Setting outside BassPro in Lawerenceville and O'Neil Williams, the host of O'Neil Outdoors on Versus, came walking up. I kinda blurted out "Hey O'Neil". He came up introduced himself, asked me my name, and spent sometime talking to me. I was very impressed, he was going shopping like everyone else, but still took time to talk to a fan.

Did he sign the O'Neil Williams tee shirt you were wearing?

LOL, no I just watch his show every now and then. Theres one on On Demand right now about striper fishing on Lanier. It's with Captain Mack Farr.

I like the way O'Neill talks. He sounds like a good ole Georgia boy. Nice to hear in Atlanta these days. It's hard to tell your in the South anymore with all the rude ass carpet baggers around. Bet your one of 'em, ain't you?

I like to consider myself more of a rude ass carpet muncher, but you can refer to me as whatever. Its all good.

Okay we might need to change the subject. Saw three bucks swimming across six mile this evening. Also an ambulance at 2 mile park. Hopefully no one drowned.

No he got gored by a deer!

ever watch oneil outside when he visits that milton crabapple dude..

Funniest thing Ive seen in awhile.

I loved to see old Milton, but he has since passed on.

When did Milton die? I didn't know that he was sleeping with the fishes.

I think I was thinking of someone else when I said this. I believe he is alive and well.

I'm sure he'll be glad to hear that!

Yes I believe so. That is one guy I would like to fish with.

"I know" he thought it was great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK1d0aVDPFc&feature=related

That's the old noodling guy, isn't it?

That would be him! did anyone see the one where he was pulling turtles from holes in a pond?

What's a carpet bagger?

I was using the word metaphorically, but here you go:

1. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in politics, esp. so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.

2. Any opportunistic or exploitive outsider.

A carpetbagger has no genuime respect for local custom.

Thanks for the clarification. Coming from the West coast we weren't in the war of the states.

California became a state under the Compromise of 1850. It was admitted as a free state. During the Civil war, California was on the side of the North, although, there were pro South secessionist movements in southern California.

I was going to call you a carpetbagging Yankee, Lil Bill, but Californians are something else. Heck, one in five Californians admit they are crazy. Of course, the rest of the country already knew that.

Well at least we don't drive Kia's!!!!!!!!

Ouch. FYI, the Sorrento is now built in Georgia (okay, mine wasn't). KIA opened a plant in GA, but GM and Ford closed their Atlanta plants. Hmmmm.

Hey, I saw a deer right around Van's Tavern Park on Saturday.

Bet it was one of those damn carpetbaggen deer. Did you get its autograph?

I like O'Neill, but check out this guy. This is my hometown fishing show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVol7V2d5sE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQi60svlCqw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccklettNEz0&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBl_MXrPVwU&feature=related

Striper record on Boone Lake is 58lb.