bassmaster classic

[Jake P]

Me and my family went out to celebrate two of my brothers birthdays today and went to Joes Crabshack for dinner. I barely made it home in time for the classic and ran inside and turned on the tv and everyone sat down and actually watched it with me, none of them fish except my stepdad and he hasnt been fishing in probably 20 years. About an hour into it everyone starts telling me they want to go fishing with me next time i go and then my stepdad and mom ask to see my reels. So i bring out all my Abu's and show them and they're messing with them and trying to figure out how to work them and my stepdad says, "how much did you pay for these"? So i told him from 65-160$ and my mom looked at me like i was crazy and said back in the day we never had anything fancy like this. Then my stepdad says "i can outfish you with a 30$ Zebco, thats all ive ever used. Why would anyone pay 160$ for a reel when you can use a Zebco spincast that works just the same". After i was done laughing i tried explaining to him the differences and he would just not listen. So now my mom thinks im crazy for spending that much on reels and my stepdad thinks he can outfish me with a Zebco. I told him here soon when i get my own boat we can go out and buy him his zebco that he wants and have ourselves a little tourny, him and my mom against my buddy Mike and I. I just thought it was cool that my family watched it with me and now are wanting to learn about bass fishing. I cant wait to take them out with me and show them a thing or two.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Careful,...it's not the car, it's the driver.

I'm sure KVD could hand me a whoopin with a Zebco  

[grimlin]

Always great and fun to get the family involved!

[Fatman1267MM]

Like LBH said, be careful what you ask for.  My dad still has days where he can outfish me with his daiwa goldcast, eagle claw rod, and a spinner rigged creme worm, not many, but it still happens  

[Popeye]

I hope to get both of my sons to accompany me next weekend on an outing to Otay!! Heck, I'm in the BR Tournament, I guess I'd better get my butt out there and hopefully catch some hawgs!! My sons haven't been fishing with me for over 20 years, BUT when they saw all the stuff I recently bought AND saw all the fishing stuff I got on Christmas day (all I asked for), they both enthusiatically said they would love to go with me sometime. Here's hoping!!