The reality of trying to maintain a full time job and chase tournaments is far from the romantic version that plays in my head during meetings…and not the version I tell most people who ask.  I mean how do you turn working long hours as a manufacturing engineer, then driving anywhere from one to thirteen Read more

How do you decide where to launch for tournaments when your pre-fishing has revealed nothing about where the fish are located? You are on Kentucky Lake, the water is 87-90 degrees (in the shade), you fished a local CAKFG tournament the week before with mediocre results…they have opened up Barkley, but you haven’t fished your Read more

Maybe it is because I am tired.  Maybe I should think about “my personal recap of Chickamauga” before I post it.  Maybe I will do that after I finish typing, but I doubt it…I didn’t make as many terrible decisions as I have till now by stopping to think. I do plan to write a Read more

Joy and I are sitting in a hotel somewhere in Ohio, seven hours from home.  Tired.  We stopped for gas and decided that we were not going to get started again.  Armed with snacks we have settled in to sleep, something I personally haven’t done a lot of the last few days. Leaving Clarksville after Read more

The setting for the Hobie BOS last weekend was Kentucky and Barkley Lakes, and as always, it was a well managed tournament.  With AJ, Kevin and Morgan at the helm; Michael Christopher on site to address any potential issues with iAngler…the venue at Kentucky Dam Village…Elena Blevins of the Kentucky Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau…the Read more