gletemfeelsteelgary
10-19-2009, 05:32 PM
Wow, what ta say here, that was one of the most fun filled days I can remember in a long time.
There is a long list of things to say but all start with a report and I apologize for the lack of photos as I’m not always prone to take photos during the fishing day and I was so beat down from the day and busy at the event, I actually forgot to take any pics of my fish.
We got in line about 4:15 am, 3rd in line at that time.
After a short while, the line got longer and longer and soon it went way up the hill and around the corner.
We saw all the early shows there….
Boy, I’m sorry there was too many to list here but we all had a great time as we passed the time and we all enjoyed a little bit of trash talk as we drank our coffee’s and monsters…..
All while we waited patiently to hit the lake….
Awaiting our turn at bringing Mr. Stripey to the ultimate demise (and to the dinner table too for that fact).
Opening time….that means it’s “Go time” and the edrenaline instantly started pumping !
Bob was at the dock setting up the red carpet treatment as he rushed over and I gave him the crown for Trolly that I had picked up the night b4 courtesy of BK
(man that whole deal is just TOO FUNNY ! –I am still laughing as I type this ! )
Trolly and his crowning….WOW what a day already this was !
Off to the 1st spot, we saw Capt’n, fishyboy, Emilio, Geodybass and pop’s roll up behind us shortly after…
Dead water, no boils, no signs but it “felt fishy” as I slunk my trusty KPN mini shad, I got rolled on and swirled 2 times b4 I got a nice model that “blew up” on my topwater….
Zzzzzzz….Zzzzzzz ! oh yeah ! a real nice fighter….!
Hiro did my net honors and my 1st fish hit the boat, quality fish, probably about 4 lbs..
Another round of casts, right into the same 12’ parameter…
Whoosh !......
Hookup !..... within minutes of the 1st hookup !
Another cookie cutter 4 lbder peels my 12lb line drag !
This time I net my own fish as I wanted to make sure Hiro kept fishing…
It hits the boat…
Ahhh yes, 2 quality fish in the 1st 10-15 minutes or so….yeah….I like that.
At that point I was hoping for an off the hook pick at the nicer grade fish but it was going to prove to be a challenging day to find the active fish..
We moved on in search of the striper party, after about 4 sports, we trolled for about 15 minutes….metered many clusters of fish but they didn’t seem to want to join in the striper-fest festivities, or moreso-they probably didn’t want to be the “MAIN COURSE !” for our event.
Back to Elizabeth canyon…..
Zero active fish…no hookups…we moved on and on…..
I scratched a single fish off dead water on the ½ oz KPN skinny shad and Hiro managed a couple schoolies on topwater as well, again all off dead water.
We exploed some areas that I had not ventured into lately but yet still no more hookups.
Back towards Elizabeth to see if the later day bite might have developed…no fish in the target zones…they were definitely hunkering down somewhere else…
Then we found mega grouping of fish , we decided to troll on ‘em…
After 1 hookup and land….and about 8 passes, we decided to jig on them..
NOTHING !
We ventured a little shallower to find another large grouping that provided a few quick hookups and then a fish or 2 after repeated passes, we saw out friends Jeff and Mikey in their rental boat and Jason “finsmackdown” and buddy trolling in the vicinity.
I shared a little info with them and told them what distance out on the troll line we were running (I hoped that helped you guys).
After repeated passes, the fish thinned out and the bite stopped so we were off again in search of a stripa’ killin’ party !
We saw KPN and Norm on the west ramp dock, as we passed by a boil started, Hiro and I both fired off a quick cast, I got boiled on twice and Hiro once but unfortunately no hookups : (
We came across a total of 4 sets of boils in those regions, most of them we arrived just seconds late though and the fish had gone down.
One of the boils we got on real quick and the timing was “PERECT”
BUT, I had just smeared flyline dressing on my line and I didn’t have time to properly wipe my hands off and right when I went to go fire a cast off, the line slipped from my fingers and the lure fell 3’ from the boat and my line tangled on the pole tip….
(Newb move—Dohhh!)
Damn !
While I was pzzzing away my chances at the boil…Hiro fired a cast to the boil zone..
Hookup !....another KPN topwater stripey ! (nice work buddy)
1 of that 4 sets of boils that we rolled up on late were all real nice 6-8lb class fish too but we didn’t get a decent shot at them…
Later in the afternoon, Trailbalazer and Cutbait came by, I gave Scott a smoke and we Bs’d a bit and yes, I was all business, I get into the fishing frenzy and try to focus on the water, I’m not always Mr.conversation but don’t take it personally, I just love ta fish and try to stay focused on the goal, we had only minutes left at that point and one 6 to 8 lb fish would have brought me into the running : ) (wump wump wump wahhhh-ha ha ha ha-didn’t happen though)
This day it was anyone’ win….anything could have happened, it was such a great challenge !
One real solid boil could have made any boat the winner…!
We searched and we trolled a bit too, we caught several fish but we did not get the WFO action we all were hoping for but by all means it was a good day considering the foul weather we had a few days prior to the event.
Many fish were caught this day and much fun was had so all in all I wouldn’t change a thing if I could, the weather worked out for us and people showed up strong !
It all fell into place !
My HUMBLE 6 fish stringer weighed in a 11 lbs 12 oz if I remember correctly, not enough to take trailblazers solid limit of 18 lbs plus some odd ounces (great job buddy-real nice work !)
Now as for the event festivities..
So many to thank, please excuse me if I haven’t mentioned your name or if I have
Forgotton your name, I met so many great people, I’ll always remember your faces though.
I must give thanks 1st off to EVERYONE for showing up to this fun event, you all showed up strong and fished strong, that’s what it’s about, I am smiling inside just knowing that we pooled this large group of people out on the lake and I can just imagine the level of fun each and every one of must have experienced at any given moment on the lake…great fun everyone….great fun…so thank you for being there to not only share that fun but to add to the fun, it wouldn’t have been the same without each one of you !
Another special thanks goes out to Dana for his raffle contributions, I wanted that cooking set but Raylo snatched it out b4 I could get my # called.
Thanks again for the wonderfull prizes, hopefully we'll see you out there next year : )
Thanks to all that brought materials to make the event function, Trailblazer and Cutbait for the generator, ladder for weigh in and for weighing all the fish, that was quite a task, thanks for that, Hiro and Captn’ for the spotlights and extension cords as well as Geordybass and pops for extensions as well, also I believe it was Mohave river angler that brought us the raffle tables, those were a great help as well.
I’m still catching up mentally so sorry if I’ve left anything out…
It was awesome seeing everyone out there, I saw a little cookout happening and we did end up beer battering some stripers for tacos later on that night (thanks to No-ho art for bringing the provisions for the tacos and geordy’s dad and geordy for cooking them, I made up the batter and we were in full party mode by then !
The Raffle table was off the hook, better than any year before, thanks to everyone and I’ll ask you all to give yourself a hand for a job well done.
(thanks to Kewlwip and Bob for putting the prize packs together for us)
I also must thank Lipripper and his wife, as I noted earlier, I didn’t take many pics, most of these photo’s were provided by the happy fishing couple-remember, a family that fishes together stays together, I got props for you 2
Good to see you both on the water having a great day-I salute you !
The prize table: (what a spread !)
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The weigh in:
(thanks again bako feller’s for handling that weigh in that was a huge help-I guess when I gave you 2 those 16 striper it was well worth it – glad ya got on the win there Trailblazer – I’ll expect that check to be in the mail no later than wed !-ha ha ha –j/k)
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Smallest fish weigh in…..woo-hoo
The happy fishing couple spoke to me earlier and said they had it locked in…
I said “ya better be careful on what you ask for…..you might get it !” they said….Uhh oh !
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I said….well, you better consider what kind of twisted mind I have, for example, take a look at my shirt:
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You never know what I have up my sleeve !
Tensions built within the happy couple…they didn’t know what was coming up next !
So…then it was trophy time..
Biggest fish went to none other than the Team Trolltoon member himself Pontoon !
Terry it was my pleasure to present you with this trophy, couldn’t have gone to a nicer guy…..very nice my friend, this give you and “the KING” back to back wins, you should both be very proud, what a slay pair you make (all pun intended)
I won’t speak about how I heard that you two were going to the “Motel No-Tell” down the hill with the romantic in-room spa’s to celebrate !
Again, huge congrats on the at 6 lb plus fish (you’ll have to let everyone know the ounces)
NICE FEESH !
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Then it was the heaviest stringer trophy..
This was taken by none other than one of the bako boys himself, Trailblazer !
Scott, one might say that I shouldn’t have talked so much smack about beating you in this tournament, well buddy, I wouldn’t have it any other way, we talked smack and had fun but in the end YOU showed me how it’s done, I got nothin’ but love for ya brotha’ but that don’t mean I’m still not gonna talk mo smack, I’m especially glad that you lost that pole on that fish that pulled it into the water, cause after I followed you for about 20 minutes…watching with binoculars..
I fished that spot, and low and behold, I snagged up a pole with a fish on it….that was # 6 on my stringer too and I scored me a new rig to boot…thanks again buddy !
Ha ha ha ha ha ! – J/K
Seriously, both you and Mike represented team 57 Bako style, great job, you took it to the stage !
Huge congrats on the win, you really earned it !
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Then, it was the smallest fish trophy, I kept this one hidden till it was presented, I don’t think anyone quite expected what was going to be unveiled at this point, only Hiro and Khanh knew what I had done !
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Ha ha ha ha ha…..oh…man, I’m still laughing but I’ll tell you 1 thing, only 3 people would leave this event with a trophy and none other than Lipripper himself would end up taking the 3rd one !
Through long painstaiking hrs and diligent stalking of all the schooling fish, Lippripper found his prized quarry, and after painful culling of his striper catches and throwing back numerous 3-5 lb fish, he achieved the ultimate goal with his fine 6 oz. prized catch..
Man, that’s dedication if I ever saw if, I’ll be sending you box of saltine crackers so you may make a meal outa that sucka !
Congrats on a job well done !
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Here I am explaining how I was a shoe in for that trophy but somehow that 4 ouncer slipped through the loops in my net !
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Another Huge congrats to you Lipripper !
Catfish KING seemed to approve of the festivities !
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Then it was raffle prize time !
Many lures, what a great raffle we had, so much great stuff, I for one was gunning for that classic 1970’s fishin’magician (dohhh!)but I think Bob snachted that up to troll with!
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Trolly, wondering if there were any Geritol packs on the table !
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Trolly…FINDING a Geritol Pack on the table !
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Here’s Bob receiving a special gift from myself, a floating Bobber Cooler !
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Trolly was spending quite a long time in his special spot that day…..that give “chumming” a whole new meaning !
Afterward, I saw the SS relief SINK !....must have been all those meal worms !
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Another great day on the water….couldn’t have asked for a better time..
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And the day came to an end !
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Thanks again to Lipripper and his wife for these wonferful photos, without them I’m sure my post would have been pretty boring, my fishin’ hat goes off to you both
AND
Thank to ALL for a wonderfull event !
It was cause all of you that it was such a success.
I salute you all and congrats on all the feesh !
Gary
P.S.
there was film footage done of some of the fishing songs, hopefully that will make its way on here.
Also, the beer battered fish tacos were da' bomb !
I'll encourage everyone to stay on through the night next time, the fun continued after !
I wrote tha original song "striper fest 2009" and I've already got an idea for the 2010 rendition !
Ooops, I almost forgot the group shots !
Looks like a happy group of anglers to me !
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There is a long list of things to say but all start with a report and I apologize for the lack of photos as I’m not always prone to take photos during the fishing day and I was so beat down from the day and busy at the event, I actually forgot to take any pics of my fish.
We got in line about 4:15 am, 3rd in line at that time.
After a short while, the line got longer and longer and soon it went way up the hill and around the corner.
We saw all the early shows there….
Boy, I’m sorry there was too many to list here but we all had a great time as we passed the time and we all enjoyed a little bit of trash talk as we drank our coffee’s and monsters…..
All while we waited patiently to hit the lake….
Awaiting our turn at bringing Mr. Stripey to the ultimate demise (and to the dinner table too for that fact).
Opening time….that means it’s “Go time” and the edrenaline instantly started pumping !
Bob was at the dock setting up the red carpet treatment as he rushed over and I gave him the crown for Trolly that I had picked up the night b4 courtesy of BK
(man that whole deal is just TOO FUNNY ! –I am still laughing as I type this ! )
Trolly and his crowning….WOW what a day already this was !
Off to the 1st spot, we saw Capt’n, fishyboy, Emilio, Geodybass and pop’s roll up behind us shortly after…
Dead water, no boils, no signs but it “felt fishy” as I slunk my trusty KPN mini shad, I got rolled on and swirled 2 times b4 I got a nice model that “blew up” on my topwater….
Zzzzzzz….Zzzzzzz ! oh yeah ! a real nice fighter….!
Hiro did my net honors and my 1st fish hit the boat, quality fish, probably about 4 lbs..
Another round of casts, right into the same 12’ parameter…
Whoosh !......
Hookup !..... within minutes of the 1st hookup !
Another cookie cutter 4 lbder peels my 12lb line drag !
This time I net my own fish as I wanted to make sure Hiro kept fishing…
It hits the boat…
Ahhh yes, 2 quality fish in the 1st 10-15 minutes or so….yeah….I like that.
At that point I was hoping for an off the hook pick at the nicer grade fish but it was going to prove to be a challenging day to find the active fish..
We moved on in search of the striper party, after about 4 sports, we trolled for about 15 minutes….metered many clusters of fish but they didn’t seem to want to join in the striper-fest festivities, or moreso-they probably didn’t want to be the “MAIN COURSE !” for our event.
Back to Elizabeth canyon…..
Zero active fish…no hookups…we moved on and on…..
I scratched a single fish off dead water on the ½ oz KPN skinny shad and Hiro managed a couple schoolies on topwater as well, again all off dead water.
We exploed some areas that I had not ventured into lately but yet still no more hookups.
Back towards Elizabeth to see if the later day bite might have developed…no fish in the target zones…they were definitely hunkering down somewhere else…
Then we found mega grouping of fish , we decided to troll on ‘em…
After 1 hookup and land….and about 8 passes, we decided to jig on them..
NOTHING !
We ventured a little shallower to find another large grouping that provided a few quick hookups and then a fish or 2 after repeated passes, we saw out friends Jeff and Mikey in their rental boat and Jason “finsmackdown” and buddy trolling in the vicinity.
I shared a little info with them and told them what distance out on the troll line we were running (I hoped that helped you guys).
After repeated passes, the fish thinned out and the bite stopped so we were off again in search of a stripa’ killin’ party !
We saw KPN and Norm on the west ramp dock, as we passed by a boil started, Hiro and I both fired off a quick cast, I got boiled on twice and Hiro once but unfortunately no hookups : (
We came across a total of 4 sets of boils in those regions, most of them we arrived just seconds late though and the fish had gone down.
One of the boils we got on real quick and the timing was “PERECT”
BUT, I had just smeared flyline dressing on my line and I didn’t have time to properly wipe my hands off and right when I went to go fire a cast off, the line slipped from my fingers and the lure fell 3’ from the boat and my line tangled on the pole tip….
(Newb move—Dohhh!)
Damn !
While I was pzzzing away my chances at the boil…Hiro fired a cast to the boil zone..
Hookup !....another KPN topwater stripey ! (nice work buddy)
1 of that 4 sets of boils that we rolled up on late were all real nice 6-8lb class fish too but we didn’t get a decent shot at them…
Later in the afternoon, Trailbalazer and Cutbait came by, I gave Scott a smoke and we Bs’d a bit and yes, I was all business, I get into the fishing frenzy and try to focus on the water, I’m not always Mr.conversation but don’t take it personally, I just love ta fish and try to stay focused on the goal, we had only minutes left at that point and one 6 to 8 lb fish would have brought me into the running : ) (wump wump wump wahhhh-ha ha ha ha-didn’t happen though)
This day it was anyone’ win….anything could have happened, it was such a great challenge !
One real solid boil could have made any boat the winner…!
We searched and we trolled a bit too, we caught several fish but we did not get the WFO action we all were hoping for but by all means it was a good day considering the foul weather we had a few days prior to the event.
Many fish were caught this day and much fun was had so all in all I wouldn’t change a thing if I could, the weather worked out for us and people showed up strong !
It all fell into place !
My HUMBLE 6 fish stringer weighed in a 11 lbs 12 oz if I remember correctly, not enough to take trailblazers solid limit of 18 lbs plus some odd ounces (great job buddy-real nice work !)
Now as for the event festivities..
So many to thank, please excuse me if I haven’t mentioned your name or if I have
Forgotton your name, I met so many great people, I’ll always remember your faces though.
I must give thanks 1st off to EVERYONE for showing up to this fun event, you all showed up strong and fished strong, that’s what it’s about, I am smiling inside just knowing that we pooled this large group of people out on the lake and I can just imagine the level of fun each and every one of must have experienced at any given moment on the lake…great fun everyone….great fun…so thank you for being there to not only share that fun but to add to the fun, it wouldn’t have been the same without each one of you !
Another special thanks goes out to Dana for his raffle contributions, I wanted that cooking set but Raylo snatched it out b4 I could get my # called.
Thanks again for the wonderfull prizes, hopefully we'll see you out there next year : )
Thanks to all that brought materials to make the event function, Trailblazer and Cutbait for the generator, ladder for weigh in and for weighing all the fish, that was quite a task, thanks for that, Hiro and Captn’ for the spotlights and extension cords as well as Geordybass and pops for extensions as well, also I believe it was Mohave river angler that brought us the raffle tables, those were a great help as well.
I’m still catching up mentally so sorry if I’ve left anything out…
It was awesome seeing everyone out there, I saw a little cookout happening and we did end up beer battering some stripers for tacos later on that night (thanks to No-ho art for bringing the provisions for the tacos and geordy’s dad and geordy for cooking them, I made up the batter and we were in full party mode by then !
The Raffle table was off the hook, better than any year before, thanks to everyone and I’ll ask you all to give yourself a hand for a job well done.
(thanks to Kewlwip and Bob for putting the prize packs together for us)
I also must thank Lipripper and his wife, as I noted earlier, I didn’t take many pics, most of these photo’s were provided by the happy fishing couple-remember, a family that fishes together stays together, I got props for you 2
Good to see you both on the water having a great day-I salute you !
The prize table: (what a spread !)
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The weigh in:
(thanks again bako feller’s for handling that weigh in that was a huge help-I guess when I gave you 2 those 16 striper it was well worth it – glad ya got on the win there Trailblazer – I’ll expect that check to be in the mail no later than wed !-ha ha ha –j/k)
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Smallest fish weigh in…..woo-hoo
The happy fishing couple spoke to me earlier and said they had it locked in…
I said “ya better be careful on what you ask for…..you might get it !” they said….Uhh oh !
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I said….well, you better consider what kind of twisted mind I have, for example, take a look at my shirt:
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You never know what I have up my sleeve !
Tensions built within the happy couple…they didn’t know what was coming up next !
So…then it was trophy time..
Biggest fish went to none other than the Team Trolltoon member himself Pontoon !
Terry it was my pleasure to present you with this trophy, couldn’t have gone to a nicer guy…..very nice my friend, this give you and “the KING” back to back wins, you should both be very proud, what a slay pair you make (all pun intended)
I won’t speak about how I heard that you two were going to the “Motel No-Tell” down the hill with the romantic in-room spa’s to celebrate !
Again, huge congrats on the at 6 lb plus fish (you’ll have to let everyone know the ounces)
NICE FEESH !
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Then it was the heaviest stringer trophy..
This was taken by none other than one of the bako boys himself, Trailblazer !
Scott, one might say that I shouldn’t have talked so much smack about beating you in this tournament, well buddy, I wouldn’t have it any other way, we talked smack and had fun but in the end YOU showed me how it’s done, I got nothin’ but love for ya brotha’ but that don’t mean I’m still not gonna talk mo smack, I’m especially glad that you lost that pole on that fish that pulled it into the water, cause after I followed you for about 20 minutes…watching with binoculars..
I fished that spot, and low and behold, I snagged up a pole with a fish on it….that was # 6 on my stringer too and I scored me a new rig to boot…thanks again buddy !
Ha ha ha ha ha ! – J/K
Seriously, both you and Mike represented team 57 Bako style, great job, you took it to the stage !
Huge congrats on the win, you really earned it !
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Then, it was the smallest fish trophy, I kept this one hidden till it was presented, I don’t think anyone quite expected what was going to be unveiled at this point, only Hiro and Khanh knew what I had done !
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Ha ha ha ha ha…..oh…man, I’m still laughing but I’ll tell you 1 thing, only 3 people would leave this event with a trophy and none other than Lipripper himself would end up taking the 3rd one !
Through long painstaiking hrs and diligent stalking of all the schooling fish, Lippripper found his prized quarry, and after painful culling of his striper catches and throwing back numerous 3-5 lb fish, he achieved the ultimate goal with his fine 6 oz. prized catch..
Man, that’s dedication if I ever saw if, I’ll be sending you box of saltine crackers so you may make a meal outa that sucka !
Congrats on a job well done !
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Here I am explaining how I was a shoe in for that trophy but somehow that 4 ouncer slipped through the loops in my net !
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Another Huge congrats to you Lipripper !
Catfish KING seemed to approve of the festivities !
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Then it was raffle prize time !
Many lures, what a great raffle we had, so much great stuff, I for one was gunning for that classic 1970’s fishin’magician (dohhh!)but I think Bob snachted that up to troll with!
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Trolly, wondering if there were any Geritol packs on the table !
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Trolly…FINDING a Geritol Pack on the table !
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Here’s Bob receiving a special gift from myself, a floating Bobber Cooler !
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Trolly was spending quite a long time in his special spot that day…..that give “chumming” a whole new meaning !
Afterward, I saw the SS relief SINK !....must have been all those meal worms !
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Another great day on the water….couldn’t have asked for a better time..
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And the day came to an end !
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Thanks again to Lipripper and his wife for these wonferful photos, without them I’m sure my post would have been pretty boring, my fishin’ hat goes off to you both
AND
Thank to ALL for a wonderfull event !
It was cause all of you that it was such a success.
I salute you all and congrats on all the feesh !
Gary
P.S.
there was film footage done of some of the fishing songs, hopefully that will make its way on here.
Also, the beer battered fish tacos were da' bomb !
I'll encourage everyone to stay on through the night next time, the fun continued after !
I wrote tha original song "striper fest 2009" and I've already got an idea for the 2010 rendition !
Ooops, I almost forgot the group shots !
Looks like a happy group of anglers to me !
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