Our Mississippi and many other rivers and lakes in the U.S. are now crowded with full-time, professional contestants in $100,000+ boats, trailers, etc. many of whom have no legitimate occupation. They are rude, thoughtless persons who ignore all common sense and thoughts of courtesy. If you don’t believe me, ask any lock and dam operator (or truly recreational boater) on the Mississippi<——I love the (truly recreational boater) part! Is he referring to the kind of guy that doesn’t know how to launch his boat or the other guy in 50 foot tuna boat that goes screaming by everybody nearly throwing them out of the boat with his ridiculous sized wake just because he loves the way his giant gas eating engine sounds. Seriously though, the people who are against tournaments are starting to make a lot of noise. It seems that they are making a lot more than the guys who fish them. As a tournament angler myself (who doesn’t have $100,000 rig and has a legitimate job) I/we need to start standing up for our rights, because this is starting to get out of control. There is a reason you don’t see any of the good things that have come from the culling studies and that is because the DNR wants to ban tournaments and is giving people who don’t know any better biased information. We need to start makin some noise fellas!