Last weekend was one with mixed emotions for Larry Dean, Columbia.
Dean passed up a fishing trip to Table Rock and Taneycomo so he could stay home and watch the Kansas City Chiefs win their game against the Oakland Raiders to take the No. 1 seed and play playoff games at home and move closer to the Super Bowl next month.
It did happen, as everyone knows, but Dean missed a great fishing trip.
It seems his fishing buddies, who weren't football fans, caught lots of fish and the weather was very good for January. Tom Fisher landed a seven-pound bass from Table Rock and another friend, Fred Goodman, caught 11 nice crappie before both men caught their limits of trout on Taneycomo.