LOL
I made D's in English
I made A's in Calculus

I want to thank everyone for the well wishes. 38 radiation treatments are all done on a tonsel that grew back and became cancerous. It is about healing now. Another PET Scan will be done in 2 months to see if the cancer is gone. Can't wait to get back to fishing.

Glad your buddy was ultimately ok and I hate hearing that about Don. I still can't figure out why we send troops half way around to world to fight in a desert for people that don't like us nor want us there yet we do nothing about a very dangerous place that shares our border. I have a lot of SEAL and other special forces buddies and they've all told me that is the right groups were sent in strategically, they could wipe out every cartel in less than 6 months. Yet, we do nothing.

Two SEAL teams would make quick work of those idiots down there.

Been going to Lake Oviachic near Obregon Mexico since 2015. We would travel in groups of 2 to 3 trucks pulling boats. Once we get to the lake we fish for 6 full days. Cook breakfast each morning, make sandwiches for the boat and fish our tails off, dinner at the Marina Del Ray Restaurant and a few beers. Taking our own boats was fun as you were your own guide. I started going with Donald Harper till his health got to him. Met some real nice folks down there from all over. I have kept up with a few others that I have met while going back and forth so I can get a read on lake level and fishing quality. Over these past 9 years I've never really felt unsafe. Well, I got one of those calls this past week from a buddy (Jimbo) who has been going down there for 27 years, and he was driving back last month and pulled up on Highway 15 just south of Santa Anna and traffic had come to a stop. As soon as he pulled up, some guys walked up from the traffic jam, pulled guns and car jacked him. Took his phone, wallet, keys, made him walk up to the front of the traffic jam and forced him into the passenger side of an 18-wheeler and then the bandits took off in their vehicles and his new suburban. The driver of the 18-wheeler and everyone else in the holdup were just sitting there and looking down as they did not want to be witnesses. Luckily Jimbo speaks fluent Spanish, and he asked the 18-wheeler driver to take him to the nearest police station as he had nothing, no phone, no money, other than the clothes he was wearing. The Federales stated that in the past 3 months this has happened at least 30 times. A ring is sitting at the toll booths and watching for high end vehicles and easy suspects, then they call ahead and set up a traffic stop and make their heist. Jimbo has a wife in Hermosillo, so he got ahold of her, and she sent someone to pick him up. Took him a week or so to get with the Embassy and got his passport replaced then flew back to San Antonio. Luckily, he wasn't harmed other than his pride. Don Harper has been going down there for 37 years and has never had an issue, but the way Jimbo is telling it, things have gotten worse. I'm going to miss those 100 bass days with bleeding thumbs, sore backs and the thrills. I may still do a fly in and do a Ron Speed trip to one of their places to El Salto or Piceous but for now I think I'm done. And if you would say a Prayer for Don Harper, he's fighting throat cancer right now, I just talked to him the other day to relay the story and his spirits are low.

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Would it make sense to go in with some people and buy a boat and leave it there...everyone put in $$$ then everyone can use it while they are there and then leave it there? bringing tackle and poles might be a pain but again...ship it all there and leave it there...then just use it when you get there? Just a thought

Great family story Iconn4. I bet your dad had some great stories to tell, sounds like one tough hombre.