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Subject: Rend Lake, Illinois Submitted by TroyJ/Angling Alabama
Date Fished: 6/28/2005 Water Temperature: 78 This fishing report is late, seems I’m always playing catch-up…8^) I was blessed with the opportunity to spend a couple of days at the Rend Lake Resort back on June 20-21, and do a little fishing with some very special folks. The Rend Lake Resort was the gracious host for a group of kids who had either chronically ill or terminally ill diseases. These kids and their families were supported by the United Special Sportsman’s Alliance. (childwish.com). A number of guides/pro’s including Dalton Bobo, Clay Dyer, Kevin “wild man” Tucker, Todd Gessner, Barry Featheringill and Buzzy Byrom (of the Tennessee Valley Outdoors Show) helped take these kids out on Rend Lake for fun and fishing. I can’t imagine a better way to spend a day on the lake. Watching Kevin Tucker and Todd Gessner diving and trying to find/wrestle big catfish out of underwater tubes was fun. I saw that as a whole new appreciation for why we invented the rod and reel… (lol). The weather was great, hot, humid and being from Alabama, just the way I like it! (Grin). The fishing was tough, we managed to get the kids on a few cats, bass and bream, and we spent all of the time just having fun. I found the lake a great lake to fish. Y’all could use a little milfoil… (big grin) and of course, some grass gnats! Lol. I fished with a very special friend, Sean O’Donoghue, and with my own special kid, Yvonne. We drowned a few live night crawlers for whatever would bite and just had a blast. The Rend Lake Resort proved to be a great family place, very clean and great hospitality. I really enjoyed the gatherings in the “Great Room”, where we had great food and fellowship with the kids and families who came for the event. Accessibility was superb. My kid, Yvonne, and many of the others used their wheelchairs for transport yet we had no trouble getting around or to the docks to get on and off the boats. I also got to eat at the restaurant near the bait shop, and that was some really fine vittles. All of the staff at the Rend Lake Resort, bait shop and restaurant were very gracious hosts. As Brigid O’Donoghue, founder of the United Special Sportsman’s Alliance says, “we’re all terminal”. That’s the truth we don’t often think about. It seems that it is we who suffer most as we watch these special kids struggle through these difficult illnesses. Some of these kids are only with us for a short time, yet as we spend some of that time with them fishing, hunting or just having fun, in them we see only the very virtue of life. Take a kid fishing! And protect what we have so we’ll always have it to give to them.
Angling Alabama - Troy Jens / Professional Fishing Guide / Experience the best of the outdoors on Lake Guntersville, the Tennessee River and North Alabama.
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