In the past two weeks I have had two choices I have had to make. One was a no-brainer and the other was one probably the toughest decision I have had to make in my short 24 year old life. The first was whether to walk and receive my Masters degree on Saturday (my last weekend in KY) or go fishing in a tournament with my club (Louisville Metro Bass Club) at Barren. The logic was simple. Go do something I love to do with a group of guys that have been nothing but father-figures and friends to an Illinoisian that transferred to KY or be in a room with a bunch of people I don’t know. Here is where fishing once again took precedent in my life. I’m prepping for Barren as we speak. Instead of throwing my hat, I’d rather be throwing a shakeyhead.
It wasn’t until I moved down to Louisville for school that I began gaining my passion back for bass fishing. Throughout college, my mind was on chasing another kind of fish (the ones where they say there are a thousand of them in the sea so don’t worry about just one…) and tournament bass fishing took a big backseat to my education and college life. After moving down here and meeting the guys from the LMBC, I started to learn to love bass fishing again. The LMBC have provided me with numerous opportunities, skills, and most importantly comradery. There is not enough pages in Microsoft Word to tell the club how much they have helped me when I came down here knowing no one or anything about the area.
Now to the second choice. The hardest one. The which job should I choose, one in KY or IL. Unfortunately, fishing couldn’t have as large as a precedent in this one. As a college kids with loans to pay and a future boat to buy, the salary in Illinois lead more towards that goal of a nice bright shiny boat. Therefore, I wrote this post as a thank you to all the posters and people on Fishin.com to thank ya’ll for all the information and post that have kept me busy at work (besides actually doing my work). Through the website, I have learned a great deal of information and acquired many new fishing partnerships. I am hoping I go out of KY with a bang on Barren with a tournament win, but I have hopes of moving back someday when the school systems change a little bit and I have a few miles put on the boat.
One last note....what are they biting on Barren
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Originally Posted by Tim_T
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