JUNE 18, 2011: The catfishing tournament is an event that is 100% FREE! This is the 6th annual and will be held at Robinsons catfish lake in Dallas N.C. The event features a fishing tournament but along with that there is a B.B. gun shoot, a casting contest, and a kids archery shoot. At the end of tournament there is a dinner and awards with a speaker. The awards this year will be fishing tackle such as rods, reels, etc. not only can you win prizes but there are raffles as well.
This year Hank Parker, Jr. , former NASCAR driver and host of Hank Parker 3D, will be sharing his life story:
Hank Parker Jr
Hank Parker Jr, did not start his professional career in the outdoors, but rather he started out by driving race cars full time in 1998 for the Nascar Busch Series, where we drove for his father’s team. In 2001, he got an opportunity to drive for GNC where he won his first race at California speedway and followed it up the next year to win again at Pikes Peak speedway in Colorado. Hank Jr raced in all three Nascar top touring divisions (Nationwide, Craftsman truck, and Sprint cup) including one race for Ray Evernham in the Nascar Sprint Cup series, co-hosted “Inside the Nascar Busch series” for two years on the Speed Channel and even commentated races for the Nationwide and Truck series on Fox, Fx, and Speed Channel through the years. He raced in one hundred and sixty seven races in an eight year span with thirty-seven top ten finishes and thirteen top fives. Now retired from racing, Hank Parker Jr currently co-hosts “Hank Parker 3D”, airing on the Versus Channel & the mini-series “Hunt Like a Parker”, airing on ESPN Outdoors, with his brother, Billy “Catfish” Parker, and his father Hank Parker Jr. Hank Jr lives in Denver, North Carolina, with his wife Wendy and daughters Alex and Madison and son Boone.
