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Julia Davis and Rick LaCourse’s 2005 FLW Journal – Volume 2

Category: journal

 Jun 14th, 2005 by OutdoorsFIRST 

Modified Jun 14th, 2005 at 12:00 AM

FLW Lake Erie Journal: Pre-Fishing4.13.2005 (Monday)Ahhhh, it’s good to be home!We couldn’t wait to get home from Bull Shoals. Not only because the fishing was so poor down there, but rather, because of the fact that our friends were calling and telling us the fishing reports from back here, while we were down there! Everyone was catching big fish.fast. The fishing was fantastic, and we were missing out on it. The first thing we did when we got home was turn on the weather channel to find out what the weather had planned for us this week.I didn’t really have to watch it, since I knew that if I came back to the state of Ohio, the wind was going to blow strong out of the Northeast. For some reason I have that effect on tournament sites. I’m cursed, I think.Household chores need to be done, and so does the yard work. It’s funny how much work gets created when you’re not even home to make the mess! That’s weird.Rick can’t stand being on shore anymore and heads out Thursday afternoon to start looking for some fish. He’s going alone, because I’m still doing yard work. Spring is the busiest time when it comes to keeping your neighbors happy. I don’t mind though, because I love working in the yard. Rick has a successful day on the water. He’s gone jigging on the West Reefs, and caught a bunch of eater sized males in the morning, and then went trolling for the bigger girls later in the afternoon, where he caught a few nice pigs affectionately known as “Fish Ohio’s”.4.15.2005 (Friday)Rick and our friend, John Ware, are fishing a WBSA/LEWT club tournament tomorrow, so they are pre-fishing together today. I pay the bills and run errands. Rick and John have caught a nice limit today. I figure they have about 38 pounds in the box. Not a bad start, but I hope they do better tomorrow. I call Matt Davis of the LEWT to volunteer my services the next day, and he asks me to take the pictures of the weigh in for their website.I agree. Ok, Ok, I’m not Dave Landahl, but I’ll try my best! Rick discusses where he is going to be fishing, and decides on the West Reef area between D Can and Niagra Reef, and near Rattle Snake Island. At 10pm we hit the hay.4.16.2005 (Saturday)Rick leaves at 5 in the morning. He lets the puppy wake me up.Ahhh.cold nose! I’m up! No, I’m not.ugh.. I go back to sleep for a couple hours. After looking at satellite photos of Lake Erie, and current charts based on wind direction, I start looking for areas that Rick and I can try tomorrow. He and I will start our pre-fishing for the FLW on Sunday. I took the dogs down to the beach today to get their ya-ya’s out. The puppy needed to run, and that’s exactly what she did. She ran from one end of Gem Beach and back to me.twice.After throwing a stick in the Lake for them, the wet dogs got back in my truck and shook several times. I still can’t figure out why they won’t shake good when they are NOT in the truck?? That’s weird.After the beach, I stopped in at the Holiday Village to visit the owner, Doug Alexander, who was also doing some yard work. The resort will be filling soon with FLW Anglers who are heading into town in a couple of days. Some anglers are here already, and made the trip up here from Bull Shoals, instead of driving all the way home to places like, North Dakota, or Minnesota, and back here again. Smart move on their part for thinking that way.Around 2:30 pm I head over to Coastal Marine for the LEWT weigh-in. A couple of boats are in early to help with the weigh in. Some huge baskets are brought in, with some fish as large as 30 « inches and 10 plus pounds. I take approx. 70 pictures of the event and hand them over to the directors. Rick and I pulled the boat, said good bye to John, and headed home for some dinner and a good nights sleep.4.17.2005 (Sunday)This is my first day out to pre-fish for the FLW Lake Erie tournament, and it’s a beautiful day! The winds are light and variable, and the temps are in the mid to high 60’s. The water temperature is right around 45 degrees right now. The big fish that have finished spawning are now on the move and going with the currents headed East. Rick decides he wants to start over on the Northwest corner of Kelly’s Island. As we approach, I can see that everyone else and their relatives have decided the same thing. It’s crowded out here today, but everyone seems to be working together, as far as staying out of each other’s way. Although we didn’t catch as many fish as we wanted, we did catch the right fish. Our live well had 6 beauties sitting in it, and they were destined to be our dinner(s) for many nights to come. Crank baits were the fishes ‘bait of choice’ today, and it didn’t really matter what colors were used, but rather where the bait was presented, and the action of the bait. all the big fish came from the top of the water column, or high up. We heard over the radio that some anglers were catching some fish on crawler harnesses, but we only put one out here and there to cover the bases. Rick doesn’t really like to run harnesses until the water temps on Lake Erie warm to the low to mid 50’s, or if there is a cold front that slows the fish down.***The best colors for us today were:Monkey Puke, Huckleberry, Texas Red, Purple Hot Fire Tiger, Red Hot Fire Tiger, Purple Demon, Captain’s Choice, and Fried Chicken.The Reef Runner was run anywhere from 35-55 back and the Ripsticks were run with an ounce and a « snap weight at 40/40 and 50/50.Husky Jerks took fish at 60-65 back.Reef Runners were the fish’s favorite action it seemed, since most of the fish came on the Reef’s.After a quick dinner and a little researching for the next day, we go to bed. We’re beat.4.18.2005 (Monday)We head out on the water by 8am. The new location on the South tip of South Bass Island produces more numbers of fish with the same quality fish that we were catching yesterday. Not much to say for today, because the colors and setbacks were the same as yesterday. It has just been an excellent day on the water today. 16 for 19 fish, and our best 5 went over 40 pounds! 4.19.2005 (Tuesday)Again, we’re on the water by 8am. Same old-same old.more huge fish to reel in! hehehBy the time the day is over, we have gone 22-25 with our best 5 over 40 pounds again. Life is good, and my arms are killing me! The bad news is, bad weather is going to be setting in again for the next 10 days. Two of those days will be really crappy.one is tomorrow, and the other is this Saturday. It looks like the next 10 days will have NNE or NNW winds. Tomorrow and Saturday have the strongest winds forecasted, and other than the colder temps the rest of the days have manageable winds. They are calling for a chance of snow showers on Saturday and Sunday though.that’s weird. The Co Angler who signed up with me, called me to let me know what days he has off, and would like to fish. I tell him any day he wants to fish is alright with me. I tell him what the forecast is and he decides he is going to take Saturday off to go to work. Sounds good to me. (*note: my Co Angler and I would never get a day to fish together due to conditions)I decide I’m going to take tomorrow off to run some errands for us, and Rick is going to go try to stay on the fish with Paul Fallow, a friend and competitor of ours who is coming down in the morning, so Rick goes to bed early tonight. I try to stay up a little later to watch a movie tonight, since I know I don’t have to wake up real early in the morning, but I only make it half way through the show before I start falling asleep on the couch. I’m exhausted. Those big fish plumb wore me out today. I’ll finish the movie tomorrow and go to bed too.4.20.2005 (Wednesday)Rick has gone to pick up Paul at his resort. I sleep in a little. Thunderstorms with lightning and heavy rains have just moved through, making our 7-month old puppy nervous. The older dog, Jack, could care less. He’s like me.the more it storms, the better we sleep.Rick and Paul decide this interval between storms is the time to go. There wouldn’t be another storm forecasted until later in the afternoon. The winds they were calling for have not arrived yet. It’s blowing, but it’s still fishable out there. I called Rick on the walkie-talkie to find out how he and Paul were doing and he said they had around 16 fish already. No big girls like he and I had, but they were decent. I’m guessing he has found a new pod of fish. We will have to find the other one again, because those were the right fish to win a tournament with. I run my errands and go back home to start dinner for the guys when they come in.4.21-22.2005 (Thursday and Friday)The forecast stinks so I decide it’s not going to make a difference if I go out fishing today, since everything we have learned is going to change after this weekend. I take the opportunity to do some grocery shopping, errands, and more house cleaning (that’s something I never seem to catch up on.)Rick and Paul are fishing just to be fishing. It’s a rough day out there and Rick is wearing himself out, but he says he can rest up this weekend when the really crappy weather arrives. I make dinner for us and some of our competitors.Ham, scalloped potatoes, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, and steamed sugar snap peas with baby carrots and honey butter hot biscuits.mmmm mmmm good! After chatter from everything from strategy, weather, and lake conditions, everyone leaves with full bellies, and Rick and I sit down to watch a video. Rick ends up falling asleep in the chair about 10 minutes later. It was probably a good move on his part, since the video was a “chic” movie anyway. Lol4.23.2005 (Saturday)The winds are howling out of the Northwest (it feels like they are steady about 35+ with gusts to 45+), and it’s raining. The waves are crashing over the break walls along the lakeshore. While I sleep in AGAIN (lucky me) Rick and the puppy go into town to visit with Tim McCann, the owner of the “Fisherman’s Wharf”, a bait shop downtown, and ends up spending MORE money on crank baits! Ugh. Tell me, how many cranks does a man need??? I know, I know.don’t answer that.After he leaves the Warf, he heads over to Coastal Marine to chat with the boys in the service department. He has a good relationship with Rueban, Joel, and Kevin, and just goes over there to BS with them. In the process he asked them if it is ok for me to pull my boat over there for the weekend, to keep it in the heated storage area to dry out. He needs to put a new Minn-Kota bow mount quick release plate” on the boat. I don’t know what the actual name of the plate is. It’s an item that makes it quick and easy to put the bow mount on and take off the boat. They guys said, “yes”, so Rick called me up and told me to bring the boat over there, which I do. After getting it in the storage facility, Jack and I catch up with Rick and Jill in the front building at Coastal. After about a « hour of visiting we head out. Rick takes me to breakfast over at the “Galley” on Catawba Island, where we meet up with some of our competitors who were also having a late breakfast. I don’t know of anyone who would have been out on the water today. After breakfast we head over to the tip of Catawba Island to watch the waves crashing into the ferry dock. When we got over there we couldn’t believe our eyes. The Ferry boats were running today! Are they nuts? They must be!! 8-9 footers were crashing into the Ferry Dock, and the Ferry’s were taking waves up and over the wheelhouses on their way out towards the islands. The lake was wild! We sat transfixed, watching them for about 20 minutes and then headed home. The snow that was forecasted for today won’t arrive until later this evening. Around dinner time the rain is starting to mix with sleet and slowly changing over to snow. We should have snow on the ground by morning. The rest of the evening is uneventful. 4.24.2005 (Sunday)As I lay in bed this morning, I can’t hear any raindrops, so I figure it is snowing. I got up and looked out the window hoping that we didn’t get pounded with snow again like we have with the past snowstorms this winter.To my surprise there was only 2-3 inches on the ground. However, it was snowing pretty heavily. From my window it appears the winds have subsided, because the giant snowflakes are falling straight down. It’s a good day to stay in and chill out. Rick said something before he went out this morning, but I don’t have a clue what it was he said to me. I’m sure he is off visiting again. I don’t bother to track him down. He’ll be home soon with this weather going on. I went out and shoveled 5 inches of snow off the deck and front porch. Rick came back mid-morning and said that the wind is howling something fierce again. What? I can’t believe that..I looked outside again, and the wind wasn’t blowing the snowflakes at all.they are still coming straight down. That’s weird.He takes me to breakfast again, and then we head over to the Holiday Village to visit with Doug. The Island didn’t have any snow accumulation, so we figured it was slowing up. WRONG! When we got home, which is on the other side of Port Clinton from Catawba, we had even more snow on the ground. I shoveled the deck again, and it had another 5 inches of snow accumulation making it a whopping total of 10 inches so far! The good news is that the weather is going to be in the low 60’s tomorrow, so the snow should melt and all be gone. But, the bad news is, there’s no place for all this water to go. Our yard is going to be a disaster, and I can already envision all the muddy paw prints on my floors and furniture. Ugh.We invite our friends over for dinner again. Rick has made a big roaster pan full of Pork Roast and Beef Roast, carrots, onions, mushrooms, and cabbage with mashed potatoes and gravy, and hot rolls. Everyone is full and satisfied again. After some fishing talk and discussion on what the recent weather has done to the water, and what approach should be taken, everyone leaves with fresh ideas and full bellies again. Frank Owens got his big dually truck stuck in our driveway, so Rob and Colleen hooked him up and towed him out. Rick and I watch some TV and then head to bed.Rick and I have decided that we will not hit the water again until the first tournament day. There really is no point to it when the water is this chewed up.4.25.2005 (Monday)Not much to tell on this day. Nothing happened. It was a slow laid back day for us. Rick called the local airport and scheduled a flight for three of us on Tuesday, so we could find out where the cleaner water was without having to take the boats out and waste all that time and gas driving around. What a smart man I married. 😉4.26.2005 (Tuesday)Rick and I went to breakfast in town, and then headed out to Al Szuch’s Bait Shop over in Curtis where Rick’s best friend, Rick Ferguson, is the owner. After a quick visit with him we head back home. At 11am we meet up with Rob Lampman for our plane ride. The pilot is a young guy.probably in his early 20’s, and I’m a little nervous to have this “kid” flying us around. I don’t say anything and chalk it up to the fact that I’m just getting old and everyone is starting to look younger and younger these days. I’m sure he is quite capable of flying this machine. Turns out he was an excellent pilot. No problems what-so-ever. We flew around the Islands for about 45 minutes and headed back. We found the areas that were holding some good water. Rick decides he is going to start out tomorrow pulling crawler harnesses out between North Bass Island and Middle Island. I like the looks of the water in front of the monument on South Bass, and I decide that I will be pulling crank baits there. Rick told me I should follow him to the ‘border’, but I’m stubborn and stick to my guns. I told him that I thought the bigger fish would come on cranks. He just shook his head and said, “do what you want, I’m pulling meat”. At 3pm I headed over to the registration and got Rick and I signed up, and then headed home. After a shower and a quick bite, we got dressed in our fancies and headed back for the rules meeting.After the rules meeting we went back home and got ready for Day one. Went to bed early.Tournament Days4.27.2005 (Wednesday) 1st day of the tournament:The alarm goes off way to early..3:45am. Ugh. I get up and take a quick shower to wake up. Rick puts the coffee on, but I can’t drink any.(It’s against my ‘bladder training’) It sure smells good though! Rick takes a quick shower and we get dressed in our gear for the day. I head over to the WalMart where my Co Angler, Chad Cheatwood, is meeting me. He arrives right on time, and we head over to the launch. I don’t like to get there too late, because I hate to wait in lines. I’m usually one of the first 5 people to launch in the mornings, which makes getting through boat check a breeze too.It’s really dark in the mornings, due to the cloud cover, and navigating the channel of West Harbor is a little tricky, since you need to stay between the channel markers. I didn’t remember that I could dim the bright screen on my Lowrance X-104 until I was half way down the channel, but once I dimmed it, it made it much easier to see in the darkness.After getting through boat check, my partner and I found a dock to tie up to next to Rick and his Co Angler. Since we were in the water so early, it gave me a chance to talk to Chad a little and get to know him.After talking with him, and showing him all he needed to know about the boat.ie: safety equiment, on/off key/etc. I knew we were going to have a great day. He has a ton of experience tournament fishing, and in my opinion, could have easily been fishing the Pro side of this event. His mindset about pulling cranks was the same as mine, so I knew that we were on the same page. He had a positive attitude that wouldn’t change all day. He was just an all around great guy, and a lot of fun to spend a day in the boat with, especially when the weather was as crappy as it was! We had 4-5 individual fronts move through today. Every time a front would appear on the edge of the West end of the lake, the sky would darken, the winds would howl, and the rain and sleet would fall. When they passed, which was usually about 20-25 minutes later, the winds would die down a little bit and the sun would come back out to warm us up again. My Co Angler and I caught one nice fish today. A fish that would end up weighing in at 1 ounce short of 9 pounds, putting Chad and I in 73rd place, but in the top 5 as far as big fish caught. Rick and his Co-Angler Joe Fallow from McHenry, Ill. had a whopper of a day on the ‘border’ pulling meat, and is currently in 2nd place with just a few ounces under 30 pounds! “It was a day of controlling your speed”, Rick said. He was using a Minn-Kota Vantage trolling motor in reverse to maintain the.08 trolling speed in the 3-4 foot waves. He ran 1oz. snap weights 30-30 and 1 1/2 oz 30-35 with worm harnesses. The blade was a Blue/Silver /Red # 5 Indiana. They only had one fish get off today in the rough water. Maybe I shouldn’t be so stubborn and I should listen to my hubby more often…hhmmmm.I’ll have to think about that.After leaving the weigh in, and taking my Co Angler back to his truck at the WalMart, I head home to check on the dogs. Our neighbors Terry and Barb are helping us out during the tournament days by coming over to let the dogs out for us. Everything seems ok..oh wait, the puppy has ripped a layer of drywall off the living room wall..ruh oh. Bad puppy. Rick calls Fergy (Rick Ferguson) and tells him what his ‘granddaughter’ (his dog is the mom) has done, and Fergy just laughs. Fergy has offered to take Jill for the next couple of days, so she won’t be tempted to destroy anything, and she can also play with her brother, Mom, and Rick’s other dogs. Fergy drives over and picks her up, so that saves us an hour of driving. Thanks Rick!4.28.2005 (Thursday) 2nd Day of the tournament:This morning I’m meeting my Co Angler at the little strip mall next to the launch. Today I’m fishing with Jeff Thomas. He’s a local from Stoney Point, Ohio. Rick drew Ed Edstad from Prairie Du Chein, WI. After tying up to the dock to wait for blast off, I am under the impression my Co-Angler is an avid jigger more so than a troller, like me. That makes me a bit nervous since it has been my experience that jiggers really hate to troll. While we are tied up to the dock in the morning, Rick is telling me to go out by him and fish his program. I am thinking about it, but I still have this feeling that the big fish are going to go, and the cranks are going to be the ticket. I decide that I’m going to go with my gut and do my own thing again today. Rick just shakes his head at me again and says, “Well, you know what I’m going to be doing”.While we were waiting for take off, I noticed the sky and said to Rick and the Co Anglers, “Red sky in the morning, Sailors take warning!” The sky looked as if it were a sunset instead of a sunrise.Sure enough, a front that was not expected to bring winds.did. The forecast was for winds out of the WSW from 10-20, and this wind that was blowing a good 20-30 with gusts to 39 was coming out of the WNW. That’s weird. The ‘Slop Chute’ between the mainland and the islands was wicked going out this morning. After getting to my spot, the radio started to light up with calls to the FLW directors asking if they were going to call the tournament. I was behind an island, so I didn’t realize what the waves were doing on the West side of the islands, and apparently that’s where a couple of the boats got into some trouble with big waves. After many radio transmissions, some including the Coast Guard, the tournament directors officially called off the tournament for Day 2 around 8:30 am. Everyone headed back in. We were informed that we would be keeping our day 2 Co Anglers for day 3.My Co Angler and I were the first boat in, so we took advantage of the situation and went to breakfast at the restaurant next door to the launch. As we waited for everyone else in our groups to show up, we talked about the weather, the tournament, and the day. I waited for Rick to show up before ordering my food, and my Co Angler was happy to join Ted Takasaki and his gang at their table.Rick joined me and some others and we chit chatted. After the front passed the predicted forecast came to fruition and the rest of the day was beautiful. What a day to be stuck on shore. Bummer. The good news is that Rick is still in 2nd place going into day 3! Cool!After breakfast we ran some errands and hung out by our buddies at the service trailers most of the day.The rest of the day was uneventful, and after putting the boats to bed, we headed to bed for an early night ourselves.4.29.2005 (Friday) 3rd day of the tournament:Once again, I meet Jeff at the strip mall. When we arrive at the launch I see Brad Davis. I’m a little confused, because he’s on shore, and his boat is in the middle of the harbor. That’s weird.He smiles and asks for a lift. “Hop in”, I said. It’s a funny story, but I’m sure you can figure out how he ended up on shore while his boat was floating without an operator. If it would have happened on either of the past two mornings, he would have been in good shape, since his boat would have floated to the wall where everyone picks up their Co Anglers. Unfortunately, today, there is no wind, and his boat is sitting out there very, very..still.We tie up at the dock again and wait for the blast off. I have a game plan. I’m going to go West to the reefs, since the water there is cleaning up the fastest, and I’m going to troll crank baits. Rick is going to the ‘border’ once again. He started with the same program as on Day one. The water clarity kept changing in the area he was fishing and he only had two good fish by noon. He opted to salvage the day and run to the reefs to fill his limit. He ran to Niagra reef and caught the three that he needed for a limit in twenty minutes. He made one more pass to try to upgrade a fish, but caught four more that were released. He then moved toward D-can and tried to upgrade before running out of time with no luck. Rick weighed in 18-2 to maintain 5th overall and make the final day cut. I on the other hand caught two nice fish in the first hour of trolling and was talked into jigging the reefs by my “jigging” friend. My Co Angler wanted to get those five fish in the live well right away. Why I let myself get talked into that, I’ll never figure out. I went to a reef and we jigged for about 20 minutes. I caught one Smallmouth Bass and nothing else before I said, “that’s it, we’re not jigging, we’re going trolling again”. I didn’t go back to my original spot right away, and I’m pretty positive that was my mistake. After trying several areas, we eventually did get back to the first spot, but it was crowded now, and I think the fish were being pushed out of the area, but I couldn’t find them, and get on them again. We didn’t get another bite all day, and I ended up in a lowly 97th place. Ouch.The top ten in the standings have their meeting after the weigh in, and will be paired up with new Co Anglers for the last day of the tournament. The weather forecast doesn’t look good at this point, and there is a chance that day 4 may be cancelled. I’m sure the leader, Dean Arnoldussen is hoping that this is the case, but Rick who is sitting in 5th place now, is hoping that the weather holds for one more day, so he can try to improve his position.After dinner, it was pretty early when Rick went to bed. He was exhausted. I’m not feeling well, and follow him soon after.4.30.2005 (Saturday) Day 4 of the tournament:Rick got up at 3:45, but I stayed in bed. I came down with a bad head and chest cold yesterday, and feel like I have been hit by a truck. I couldn’t get up to help Rick this morning, which made me feel guilty. I wanted to go down to the take off to wish him good luck, but that was impossible. I just wasn’t up to it.When I did get up, I watched the weather to see if they would be taking off this morning, and the weather report was pretty decent. The bad weather had already moved through, so the winds wouldn’t be as bad as predicted previously. While the top ten were fishing, my boat was going to be used for the ‘Ranger/Evinrude On The Water Display and Demo’, so I had to get the boat cleaned up. I was slated to give rides, but after talking with Pat Kleppert, he offered to give rides in my boat instead. Thanks Pat! He came and picked up my boat and took it over to the launch site. Later, when they were done, I picked it up and took it home. The demo event was a big success, with a lot of people showing up for test rides in the new Rangers with Evinrude E-Tecs. I headed over to the WalMart for the weigh in around 3:30. The top ten anglers would be showing up at 4pm.It turned out to be a sunny day, with winds out of the North at 10 mph. A nice day for the guys fishing today. Rick started in the same area as the first two days, just north of Middle Bass Island. The only difference was that today he started with crank baits. His thought was to try to contact some of the bigger post spawn walleye first. This was a ‘go for broke’ day. He was marking the mother lode of fish, but had no takers. At 9:45, it was time to change back to spinners and move a little to the East on another pod of fish he’d been working this week. They put 4 keepers in the boat and caught 1 short fish in 35 minutes. They were not the same size fish that were there on days 1 and 2, plus the current kept moving the dirty water into the area. Rick then started looking for that one school of big fish he would need to make a move at the leaders. After making several moves with no luck and still only 4 keepers in the live well, he settled in on a patch of good water and marks just on the East side of Gull Reef. He changed up some of his spinner rigs and tried to cover water. With time running out, and 3:00 PM being the return time, things were looking a little bleak. But it’s never over until the “Fat Lady Sings” and he thought he heard her tuning up. But, at 2:25 his outside board took a sudden change of direction and the scramble was on. Dan quickly cleared the inside board as Rick kept pressure on the fish. Within a few minutes Dan carefully slid the net under the ever so important 5th fish. That 3 lb fish meant approximately $5,000 dollars to Rick and would move him into 4th place, and Dan into a solid third place finish. Again Dean and Russ had productive days and they did a wonderful job under some tough conditions. Again, Speed was the controlling factor all week and Rick credited his Minn-Kota Vantage trolling motor as his most important piece of gear this week. It allowed him to fine tune the trolling speed under the toughest conditions.After the weigh in, we went home to put his boat to bed, change clothes and relax a bit until we were to meet Sonny and Sharon Reynolds, and the rest of the FLW crew, for a great dinner at Nate’s restaurant at 8pm. Dinner was fantastic, and it was nice to eat something that was cooked slowly rather than the ‘express meals’ we were eating the past three nights. Arriving home a couple hours later, it was time for bed. My pillow never felt so good!The next tournament will be at Green Bay Wisconsin, and we plan on leaving for GB on 5/11/05 to start pre-fishing for that one on the 12th. So, until then..Good fishing to you all! Thanks for taking the time to read this!To be cont’d at Green Bay!