FishinChip15

Hey fellow fisherman! My name is Donald, and I have been fishing since I was about three (I'm 21 now). I was a sophmore at Colorado State University this past spring semester, but then my appendix ruptured, which also resulted in a liver abscess, and had to medically withdraw from college due to the extensive recovery time. I decided to go to Germany with my dad (Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, soon to be Colonel) because it would be a great opportunity to go to Europe (and there are some awesome fish here!) before I enlist in the Air Force as either a Loadmaster or a Joint Terminal Attack Controller. I first started fishing with my grandpa, who is a very serious tournament fisher, when I was about two. But at the time I had epilepsy, so I was hospitalized a lot. But whenever I was at home, I always wanted to fish with grandpa. I continued to fish until my 21st birthday until I got my own fishing gear, and that was when I really started to get into the specifics and details about fishing. I caught lots of trout, some bass (I hold a lake record for largemouth at 4.4 lbs haha) and some pike. Just before I moved to Europe, I visited my grandparents in Tennessee, where I caught a 37 inch lake trout, a 20lb and a 40lb striped bass, and a 8lb smallmouth. Needless to say that was pretty awesome, and I have been anxious about fishing here in Germany! I am set to go this week!

Back in the states, my cousin and I were fishing a big pond/small lake. We could clearly see that there were bass here and plenty of structures and places for them to hide and ambush. So we decided it would be a great day to drop shot. Every time we hooked up to a bass, the d**n animal would run to cover so feakin fast that there was nothing you could do. I went through a bag of Roboworms in the span of an hour. My cousin lost his Rebel PopR to a tree and his chatterbait to a snapping turtle.