Know Your Fellow Anglers - Issue 1

The Tournament Office is always listening to the angling community and recently there have been some concerns that the length of time between the Events leaves some of you wanting more in terms of information and details about others in the Tournament. In response to that desire, the Tournament Office has established a regular feature titled "Know Your Fellow Anglers" in which one member of the Tournament will go one-on-one with the Public Affairs committee of the tournament's Office. This friendly and frank discussion will deal delve in depth to the psyche of the anglers to provide valuable insight into the inner workings of your fellow Tournament participants. The identity of the angler will be disguised and you'll be encourage to guess at the true identity.

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This angler has participated in all three seasons of the Tournament and continues to treat each week as a learning experience in an effort to become a better fisherman. This angler lead the tournament for almost a year with the most fish caught in one week on August 6, 2004 with 75 fish at MI-40 before being schooled by Merle the following year at Bulrush Pond

Well liked by everyone, this loveable angler is one of only two men on the 5th floor who uses "product" in their hair on a regular basis

Stats:

2004: 550 inches of fish, 4th Place Finish

2005: 239 fish, $569.90 creel, $2.38 average, 3rd Place Finish

Q&A Session:

Q: Who do you most identify with on The Office

A: Ryan, the temp of course.

Q: What interests you in fishing

A: Mostly it's something to get me away from that mind numbing building inspection database. Plus it gives me an opportunity to see the FESS folks in another setting. It's one thing to see these architects and engineers in an office setting interacting with the physics community in a thoroughly professional and highly skilled way, but they carry over that same outstanding atmosphere into every fishing event. I'm not kidding when I say, that I'm often left awe-struck by how smart, knowledge and savvy these guys are. The lab is lucky to have these guys.

Q: How would you describe your fishing techique.

A: We'll I'm in college, so I like to sit a lot. Sometimes, for fun, I'll try 'mitchelling' another angler, but mostly I just watch the way the engineers fish and try and learn a thing or two. I'm young so I have a lot to learn.

Q: What Do You Feel You Bring To The Team

A: (kisses one bicep and then other) These guns.

Q: Describe an experience that changed you.

A: Besides meeting my girlfriend (and future wife, if she'll have me, cross your fingers) I'd have to say the time I had the opportunity of fishing near someone high up in the Engineering organization at MI-40. It took all my fishing prowness to keep my cool while this person landed his water filled broken bobber at the same honey hole that I was fishing. For one hour.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish in the coming season

A: I'm hoping that my team mate and I can put together a couple of good events and challenge for second place. There is no way that we could even think about first, not with Steve and Merle at the top of their game. Those guys are like robots, fishing robots (sobs uncontrollably)

Q: Any plans for school

A: Last year during one of the regular Thursday night Beer Pond Tournaments, I realized that I like to sleep and I'm pretty good at shuffling paper so I thought I'd be great as an architect. Or maybe Johnson Controls Metays. Or maybe Inteperative Dance.