Wondering what happened to-

[jackiekennedyfishingguide.com]

bassinTXlady she was at one time on a lot but I haven't seen her lately.
ScottA was once a regular contributor but now see nothing from him.
I know peoples interest and lives change as fishingTX loses a few and picks up a few from time to time.
I hope it was nothing I said in jest that may have caused the loss of anyone. Now I can understand how Lou or Gilbert could get to folks.

[GILBERT G]

Im sorry if they don't like my Tacos...lol

[GILBERT G]

Maybe it was Ben's spanglish spelling .lol

[Bigl]

Gil he hides the hundreds in a glass jar in the tomatoes row the $50's and $20's are in the corn row. Not to sure about the rest of it.

[vett0111]

Seen some come and go. Some come back. Life changes and have to change priorities.

[Gentleben]

Got is great , lifeis ebautitifulllllllllllllll

[jackiekennedyfishingguide.com]

Got is great , lifeis ebautitifulllllllllllllll

Now folks that is about as clear as mud!

[kingwoodcatfisherman]

bassinTXlady she was at one time on a lot but I haven't seen her lately.
ScottA was once a regular contributor but now see nothing from him.
I know peoples interest and lives change as fishingTX loses a few and picks up a few from time to time.
I hope it was nothing I said in jest that may have caused the loss of anyone. Now I can understand how Lou or Gilbert could get to folks.

Add my name to the list Jackie

I use to log in every hour on this site every day . I never missed for a day for about 3-4 years unless the site was down . This site wasn't even enough for my addiction so I joined two other popular sites and logged on to them several times a day too .

I never missed an invitation to go fish and I put it before everything in my life . Every trip was a contest to out catch my previous trip or any other person's trip on any other website . One night trips turned into three and four day marathons !! I was about as obsessed as you could get . I even made my jug gear and fished during work and in between jobs instead of working and building my business . The invention of the smart phone really helped because I could get on the fishing websites 24/7 !!!!!!

Most my money went into fishing gear and not into making my business better and grow . My business went to almost nothing because I didn't care and my wife hated me which most everyone who ever came to my house knew because I put my fishing before everything !!! So many people told me they thought my wife would put me in one of my chum buckets or shot me ! She was always yelling about the mess, the smell , the bait in the freezers , and the time that I dedicated to making my fishing posts , responding to pm 's , and helping others learn how to fish and jug !

Divorce papers in July 2012 put an immediate end to what I thought nothing could never be stopped . All my fishing gear went into storage that night and my fishing website and jugging addiction ended that night . To this day , my fishing gear is still in storage . Getting divorce papers and having the thought of losing my wife and my two daughters was the worst thing that I have ever had happened to me . My options that night was a gun to my head or to change my addiction from fishing to my family and business . So my extreme efforts after I got served made her want to rip the papers up after a few days but it took lots of months to get her to not hate me and to forgive . My last efforts was to tell her to not work any more last year because she kept telling me again that she was unhappy and crying a bunch because she hated her job and that they would not let her go to alot of the cheerleading contests out of town for my daughters . I pretty much let my wife do whatever she wants now cause I feel that I am married to the best wife in the world ! I do not feel that I could ever replace her because my standards are too high if I am trying to out do her by finding a better catch !

So I have worked extremely hard on my business and rebuilding it since the divorce papers a few years ago . I had to completely rebuild by business and start from the ground floor on everything . I went from one large customer who really was not that profitable to over 700 customers . I have gone from just me to having six people now helping me to keep up with all the work that I have . I work seven days a week and usually pull two all nighters a week at my shop . I am number one on goggle and my phone rings off the wall now !!! All my competitors, x partners and x employees who stole my customers and told me they would crush me have gone out of business this last year except for one company but he and his son really don't do alot of the stuff that we do so they really are not competition to us . So like fishing was a few years ago for me , I got really obsessed at being bigger and better than everyone else in my industry here in Houston. My wife comes to work every day with me and spends a few fours each day helping me in the office . It has been a good way for us to spend time together . My wife smiles more these days and she has been able to spend much more quality time with my girls and their out of town cheer leading events . They went to Vegas, Chicago , New Orleans , Dallas , Galveston and Oklahoma this year on road trips .

So my situation with Fishingtx has been from like you said a life change and change in priorities.

On a happier note !! I am beginning to think about organizing my business better so that I can have more free time . My goal is to duplicate myself several times and have trained people that can do what I do so that I will not have to work so many hours . I really would like to go fishing to get away and get my mind off stressful stuff ! I think that it would be a great therapy for me since I have been working so much which i think is not healthy . I am thinking what may be the best for me since I am so limited with my time is to just go with fishing guides or other fishing friends on the site who have their own boats . I have been taking to Double daddy about going in on boat with him since he lives on lake houston now and he has more time than me to up keep it .

[Bigl]

Congrats on a wise decision.

[Driftwood1]

KingWoodCat Fisherman glad things are going in the right direction