I’ve been putting my shoulder to the wheel the last few weeks!  It’s been a long time in the making, but I’ve FINALLY put myself in a good spot to try and start being serious about seeking sponsorships to help advance my fishing career.  Most everyone in this industry trying to make it as a professional angler eventually realizes that it’s nearly impossible without the support of great sponsors.  I’ve put a lot of work into building my reputation and getting my stuff together in order for companies to take me seriously when I approach them about sponsorships.   [Read more…]

Whew!  What a crazy couple of months!  I don’t know how the guys that fish tournaments nearly every weekend do it.  Trying to fish two trails this year was busy enough for me.  This year’s regular tournament season has come to a close with only the championships remaining to be fished in the fall.  So how’d things end up?  I guess it depends on how you look at it.  Things got a little depressing more often than I would’ve liked it to at each tournament with not as many high tournament finishes as I was envisioning at the beginning of the season.  However, when you look at the overall picture, things seemed to work out in the end.   [Read more…]

Well, I’ve been wanting to post a blog update after each tournament, but that’s proving to be near impossible!  Balancing school, work, and competitive fishing is no easy task, but I’m up for the challenge.  I’ve been doing a good job of keeping the Facebook fan page ( facebook.com/andermeine ) going strong, but the website here has been getting neglected a bit.  Here’s a quick run down of all the tournaments I’ve fished so far this year

(Low) Media Bass  – Lake LBJ (21 Jan 2012): I had pretty mediocre pre-fishing results for this tournament.   [Read more…]

Long time no blog.  So what’s up?  Quite a bit.  I’ll start off picking up where my last blog post left off at.  I believe it was me talking about my boat coming back home soon.  Well, it’s home, and it’s been home for a couple months now.  Long story short, the motor got rebuilt and runs like a champ now.  However, I’ve decided it’s time I moved on and got a new boat.  I’m currently working on re-carpeting the rest of the boat and putting in new seats.  Once that’s all done, I’ll be selling it.  Anyone interested?  I’ve been trying to take it out at least once a week to run it, but of course that’s my excuse to fish at least once a week! [Read more…]

I had to take my boat into the doctor’s office a couple of weeks ago.  As is usually the case when leaving the boat with a mechanic… I still don’t have it back yet.  I took it in because it started making a pretty bad knocking noise in the upper part of the engine.  For any of you that know anything about boat motors, that’s probably not a good sign at all.   [Read more…]