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Each season I adopt a slogan that I believe will help me in my fishing and in life in general. For example, my 2006 slogan was "Back to the Basics".
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During my 18 year career as a professional BASS angler I've
usually been able to analyze the day 1 stats to figure out what it
would take to earn a check. Lets look at a typical event and I'll tell
you how it used to work. 50th place gets paid after 2 days, so lets say
the person in 50th place had 14 pounds after day one. Double that
weight, subtract a pound, and that will usually get you pretty close to
what it should take to earn some $$. In this case that would be 28-1=27
so I'd guess that close to 27 pounds would get paid. 
While preparing for Toho, I've been spending a lot of time reflecting on the
2007 Elite Series — not just on my season, although after the tournament
I certainly want to share some of my thoughts with you on that, but rather more
on the position professional bass fishing has attained, and where it may be
going from here. 
I've got mixed feelings about the upcoming Legends event at Lake Dardanelle, Ark. 
What do you do when you've got one Elite Series event left and you're
right on the bubble for the Classic? You dust your brain off and muster
up some memories of long-lost statistics and math classes to try and
figure out just what your chances are and what you need to be shooting
for. All you junior-highers that are wondering if you'll ever use what
you're learning, here's proof positive that you will (unless you're
KVD, because he's always too far up in the standings to need it).