I guess you can say that we couldn’t be any happier than we are today. After the terrible loss of my best fishing buddy in a fishing accident on July 30, 2011, on Beaver Lake, I have been somewhat in a tail spin even having trouble focusing or having the desire to go fishing some days. I guess everyone deals with loss differently, but life goes on and you have to make the most of everyday no matter what life brings your way. Like Forest Gump would say, “Life’s like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get”.  However my box of chocolates came with a knock on the door and wrapped carefully inside a tube. That’s right, I am proud to announce the newest member of our family came into our lives today. Strangely enough it wasn’t a stork that delivered him, but FedEx.

It’s really hard to hold back all of my emotions right now. Really, I’m choked up. My wife and I had talked about this moment, but now its reality. I wonder if we should have a shower for it? I know that his next of kin including Gary Klein Rod, Shaw Grigsby Rod, Gerald Swindle Rod, Dean Rojas Rod, and Greg Hackney Rod along with my fishing buddies Mr.  Quantum “Smoke” Reel and EXOskeletal Reels will be excited to hear of the new arrival. Of course that could be going too far just for a fishing rod, but this is not an ordinary fishing rod. This is a Quantum Tour Tommy Biffle Rod that was designed with the help of Bassmaster Elite Series professional angler Tommy Biffle. Biffle is not just an ordinary angler who likes to pitch or flip. No, Biffle is the superman of pitching and flipping. He has earned thousands of dollars in bass tours by doing those two techniques. So, when he joined forces with Quantum to build a rod just for these techniques the end result was the best pitching and flipping rod an angler could get designed with high quality components approved by Biffle himself.

Flipping and pitching are two techniques used by anglers to get lures in a small target area without the lures making a splash when hitting the surface. No one is better at it than Biffle. Biffle can dissect cover like a brain surgeon cutting between the lobes of the brain when dissecting down to the site of an aneurysm. Biffle’s passionate about the Quantum Tour Tommy Biffle Rod, “I probably prefer a stouter rod blank than just about any other pro but beyond the blank both of these rods are 100% to my specifications; that’s what makes them special to me,” Biffle continued, “The 7’6” is super-stout, because when I hook’em, I want a stick that will move’em. It will pull big fish out of heavy cover and is plenty of rod for jigs and worm weights that weigh as much as 1 ½-ouncesSimply put, it’s a big rod, for big baits, in the thickest cover. I further customized it by totally removing the foregrip, which took some of the overall weight out of the rod.”

Quantum Tour Tommy Biffle Rods (www.quantumfishing.com) features and models:
TTBC6107F Casting 1-piece, 6’10” Heavy Action, Fast Taper, rated for 15-30 Pound Line Weight, EVA Handle with Fuji ACS Reel Seat.
TTBC767F Casting 1-piece, 7’6” Heavy Action, Fast Taper, rated for 15-30 Pound Line Weight, EVA Handle with Fuji ACS Reel Seat.
(There are six other rods in the  including the Tour Kevin VanDam, Tour Shaw Grigsby, Tour Gerald Swindle, Tour Dean Rojas, Tour Greg Hackney, and Tour Gary Klein. Each one of these rods where built to the pros specifications for that technique. For example the Tour Biffle Rod for pitching and flipping or Tour Dean Rojas for fishing a frog.)

Life is like a box of chocolates never knowing what to expect, but now with my new arrival I anticipate every fishing trip to be a memorable one.

To read the complete story click on the links below:

Fishing accident on Beaver Lake (Part 1)

Fishing accident on Beaver Lake (Part 2-Obituary)

Fishing accident on Beaver Lake (Part 3-Sympathy Cards, Phone Calls, and Emails)