>Well with all the preparation, organizing of a boat,
>tournaments, shirts, forms, just about the whole nine yards,
>plus looking forward to this thing since the begining of the
>year, I chose not to go.
>
>My fiance started having contractions Monday at 3 am, sat in
>the hospital all day...They said she could have him in the
>next hour or the next couple weeks.
>
>I tell you what it was the toughest and hardest decision I
>have made, but it was easy in the same thought. Very
>dispointed in the timing of it all, but you gotta do what you
>gotta do. I would be more mad at myself if I missed my sons
>birth, than missing this tournament (biggest tournament of my
>life) and him not coming. Ahhh, but there is always next
>year! I hope my cardinals pull it out. I know the weights were
>low for the pros yesterday, with more zeros there than
>anywhere this year, plus Wirth and Menendez with one
>fish...Must be a tough'un. Even K. Short, local boy who
>thought he had a good chance, came in with two fish. I love it
>when it's tough, especially on the river!
>
>
>Eric Hickman Jr.
>The L-Raisin' Anglers
>University of Louisville
>Tournament Director
>www.freewebs.com/ejhick01/


Congratulations ahead of time Eric to you and your future wife. May he be heathly and happy and a future bass pro.