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My wife and I would love to attend this road trip we have a friend with a cabin 4 miles from the lodge and would stay there. My question is how would attendence and the logistics work if I'm not at the lodge. I'm new to bass resource so I'm a little green as to what all y'all do here. I really want to make this trip I'm no pro but an avid angler but have really only fished in Georgia and would love to go out with you guys. Any info you can provide me with would be greatly apprecieated.

My wife and I were out fishing and had been on the lake for a few hours it was mid summer and hot so I had anchored the boat near the shore to get in the shade of the overhanging trees to take a break and re-tie some tackle. My wife picked up my zebco 33 rigged with a live worm and a cork; I typically bring it along in case nothing else is really bitting. So there we sat me re-rigging poles while she fished. I was about half way through with what I was doing when I looked up and saw my wife with the Rod she was using nearly bent all the way down to the water. "You get hung on some timber?" was the fist thing I asked with a smirk. That smirk quickly vanished as the line began to scream off the reel. She quickly handed the rod to me and I immeditly felt how much weight was on the other end. 12 mins later I finally got to see it, she had hooked into a 28lb grass carp. It was a heck of an experience