I get to be a fisherman

I will be playing and singing this all the way to Table Rock in less then 48 hours. Casey Ashley is one of the nicest guys on the elite tour. This kid can fish and sing like no other. I get to be a fisherman! God bless.

Table Rock FLW

I am packing for the FLW tour event at Table Rock lake in Branson, MO and can not wait to get started.  I will be arriving at the end of this week to start the official practice period.  They have endured a cold winter and has made for water temps hovering around 40 degrees.  If we can get some sun and nice weather in the next 10 days it should really help water temps and the bite.  Regardless I am confident there will be plenty of bites and fish to be caught.  Should make for a fun start to the season.  

There is one particular bait I am super excited to throw this coming season.  It is the new "Glitter Shad" and "Sexy Shad" color swim jigs from Outkast Tackle. 

The features(design, barb keeper, weed guard, hook) on the Outkast swim jig are second to none.  These new colors are going to play a critical role in my upcoming spring events.

History Is In the books

The 40th Bassmaster Classic is in the books and KVD has done it again.  Kevin came back from a small deficit to Jeff Kriet (Big Bite Baits teammate) to walk away from the competition on the final day of 3.  His margin of victory was 5 pounds.  Words do not describe how good Kevin Van Dam is.  He now has 3 Classic titles and 5 AOY titels,  and surpassed the 4.5 million dollar mark in career winnings! 

And he was quick to discard the common analogy that he's the Tiger Woods of bass fishing.

"There's a bunch of dang good people in our sport. We don't have all these issues and controversies. That's why I definitely don't like the Tiger Woods analogy. (Problems like that) are surely never going to happen to me. But you don't hear about that (in our sport). Outdoorsmen and fishermen are good people and we're passionate about what we do."

VanDam threw a Strike King RedEye Shad rattlebait in gold and gold sexy shad all 3 days of competition. As he previously described when he won the Toho Elite Series, the RedEye Shad shimmies when it falls – something he feels no other rattlebait does. He got most of his strikes by bumping or ticking cover, jerking the bait away from it, then letting it flutter to bottom.  Congrats to Kevin and all the anglers that competed in the 40th annual Bassmaster Classic. 

Not Today

I had to post this video. This is funny. The marketing folks at Shakespeare fishing should be applauded. I have to ask though; why is this such a common theme and break down between men and woman? I know many of you will say your wife/gf doesn't care how much you fish...but come on, lets be honest. They wouldnt have made a commercial about it if it wasn't a reality at times. If you have a significant other in your life it can be difficult at times to keep it balanced; maybe your thing is golf, or bird watching, or boating, or racing, it doesn't seem to matter the activity. I know this for sure, I don't understand what makes woman tick and will never claim to, and I have come to realize they don't understand what makes us outdoorsmen tick!