I figure that I might get in trouble with some of my thoughts these days so let’s keep it lighthearted with a list of #57 as well as a few fishing pictures of my journey to 57 years of age.

Bass #57 of 2024 – Knox County public strip pit

My Top Bass #57 of All-Time – Lake Storey

“57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)” – Bruce Springsteen (1992)
Not one of The Boss’ best efforts and a droning delivery but he did have a point. Over thirty years later, I hesitate to think how many channels have nothin’ on. I sure have saved a fortune over the last 25 years with my antenna. Of course, now it is the internet and there is too much on.

#57 All-Time Album per Rolling Stone magazine’s The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
The Band – “The Band” (1969)
A solid dose of Americana from an impressive crew of musicians consisting of four Canadians and one American. Is there a bad song from The Band? Let me know if you find one. Or better yet, don’t. Multiple vocalists but you’ve got to dig a singing drummer in the late Levon Helm on “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and “Up on Cripple Creek.”

#57 All-Time Movie per IMDB’s Top 500 – Greatest Movies of All Time!
No Country for Old Men (2007)
I haven’t watched a whole lot of movies in the last 20 years. Well, at least movies of my choosing as I’ve let the kids dictate since doing the family thing. However, I did see this one somewhere along the way. I dig Tommy Lee Jones, but this flick was a little too disturbing with Javier Bardem doing a good job being a bad guy. A solid movie but kind of troubling, probably won’t see it again. Maybe I’m just getting old.

I like these birthdays that are divisible by three as it is fun to comb the fishing archives for a trio of photos.

Age 19 (1986) –Les Vickery’s Pond near Victoria, IL

Age 38 (2005) – Lake Bracken

Age 57 (2024) – Knox County public strip mine, actually three days shy of turning 57 but close enough

Thank you if you were able to hang in there for this post. Talk to you later. Troy