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MAY 2013 FEATURED ARTICLE

TIME IS ON OUR SIDE!

Article provided by Capt. Dean Monroe ~ USCG Licensed ~ TPWD Certified

25 Years of Fishing Experience and Fun! Call: 361-790-5250 OR 361-790-3364

As I stumbled out of bed, through the living room and finally made it to the coffee pot this morning, I remembered I had this article to write. I glanced up at the pie shaped nautical clock hanging on my living room wall, and it hit me again like a line I remember in a Bruce Springsteen song, “ like a freight train running through the middle of my head”. Those hands on the clock aren’t running backwards, and they are not ticking me that I am getting any younger. No matter how I decide to cut up the pie of time in life I have to decide what is most important at any given moment.

If we want to enjoy life it makes since to me that whatever we do it has to feel good. So I began to think, what is it that makes me feel good and it occurred to me that hanging out with my friends and family, and customers and helping people catch fish is one of my favorite feel good experiences. The two people in the pictures Calvin and Kelli are my dear friends as well as customers. Look at those smiles. We jumped a school of big reds that day in the Laguna Madre. Kelli ran for the front deck my big foot Haynie boat shouting "Gimme a freakin pole!!!"

Smile , and not exactly those words, smile----- Kelli is a trip. Calvin pitched to her a Shimano spinning rig and, she pops a bait right in the mouth of that big bull red like a pro and the fight was on. Then Calvin rises to the occasion, does the same and hooks up. Shouting and screaming and running around the boat like two crazies got me laughing my @@$$ off to the point of tears. We caught a bunch of big reds out of that school to the point that our arms were hurting good. That’s the way I like to see the pie of time sliced up and consumed.

It’s up to us, even though sometimes it does not seem like it. I took the clock off the wall and adjusted the hands of time, laid it on the kitchen counter thinking, It’s time to go spend some time with friends and family. So don’t put it off. If it’s sky diving, or Rocky mountain climbing, or two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu, or going fishing: Put some smiles on some faces and yours included. Thanks Calvin and Kelli for reminding me what life is all about.

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Capt. Dean Monroe

USCG Licensed ~ TPWD Certified

Call: 361-790-5250 OR 361-790-3364

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