Cool Truck Wrap

Tanner Tabor, the tournament director for the King Cat Tournament Trail, drives the pickup. If you look closely, the camo pattern is made up of crappie and brush. For a crappie nut like me... that is cool

Cabela's Winners

C.J. Blankenship of Topeka, Kansas and Ryan Gnagy of Tecumseh, Kansas with a total weight of 120.6 pounds.

Here's a shot of the winners. It was a hectic three days. Clearly, everyone was surprised at the conditions. As little as five days prior, several had caught well north of 200 pounds. It was tough as, again, 21 of the 39 teams were from out of state. Guides from Santee Cooper. Jeez- our little tournament has come a long way.
In case you haven't noticed, a lot has happened in the city park. We hope, by late summer, to be able to host a 150 boat tournament rain or shine as our boat ramp will be installed and have been promised help with rock for all the roads. At Saturday's event, the Mayor cooked the beans, three council members helped served meals, two guys from maintenance cooked, two more helped set up and tear down and we raised $912 that will go back to the park. That's why I have chosen to live and work in small towns for the last 31 years. A few committed people who come to common agreement that we can do something fairly well and make it a success. And, we are getting better at it. If you have suggestions, lest us know. Heck- maybe one day we will just plan a big ol fun tourney, our group will serve brisket and fish...
Thanks for your kind words. Met a lot of good folks on the TFF

New Lake Tawakoni Record Catfish

Jered Mounger of Creator Guide Services is the lake record holder with a 73.70 pound brute. He will be fishing the Cabelas King Cat Classic here this weekend. Jared caught the fish on cut shad. Melanie and I met him at the recent NTTC tournament and I told Mel she had better get her photo taken with Jered as that may be the closest we come to a lake record fish

Congrats Jered

Lamont's Caught a Nice One

Fish on- Get the Net!

Lamont (my neighbor and co-worker) and I took advantage of a nice day Saturday and tried for a big catfish. We might have had three or four bites when he hooked up with this fish. Did't have scales but it was 32 inches long.

Photo before the release

More Tawakoni Snow Scenes

Mel and I jumped in the car to take a drive through the park to see the snow scenes. We had at least 8 inches today.

The Butterfly Garden at the City Park

Our house 

Tawakoni Snow

A backyard shot from today. The birds are having a ball. Somewhere out there, is Lake Tawakoni

North Texas Catfish Results

The North Texas Catfish group held their tournament headquartered at the State Park Saturday

Here are photos of the winners

Fist place team of Ayers and Nobles with 133.35 pounds

Second was Dupree and Dupree with 125.35 pounds

3rd was Petree and Mounger (the current Tawakoni rod and reel record holder) with 124.55 pounds

4th were Carpenter and Willis  with 115.4- pounds

5th were Newsome and Newsome with 110.80 pounds

big fish winners were Hauth & Watkins with a 55.90 blue

Congrats to those anglers

Bud Light Bass Trail at Park

The Bud Light Bass Trail held a tournament today at the City Park. They have a nice stage for the weigh in. They will be back the first saturday in March

New killer lake house guard dog

You better be careful if you dare take one step on our lake house property because we have a new, killer, guard dog.
None of that is true, but we do have a dog living with us now. Bully, a soon to be 12 year old Llewellin setter, was a gift from me to son in law Ryan when he was a puppy.
He now has complete control of his new house and the two people he allows to also live there (Me and Mel), has his favorite piece of sitting (sleeping) furniture and is loving being an inside dog. While we have had a couple of incidents, he is training us well.