Our club, the Tallahassee Bass Anglers,  fished it's first points tournament of the year yesterday on Lake Seminole.  Our club tournaments are all draw tournaments.  

We have several new pledges to the club who have to fish as non-boaters until they become full members.  The result of this is that we did not have enough boaters when we did the draw the other night.  I am new to tournament fshing an have a 25 year old Bass Tracker Tournament TX with a new 50 hp Mercury on it.  I agreed to bring my boat.

My partner for the day, Don Gainey, also fishes out of a Tracker so it didn't bother him to have to fish out of my boat.  I felt a little outclassed launching my old warrior among the Rangers and Tritons and was concerned that the projected windy day would make for tough fishing out of an aluminum boat.

The wind was tough and I spent a lot of my time and energy keeping the boat positioned to where Don could fish the sand bars we targeted.  I only had one fish to weigh, but Don had a limit and won the tournament fishing out of the back seat of a 25 year old boat using reels that were nearly 20 years old.

I had mixed emotions about telling my wife and I got the expected response of "See, you don't need a new boat.  Yours is just fine."

Shows you're a real friend when it comes to fishin' Ole Biker....WTG

Big O

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