This couple is ‘Stoked’! Barry & April Stokes rock the ABA Couples Trail Match made in fishing heaven, after a blind date courtship involving kids, cats, goats & one unlikely pig Don’t let those great smiles fool you! This fishing couple is one of the nation’s best–and they are as happy on the water as they are off. Donald & Melania are America’s new First Couple, but Georgia tournament bass fishing has its own ‘First Couple’. And while Barry & April Stokes won’t be moving in

Editors Note: What’s it like to be married to a Georgia Big Stick? Find out now in this first in a series of posts on the spouses behind the tournament fishermen. Interviews were conducted directly with the wives of some of Georgia’s Big Sticks. Over the coming weeks, we’ll meet some of the women behind the men who dominate Georgia’s tournament fishing scene–and learn what it’s like to have a husband who is more comfortable in his boat than just about anywhere else.  Hats off

A Father’s Gift By David R. Altman “When you coming home, dad?” I don’t know when We’ll get together then, son, you know we’ll have a good time then” –“Cats In The Cradle”, by Harry Chapin My Dad has been gone for 16 years. And this post is really more about him than it is about fishing. When you are a father who has raised his own kids and has been blessed by now watching them raise theirs, there comes a point in your life where you begin to think about where it all started.