Alright here goes, in no particular order. Two companies and several people played a part in Brian L. Kelly, crappiecrazybk and myself finishing 24th in the 2017 Crappie Masters National Championship and we would like to publicly say thank you.
Start with Gene Johnson, EZ Poleholder, cause he's the oldest and we are supposed to respect your elders, and I do. Several months ago I asked Gene to custom build me some single rod holder stands for me to put my spiderlok heads on, to say these were the cat's meow is an understatement. We pushed cranks on both days and they worked flawlessly, thanks Gene Johnson for your friendship and awesome workmanship.
Next up is Scott Vance, ScottV, just because, lol. Scott has been painting cranks for a long time and designing. He painted several prototypes for me on PICO blanks which produced fish both days for our weigh-in stringer. Without your help we couldn't have done it, thanks man!!
Next up is Mitch Glenn and his lovely wife Scherry Glenn, met them several years ago and been testing baits for him ever since. Mitch and Scherry recently bought PICO LURES and I have been fishing this new crank a good bit since becoming available. Scott has been sending me prototypes to try and he painted blanks Mitch Glenn had sent him for us to use this weekend, one being a bait that has been named in remembrance of Mike Robinson, "Mr. Goodtime." This bait put fish in the box both days. Thanks Mitch and Scherry for producing a great product and letting me be a part of it!!
Last but most certainly not least is Arkie Lures, Christopher Johnson and his lovely wife Luci Bowerman Johnson. I've been associated with Arkie for several years, back when they had only 16 colors in the crankbait line up, now 66. I was part of the testing the different colors and had a ball doing it. Chris and Luci have taken over the reigns at Arkie since the first of the year and ARKIE was a major part of putting together our stringers.
Huge thanks to all of you!!!!
