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Fisherman57
02-21-2009, 09:44 AM
Hey there everyone.......

First & foremost I would like to thank the folks at SARL for all their hard work and effort, management and staff always go out of their way to make sure TEAM 57 has everything we need each and every time we hold an event at their facility!

I'll add more to this later... but, no rain and a great backdrop of snow, made the weather conditions perfect for a day of fishing at SARL!

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Friday's turnout was as expected and TEAM 57 members were allowed early access to the lake!

Everyone staked out their spot at Chris's Pond, which by the way was roped off and available ONLY to TEAM 57 members!

The morning bite was a bit slow... although a few lightning trout did come to the net in the early hours.....

While the bite was not off the hook in the early hours, it was off and on steady and some TEAM 57 members were rewarded with some nice fish!

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The stockers started to give way to slightly larger fish.........

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and then.......... Seng90806 chimed in with a beauty!

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Everyone hung in there.... and since the bite was a bit slower than expected, I made a call.

After a brief conversation and a bit of deal making.....SARL went above and beyond and delivered ANOTHER load of fish to the event right in front of all our anxious members! Lightnings & Tailwalkers!

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The bite picked up....... and more than likely is the reason some of the members were late arriving to the pot luck! LOL!

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The bite REALLY picked up for a while......... and MORE TEAM 57 MEMBERS SCORED!

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Here's a GREAT shot of one of the baskets of fish from the BIG TEAM 57 group that was fishing with Dr. Hook & Timster!

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What a great pot luck picnic! I can't thank you all enough for all the awesome food, drinks and everything else everyone contributed to help make this ANOTHER great TEAM 57 event!

There was a great cake! Thanks Rob !

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Had to have one of the "Official TEAM 57 Cookies"! Thanks TroutDog!

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A big thank you to Roger & Rebecca (Yamafish & Ladyfish) for working harder than anyone by standing over a hot grill all day and making sure everyone had a hot meal.

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EACH AND EVERY MEMBER THAT ATTENDED, WON A RAFFLE PRIZE AND MOST EVERYONE WON TWICE! THAT IN ITSELF, WAS INCREDIBLE!

THANK YOU TO ALL THE WONDERFUL SPONSORS AND MEMBERS WHO DONATED TO OUR RAFFLE, WE COULDNT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOUR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS!

Santa Ana River Lakes
Dirty Girl Gaiters
Richards Tackle
Fusion Metalworks
BasStar Lures
Cheater Leader
TEAM 57


Trout Nine
Dirty Girl
Dr. Hook
Koshaw
Bullets Full
CatchThatTrout
Yamafish
Ladyfish

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Of course my biggest thank you goes out to Donna, as I couldnt do ANY of this without all your wonderful help. Thank you!

I'll have more later....

Feel free to add on your photos and comments....... and thanks again everyone for help making another TEAM 57 event a COMPLETE SUCCESS!

BTW.... Congratulations to James, Roger & Rebecca on having their awesome rodholders added to the SARL tackle shop! Now you can buy the best rodholder on the planet at Santa Ana River Lakes!

ALL 112 PHOTOS CAN BE VIEWED AT: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/TEAM57FISHING (http://www.MYSPACE.COM/TEAM57FISHING)

We'll have an announcement soon about another upcoming event!..... you are NOT going to want to miss it!



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bullets_full
02-21-2009, 11:34 AM
Yesterday was so fun.

Thanks again to Dana and of course Donna for putting this event together.

Thanks to the sponsors and members who contributed to the event and raffle.

I got the big :skunk: yesterday but still had fun and won so cool items in the raffle.

I only took one picture yesterday so enjoy.......

_Bullets

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Seng90806
02-21-2009, 12:05 PM
Thanks for putting up a great event...this was my first 57 event and it was blast even tho fishing wasn't that great for me...cant wait for the next one :LOL:

Mondo21
02-21-2009, 12:43 PM
Another "Fantastic Event Dana!" Love all the pics of smiling faces,beautiful "lighting trout" Good lookin' raffle prizes and good lookin' food also. WTG!
T.D. There's a reward out there for ya' in the sum of
50 ggg's! I'll be ready for the next event! Cindy:Big Smile:

troutdog
02-21-2009, 01:22 PM
Just wanted to say thanks you to Dana, Donna and all the sponsors/raffle contributors...I for one had a blast out there! I could not believe the amount of coupons and free boat rental coupons that went out to the group...EVERYBODY left with something :EyePop:

Great to see some new faces and old friends....revenge will be sweet for the "phantom fish" trick Bruce :Twisted:


TD

Rooster
02-21-2009, 01:25 PM
Major props Dana for the effort you put into that event. Major props to SARL management as well for stepping up huge as well. I have never seen such great raffle prizes EVER.
Im so glad i was able to attend the event and meet such great people. To all the sponsors and people that attended. Thanks for everything, Its a day i will never forget.

For those that did not witness the event. Not only did SARL dump a huge load of trout in our laps they also gave Dana a STACK of Free Boat rental passes, a stack of Free entry passes along with 1/2 off passes as well.

SARL showed me they care about TEAM 57 and will be getting my support & hopefully yours as well.

Hope 2 cya all there soon.

fishndrinknsmokin
02-21-2009, 02:08 PM
Just saying thank you doesn't seem to be enough after having so much fun on Friday. It was a blast to meet everyone and I do want to at least do give a big THANK YOU to Dana, SARL, all the sponsors and all of the great people who came and made it an incredible day of fun and fishing for me and my nephew. While I scored big in the raffle with enough jigs to keep me stocked for a while now and a couple of 1/2 off passes for SARL :Dancing Banana: the best thing was to be able to put a face and a real name to all the personalities on here. Troutdog, Rooster, BingJr, MikeG, BlakeB, Yamafish, Ladyfish, Seng, Mr Bendo, OlefisherGal....and everyone else that I can't remember right now...it was great to meet you all and I look forward to fishing with you all again.

THANKS AGAIN DANA!!

FDS

doctorhook
02-21-2009, 02:13 PM
Special thanks go's out Dana and Donna for putting on another great team 57 event.
Thanks to all the sponsors who contributed to the event and raffle.
Thank you Roger and Rebbecca for cooking all that great food.
I would like to thank Sarl, management and staff for hosting another great team 57 event.

Doctorhook

sansou
02-21-2009, 02:20 PM
Big kudos to SARL and Fisherman57 for putting that quick event together! Looks like a good time was had!

The guys at SARL always go the "extra mile" everytime we have an event at either SARL or Corona Lake. They deserve our Team 57 business, IMO.

boxl0bster
02-21-2009, 03:05 PM
awesome event dana! this is definitely not going to be my last team 57 event!!!

bruce watson
02-21-2009, 03:15 PM
Great to see some new faces and old friends....revenge will be sweet for the "phantom fish" trick Bruce :Twisted:


TD

That phantom fish thing was really funny. I snuck a 2lb line around TD's line while he was laying around by his truck, which was up a steep incline from the lake and his rods. I got over to my rods about 40 feet away and just waited. When I saw him glancing down at his rod, I started a little jerking action on my line. Now, I felt that coming down the hill that fast would surely end up in a swim, but, he was saved by a rod holder and a pair of boots.

BTW, great catch on that lightning carp.

It was a great event with so many people putting in some hard work. There was a ton of nice drawing prizes and more food than you could believe.

Eat Sleep Fish
02-21-2009, 03:27 PM
next time i gotta try to be not so busy with work and all so i can make it out. looks like a successful event. great job guys.

Trout Nine
02-21-2009, 03:57 PM
Another great Event....
Thanks Fisherman 57 for putting together another great team 57 event
SARL for hosting another great team 57 event
Roger and Rebbecca for cooking and
All the sponsors who contributed to the event and raffle.

I had a nice time with out a doubt even getting skunked and a little under the weather!
I'm always looking toward to an event see you all at the next one!

TROUT NINE

BingJr
02-21-2009, 04:17 PM
Even though my day got off to a rough start, I am glad I showed. I grab another SARL Skunk by the tail, but had a blast with all of the phenom 57 peeps as always.

Thanks again to Dana and all the 57 peeps. Well do it again soon.

Ladyfish
02-21-2009, 04:53 PM
First of all I want to thank Dana and Donna! You are two of the nicest people I know! You are also the most generous people. You put on another spectacular Team 57 event. I am so happy I was able to go and meet some new team members as well as catch up with some familiar faces. I may have got the skunk but I do not feel sad about it because I had a GREAT time!! Not only did I have fun chatting with everyone but thanks to Dana, Donna and all the great sponsors I won FANTASTIC prizes too!

Yamafish was in his element working the grill, he had a blast cooking for all of you! He now wants to buy the gigantic propane grill and have it mounted to a trailer! Maybe someday there will be giant Team 57 BBQ/ Smokers mounted on trailers available! http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq247/ladyfish_photos/DSCN2289.jpg

The exciting news for Fusion Metalworks is Yamafish and I closed a deal to have the Rodhogg Rodholders in both SARL and Corona! :EyePop: they may already be in the SARL pro shop.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE RODHOGG!!!! :Group Hug:

Looking forward to the next T57 event.

Ladyfish

primo55
02-21-2009, 06:27 PM
THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED WITH THIS EVENT HAD A GREAT TIME, AND GOT TO MATCH SOME FACES TO URE NAMES ON THE BOARD!!:Thumbs Up: - WAS A BLAST FISHING WITH ALL U GUYS!:Guns::Skunk: - NO SKUNK!!

CatchthatTrout
02-21-2009, 06:40 PM
Wow.......
Just another amazing day with Team 57.
I want to thank Dana and Donna for all the work put in to see that a bunch of friends and family can fish together and have fun.
Thank you to all the sponsors for all the great items given in the raffle. I want to personally thank Richard's Tackle for giving the rod/reel combos and power bait the day before, I just ask and Richard responded........The spirit of team 57!
Thank you to SARL for treating us as VIP guests. The 30 min entrance, exclusive use of Chris's Pond, the stocking of fish right before our eyes in the middle of the event (now that's customer service), and most of all......so many boat rentals, 1/2 off coupons and FREE admission passes.
It was nice to see all the Team 57 gang, meet a bunch of new friends and great to see Web Master Jeff again.
It was nice meeting Primo55, he's a cool dude to fish next too.
Thank you Yamafish for grilling the meats!

I'll post a few pictures of our time tomorrow.

Thank you FNN!

yamafish
02-21-2009, 10:12 PM
Dana and Donna,
Many thanks again for all of your support of the Rodhogg!

It was too much Fun!
That was just awesome to enter the lake 1/2hr before the reg opening!
It was amazing having all of Chris's pond just for T57!
Kinda had that rockstar feeling being on a private lake :Smile:

I had the best time ever! Met alot of folks that for the first time, and I'm sure I'll meet more in the future!

~ Great Times ~
Friends - Fishing - Food
amazing raffle :Cool:

After doing a little grillin' of the eats...
I think want one of these things in the future
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Think I need to work with Fusion on a bbq idea? :Idea: Maybe a T57 model !
This has gotta be a dude thing..Owning a bbq that is ridiculously is too large and impractical !

I Need one of these things !

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The Amazing News :Big Grin:

LF and I managed to secure a deal with SARL / Corona on the Rodholders!
This was truly great news for James / Fusion Metalworks on Friday
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The official T57 rodholder is now availabe at the SARL proshop!


Too much fun!
C ya all at the Fred Hall and the Next T57 Event!

Kanpai!
Rodger - YamaFish

BigBass777
02-21-2009, 10:37 PM
Wow! Looks like a very fun event. I wanted to go and came up with a cold on Thursday. The last thing anyone wants to have before any event. Chris Pond has always been a decent lake to fish. When will the next trout derby be for this season?

Wingnut
02-22-2009, 03:15 AM
Looks like another winner to me! Sorry that I missed this one... weekdays are tough for me. :Neutral: Gotta love those Lightning Trout, great set of pics Dana. :Cool: :Big Grin:

Hitts0n
02-22-2009, 02:28 PM
I wish I would have traded in my sunday for this friday's event.But oh well.I try to make them all. Nice looking fish ! Congrats to all who won all the wonderful prizes! Food looked great ! See you guys at the next event! Thanks for posting !!

Mr Bendo
02-22-2009, 05:02 PM
I had a good time!!!!!! Thank you Dana and those who donated prizes and cooked, so that the Team 57 family can have such a good time!!!! It was good to see friends and meet new team 57 members!!!! Special thanks to SARL for letting us host the event and also alot of prizes!

I look foward to the next event!!!!!!!!

D-PESCADOR
02-24-2009, 10:17 AM
MAN !! Thats what i call pull one phone call and the fish were stocked , nice job Dana .Those lightnings are something else great to see everybody had fun .

trashetanush
02-25-2009, 11:57 PM
Wow, that looks like an amazing day. Those trouts look VERY nice guys. Good job out there.

Liteliner
02-26-2009, 01:49 AM
Man SARL hooked it up big with that bonus plant. I really tried to get out to this event but I couldnt find a babysitter. Hopefully next time for me.

Nice lighting seng...

CASTAWAY
02-27-2009, 07:10 AM
Wow, looks like everyone had a good time. I gotta come out there and join you guys sometime. Maybe the next one..... Keep your lines tight.



Thanks for the post 57.....

MAN VS WILD
03-02-2009, 11:11 AM
Thanks Dana,

Man I had a really fun time out there. Dana you need to set up another event really soon! What's up to all the new people I met, Hope to see you on the water soon. Thanks to SARL for all the giveaways they donated. Thanks to all that donated items for the raffle. All of you made this a special event. I am just glad I was able to be apart of it.

See you all at the Fred Hall Show

FISH ON!!!