I currently reside in Belleville, IL just across the river from St Louis. I am in the Air Force and have been for almost eight years. I have been fishing since before I can remember. I grew up in North Central Indiana fishing small reservoirs, ponds and rivers for everything that swam. I still have the urge to fish for catfish, bluegill, crappie, and carp but my real passion is bass. After joining the military I got stationed in Grand Forks, North Dakota for four years. I loved living there but bass fishing was not very popular and hard to find. But, I made due meeting some real good people that taught me the tricks of light line and monster walleye. That was fun, but nothing compares to catching bass. In 2005 I moved back to the Midwest, where I live now, trying to peruse my dream. Since I have been here I have done two tours in the Middle East so my fishing time has been limited until this year. I will be getting out of the AF in September to hopefully peruse a career in the fishing world, hopefully tournament fishing. I am married to the best wife in the world, Holly, for five years now and I still love every minute of it. She is even pushing me to chase my dream of fishing. I also have an awesome two year old son, Dakota, my fishing partner after a couple more years of training. Enough about me; lets go fishing!