Robert, I do not know much but you are welcome to go with me anytime. I have been Blessed beyond my widest dreams to have learned from some of the best longliners in Georgia that can compete with anyone in the Country. IMHO, Tournament fishing will give you the quickest learning curve. When you spend money to enter you just can not pack up and say the fish are not biting. You have to keep trying some thing new. I still try to learn something new every time I go.