Florida's Bobby Lane made about a 5-hour detour yesterday on his way to the nation's capital to begin practice for next week's Potomac River FLW Tour. He delivered some rods to brother Chris, who's competing in the Smith Mountain Bassmaster Elite Series in Moneta, Va.
"My dad (Robert) called me up and said, 'Hey, your dumb brother left about five rods here, and he needs them. You're going right through there, aren't you?' I said no, but I guess I can.
"They're all his good ones – the ones he was using at Clarks Hill (where he finished 2nd in April). But they'll probably bring him bad luck after I've touched them."
Bobby is 129th in the FLW Tour points, with three finishes of 118th or worse.
"It's all a confidence thing with me. I've got a baby boy due in a month and I've had some other things going on, and my head just hasn't been right. I've been going through the motions with no confidence in what I'm doing, and it's been a miserable time.
"But I believe that God puts trials in our lives that we have to go through to see what's on the other side. It'll come back around."
