Here comes the COLD

weather that is....16F right now and blowing hard....I came down with a nasty cold the past couple days and thought I was going to kick it before it kicked me. I guessed wrong.

The working out has been going great....I am digging it and seeing a differnce in my body and attitude. I have a personal trainer scheduled for next week and want to learn how to work my core more. I watch him alot and he has his clients doing lunges everyday....I HATE lunges...they hurt...BAD so thought I would get a head start and do them for a few days before our first session...Two days later and I can barely walk...No kidding and even just taking a single finger and poking my quads makes me jump! I have been trying to stretch them out but it seems the only way to stretch them is to LUNGE again....Ouch doesn't describe it...hah...

Hopefully I will have more to post next tide...

So my friends......

Are we really searching for fish or the beautiful women of the sea?.........Possibly both?

Cool Change......

I dig that song...In fact I have been digging it for 25 years. But as I move towards the half century mark I finally am starting to understand it's words. Life is so short....I was commenting to my wife today about our 5 year old daughter in how that I do not remember her being two years old. Time seems to stand still for the moment being but in reality it is FLYING BY at an incredible clip!! So as I near 50 I find myself scrambling. Scrambling for what I am not sure....But I know I am scrambling...Or scrambled in the mind!! I have done some crazy things of late....For one I bought a drum kit....Yeah a drum kit!!...Everybody I know is saying, "Hey I didn't know you played the drums"? I respond..."I DONT, BUT I WANT TO LEARN"! So here I am like a kid who just went to a rock concert and decided he wanted to be a ROCK STAR!...I know...silly....So I got the kit and I set it up the best I could....I assembled the whole thing and tuned it with my bionic ears....I can tell its still out of tune but I am not sure what. I've been banging on it for about 10 days now....My daughter the first couple days would exclaim..."STOP DADDY STOP"!!....Thanks to You Tube there are alot of beginning drum videos....It helps but the video rendering is not as fast as the audio rendering which makes following a beat kinda tough as do poor camera angles when taping the person performing the lesson. I am still looking for a local drum instructor but so far no dice....Somebody has got to want to teach me...I'm desperate!! HAH

What else have I done....I finally woke up and said I was sick of being FAT...yes FAT and out of shape....Being a charter captain all summer long is like driving a cab on the water...All u do is drive and eat....You get beat up physically but not in a good way that works fat from your body....I know u shouldn't live in the past and people get sick about hearing "yah in the day I used to blah blah blah"...But the truth is I was an athletic MACHINE into my early 30's...I used to body build and could bench 325 and eventually gave that up to race bicycles which I got very good at and raced and trained for over 10 years. You would never know it now...but there is a part of me that wan'ts that back to some degree...

Oh and the tattoo thing....My father would probably roll over in his grave if he found out what I was planning to have tattooed on me....I question why I wan't to do this....Is it rebellion of my baptist upbringing? Is it a midlife crisis or is it that maybe it's the simple fact that I am getting older and trying to hold onto my youth? "Ugggggggh"....Well we all knew the answer before I started blabbering. I guess I just had to write it to accept it!!...hahaha

I've been working out steadily and eating right since Dec 5th....I had some big gains in strength and lost weight the last two weeks but seem to have kind of hit a plateau....I may talk to a personal trainer 2morrow to see if we can mix it up a bit more to get my body losing weight again and getting stronger....I seem pretty focused and determined...I look forward to going to the gym and get pissed if I can't get there for some unforseen reason. There is HOPE!!....
For those of you scratching your head wondering where the latest fishing report is I apologize...It's coming....but until then your gonna have to deal with my craziness and mid life crisis!...;-)

Till next tide...

Janurary is a.......

totally worthless month. I have little work this winter other than the property management I do so I have really been hitting the basement gym and finally joined WILLY's in Eastham about 10 days ago. They had a killer deal that my wife and I just could not pass up. I go pretty much every morning for 2 hours. My good friend Paul Higgins is a member and he and I play a little basketball then hit the cardio machines...I do 30 minutes on the stair climber under pretty good resistance...I swear when endorphins are released it is like a drug....I get in a zone and just feel great. I then hit the weights for an hour then back on cardio to finish up.....If I do this till June I should be one bad ass mutha!!...LOL.

Anyhoo, it has been along time coming and I should of started years ago...Feeling great that I look forward to getting to the gym in the am vs forcing myself to go....

I got my drums setup and have started making some very very bad bad noise....So bad that my little girl runs around with her hands over her ears...screaming....STOP DADDY...STOP!!....Hopefully I can find some lessons locally and start finding that hidden drummer in me...;)

Till next time.......

The triple whammy!

I have 3 cameras in my arsenal and all three are now broke in one way or the other....It aint pretty....My SONY HD camcoder fell out of the case late this summer and got saltwater on it....DEAD....My Sony pocket cam fell off the counter due to an accident and now my main camera my SONY A100 DSLR fell and hit the floor courtesy of one of our cats!!....Uuuugh....Sony service wants a min $230 flat fee to work on the body....It seems I can get a almost new body on ebay for less so I guess that is the route I am taking....Not sure where to go with the camcoder...it works but wont take a charge....The pocket cam is junk....

I have been wanting to get out and take some pics on the flats since I went clamming the other day....bear with me...I'll figure out something soon!! \"/

Resolutions......

So it goes with another New Year and resolutions....This year I made a little bit better effort. I started in early December and have stuck with a workout routine. Im finally using that Bowflex I bought 10 years ago along with some free weight dumbells. I have an old bike on a wind trainer and received a 150lb heavy bag last week. I'm eating right and trying to stay focused but it is TOUGH!!...

Anybody who has been a fishing guide on a smaller/mid size boat like mine that fishes in the conditions we fish, day in and day out knows how taxing it can be on the body. Every year it get's a little harder to pull my fat arse out of bed so I knew getting in shape was long overdue...I think that nearing 50 is also giving me a scare!!....Maybe it's what they call a mid life crisis?...Afterall I did pull the trigger on a Ludwig Centennial drum set the other day!! Oh did I tell you about the tattoo I am having designed?!!?!!....DO YOU SEE FOLKS?!!!

OK...On the fishing front here is what is going on....I am booking trips for next year now and have a dozen days booked in June already. June goes quick...If you want in then dont wait to contact me. Fishing is great all summer long but JUNE rules in the fly for bass arena.

Late May can be killer too and for some reason I book very few trips in May for reasons I am not sure of. So look at your schedule and see if May might fit for you!!!

Time to head to the basement for some PAIN and relaxation.....

Till next time...