My 4 year olds first time TIG welding. With some assistance....

A-Jay

since I didn't have a tournament on Sunday, she took me out to the Phillies game. Tony Luke's cheese steak, and a couple of brews on a beautiful afternoon. I'll take it. 

Proud papa. My boy made it through high school, and with all grades in the 90's! 

Now, get a job, and a haircut...

Reflecting back on when Lake Ontario was around two feet low, while right now it's almost three feet high, billions of dollars in damages, a couple of fatalities, house falling into the lake, boating suspended....

 

Better days:

Panorama of a storm approaching at Smith Mountain Lake from my last tournament...Never got on any quality fish so this is my only 'good' photo from the trip .  I did catch one on this point just before the downpour started though.  

My youngest hauling in a 28+" striper on Saturday by the

James River Bridge. Was fishing with soccer buddy's family.

 

 

And yes. I'm well aware (after I rec'd the pic) he wasn't wearing a PFD. 

Great Striper ~ 

Wacky rig I'm guessing ?

j/k

A-Jay

Actually...I don't know. The folks he went with are quite good

at Striper fishing, so I'm gonna assume an eel... Funny though, 

I never asked.

But I'm guaranteeing it weren't no wacky rig  

10 years ago for me. I was in college at this time. BassResource is going to start it's own band.

 

Love me an SG.  If you want here what those OG John Good built black badge Collector's Series sound like on stage, here you go, straight off the board with a little reverb in post.

 

 

Little freshening up on my 85 4Runner..gears, locker, suspension, tires..

The ride home tonight.

Yours truly, circa 1980 +/-

Evidence that "long arming fish" has been around for a while.

 Good luck finding tires to fit that truck at Walmart. 

When you can fit you're hole hand in it's mouth to get a tiny wacky jig out

 

 

What a crappie day

Holy fish fry.

Story behind the pic. My dad met me at the ramp at my favorite panfish lake early afternoon. It's a small lake, maybe 200 acres. I had already been fishing for a couple hours and it was extremely slow. We left the ramp and trolled around the entire shoreline casting docks and weed lines and picked up a couple gills and perch. We were within spitting distance of the ramp on our way in when we found the honey hole. There was a small downed tree against the shoreline. All the crappies were caught in a 10' x 10' area. in 2fow.   

Thats awesome. Crappie are by far my favorite fresh water fish to eat, and I only dream of happening upon a honey hole that produces a bag like that. My crappie catches are always few and far between, and usually have to fill out my fish fry with bluegill, pumpkinseed and perch. Did catch my PB perch earlier today though!