Back in late July, Marty Stone announced that he was leaving the Bass Cat pro staff and was looking for a new boat sponsor. A little more than 2 months later, he's right back where he started.
The North Carolina FLW Tour pro told BassFan today that he'll again run a 'Cat in 2013.
"(Bass Cat owner) Rick Pierce and I had many conversations shortly after I left and we found out we weren't as far apart as we'd thought," he said. "We have a relationship that's almost like older brother/younger brother, and I'm sure we'll continue to get on each other's nerves from time to time because we're both very strong-willed.
"In this case, we did what people should do more often and checked our personal feelings at the door, and we found out that a good conversation would cure all that was ailing us."
Said Pierce: "Marty's a quality individual, but the whole game changed for all the anglers in 2008 (due to the economic downturn that hit the boat industry particularly hard), and my relationship with them changed. I no longer had the time to spend with them one-on-one that I'd had in the past, and I feel like that was part of his frustration, but we've worked our way through that."
