I have a dream!

January 27th, 2009 | by Diesel Fueled

Well boys and girls it’s about that time. We have a few days until February and we all know what that means? No I am not talking about planning your Valentines Day with your sweetheart, debating about how Jesus is letting Kurt Warner be in the superbowl and I am not talking about gearing up for black awareness month.

I will say something though:

“I have a dream! My sweetheart is in my garage and Jesus she is wanting to come out and play”

Fishing pre-season is officially on for me.

Now is prime time to start planning the upcoming spring season. A time to get back in touch with your fishing partners and a time to start dreaming about that monster slab. You may notice yourself doing a twice over for specials at Bass Pro or Cabelas (AKA Bud’s place).  You may start looking for fishing reports from prior years hoping a new one shows up soon. You may be wondering what excuse you are going to come up with this year to buy more fishing tackle / gear. Maybe you start to google techniques or dig up old fishing videos to give you that edge. Those that have a significant others are likely kissing ass to allow them to take a couple of weekends off and for some probably have to compensate by scheduling something with her to compensate.

All in all this is the time to get in that mindset. This will be a prelude to a 3 part series for me starting off 2009.  Over the next few weeks I will cover the following

I. What lakes I am going to hit

II. What fish I will go after

III. What gear I am going to use.

Let’s get it on!

  1. 4 Responses to “I have a dream!”

  2. By Lead Jig on Jan 27, 2009 | Reply

    Here are your answers:
    1.) Reelfoot because we are going to kidnap you this year.
    2.) Anything you can.
    3.) Whatever you pack the night before the trip.

    As Gill Slayer said, I’m printing this out and having you sign it.

  3. By Gill Slayer on Feb 10, 2009 | Reply

    LOL! So you had a dream did you? Did your dream give you any indication of how this will REALLY go down? I see you talking a lot of smack here on what it is you WANT to do…but what will really happen? In my dream…I got visions that you won’t do jack to prepare for either of our trips we have planned…you’ll procrastinate until the last minute without knowing exactly what gear you need or that you already have. But in your mind…you’ll be thinking to yourself “I’ll get to it” but in reality you’ll wait until the night before the trip to take inventory of your gear. However, you will get an offer from a co-worker that you absolutly cannot refuse…possibly drooling over girls in bikini’s at the local St. Chuck watering hole whereas you’ll spend $300 on drinks and won’t stumble to bed until 2am after a brief stop a Whities on the way home. (and a few french fries will fall out of your truck & onto your driveway)

    Then the day we leave for the trip, hungover & feeling aweful, instead of taking the day off to prepare & rest…you’ll report to work at 10am (2 hours late). After 3 cups of coffee it dawns on you that you have a dog & unlike cats…they can’t take care of themselves more than 8 hours…so you’ll desperatly call a family member 2 counties away to see if they’ll watch this dog for the weekend. Then it’ll dawn on him that you haven’t organized your gear yet, bought a single thing, or prepared the boat for the Truman trip. You’ll spend 30 minutes over lunch at Walmart feveriously filling your cart with “gear” that you “think” you need…based on memory from last year. All that gear will be thrown in the back of your truck in Walmart sacks and will be “organized” in the boat on the way to the fishing hole Friday morning at 5am. As far as the boat is concerned…in your mind you think “as long as there isn’t a hole in the bottom of the boat, it’s prepared”.

    So the day we leave for the trip…we’ll be informed that we have to drop off your dog before we leave town. So instead of leaving town at 4p, we’ll depart at 10p due to your lack of planning. Dream all you want tough-guy…this is what is reality. :)

    Btw…I cannot wait for these two trips!!! :)

  4. By Diesel Fueled on Feb 10, 2009 | Reply

    I, Diesel Fueled, fully acknowledge that I am all talk, completely unprepared, never pack until night before, food moocher (Slayer I want to see some cookies and Lead Jig some ham sandwiches), a useless navigator (North? Go straight), and above all probably the biggest hoosier this side of the Vally Park mobile home park. However, my ass is all booked up for 5 trips this year of which 2 are locked in with your asses. Now, since I will be fishing on more then 30 minutes of sleep and probably will have my equipment ready I am ready to take some fisherman to school!

    Electronic Signature
    Scott “Whoop Ass” Simpkins

  5. By Lead Jig on Mar 6, 2009 | Reply

    I finally got around to reading Slayer’s reply. Holy crap that is hilarious. Because it actually happened.

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