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After talking for a few moments about these questions mentioned, John said
that he knew of a newly formed bass tournament trail that he was interested in joining, but the bass trail was a partners (or team) trail and that he didn't know that much about this type of trail. He stated that his main concern about this team trail was that he wasn't sure about finding a fishing partner that he could get along with during the course of the trail season.I told John that I have taught several husband and wife teams (as well as girlfriend/boyfriend teams) that fish these types of trails and that if his wife might be interested at all in bass fishing to enroll both of them into the school and give it a try. He kinda chuckled at this idea and stated that she wouldn't know a plastic worm from a spinnerbait, but after a moment he thought to himself what the heck and that he would give it a try with his wife as his partner. Then he began to warn me that his wife would be like teaching a school kid that probably wouldn't give two hoots about any bass fishing subject matter, in fact, he said that she had never even picked up a fishing rod in her life except for the ones that he owned, just to throw them in the closet from being in her way.
John said to give him a while to talk with her and that he'd get back to me as soon as he could and hung up the phone. About two hours later my phone rang, I picked it up and you'll never guess who was on the other end...... you guessed right, it was John. He sounded very excited in a funny kind of way, and before I had a chance to say much of anything, he said that the first week of June would be great for him and his wife to come to the school if I had a three day slot open (which I did), so they enrolled.
Now, when they arrived in my area the night before the start of their first day of "on-water" instruction, they called me at home to let me know where they were staying. They also wanted to know where they could get a New York State and a Vermont State fishing license as well as to where and what time to meet me in the morning.
The next morning while I was launching my boat I heard a vehicle drive up towards my van and stop. I looked over to the vehicle and there in this car was John and his wife both just-a waving their hands in an anxious manner. I walked over to their vehicle to introduce myself and to welcome them. When John got out of his car, the first thing I noticed was that he was wearing so many product patches on his clothing that he must have been covered just about from head to toe. Then when I glanced inside the car and especially when he popped the trunk open, I'd say that this fellow brought enough bass baits and lures to supply the whole town, I mean this guy had just about everything you can imagine!
His wife being a very petite woman stepped out of the car and walked over to me and introduced herself as Nancy, shook my hand, and while looking back over towards John as he was piling all his stuff on the ground she was shaking her head in embarrassment and asked me; "does he really need all that stuff?" With a big smile I walked over to the rear of the car where John was unloading the car and looked at the enormous stack of equipment piled on the ground.
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