ROI ...
send Scooter a request for a report on the actual ROI ...
Message 18747763
no need to reveal the paltry sum of dinero, as it would def show me to be a reeeeeeaaaaaaaay elcheapo bastid .....
but, he will tell you, as you most likely wouldn't believe me .......
he is, after all, a bean counter person, but with a reputable firm .....
lol
oh yeah .. we had a cookout for the family with the ones we kept from the fishing trip Sat morn, too ....
I guess I haven't lost my touch in at least a couple of things .....
I thought you'd like this story ....
The elder gent here, Johnny Stout, was the first person I ever hired ....
had to talk him into coming to work, as the job he was on (I sought him out) was a really pud one ... NO work to speak of, just got paid .... but that is another story ....
I took John to his first tournament, also .. all he'd ever done was fish in a "tank" (a pool) and never from a boat ...
waaaaaaaaay back in the early 70s.
Took him to his first horse race, too .
Danged if he didn't turn out to be a great tourney fisherman as well as one of the best gamblers whom I've ever known......
played many hands of poker with him, too and he currently lives two blocks from me
He had to retire a couple of years ago with heart trouble.
anyway ... here is the story from the front page Sunday ...
>>>> Bass tournament goes to 15-year-old fisherman
By John Henderson
The Paris News
Published May 04, 2003
Saturday was a day of firsts for 15-year-old Chad Rose.
It was the first time he had fished in a bass tournament, the first time he had caught a 7-pound bass and the first time he had won a bass tournament.
Rose’s fish, weighing in at 7.02 pounds, was enough to beat 278 other anglers at the 16th annual Uncle Jesse’s Memorial Big Bass Classic. The event was staged Saturday at Pat Mayse Lake. The win makes Chad the youngest champion in the history of the tournament.
“I’m getting a four-wheeler,” Chad said when asked what he plans to do with the $5,000 cash prize.
The North Lamar High sophomore came to fish with his stepfather, Mitchell Stout, and his step-grandfather, Johnny Stout. All three fished in the same spot, which the elder Stout chose in advance of the tournament. All turned in Top 20 finishes — Mitchell Stout took 12th place with a 5.28 pound fish and Johnny Stout took 19th with a 4.55-pounder.
So where is this spot?
“It’s on Pat Mayse Lake,” Mitchell Stout said with a laugh.
But he didn’t identify the spot.
The trio almost didn’t get to fish. Mitchell Stout said his boat’s engine flooded right before they got started before first light. Johnny Stout’s boat had to tow his son’s boat out to the spot.
Chad caught his fish at 8:30 a.m., but the group stayed on the lake for the rest of the day, his stepfather said.
Tab Rose, Chad’s father, wasn’t at the tournament, but he came after Chad called him.
“He calls and he says, ‘Dad, get over here, I’ve got a chance to win $5,000!’” Rose said.
Chad is only the second youth to win the tournament. Carey Fleming, who won in 1989, won a Kingfisher boat that year, tournament committee member Rick McDougal remembered. The night of that tournament was the same night Waylon Jennings was playing a concert at Paris High School, McDougal said.
“He rode in the boat, and they towed it all the way from Pat Mayse Lake to the high school,” McDougal said.
The other top 20 anglers Saturday were:
Stephen Bowling, 6.85 pounds, second place; Todd Miller, 6.24, third; Gene Foster, 6.21, fourth; John Mullens, 6.06, fifth; Greg Conrad, 5.76, sixth; Joe David White, 5.64, seventh; Greg Golden, 5.40, eighth; Paul Drake, 5.34, ninth; Darrell Berry, 5.31, 10th; Scott Stephens, 5.31, 11th; Mitchell Stout, 5.28, 12th; Steve Storey, 5.23, 13th; Raymond Miller, 5.00, 14th; Joel Brown, 4.86, 15th; Teddy Brakebill, 4.58, 16th; Norman Clem, 4.58, 17th; Darren Darnell, 4.55, 18th; Johnny Stout, 4.55, 19th; and James McDonald, 4.55, 20th.
The youth prize, meant for anglers age 16 and younger, went to Justin Myres, whose fish weighed 4.48 pounds. He took home a two-man boat and a custom rod.
Robert Walthal’s fish weighed in at 3.98 pounds, making his the closest to 4 pounds without going over, so he took home a $400 Brannan’s Bass Shop gift certificate.
The Tenaska III team took home the top four-man team prize, with a combined catch weight of 17.50 pounds. Charles Crane took home the consolation prize of a guided fishing trip to McGee Creek Lake near Antlers.
Jim Davis won the raffle for a handmade reel by Texas Sidewinder Rods, complete with gold line guards and a foregrip wrapped in diamondback rattlesnake skin. Davis spent most of the tournament making the official measurements and weights of all the fish.
The tournament is named in memory of Denver Pyle, who played Uncle Jesse Duke on “The Dukes of Hazzard.” His widow, Tippi Pyle, was celebrity host for the tournament and accepted an award from the Lamar County Special Olympics team. The team is among the children’s organizations in the county that benefit from the tournament proceeds.
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