Ha! That was the stupidest bait Id ever seen! Here im going fishing for the first time with this bad ass swimbaiter and he pulls out this chewed up piece of crap! Man that changed my life.
I have a couple days I stick with me. That day of course. Then my first big fish outta the lagoon while Butch was fishing ice jigs. Then of course the day we shattered allen cole on the river.
We were at willow beach fishin for stripers. We had figured out the bite pretty good and had already caught 2 fish. Well you and chris had caught fish. So I was in the front while you guys kicked back to let me catch a fish. Chris was drinking beers and I was a little also. He said he was done fishing and was gonna get drunk. Well I was workin down a stretch of submerged trees when I stuck a 15 pounder. Chris jumped up fired in and stuck a 12. So as soon as that fish went in the boat I looked across the river and there was a guy watching us with binoculars. You looked and said oh thats allen and waved to him. So after a while it was time to get back up river to hit the sweet spot one more time. On the way to the spot allen raced us through the 5 mph zone by blowing right through it. You said dont worry he has no trolling motor. So we started fishing up stream towards him while he had to drift down stream. As we closed in on each other you said to us, "please please stick a fish" I swear on my grave one second later chris stuck a 27 pounder right in front of them! Holy crap I almost passed out laughing.
So about and hour and a half later the same scenerio plays out where allen raced us there again and sure enough I stuck that 33 pounder that went in the net with them 5 ft from us. They wouldnt even talk to us. Chris and I were both pretty tacoed by then from
Celebrating his 27. I just remember laughing my ass off and drinking about 15 beers while you had to run the boat and clean our fish!
I know you have a tremendous amout of respect for AC. Like you have Always told me. He was the one who inspired you to make your baits. Just that day for whatever reason he wanted to screw with us and it could not have happened any cooler.
So thats what maks this sport so cool. We just dealt with a bunch of crap and now its all
About gettin out and stickin some big fish again. SuB tourney is comin soon? Maybe we can make it happen
Thanks brother! You have given me so much and I truely appreciate what you and ur brother have done for me!
