Friday evening about 4pm, painted red hill, a good sign that the weather was clearing and the dirt roads would dry-out.
As soon as the sun went down Team 57 chef "Bobber Boy" cooking his Baconator!
"Thisfool" salivating over his slice of Baconator!
Kids of Team 57 by the campfire!
Adults of Team 57 by the campfire!
"Josh" brought some of his Wife's famous pineapple upside-down cake!
I got a late start so I missed the sunrise picture but here's some nice photos I shot shortly after leaving the dock!
60f at 8am!
"Thisfool" on his toob!
I happened to be up at the tackle shop when this big fish hit the scale at over 10lbs!
After the weigh-ins where over we started out by awarding 10 blind bogey kids prizes!
For the adults we gave out 12 blind bogey grab bags filled with random stuff from our sponsors including, Irvine Lake free gate admission passes, KFGS Fishing $57 dollar special discounted guide trips, Western Outdoor News year subscription, Fool's Bait Co. Products, Trout King products, stickers, and more. Each blind bogey winner was called up one by one to choose their bag randomly....
"Trout"sgiving! 2013 Kid's Smallest Fish.... "Frenchie"
"Trout"sgiving! 2013 Kid's Biggest Fish!
"Trout"sgiving! 2013 Adult Big Fish Champion & Runner-up and also top 5 in the side-pot including "Prowler_Tuber"!
Winner of the home theatre system raffle! LOS ANGLERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A "BIG" thanks to those that brought food for the Thanksgiving themed potluck!
I would like to personally thank each and every angler that participated in this years "Trout"sgiving! Thank you to all the amazing event sponsors that kicked in prizes for the raffle, BB Custom Rods, Bite On, Berkley, Los Anglers, The Longfin, FishingNetwork, Fool's Bait Co, KFGS Fishing, Voss Weights, Trout King, So Cal. Fishing Buddies, Troutdog for all the help, and most of all "Vegas Fish Slayer" and his Wife. Tim and Virginia donated a tremendous amount of raffle prizes and everything for the kids. Thank you!
A BIG, BIG, BIG thanks to Irvine Lake and all their staff for playing host to our events and providing us anglers with such a great fishing venue. Daniella, Val, Jimmy, Kewly, Don, and everyone else much appreciated!
Stay tuned to FishingNetwork for more details on the next Team 57 event. We have some BIG plans for 2014 and hope to have some more info announced soon!
In the spirit of "Family, friends, fun, & fishing"!
TaperSteve