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…]

What a week!  Let me begin by saying that I had a fantastic time at this event.  It was loads of fun, exciting, and I learned a lot.  Now let me follow that up by saying, I don’t think I’ll be fishing many more state championships.  Unless it is within a pretty close drive of my home, it is simply not worth my time and money to participate in.   [Read more…]

Well, I in the last two weeks, I’ve fished the ATX Big Bass Open tournament and our monthly ATX Bassmasters club tournament.  The Big Bass tournament was ok, but it was a little disappointing.  I was helping to plan & run that tournament in an effort to help make some money for both me and the other guys from the club that will be competing in the state championship tournament shortly.   [Read more…]

With temperatures dropping into the teens the last couple of days here in Austin, everything kind of got shut down today.  Power outages were widespread across the city and everyone was stuck at home.  Our power never did go out, but nevertheless, I didn’t want to go out in that cold crap!  After putting around on the internet for some time this morning, I decided it was about time for a crankbait painting extravaganza!   [Read more…]