Henry trip planner says nothing's fishy about it

"there is not any business or politics or anything serious talked about on a fishing trip,” said Terry West, a Shawnee attorney and longtime family friend of Gov. Brad Henry.

West said he booked the trip more than a year ago — long before the governor vetoed a lawsuit reform bill in April.

"The trip would have gone forward, had there been no tort reform bill or if he had signed one,” he said. "It's just unrelated to legislative events.”

Most of the conversation on the trip was about Henry catching the biggest fish, West said.

"It got very tiresome because the governor caught the biggest fish early on and he mentioned it every night at dinner,” West said.