We had an eventful weekend at the Reese house.

Actually, it wasn’t at our house, it was at the NAMM Show in Anaheim at the Convention Center. NAMM is the National Association of Music Merchants – it’s kind of like the ICAST of the music industry. I say that because it’s the only thing I can truly compare it too; but in actuality, it dwarfs ICAST.

NAMM is not open to the general public, but we got in because Tom Coster; my father-in-law, is a professional musician, and he and his band, Vital Information were performing in the KORG booth. They had this little soundproof room that would fit about 50 people in it, but with the front doors open, people were lined up and listening.

There’s not much going on to report about in the fishing business other than the usual prep work that goes on before the season begins.

I’ve been going through all of my gear and ordering new stuff for the season. The biggest thing that I did was order all of the new Berkley Havoc items that are launching this year. There’s a new creature bait by Bobby Lane and a new tube bait by Ike, and Boyd Duckett has come out with a new worm called the Juice Worm.

We’re back from our family Holiday vacation to Mexico, and as much as we had fun down there; it’s nice to be home.

I tell you what the best part of the whole trip was – no cell phones! I got to spend time with my family without any interruptions, and I got to spend some great one on one time with the girls.

I took them fishing for Jack Crevalle, Bonita and Dorado. Lea went with me last time we went, but this was Courtney’s first trip on the big charter boat fishing like that. They caught several Jack Crevalle around 15 pounds, but couldn’t land anything bigger.