Snowstorms suck. As a native Texan I’ve never experienced a snowstorm firsthand, but I don’t have to to know that they suck. You wanna’ know when a snowstorm REALLY sucks? When you have to drive through it. And that’s what a lot of the Classic competitors have been doing this week.
A few excerpts from this piece at Bassmaster.com:
> “At 1,040 miles, VanDam’s trip is among the top 10 longest. It’s usually a 17-hour drive, he said, but snow accumulating on several hundred miles of his path is sure to slow his progress.”
> “Other anglers, like those in Oklahoma and Arkansas where the impending storm had grocery store shelves empty, left for their 10-hour drives on Tuesday to beat the snow.”
> “Sean Alvarez, who qualified for his first Classic through the Bass Federation Nation, was delayed by snow — twice.”
> “‘It was nasty,’ (Brandon Palaniuk) said of the trek that took him through Wyoming and horizontal snow. ‘You couldn’t even see that there was a road there. You just see the reflectors.'”
See? That sucks.
But there’s one competitor who’s chillaxin’ and soaking up the West Coast rays while the rest of his pasty-skinned counterparts are playing bumper cars on the nation’s ice-covered interstates. Yep, our buddy Skeet Reese [aka ol’ frosted tips] has figured out how to work smarter, not harder. Or actually, in this case, he’s not working at all.
“Reese was home Tuesday afternoon, out picking up his girls from school. He hired a driver to take his rig to New Orleans while he flies in to meet the black and yellow Wednesday.”
Now that’s what I’m talking about. When everybody else shows up to New Orleans frazzled and frostbitten, Skeet will be rested and ready to rock. I’m inclined to believe that doing things this way gives him an advantage [even if it’s just a small one] over the guys that have to endure stress-filled days of hauling their rigs to the Big Easy.
And I don’t know who Skeet’s driver is, but I hope he used the flashy bumblebee rig to his advantage. That thing’s gotta’ be a chick magnet.
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