Fishing and (mostly) fun

  • HOT – ’nuff said….

    Disclaimer….this post may ramble ’cause the heat has made me a bit delirious according to my Joy… HOT. I really do not know what else to say about the last three days of fishing. HOT, HOT, HOT….I guess saying it three times is not really saying anything different. On Friday I squeezed in two hours Read more

  • Connect Scale….email???

    Connect Scale….email???

    I was sitting in a meeting with some sheet metal vendors, pretending to be a manufacturing engineer instead of an avid angler, discussing costs. It was one of hundreds of meetings I attend in the role that keeps me in food and clothing between (and during) tournaments; during a lull in the details, the subject Read more

  • Voices and Buzzin’ in my head…

    Home from Arkansas and the KBF Grand/Beaver Lakes Open. I listed Grand Lake first, because the majority of the top finishers were on that lake; most fishing the same area. I chose to fish Beaver Lake – well, I chose to pre fish on Beaver Lake first then asked for some info on Grand Lake Read more

  • from Guntersville to the depths of Ky Lake….

    Quick story from Guntersville, Alabama….a mediocre performance; it seems my standard for the fishery…then a little about today. I drove down to Alabama late Friday night, arriving at Mudd Creek boat ramp around 1 a.m. Saturday morning. It was a bit early, so I thought I would catch a quick nap. At 2 a.m., the Read more

  • the 2018 Hobie Open…as fished by me.

    The sun was not yet up. Two fish were already on the phone, pics ready for submittal. Three more had exploded on the $1 white WalMart buzzbait with a chartreuse tail (tail up as always), two coming unpinned after a couple of cranks on the Shimano Sahara mounted on a St. Croix Avid rod. All Read more

  • 5 YEARS…5K…5000 MILES…

    I had just logged over 5000 miles in May attending KBF tournaments in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Florida (not to mention fishing before or after work) when questions were asked of me. “What do you get out of it?” I knew what KBF means to me, what kayak fishing had given me…the joy of the Read more