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Welp here we go on our first blob for the American Lady Anglers web site. To let all newbees know I have a sick sense of humor and use it often to describe things going on in my life. This day I have been in the rain working on the tournament trailer and getting frustrated at not being able to paint and decorate the inside.  (The wife’s suggestion, of course).  Personally,  I could work from a mud hut,  but with her in the picture,  I would need curtains to match.  Oh well, on with it.  We are working hard to fit and finish all the necessary T- crossing & eye dotting.  I am so excited about all that is going on since the big boys dropped the ladies in the grease.  Just goes to show you that as an adult you can whine and cry and get what you want just like any spoiled brat three year old.

 There are several folks working extremely hard to get trails started for female anglers. For anyone reading this jot down May 5-,8. On these dates there will be a tournament and meeting on Kentucky Lake. Two days of meetings (one before the fishin’ and one after), and two days of fishing in the middle.  Former WBT ladies,  come out and fish, then go to the meeting and vote.   Most of all it’s for all of the former WBT anglers to get together  and have a good time and get caught up on everyone’s lives, something that usually happens during the year along the WBT Tournament Trail.  It just occured to me that I might have to do my own “Presentation” at that meeting -   can’t wait  to see how THAT goes. 

I’m sure that everyone has heard about the new ALA - (nothing to do with the Crimson Tide) it’s the American Lady Anglers.  We’ve been doing all of the organizational stuff, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but it is. I’m not going to reveal any juicy secrets right here and now, you’ll just have to check back and I will let the cat out of the bag little by little, as the timing is right.  I will tell you one small thing, though.  The ALA has contracted with its first Sponsor.  Drum roll, please!  It’s Sure-Life!  That’s right, the people who invented and made the best biochemical livewell additive for fish and water care.  Its new Catch-and-Release formula is the only livewell formula that prevents the spread of disease, combats stress, stimulates the immune response, and addresses water quality issues - IN A SINGLE FORMULATION!  It also has added products that help kill and combat LMBV (Largemouth Bass Virus) and other diseases, and has been proven to not only improve fishcare in the livewell, but prevents their death once they are released back into their native waters.  The American Lady Anglers organization is proud to announce that they have partnered with Sure-Life as their first Sponsor.  The Sure-Life product Catch-and-Release will be used in all of the ALA’s live release and holding tanks, and we encourage all of our ALA members fishing our tournaments to use it in their livewells.  Okay, commercial over, but we are really proud to have them as a sponsor and really believe in their products.  Now that I’m through with that, I can continue with our regular programming, or the real reason I wrote this - to tell you about my new tournament trailer. Wait, excuse me, MY NEW TOURNAMENT TRAILER.

Did you hear that? The American Lady Anglers has a new Tournament Trailer.  A sweet 20 car hauler  foot-er that we’re gonna fix up real purty.  It’s gonna have carpet (blue-gray), paint (light gray with darker blue-gray trim), and even a dark blue non-slip flooring in the back where the equipment goes. The carpet goes in my office of course, along with the air conditioning, ’cause fat boy don’t like to sweat as much as you might think.  We put the insulation along the roof and walled off the office today.  A buddy of mine gave me some matching blue/gray(mostly gray as far as I can see) cabinets with color-coordinated countertops.

Next comes the painting. I just CAN’T WAIT for everyone to see the colors my wife picked out for the inside.  She’s so excited I could just scream! I tore up the whole backyard hauling the cabinets back to the trailer while it was parked there.  The wife isn’t too happy about that either. Don’t really know why - we had six trees that we had planted along that fence anyway, what’s one less?  And I’m sure all of the mud-ruts and torn-up grass and tire marks will eventually grow over again, despite that most of them are at least 6-8 inches deep and two to three tire-widths wide. 

 I thought that when you got stuck in the mud (especially when you are trying to get up a hill) you’re supposed to just gun it and gun it, slinging mud all over the 8 foot cedar fence (and across against the neighbor’s two-story brick house) aren’t you?  I thought that the faster you tried to go and the higher you revved the engine, the faster you would get unstuck, right? Turns out that’s not the case. Oh no, you have to go SLOW to get out! That just makes no sense, now does it guys? You guys will back me up on this, won’t you? Guys? Guys? Why don’t I hear a bunch of BOOYAHS! of approval out there? Don’t tell me any of you other guys would have done it any differently, ’cause I’ve got the same testosterone as you running through my veins, and it TOLD me to gun it! REPEATEDLY!  I had so much mud hanging from the underside of my wheel wells that, when it fell off in the driveway, it looked much like I imagine it would look following the Budweiser Clydesdales if you were the one who had to clean up after them when they were in a parade - If the Budweiser Clydesdales were 50 foot tall horses…. Anyway, I quietly drove the truck up to the carwash to pressure-wash some of the mud off of it, hoping that none of the neighbors would see who was makin’ that awful mess in the street.  No such luck!   I slung so much mud from my truck into the street that I was glad to see it was supposed to  rain today.  I thought that would clean it up for sure.  That was a good plan, until it started lightly drizzling this morning before the full rain hit.  The effect was what you would imagine.  The hill in front of my house turned into a giant Slip-and-Slide.   I had to crack a few smiles watching my neighbors were having trouble making it up the hill in front of my house, due to their sliding backwards on the mudslide I’d left them.  It gave me a few minutes’ entertainment watching them , but I was actually glad to see the heavier rain wash it away before the wife caught me grinning at their predicaments. 

Oh well, it’s time to go -  I guess I’d better get back to scraping the mud off the new (used to be white) trailer before my wife sees how much mud and muck got slung on it too.  Oh well, live and learn… Now I know what I’ll do the next time I get my truck stuck  in the mud on a hill - I wonder if the Budweiser Clydesdales are busy? If I’m gonna have the mess, I might as well just have them pull my truck outta’ the mud. I hear they’re real purty close up.

For now

I QUIT

I’m back!!!!!! After a long blob break I felt it was time to enlighten you folks a little more. Last years’ fishing trail was extremely exciting and loaded with adventure. As we prepared for this season a big turd landed in the punch bowl. The WBT was cancelled. Feel free to come to your own conclusion as to why. Me? Ithink the BIG BOYS are very afraid of the female angler they have to fish against in the Classic. But anyway, there seems to be no trail for the ladies to fish.

HAW- TO BUDDY! Like the idjit I am and as P.O.’D as I got over the WBT thing, I popped off to my wife that I should start my own trail.   Now, we all know my wife, she’s usually not into surprises, but she shocked me by saying go for it.   Apparently, she had such a good time last year fishing with the ” BIG GIRLS”, that she wanted more, and was very disappointed about not getting to fish with the girls this year (see her blog for more on her thoughts about this subject).   Anyway,  I talked to my good old friend Lee at Lake Fork and this dumb A– not only thought it was a good idea, but said he would partner with me and pull the trailer all over hell’s half acre in order for the ladies to have a venue to fish.   It actually surprised me how many “good old boys” thought how unfair it was that the ladies had gotten the rug pulled out from under them, and wanted to give the ladies a chance to do what they love to do, and in an atmosphere that was fun.  In simpler terms, a lot of guys would just like to see the gals get a fair shake.  Anyway, finding all of this out just encourages me to dig myself deeper.  I keep thinking how unfair all this is, and, being the “Mr. Fix-It” that I am, I want to do anything and everything in my power to fix it, and make it better for the women.

Now I’m in this deep. We start having meetings and laying down plans searching for a tourney trailer.  Every trailer we found someone either beat us to it or it cost an arm and a ham roast.  Neither of which I have a spare of.  So I finally got mad and said I was going to buy a new trailer and be done with it. (Did I mention I’m on a budget?) (not controlled by me, it’s you-kn0w-who who usually hangs on to the money real tight around here, but here again I was surprised to hear “go for it”.  Now this is getting scary.  So I head out and buy a nice 20 ft. car- hauler and drag it home, still in shock over even being told it was okay to get it in the first place.   Now this is just the beginning of the money outflo. Digital scales and a back- up system. Go for it.  A really nice P.A. system to play music and do weigh- ins.  Go for it.  Tubs to keep the fish alive in. Go for it.  A custom stage and podium.  Go for it.  Material to build an office in the trailer. Go for it. I hope you can begin to catch my drift here.  If this girl of mine wants to fish this badly,  then so be it.

Ladies and gents I am proud to announce the first day of the AMERICAN LADY ANGLERS TOURNAMENT TRAIL!!!!!!! Please feel to visit our web site www.americanladyanglers.com . Yes now I have two web pages to fret over. Please watch both pages to see the happenings as we build the ALA tourney trailer and post the trail events. I’m excited.

For today

I quit.