What is best for the whole ordeal all the way around is to not go fishing and risk rupturing 150 miles from UK Hospital. BUT there is no guarantee that I will or will not rupture just like there is no guarantee either or on any part of what I am about to go thru on the operating table. The only guarantee that I do know is that I don't have a lot to give to my son if I should pass away. Lord knows with losing a 6 figure job plus bonus January 2007 due to my illness and then only working for a couple of months with the state government earning right at 1/6th of what I used to make before losing that job dje to going back into the hospital for a 3rd time in a couple of months and State Government says BYE BYE. Call it what you want, on probation don't want his sickness on our health plan, but these IDIOTS knew my wife worked in the same building and whether it was on my plan or hers IT WAS STILL THE SAME. 401K gone, Savings gone, Checking living paycheck to paycheck disability check to disability check and still looks like I will be giving up my boat so when this happens then it all is getting sold, rods reels tackle, you name it and it will not be in my garage. I don't have nothing to give to my son from a father to a son. I have heard that we saved him from a 3rd world country where so many children died that month in the orphanage but he has saved us just as much as we saved him. What a little guy he is. My little Buddy, My Son, My Best Friend, My Angel. He gets in the car the other day and he has been advanced to 2nd Grade Reading Word List. Pretty good for a Kindergarten kid. He is a stud athlete. Great in Soccer - Averaged 8 goals a game in the 5-7 year old league last year when he was 5, flag pulling machine on defense. Point Guard on his basketball team and I pity the guy that Josh is guarding because he does not stand a chance. My boy, Handsome, Smart, Athletic, Creative and he loves to fish. He would rather be outside running and ripping than playing video games. I don't have a lot to leave him but I know I have instilled the competitive spirit and don't take any crap from nobody attitude. He knows he is not to start it and dam well better finish it. If he starts it then he deals with me, not allowed to be a bully but he will not be bullied. Josh Loves to fish and I want to teach him all that I can about Dale Hollow and I may only have 7 days to do it before my surgery. I am considering going to Dale Hollow Mon and Tue of next week. Spend time fishing the early best bite and then spend time in the afternoon taking pictures of my best 20 spots on the lake and giving exact insctuctions on how to fish these areas with different lures and when. This way when the time comes, he will have all the needed stuff that I know to try and win his own Billy Westmoreland Tourney. I want to leave as much of me with him as I can. People die everyday and with Josh being born in Katmandu Nepal and then abandoned in a field, found by a police officer, then nobody claimed him from the ads that ran for months and months in the local paper his life has been hard enough. He has been with us since he was 4 months old and he is no different to me than my 2 biological daughters, I would die for any of them. I am just wanting to find a way that one day my son will understand that his old man was no where near the best fisherman on earth, not the best in the state of KY or TN, but when it comes to Catching a few Smallies on the FNF, then his old man would put his talents up against anyone at anytime. Not saying that to brag or pat myself on the back but I may not be good at a lot of things but I have been known to catch one or two on the technique and I want Josh to know what I know. Again I am bantering and taking up way too much time. I plan on going down to Dale on Mon and Possibly stay the night and fish Tuesday as well. I don't feel comfortable in asking someone to go with me and put them in the position in case I rupture or something so I Will be going by myself. hopefully I can get the pictures taken and the maps marked to what I want on them just in case the worst happens. Cliff, Billy, Mike, Vaun, Roy, Steve, John, Mark, George, Dave adn a few others that I have left out get the honor and pleasure of taking My Boy Josh and his Mother, My Wife, Krista out in my boat if the worst thing happens and let him and her try and catch one on the FNF. Done ranting now, just want Joshua Alexander Prabal Lumpkins to catch a Smallmouth Bass out of Dale Hollow Lake on the FNF.