re: How much skill do professional fishermen really have?

It's still skill. kVD sat in the same tank pond as 20 or so other anglers fishing the same techniques and he still smoked them. He knows how to work the baits, which color, size, depth, and action to fish with.

Everytime they have a tourney, fishermen are stacked up fishing the same fish and the same few rise to the top more often than not