Larry Nixon may not be running entirely on original factory parts, but he's convinced that he still has plenty of fuel in the tank to keep his long and consistent fishing career going.

Nixon, who turned 67 years old on September 3rd, received for his birthday the best gift an ailing fisherman might hope for - a new left hand. Repetitive motion had worn it out so the doctor went inside and took out all of the cartilage in between his thumb and the first joint on his wrist. That sort of monumental surgery might've scared most anglers as it directly impacts their ability to work, but Nixon had undergone the same procedure on the opposite side 15 years earlier. He knew what to expect, and furthermore he'd been through a more serious procedure in between the operations on his hands when he endured major heart surgery in 2016.