It's A Tough Job But Somebody Has To Do It!!

As you can see I am hard at it at the Bassmaster Classic!  It was a very busy day today, but we were able to make time for a pic with a few of the Hooters girls.    Our booth is in a great location and we had a ton of traffic today.  I can not imagine how crazy it is going to be tomorrow and Sunday. 

Charlie Hartley leads after day one with the likes of Scott Rook, KVD, Scroggins, and other big names looming.  Watch for guys like Iac and Casey Ashley to bring in nice bags again tomorrow.   There are only about 15 guys in striking distance.  A few of these guys are on the right fish, and watch for them to move up tomorrow when other guys falter.  It was nasty on the water today.  40, windy, and rainy is far from ideal when you are trying to fish on open water for $500,000.  Back at it tomorrow and will update with more info tomorrow night. 

Bassmaster Classic

I am in Greenville South Carolina through Monday for the Bassmaster Classic.  I will put pics and updates from the tournament up every day.  It was cold and windy today, temp was about 45 and the wind blew 15-25 with scattered rain.  Made for a miserable day on the water.  I would have rather been ice fishing where I could go inside a shelter.  Tomorrow the worlds 50 best bass anglers will go out in search of a $500,000 first place prize over three days of fishing.  Just so it is in writing, my dark horse pick to win is a MN native Derek Remitz.  KVD, Skeet Reese, Aaron Martens, will all be in the top 10.  One of those three guys should win this tournament.   

Jason Mitchell Rods

I have to give a shout out to Jason Mitchell for making a fantastic ice fishing rod.  On our recent ice fishing adventure Pete was able to land a 18pd lake trout on a 24" Jason Mitchell Panfish rod.  The reel was spooled with 4 pound test.  He was using the light rod to fish for Cisco's when the fish hit.  The rod did a great job, and so did Pete.  At any time he could have broke this giant fish off, but with his patience and the strength of the rod it held up to a 30 minute battle.  Below is a picture of Pete and his great fish.

What A Trip!!

Can not say enough about how great my recent trip to Canada was!  Pete, Mizzy, and myself headed to Canada to fish with a good friend of mine, Jeff "Gussy" Gustafson recently and were able to take advantage of there great ice fishing.  I want to give a big shout out to Gussy for all his hospitality and efforts.  We could not have made this trip a success with out him.  Thanks kid!   

This picture was from the last morning we were there.  Mizzy had a very strong finish on this given Sunday.  He caught three great Lake Trout while the rest of us went skunked.  Good work Mizzy!  We will definitely be going back and doing this again. 

This is a picture of Gussy with one of Mizzy's three great fish he caught.  I still can not believe he caught three fish in about an hour.  Nice work Mizz, I don't care what Pete says about you, you are alright in my book....and a hell of a stick.

Once again Mizzy......everybody!!!