Evinrude pro Richard Dobyns grabs Western FLW AOY title

[GaryDobyns]

I'm the proud pop and need to brag just a little. Richard fished strong this season, even made the 17 hour drive to a lake he had never seen before.  He is planning on hitting FLW Tour next season.

[TommySkarlis]

Nice Work Richard! Follow your dreams! And congrats to both of you - Gary, I don't blame you for being  proud papa!

[bassman]

Congrats to you and your son. I'm sure he had a lot of good coaching growing up.

Does he have any particular rod sponsor helping him out?

And just for the record and plug for his "other" sponsor, what brand of reels is he using? I'm sure amongst the pile in the shed I have at least one of two of them.

[GaryDobyns]

The reels would be Daiwa. We both love the Zillions!!

[E-NATION]

Congratulations to both of you!  Good luck to Richard in the future, and please keep us updated.  Don't hesitate to post some pictures of you and Richard.  How did you get Richard into fishing?  Has he been fishing since he was a little one?

[GaryDobyns]

It's our job to get our kids a all the kids we can into fishing. Getting Richard hooked on fishing was easy. We won our first tournament when he was 7 and he had 2nd big fish. That was many years ago   Now he's hard to beat, but I whipped him last Saturday  First time in a while so i need to brag.

I'm proud of him, great kid.