It would not be "Breakdancing" after catching one of those Big Smallies but more like "Broke Dancing" for the first time my big behind bust out a move on my front deck, there will be a lot of bones broken that is for sure. Not to mention having to replace my front deck due to broken plywood and rivets. Being big and un-coordinated does not go well. Cliff saw first hand me taking a header into Dale last winter and just about breaking my shoulder on the Holly Creek ramp (which was really his fault for I was chasing after a role of his line that rolled down the ramp into the water). 5am pitch dark, First step off the concrete into the water, algea, slip, 400 pounder hitting the concrete waist deep in 45 degree water, busted my left shoulder and that was the end of that perfectly good trip. He also has first hand account of me falling backwards off a 5 foot high fence, straight onto a large rock in my back, again, climbing a fence to fish a pond (yes we had permission), but that day trip did not last long either. Many more of those accounts to prove that I am a Broke Dancer not a Breakdancer. Looking forward to the water time, soon I hope. I feel a million times better today than the last couple of days and actually today is the best I have felt since October. Maybe, just maybe, I will turn the corner and get better. Wanting to chase some Stripers at the end of the month real bad for some table food. Cliff and I have an even deal, my boat, my tackle, I set out the 5 lines, man the trolling motor and all he has to do is fight all the fish, reel them into the net, then he gets to bring the net overboard. I clean them and keep them since he does not like fish. Basically, I am the cheapest guide he will ever see. Since I have landed exactly 2 Stripers in the past 3 years, (22 pounder at C Land in October 2006 and 18 pounder out of Barkley this past spring), my guess is it will be more guiding than catching but we will have to see. Hoping they will still be up in the creeks Lilly, Caney, Harmon and Difficulty areas to make it a little easier. We may even get some topwater action and there will always be a FNF rod in my boat past Thanksgiving of every year. 4 good 20 pound Stripers and a bunch of 4 and 5 lb Smallies on the fly would make a very good one day trip and planning on staying 4 days if I can get healthy by then.Originally Posted by dcbasser
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