Numbers Geek

Posted by ken on September 30, 2016

Most of my fishing friends might be surprised to find that I am a numbers geek. And when you get a numbers geek that should be fishing, but is instead at work, and doesn't want to be at work, you get this. Top 10 going into the points race for AOY at Ft Gibson, 5 Texan's (including 1-2 & 3), 3 from Oklahoma, a Louisiana and wait for it, Wisconsin native Jesse Wolfe. The first 3 guys, well they had a rough day one, 4th place Oklahoman Kyle Cortiana needs to make up 20 points on Cecil to win AOY, and he was ahead of him by 45 spots after yesterday and Zack Birge, a young local from Blanchard Ok made a serious move up from 8th in AOY in 3rd after day one. However nipping at their heels, in 5th place is a guy named Jesse Wolfe from Nelson Wisconsin....seriously, this guy drove 1,097 miles, one way to fish the Rayburn event...over 16 hours, one way. Now granted Ft Gibson is WWWWAAAYYYY closer to Nelson Wisconsin, only 708 miles. My best calculation is Jesse (who I don't know, but have to meet) has spent over 70 hours covering over 5,000 miles to fish three tournaments. Since, as a transplanted Texas, it is hard to cheer for the local Oklahoma boys, I'm rooting for a Badger from Wisconsin to make up the ground on Cortiana today and capture AOY. By the way if they finished today OK local Zack Birge would have jumped from 8th to AOY with 697 points, followed by Cortiana at 691, then Sprague, Dobson and Wolfe....but I just gotta cheer for Wolfe.