Internet Home Businesses, Time Management and Fishing Tournaments - What Do They All Have in Common?

Do you think Google is going to think I am trying to Keyword stuff this title? When you read this article, you will see that I am not, but it sure looks that way.

Let me start off by bringing in the fishing tournament component. The tournament that I am familiar with is Bass tournaments and that will be my example for today. In short form the purpose of the Bass tournament is within the time frame of the tournament, lets say 2 days, you want to catch the biggest 6 bass, you can only turn in 6 bass, you want to make sure you turn in your 6 biggest. Got it so far?

This next part is important, listen up. Since you can only turn in 6 bass, you want to be sure that if you catch 7 bass, that you throw back the 7th one, which ever that one is, you want to be sure it's the lightest, (biggest means heaviest) So...... until you catch 6 bass, the weight of the fish you have is immaterial, correct?

Weight of your fish only starts to matter once the 7th bass is caught. Now, here is a question for you, you have 7 bass, how many fish do you need to know their weights for? Think about it for a second, the answer is at the bottom of this article.

That's right; all you need to know is the weight of the lightest two. As explained at the bottom, the lightest fish goes back into the lake; you can only hand in 6 bass for the final weigh in.

For the rest of the tournament, all you need to know for every new bass you catch, is it lighter than the 6th lightest bass you have, if its lighter, back into the lake, if its heavier, the one in your live holding tank goes back into the lake, and the new bass, which may or may not be the 6th lightest, goes into the holding tank. This is an interesting juncture, the new bass, which may or may not be the 6th lightest, certainly was heavier than the previous lightest, and will be part of the 6 fish you submit at the weigh in, UNLESS you catch another bass, and then we have a dilemma.

What is that dilemma? Of course, the dilemma could be this, the new bass, the new, maybe number 6, could very well be a monster, could in fact be the heaviest fish you caught that day, who knows, till we weigh him. We did not have to weigh him before, why, because all he had to be was heavier or lighter than the known lightest fish out of the original 6. That all changes now, with the arrival of a new bass, with this arrival, we need to know his weight to see if he outweighs any other fish and which one, then we know who gets tossed into the lake and who stays.

I have one more tie in to mention, remember, the title of the article. Let's go back to the original 6 bass, we knew which one was the lightest because we had to know which one that was, because when we caught bass number 7, we have to have a way of determining who stays, and who gets to go back into the lake. (Actually they all get to go back into the lake, all of the fish are held in live tanks on the boats, at the end of the tournament, after the weigh in, all of the fish are put in a trough by the scale and they all slip back into the lake.) This is very interesting, and a direct tie into the title and purpose of this article. Here is another trick question, at this point, for this weigh in; do we need a scale to determine who goes and who stays? Answer at the bottom of this article

You are right, all we need to find out, which is lightest between these two only and we do not need a scale for that.

I am going to go into the connection between Internet Home Businesses, Time Management and Fishing Tournaments in my next article.