Not sure why, but I've got a passion for fishing, (disease according to the wife) and have had since I was a kid.

I'll fish for sport, money, and occasionally food...mostly bass, but whatever I can catch often enough...from a boat, the bank, a dock, or pier...in lakes, ponds,creeks,rivers, or the ocean.

Most fun I've had lately was a couple of weeks ago when I had my 5 year old daughter out on Barren. We were wearin' some bluegill out on her Barbie pole with wax worms when her bobber went down and the high quality drag on her rig went to singing. She rassled a 3 or 4 pound Blue Cat for quite a while and finally got him in with a little help from the ole man. Got her and the catfish's pic on my cell, both of em grinning like a possum.

Last week I had 3 days work in Charleston, SC, so I rented a beach condo for 3 days and took my wife, daughter, and in-laws. Complex had a private fishing pier and the first nite I stayed up till 4 in the am catching little bitty Black Tip sharks on bait scraps I found. Third day I went out on a bottom fishing party boat and caught some serious supper and more. BTW, they ain't nothing swimming in the ocean that ain't got teeth...just lettin' y'all know.

Spent the nite before last on Barren catching next to nothing. Heading to Barkley this weekend for a tournament.

Yep, I got it bad. Fishing scratches an itch nothing else touches.