12poundbass

Let’s hear the recipe 😁

Regular tea for me. I drink a glass everyday with dinner. I’ve tried sweet tea and I’m not a fan. I’m not a big sugar person so that probably has a lot to do with it.

Congrats on the new rig!

Michigan I guess I have some catching up to do. 😂

My memory sucks so I label everything. Jigs, cranks, terminal tackle by type, size, and weight.

I spy a Stormy Kromer eh! Nice central Michigan buck!

Nice! I found one to fit my boat that’s 45% off.

Welcome to Bassresource!

What’s supposed to happen when you post “big game”? 🤔

Under warranty?

Dang that’s one heck of a side hustle!

That’s my wife’s favorite

The American buffalo was hunted to almost extinction 200 years ago. The list goes on and on of animals who did go extinct or endangered. It human greed. I do agree with you regarding technology had changed things a lot for the worse. Humans suck in general. Some are good. 😁

Agreed, but going back to my post from yesterday (I believe?) professional bass fishing is a big gamble plain and simple.

He stayed quiet up until now. He’s consistently in the bottom 1/3 of the pack when it comes to AOY, so he’s probably going to lose his hobby. He also knows he can’t cut it in the Opens to qualify for the Elites so he’ll likely lose his sponsors. He’ll be just fine though, he’s loaded and this is pretty much a hobby for him.

Glad to hear from you. Hopefully things continue to head in the right direction.

Exactly! It’s basically a huge Thursday night fruit jar league.

Professional bass fishing is a huge gamble anyways and most go broke chasing the dream of hitting it big. Very few have sponsorship deals that could actually support them without winnings. To put things in perspective let’s look at Gerald Swindle. career earnings $2.44 million over 24 years/ 317 tournaments. That’s averaging $7,700 per tournament and averaging 13 tournaments per year. That’s $100k per year. Not bad. Then you figure in taxes, insurance, travel expenses, entry fees, etc and you’re not left with much. He obviously has great sponsors and makes great money off from them but he’s in the minority. Ike gets a bad rap for his antics and over the top personality but he was ahead of the game even before social media. He has a degree in marketing and saw there was untapped potential for non endemic sponsorship and figured out a way to stand out, make money off from sponsorship, and survive without winning. Now you see more and more anglers doing this! Zona saw Seth Feider was a good stick and gave him some advice. He told him to do something to stand out to draw attention to himself (sponsorship) he told Feider to go with a mullet and the llama was born!

Die Hard If it can be a Christmas movie it can be a Halloween movie. 😂

Been there done that. When our company was bought out almost two years ago I was given the task of managing my crew which at times were upwards of 21 techs, dispatching the work, damage investigations, difficult locates, multiple meetings, safety presentations with our customer, and 10% audits of all work the techs did. I told them I couldn’t do it all and that I needed help. I didn’t get it and left in April. There are now three people doing everything I was doing. No extra compensation for me either. I agree with others, don’t kill your self to try and get everything done otherwise you’ll be stuck with the job. Obviously you don’t want to half a$$ it either, but from my experience, if you are able to handle it they’ll totally take advantage of it. I’ve seen it plenty of times over the years.

Try this out.

@DaubsNU1 I used to hunt Dawes county Nebraska (Chadron). We hunted a 30k acre buffalo ranch. My friend’s family had been hunting it for 25 or so years and last year he told me the property owner called him and said another group offered way more money. Pretty sad deal. There weren’t many mule deer on the property but you go a mile or so south and you’d run into them. There were plenty of giant whitetail though. The four years I went was a blast. I always chuckled in the morning seeing the locals drive to their spots in their trucks. You could see their cargo lights glowing in the dark as they stayed warm waiting for the sun to come up. We never heard much shooting from the trucks, yet we tagged out every year. 😁

I don’t want to talk about it 🤬

That is a bet I would not take.😂 I sure hope the ten pointer we got on camera early Friday morning is his dad.

I sure wish I had your same problem. 😁