Dudleys Diary

loaded up his kayak and equipment into the bed of his pickup. He left about 9:40 AM headed down to the place down on the Trinity River to meet up with the other kayakers to paddle to the Colonial Golf Tournament. He met the public relations director for the tournament who organized the event. He met some fellow kayak fishermen and women from this organization,. They got every ones name and address and are going to send the participants a free TKF baseball cap and bumper sticker. Frank had not planned on fishing but he saw several of the kayakers were taking their fishing tackle so he grabbed his ultralight spinning outfit that had a spinner bait on it from his last trip to the golf course. They launched a total of seven kayaks I believe. There were two kayaks the same model as Frank's, one was bright red and the other hot pink. Dudley and wife drove down in Dudleys truck and parked on the other side of the river near the Fort Worth Zoo and watched the big kayak launch. They paddled up stream towards the big University Drive Bridge and Dudley drove across the bridge and timed it just right. We looked down off of the side and saw Frank right below us and I honked and he looked up and his mother waved and he waved back. We circled around and drove across the second bridge and saw the CBS camera man filming the approaching kayaks with a big camera mounted on a tripod. Frank called later and said he caught about a one pound bass on the way to the take out point. He said one of the other kayak fisherman caught a small bass and some bluegill. Frank said they got the kayaks out OK and carried them over and stored them at a tent this organization had put up. Frank picked up his two free grounds passes to the golf tournament. Cost to get in is $45.00 per person per day. He got $90.00 worth of free passes and is going to get to spend the day at the tournament today and tomorrow. Not a bad way to spend the weekend. Dudleys wife and daughter went to the cell phone store to see about getting Dudleys wife a new cell phone. She is eligible for a free upgrade. Dudley is going to watch some of the golf tournament. Dudley will watch tomorrow as CBS is going to air a segment of the kayakers paddling to the golf tournament. Dudley does not want to miss that for sure.