I am going to roll all three days into one here, it has been a stressful week.  On the first day of pre fish, I ran down to Kissimmee and blew my motor. This is an angler's worst nightmare because this represents a major engine problem.  By some small miracle, I was able to get back to the launch ramp and Yamaha did have a new power head for me, but it meant losing the first day of pre fish, and not having a boat for the second day of pre fish.  Feeling pretty low.

Greg Gutierrez is a fellow Northern Californian and he was nice enough to let me go out with him on day two of pre fish, as my boat was being repaired.  We caught a few fish, but it really is Greg's water.

Yesterday I went out with my repaired motor and kind of bumped around but I really didn't do very well. My spirits are down, I really have nothing to go to.  What I will do is decide on an area, I have a couple in mind, and just go fish it as thoroughly as possible, make my refinements as I go, and hope for the best.  This is about as blind as I have ever fished a pro event.