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After a busy trade show season with my day job, Trek International Safaris, Scott Williams and I made the trip to Lake Okeechobee to work the Z-Man Lures booth at the FLW Tour event. It was great seeing some behind the scenes action and all of the work that Wal-Mart puts in to make one of these things work, plus watching a few big bags from Okeechobee wasn't bad either.

Handing out a few baits

 The week after we had a Florida Pro Redfish event in my hometown of Jacksonville. Scott brought his Shearwater up to pre-fish as well as the day of the tournament. As fate would have it we caught a few nice reds during pre-fishing but failed to catch one in the slot on tournament day. Three redfish from 27.25in to 30in does not win tournaments.

Big red on topwater

 As February came to a close I signed with MHX Rod Blanks to become a member of their pro-staff team. The MHX blank is Mudhole's own signature blank and come in everything from Mag Bass to Fly and everything in between. I will be building a set with Fuji reel reel seats, EVA split grip and American Tackle Duralite guides.

MHX 7'3 MH

Fish on the first MHX

Next stop for Scott and I was the Bradford Co. 2nd annual Bass Tournament to benefit Relay for Life. Its always nice fishing these open events that lets so many people show up and since it was for a good cause everyone made a day of it. Sponsors came out, people cooked and plenty of prizes were handed out although fishing was a little tough. Last year, this was the event we took home big bass honors with an 11.6lb monster and although we didn't win it this year we came in second just behind a 7.4lb fish. The tournament overall was a success with 49 boats attending and we had a top 10 finish in a tough field where many local studs fished.

Two of our four fish for the day.

Although I have been busy, I still need to keep my head down and fish on... The Bassmaster Open event on Douglas Lake in Dandridge,TN starts April 4th and that is what has most of my attention right now. Stay posted as I am in the process of shooting some video and will post as they are finished.