Fishing

Kelly Wood is a good friend of mine.  He is also a professional fisherman.  This is his jersey that he wears during tournaments, and the cool thing about this jersey is the logo of our company that shows on the lower right corner.  He also placed our logo on the windshield of his bass boat; a rig so bad and beautiful (for a boat) that it makes fish swim right up to it.

My Dad is a fisherman.  Primarily a Canadian fisherman, as he goes there once a year to fish.  He has done so well up there over the years that he was awarded the Master Angler award; which I blogged about a few years ago.  Dad does not fish locally.

For me; I fished as a young teenager from the shore lines of ponds and caught some really nice crappie.  But, after that, pretty much walked away from the sport, and over the last 45 years, have only fished 4-5 times.  It sincerely is not that I don't like to fish, I just never took a shine to it.  I prefer things that are high energy, risky, high impact, fast.  (Like racquetball and roller coasters).

But, in the same breath; I also love to read and write, and though I don't spend enough time doing either ~ it is still a low volume form of stress relief.  And back on the high energy side, I love to listen to super loud high energy music, and watch loud guy movies.  (Pam says I am going deaf).  Maybe so, but I still love the sound of loud when it comes to explosions and music. 

I do have a bit of a dichotomy to myself ~ but who doesn't?

Kelly is about to start up his next season of fishing.  He will stay on the tournament swing through November, and will work 5 to 7 days a week for these 9 months; then not do much for Dec/Jan/Feb.

Last year, Kelly was ranked #51 in the nation.  He expects to break into the Top 50 this year, and has a new boat set to arrive on March 17th that he is salivating about.  This is a sponsored boat, and he now gets a new one every 1-2 years from his sponsors.

Good luck Kelly!  Hope this is your best year ever.