WOW !
I don’t know where to start. Wednesday morning around 9:00 am I was sitting in a film studio called the (fish factory) reading my new book called Sowbelly. It’s a book about today’s record fish hunters. I was on a chapter that was telling me the full George Perry story. I wasn’t sitting in just any chair. I was sitting in Jerry Mackenis’s chair, the one he uses on the Bassmasters set. Oh yea baby. Behind me swam those bass we have all been looking at in the background while Tommy Sanders and Jerry do the Bassmaster thing. Sitting next to me was Jerry writing some notes to himself about the day’s set. While over in a corner, in this dark room was Tommy Sanders being filmed for one of his clips in our Bass Saturday morning show. Talk about unreal. Man, I felt like a fly on the wall just checking out every thing. On the other side of the wall was the set for Bass Tech. AOY 2004 Mr. Swindle and Mr. Reese and Mr. Brownie kicking back screwing around and hamming it up. They stashed me back there with Jerry and Tommy so I couldn’t watch them put the final touch’s on my new Bass Tech Kickboat. This boat is bass ass. Lots of Bling Bling. Sorry guys, but IM not allowed to show any pic’s of it until the show is aired.

This show is going to give pro kick boating a major boost. This is the real deal and its not ending here. I can’t say what’s next, but its going to be big, real big. This show will show more then just two minutes of float tubing. This show is going to open the door to the world of kick boating. Regular folks around the globe who watch ESPN will see a few of the best anglers in the world having fun building a bad ass kick boat. This isn’t going to be one of those float tube things with some guy in the water up to his chin fishing for blue gills with one rod on a pond. No way, this is totally focused on real Pro anglers building a real tournament worthy kick boat. I can’t wait to see this show air, as this will take this sport to the next couple of level IM sure. I will post some back stage pic’s soon and when the kick boat show is going to air. I would like to thank all you guys out there whom I have been lucky enough to fish with and be part of. It’s because of all of you guys that I was on the cloud that I was on.

I have been fishing for bass out of an inner tube since I was 13. I would have never have dreamed that what is happening to me would ever be happening. The people that I have met from the northern dudes, Shasta Boys & girls, AKA Rasta’s to Mr. most southerly, the Jakester to all the B-NT guy and Mike in the Sierra’s and all my homies in the SCBBBC past and present. I have sat in the Tony Holman Suit at the Indy 500 and had dinner with Mario Andretti, I have caught a 11 pound + bass while fishing a tourney in a round tube and what just happened to this bass angler in the past three days was pretty close to those up there.

Rich