I agree that are plenty of good folks fishing for crappie here in Texas. I am going to miss my Texas fishing buddies for sure. The older I get the harder it gets for people to put up with me so the fact they are still my fishing buddies says a lot about them.

I don't want to start any flame wars but after spending 30 years fishing in Texas and 20 years fishing in Louisiana, Louisiana fishing is better than Texas fishing. I'm hoping Washington fishing will be as good as Louisiana fishing.

And if I am extremely lucky, I will find some fishing buddies in Washington who are as good a people as my Texas fishing buddies. But I admit that will be hard to do, given who my Texas fishing buddies are.