Where to after this??

Here's a little different blog for you to read this is more of a "personal" blog than I normally do feel free to pass it on via Facebook, twitter, ect...and help me get some feedback on ideas and maybe this will come across the right persons computer screen.


I will be starting my internship with the awesome guy's at Wired2Fish in exactly a week, and in case you haven't learned already I will be graduating with my degree in Business Marketing in December if things go well. I currently hold an Associates degree in Business Administration and feel like I have done fairly well at making my mark in the fishing industry. Now that my college career is about to end I have to answer the question...."Where to after this"?

I have been very blessed to live on Lake Neely Henry and cut my "teeth" fishing this lake, starting with bream, catfish, then moving to fishing bass tournament's. When I was just 12years old I fished my first full day bass tournament out of my grandfather's flatbottom boat and beat some of the local big names winning 3rd place and getting a $750 check. Some of the guy's I beat fish the PAA, BASS Opens, ect...so that was pretty impressive for a 12 year old kid, of course I may be partial lol.


I would really like to start a full-time guide service on Lake Neely Henry next year but I know how hard it is to do. I have been very blessed to be in a couple magazines along the way and took out a lot of people on the lake just guiding part-time between school classes, work, ect...but now that graduation is upon me I got to figure our where to head from here and how to make a living. I have college loan payments that are going to show up in my mailbox if I have a trip booked or not, I have bills to pay, ect....so I figure I need an alternate source of income until my guide service starts going "full steam". It's really hard to find a job that you can say "hey, I have a guide trip today, I can't come in". I have decided that pretty much my only option would be that of an outdoor writer. I have been involved in the outdoors since I was 4years old going squirrel hunting with my grandfather and have always been involved in hunting and fishing. I feel like being an outdoor writer would give me the opportunity to write before or after trips, and also I could write about my guide trips in general, test product's, that type of thing while I am with a guide client. I feel like being on the water everyday guiding would greatly help me as a writer and being able to write awesome articles on every aspect of fishing.


If you know anyone that is willing to help me out, I would greatly appreciate you sending them my way regarding this subject. I honestly do not know the way to go about writing for money, the only experience I have in writing is through college papers. I would need somebody to teach me the "technical side" of writing because I already know about the "fishing and outdoor side" of writing. I appreciate the help everyone and greatly looking forward to an exciting year next year and school semester as I work with Wired2Fish and learn from this awesome group of guy's!
Thank You,
Dustin King

Why We Fish?

I decided to break away from the norm on this one lol I just decided to talk about "Why We Fish". In these blogs I am going to try and keep it short and to the point. I was noticing the other day as I was out with my grandfather at the amount of people that fish. You have all walks of life, short hair, long hair, pro's, amateur's, no boat, flat bottom boats, bass boats, all types that fish. Something about waiting for that pull on the end of the line excites people. Ever little kids with no patience will sit and wait on "the pishy to pull". I was fishing around an old bridge a few weeks ago and a guy come down the bank, carrying his bass rod, and right behind him was his little girl. She looked to be about 4yo and she was on her way down the bank. He ask me if I had been catching any and proceeded to tell me that him and the little girl was fishing from the bank last week and she caught 4 bass around the bridge when they started pulling water....I know why he fishes...to spend time with the little lady. I know why she fishes....because she likes catching fish haha.
We all fish for different reasons, for me it's relaxing, it get's me away from the grind of school, and the work week. A lot of times I let fishing get too serious when I fish tournament's or on guide trips but then something in me I think likes that excitement and it is a different kind of "stress" on tournament morning or when you hook that first 4lbr and trying to get him in the boat while he's jumping with your buzzbait hanging out of his mouth.
I think my tournament fishing really took a turn for the better when I started paying attention to "why I fish". Instead of going out every time and trying to get a check because I needed the money, I started going out and trying to win because I loved the competition. This helped me more than you can ever imagine. When you mentally focus on the game of fishing you start to reach a new level of competition, and when you figure out "Why you fish" then you can begin to reshape "how you fish". Now that I focus more on the competition of fishing and the pure enjoyment of the sport I feel like that has opened my mind up to see new things while I am on the water and make better decisions on where to locate fish. I am now 100% better at making decisions on the go and do not mind changing a game plan up the morning of a tournament.
In the coming weeks try to develop the "why you fish" while your on the water and the pure enjoyment of the sport. I believe when you learn to do this you will become a more relaxed and confident angler, making better decisions while your on the water.

Dustin King
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