that cuts down the "learning curve" will ever fathom what they missed.