"Ain't Texans"-Sponsorship needed

[Brian_Reeves]

Name: Brian Reeves and Clayton Carver

Location: Central Texas-Killeen/Fort Hood Area

Occupation: US Infantry with the 1st Cav. Both of us are young combat veterans and have suffered mild injuries from a tour in Iraq.

Team History: The "Ain't Texans Outdoors Association" started as a humorous retaliation to the insanely proud Texans in this area. Neither Clayton or myself are from Texas, so we thought the name was both comical and honest enough to actually stick. We have only had time and finances to fish two local tournaments. We did not win either. We have been fishing together for well over a year now and have pulled in nearly 200lbs of bass from on-post lakes and Stillhouse Hollow. Considering the little amount of time that we've spent on the water, it should show some of our determination and growing skills as a team.

Goals: We would like to become full fledged tournament anglers in the FLW. We are currently pursuing that goal by expanding our knowledge, skills, versitility as a team. We should be fishing our first tourney this year pretty soon. I'll update as soon as I know how that turns out.

Sponsorships needed: Anything would be appreciated. Both Clayton and myself are fathers of newborns, so getting out on the water and spending a ton of money on lures and tackle is out of the question. We're working with what we got and refining old techniques. Financial, lure, tackle, apparal, or advertising sponsorship would be highly appreciated.

Please contact me, (Brian) at brians_screenname@yahoo.com

[Will]

Sponsorship.

[Brian_Reeves]

Now you see why I'm in the infantry and not finance or something  Thanks

Brian

[The_Natural]

I do like your modest approach, and it almost sounds better than the usually embellished tournament finishes, etc.  You might want to add what kind of exposure you will offer some potential sponsors.

[Chris]

What kinds of lures do you fish with?

[Brian_Reeves]

What kinds of lures do you fish with?

The kinds that catch fish    Nah...I'm usually my team's topwater "expert."  I have a nack for getting skittish bass to explode topwater with some "finesse" tactics.  My buddy is a soft plastic kinda guy.  Worms, flukes, etc.  Those are our primaries for late spring/summer/fall.  For spring and winter, it's almost all soft plastics.

Of course we also get fish on crankbaits and jerkbaits.  The lakes we fish seem anti-spinnerbait so we rarely use those unless we hit up the muddy water, though when we fish smaller places, we like to throw spinners a lot.

To classify it into brands...I guess I'll say we use Zoom, Rebel, Bomber, Booyah, Berkley, Hart, and Mann's merchandise the most, but we have a little bit of everything.

As far as what I can offer to potential sponsors, I'll have to go edit that later on.  Thanks for the pointer.

[Brian_Reeves]

Name:  Brian Reeves and Clayton Carver

Location:  Central Texas-Killeen/Fort Hood Area

Occupation:  US Infantry with the 1st Cav.  Both of us are young combat veterans and have suffered mild injuries from a tour in Iraq.  

Team History:  The "Ain't Texans Outdoors Association" started as a humorous retaliation to the insanely proud Texans in this area.  Neither Clayton or myself are from Texas, so we thought the name was both comical and honest enough to actually stick.  We have only had time and finances to fish two local tournaments.  We did not win either.  We have been fishing together for well over a year now and have pulled in nearly 200lbs of bass from on-post lakes and Stillhouse Hollow.  Considering the little amount of time that we've spent on the water, it should show some of our determination and growing skills as a team.

Goals:  We would like to become full fledged tournament anglers in the FLW.  We are currently pursuing that goal by expanding our knowledge, skills, versitility as a team.  We should be fishing our first tourney this year pretty soon.  I'll update as soon as I know how that turns out.

Sponsorships needed:  Anything would be appreciated.  Both Clayton and myself are fathers of newborns, so getting out on the water and spending a ton of money on lures and tackle is out of the question.  We're working with what we got and refining old techniques.  Financial, lure, tackle, apparal, or advertising sponsorship would be highly appreciated.  For our sposors, we are willing to advertise however you (the sponsor) sees fit.  We'll wear the hats, put the stickers on the truck, and decal the boat, wear the shirts and make sure that everyone sees that your products can catch fish.

We're looking to become really close to smaller companies at first, since the nature of this sponsorship isn't world class.  We're small town anglers locked into the Texas area because of the military.  We're working hard to advance our knowledge and skills to a point of excellence for when we leave the service, we can start fishing hard and heavy on larger tournament trails.  Even though we're looking for small companies, we'll gladly offer the same advertisement opportunities to the larger companies if any are willing to help us out.  We can't do much but we'll give 110% at everything we can do.