Fd's Proteges

[FD.]

So if you have been around a while you have seen my daughter Taylor (15) and my nephew Nick (14) learn to fish over the past few years. They have even fished with me in tournaments. Well that is all changing now.

Saturday they are fishing as a team in the inaugural SAF High School team tournament out of Camp Mack. I get to be their "coach" and boat driver.

I'm so excited I could not sleep last night. I may explode before Saturday.

[Shane Procell]

Thats great. You gotta be a proud papa.

[Bassn Blvd]

Hey, that's awesome.

[Grey Wolf]

Good luck !!!!!!!!!

[FD.]

So I have been awake now for almost an hour. I just woke the kids up, and they are getting ready. As it turns out, I don't even get to much of a coach. No suggestions, can't put them on fish, nothing, nada. So for 2 hours last night we went over strategies and locations. They have to make all the calls and I just drive them to where they want to go. We will see how well they have been taught. I'm so stressed out.

[gar-tracker]

Relax, they'll do fine. They had a good teacher.

[bocabasser]

those kids must be stoked!

i would have done so much better in highschool if there was a fishing team. then again, i was on the surf team and i skipped a lot of school.

[FD.]

Well I am proud of team FD. They made all the calls on moving, locations, baits and patterns. They fished hard right up to the gun. They fished exactly how I expected them to. The only problem was that it was a typical winter day on Kissimmee. You were either on the fish or you are not. And we were not. They called for North Cove in the am, then a move to the canals on Cypress and then back to Hatch for a few spots on the way back in.

One the the best parts is that they knew where they were and what they were doing and why the whole day. Listening to the placing teams talk on stage it was obvious that some of them did not even know what part of the lake they were on and were doing what they were told. It's a little irritating the some of the other captains did not follow the rules as strict as it did.

No matter the outcome it was the best birthday I have ever had. I spent the whole day with my favorite kids doing what we all love. Awesome day.