I know i will need help

[sherman51]

kudo,s to you skipper9. thats one of the most compassionate offers i have seen on any forum.

im not looking for the same offer or anything. im just wanting to let him know i feel his pain. i lost my little brother last may the 10th and he was my best friend and we have fished from a salmon trip to wis to yelloetail snapper in the florida keys. he was my deer hunting buddy also and just my best friend. he would always do 90% of our driving on erie and when we fished lake michigan. i was and still am just lost. then we went to tenn for our family reunion. on the morning of the 25th of may i got a call from my nephew, and he told me his dad had just died. he was my next best friend and my last old fishing buddy that had fished and hunted with me since i was 9 yrs old. i could go on all day about the things this did to me. but i,ll just tell you one.

i had bought a 28 ft sea ray so i would have a big enough boat to fish both of them then my son and his wife and my grandson. after losing them i dont even want to use that boat. so this spring im going to get it ready and just sell it. my 21 ft boat is big enough for my son and his family, so i just lost interest in the big boat. but im moving on just in a smaller way.

i am so sorry about your dad. and for any of you who have lost a loved one. but i do believe families that fish together are just close.
sherman

[eyeassassin]

Thank you all for the kind words, and the offers for the help. My dad loved to see sportsman come together and i know he would be smiling to see so many people willing to help. Hopefully when we do our trip this spring i get to meet some of you and buy you a beer or something for all your help. God bless all of you and be safe

[MBLMIKE]

I lost my fishin Buddy and a good friend he was much older than myself he had fished the lake for decades , he died in a car accident on the way to go fishing in Florida that happened about 4 years ago he had a house in downtown pt clinton we stayed in when he died I went up by myself one time and I could not stop thinking about him I almost stoped fishing , but about that time I met a new fishing buddy and I am now the older guy with all the lake exsperience (so he thinks ) its pretty cool how life works thing out