Well, goodbye 2012, and hello lucky number 13. Now, I ain’t sure how many of you out there are superstitious, but I am, and starting off a new year that has one of the most fabled of all unlucky numbers attached to it ... well, it’s a little unsettling, to say the least.

I am trying to formulate some kind of plan to offset the certain carnage and macabre to come.

Being a flathead fisherman, I always worry about conditions for the upcoming season. But following up what was possibly the best big fish year I have ever had? Well, I can’t help thinking I have been set up for a tough year.