Mark Hofman
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I talked to the missuz about going trout fishing on the Current and/or up to Mark Twain, and here's what I got:
a.) I promised her that the interior trim around our new windows would be done by August. I just picked up the wood and paint last weekend, and I'm picking up the mitre saw this weekend.
b.) I promised one of my cousins that I would teach him how to fish this summer. I'd almost forgotten about that one, but she has a memory like a steel trap. She said that if I didn't follow through, she'd be pretty disappointed in me.
I've got to do the windows this month, which will pretty much take up every weekend and most evenings. That puts us into August at the earliest. A compromise would be to take my cousin up to Mark Twain and both of us teach him how to fish. But that would be on new water for me, and my other choice was to take him down to the Scout Ranch where he has a better chance of catching some bass.
Anyway, I didn't want you to think I was ignoring your post.
Vacation was great. My dad caught some decent trout (see the link below), and they enjoyed Branson. He can't swim and has a life jacket taht looks like it belongs to a Coast Guardsman. Never takes it off. But on the first day out, he was on the back platform of the TV-18. At on point I turned around to talk to him and saw that he had taken it off. He said it was because he felt safe (and that he knew I wouldn't let anything happen to him if he fell in!). We even got out on Table Rock with FOUR of us in the boat! No problem getting on plane and running 52 mph with a full tank of gas.
Last weekend my wife and I were invited to spend the holiday with the parents of one of her students from last year. His Lund was the victim of minks chewing up the wiring for the trolling motor, so we took our boat down. He told me that he had never been in a Tracker product, and that he was pretty impressed with how well my boat fished. We did pretty well fishing for trout, but stunk up the water trying to catch bass. Too much traffic and the season for night fishing made it difficult. I had really hoped to catch my first TR bass, but it wasn't to be.
I really do want to fish the Current, and Mark Twain is closer than I had originally thought, so I'll do my best to carve out a couple of Saturdays.
MO
a.) I promised her that the interior trim around our new windows would be done by August. I just picked up the wood and paint last weekend, and I'm picking up the mitre saw this weekend.
b.) I promised one of my cousins that I would teach him how to fish this summer. I'd almost forgotten about that one, but she has a memory like a steel trap. She said that if I didn't follow through, she'd be pretty disappointed in me.
I've got to do the windows this month, which will pretty much take up every weekend and most evenings. That puts us into August at the earliest. A compromise would be to take my cousin up to Mark Twain and both of us teach him how to fish. But that would be on new water for me, and my other choice was to take him down to the Scout Ranch where he has a better chance of catching some bass.
Anyway, I didn't want you to think I was ignoring your post.
Vacation was great. My dad caught some decent trout (see the link below), and they enjoyed Branson. He can't swim and has a life jacket taht looks like it belongs to a Coast Guardsman. Never takes it off. But on the first day out, he was on the back platform of the TV-18. At on point I turned around to talk to him and saw that he had taken it off. He said it was because he felt safe (and that he knew I wouldn't let anything happen to him if he fell in!). We even got out on Table Rock with FOUR of us in the boat! No problem getting on plane and running 52 mph with a full tank of gas.
Last weekend my wife and I were invited to spend the holiday with the parents of one of her students from last year. His Lund was the victim of minks chewing up the wiring for the trolling motor, so we took our boat down. He told me that he had never been in a Tracker product, and that he was pretty impressed with how well my boat fished. We did pretty well fishing for trout, but stunk up the water trying to catch bass. Too much traffic and the season for night fishing made it difficult. I had really hoped to catch my first TR bass, but it wasn't to be.
I really do want to fish the Current, and Mark Twain is closer than I had originally thought, so I'll do my best to carve out a couple of Saturdays.
MO
