Where in the world is Les

Holy cow, It’s already July 27th. I can’t believe it has been 17 days since my last post. As you can probably guess I’ve been busier that a pooper scooper at a dog show. What have I been doing, you say? Hmmm (stretching out my fingers). Well, obviously I’ve been working like a mad man to catch up after my “forced vacation”, I’ve fished 2 bass tournaments (didn’t finish anywhere near the top) and I just got home from my father-in-law’s house. This past week was the worst as I didn’t get home before 10 PM any night, as a matter of fact I got home from work at 1:30AM Saturday morning and left for my in-law’s house slightly after 9 AM.

Work is work and there’s no sense in talking about it. My first tourney was at the beautiful Cal-Sag canal. Of couse, I say that dripping with sarcasm. I spent 3 hours fishing in front of a garbage dump (literally). The tournament itself was alright, but the events at the end were really nasty. I was due back at the weigh-in at 2:15 and when I pulled up there were paramedics surrounding my brother’s boat. I watched as they took someone out on a stretcher. At first, I thought it was my brother, but the legs were too big. I realized it was his partner. I pulled up to his boat to see the front of it smashed in completely, it was totaled. Somehow his boat hit the shore around 50 mph. I don’t know how it happened, but thank God everyone was alive and well. My brother hit his head/chest on the console, bending the steering wheel, but he made it out with a sore neck. His partner partially tore 2 of the ligaments in his knee when his legs hit the console, again thank God it wasn’t more serious and no surgery was required. After all that, I didn’t even get to weigh in a fish. To add insult to injury, I had to take my brothers place and act as a release boat, which meant I had to release the fish that the other guys caught. Oh well, such is life.

The other tourney went much better, there were no injuries and I got to weigh in fish both days. I won’t bore you with the details yet, but later I will rant on the effects fertilizer has on lakes, rivers and streams (we’ll just say that it STINKS).

I do know that I miss my Crossroads family as I haven’t seen them in 3 weeks now, sorry folks I will be gone 1 more weekend. I promise I’ll be back (that’s a promise, not a threat)

Never know when we’ll meet again, so farewell for now.