Quote Originally Posted by jcb View Post
As you saw from the weights, tough time to pattern fish. Transition time.
I think it's great you are taking him out. The experience is well worth it in the long run IMO. I too have an aspiring young angler I fish tourneys with at Cumberland and other places. We started last fall fishing a couple opens (he was 12 at the time too). This summer he asked if he could give up travel baseball so he could fish more tournaments - he's got the bug bad and we've yet to place in any event we fished so far.

We are planning to fish the Thanksgiving event out of Conley again this year - was over 160 boats last year. We had a great time and didn't land a keeper - the beauty is he can't wait to improve our standing.