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Thanks all. Yeah, he got really excited for me.

Congrats to your son, that is an awesome memory to see your son catch his first bass. Hopefully the two of you will create many more memories fishing together.

Congrats, that is a nice hawg. I would have got a replica myself but that is a personal decision.

Congratulations to your son Bryan.

You can take out student loans and have them deposit the money into your bank account, I di this for my daughter when she was going to Radford University. She used the money to pay rent, utilities and groceries.

I am on vacation visiting my daughter in Memphis, TN. My friend Kent (aka RoadWarrior) offerred to take me out fishing and I said heck yeah and we had great day out on the water. Now it is time for me to head out to Coyote Ugly on Beale Street and party until the bars close at 3:00 AM. The picture quality is my fault, I only had my camera phone with me, I forgot to bring my real camera. That is why the quality of the photo is the way it is.

There are only two words needed to describe Kent, amazing friend. I say this because he took me fishing today and he also taught me all about my baitcaster setup. I have only been using a baitcaster since the begining of the year and was not able to cast that far with it. Kent took the time to explain the adjustments and I am now able to cast about twice as far as I could before we hooked up today and I am not having any backlashing issues. Once again thanks Kent. When I told him I wanted to buy another baitcaster reel he let me try out two of his Shimano baitcasters and they are awesome. I may just have to buy one of those Shimanos. Now on to the day of fishing, I met up with Kent at his house at approximately 5:30 AM this morning to go fishing. The first fishing hole turned out to be quite the honey hole and Kent knew the contour probably better than the developers that created it. He was able to tell me about all underwater humps, brush piles and rock piles. After only about 30 minutes Kent sent me over to a drainage pipe that feeds into the pond and explained about the contour and told me where to cast. After only three casts the fight was on with a nice hawg, she hit my BPS Laser Eye Nitro (the egg) like a frieght train. I fought her for a few minutes before getting her to shore, when we put her on the scale she weighed in at 6.1 lbs. What a great way to start off this day. Kent you are the man for being my guide for the day. After a few hours at this pond we went to a couple more ponds and we did ok, we hooked into a few fish but nothing over a couple of pounds. This was an awesome day and Kent is a great teacher and friend. If you ever get a chance to fish with him you should take advantage of it. Here is the big fish of the day.

WTG guys, that sounds like a good time out on the water.

Congrats on the new PB

Congrats, that is a nice looking fish.

Thats a nice looking hawg you got there.

Congrats, nice fish.

Welcome back.

It is good to see how close these guys are and that they look out for each other. I am convinced that God watches out over all of us and hearing stories like this confirm my beliefs.

I like both the Gamakatsu and Owner hooks.

It is private and you have to be a member of the HOA. If you are a member then you have to pay the fee for the sticker for your car and a key.

Congrats on the new PB, that is one nice looking hawg.

Where can we get in on that deal? I think 12 evolution jigs for $20 is a bargain.

I really like the BPS Bionic Blade and BPS Extreme rods. The BPS Laser Eye Nitro crankbaits have caught a lot of fish for me. I've had 20 and 30 fish days using them. x2 On the BPS Rattle Shads. http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_51808____SearchResults http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_51810____SearchResults http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_51811____SearchResults

Congrats on the PB. nice looking fish.

It is hard to beat a jig and craw, if you want a bigger profile use a jig and lobster.

Congrats Paul, that is one beautiful looking hawg you got with the eeliminator.

Thanks for all the positive feedback folks, I am going to tell my wife to go ahead to get it for me. I am really looking forward to getting it next month.

Thanks for the feedback all, I am thinking that I will pair it up with a Falcon Cara MH 7'0, the rod was recommended to me by Big O. He also gave me a Big O thumbs up on the reel.

The wife wants to get me something for my birthday next month and I am thinking about telling her I want one of the Quantum® Tour Edition® PT Baitcast reels. Does anyone have one of these? If so, how do you like it? I currently have a KVD Signature Series Baitcaster reel and I have been very happy with it so I figured I would add this. I appreciate any and all comments about this reel. Ron