North to South Lake - Team57 event!

[Sue]

Wow, what a great weekend! First of all - Dana & Donna, massive thanks for laying on another great event! Also, many thanks to Bob Barr for the coozies we all got to take home with us!

Right, so Gator and I set off Thursday morning. I was avidly following the France/Mexico game on my phone on the way up, and was so stoked that the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys were beating by Mexico :LOL: :Twisted:

As usual, we stopped off at Bishop Creek Lodge on the way up the hill, and finally got to our cabin around 2.30pm. Said hi to some of the guys who were already there, then we headed out along the creek for a bit of stream fishing. Gator got 1 fish out of the hole at Habergers lane.

In the evening, we headed to BCL again for the Lakers game, it was a brilliant crowd down there!!

Friday morning, I dragged my butt out of bed to watch the USA game down at BCL, and then at 11.30 we watched the England game. :Smile: Bit hairy there........

We then fished the creek for a few hours but nothing doing :Crying:
Koshaw invited us over for a steak dinner with him, Greg and their friends Theron and Adrian. Massive amounts of food. Greg made a stunningly good salmon bisque, and then the steaks were awesome! Many thanks, Koshaw & Greg for inviting us!

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And I had my first ever S'mores :LOL: It was yummy!!!
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Saturday morning we didn't get our butts in gear till about 9.30am, and we fished Intake II to no avail. We then headed over to Lake Sabrina for a bite to eat and to say hi to Rick and Patty. I can highly recommend the hot dog. Donna popped in while we were eating, and once we were done we went and fished with Donna and her lovely dad Bob.
We watched as the guy's boat fell off the trailer......and I must admit it was me that persuaded Donna to take the picture in Dana's thread :Twisted:
I managed to get a fish out of Sabrina, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

That evening was the Team57 dinner - Jared and Hannah did a great job with the food, and we had lots of laughs with Steve, Michelle, Greg Madrigal and his nephew Scott! I won a rod and reel combo and a bag of tackle kindly donated by Bob Barr!

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Somebody sneaked into my picture!!

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I look like crap in this picture, but it's my rod and reel combo. Please note the shirt doesn't say Team57 on the front, but Dana made me wear it......its a personalized rugby shirt that says "FishBitch 57" on the back! :LOL:

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As soon as the dinner was done, the power went out in the resort - Jared managed to get it back on after 15 minutes or so and we all congregated over by the chimney were we had a huge fire going. It was a really great night!

Sunday morning brought a slight hangover (what????) and we didn't get up until around 10. We got a boat on South Lake, and caught a fish trolling. Then we headed back to the inlet and just slayed them! It was a really fun day!
Sunday night we went over to Greg Madrigal's cabin, and had awesome tri-tip, chilli and salad. We also had a hell of a lot of laughs! Thanks Greg for having us over!

Now, on Thursday when we arrived, Gator said "wait, why do we have to go back Monday?" He's retired, I'm unemployed, so we opted to stay an extra two nights down at Bishop Creek Lodge. We headed down the hill, and then Gator took me on a tour of Mammoth as I'd never been, and we ended up at Mono Lake which is just stunning!

Lake George

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Twin Lakes

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Mono Lake

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That night, Tina & Kacie from BCL came over for an hour and we had a great time just laughing and talking.
Tuesday we stayed local, we caught the Nigeria/S. Korea game at the lodge, and then watched the college baseball. But wait.....there's a surprise in store!
It's Gators birthday tomorrow (Thursday), and we're good friends with the staff & owners of BCL. I asked Tina if she could get a cake, and I was able to get a card.....Gator wasn't expecting the little surprise party we threw for him! He had no idea!

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All in all, I had a brilliant week with some great people! It was hard to leave today :Crying:
Thanks to all of you who welcomed Gator and I!! Can't wait for next years event!

[Fisherman57]

For some reason the pics are NOT coming up for me..........
(Must be a Facebook thing, since thats where the pics seem to be hosted)

BUT.... it was great seeing you & Gator at the event Sue...... you guys always make it more fun!

Looks like you two had a REALLY good time!
Looking forward to seeing you BOTH at the next TEAM 57 event!


Dana

Tell Gator Happy Birthday for us! How R U guys "celebrating" ? :Wink:

[Santa Fe Eric]

Hi Sue, I can't see the pics, but I'm glad you had a good time and some smores. I'll check back for photos later.

Eric

[Troutman65]

I am not seeing the photo's either . Sounds like you had a jolly ole good time .:Wink::Cool:

Thanks for sharing .

[Sue]

Bugger! The pics are linked to my Facebook account which is why you can't see them. I'll upload them to Flickr and post a link a little later :)

[SierraPeaks]

Bugger! The pics are linked to my Facebook account which is why you can't see them. I'll upload them to Flickr and post a link a little later :)

Yes...please post s'more :>)

[Sue]

Ok, let me know if this link works (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=178334&id=694613334&l=9136a14831)

[Greg Madrigal]

Ok, let me know if this link works (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=178334&id=694613334&l=9136a14831)

Pics no worky FishB****! :)

Try again! ;)

It was an absolute pleasure to spend the time we did w/u and Gator. Thanks for joining us around the campfire. It was a real treat, even if u contributed to the delinquency of a minor!;) LOL!

GM<><

[IncredibleHuck]

Works for me off of Facebook! Thanks for sharing!

[Wingnut]

Good to see your again Sue... glad you guys had a great time up there! :Cool:

[rcfb73]

it was fun hanging out with you and gator this past weekend sue! lot of fun memories! im sure we'll be seeing you around soon! nice pics too!

[greg]

Great seeing U again, Sue.

Dana - Excellent event. Hope U will have it again next year.

Jared - Great job with setting up the TV to view the Lakers game. Hope the dam won't be an issue this summer. May be I can cook up some of my salmon bisque at the dinner...

-- Greg --

[troutdog]

Nice post, time for a photobucket account though Sue! Gator's birthday cake is awesome, thanks for sharing....


TD