I was fishing a club tourny on the St. Johns river in Florida and I was on some nice fish flippin mats in the bends of the river. Well I found these fish while prefishin and I had my buddy with me who also fished the club but as a nonboater. I told him not to say anything about my pattern and of course he agreed.

Come tourny day he is paired with the club President who is a very wealthy man that did have an attitiude of confidence (being nice). So I'm working my pattern and doing great and I come around to the next bend to hit my spot and who do I see? Yep the old Pres and my buddy fishing the mat I was going to hit. My first thought was that my buddy did me wrong but then I thought hey he found the fish too.

So I idle by and say hello but ole' Pres won't look at me and my buddy silently says sorry and shrugs his shoulders so I know I had been done wrong. I stopped to fish close by waiting for them to leave and also to make them uncomfortable (it's the least I could do). Well several boats come by as we are working these mats and ole' pres is up on his deck really getting into flippin' but not paying attention to the waves and as they hit his boat he lauches himself into the funky mats of pads and decaying weeds! It's so funny I about messed myself.... I laughed so hard and loud you would have thought Mike Iaconelli was around! He was hanging on trying his best to get in the boat and my buddy was trying to help but the waves were beating them up...he finally got in and I yelled that he was cheating by leaving his boat just to piss him off!

He cleaned himself off and left with my buddy laughing the whole way as he sat next to him! Good thing is I won big bass and second place and had a heck of a story to tell at weigh in! He never lived it down....Good old Karma!