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Trumpdriver yall are tough.. I slept in my tent at blackshear and it was 22 degrees..right papasage...last year..
Ask hendo and Howard if the wind blew at harding in 2006?? For 3 days it howled. BUT this weekend was rougher than both of those because the WIND never quit blowing. The wind has blown for 72 hours and it blew in the cold. Glad yall tied your tents down well. I still wish I had a video of your preformance Friday afternoon...priceless..
sssssssshhhhhhh !:D I looked at that rock Sunday morning and thought " that would have been a real site for Smitty if I had gotten hung on it and sat out there for 2 days going round and round and round :eek: My luck the vienna sausage would have been at the camp site and I would have starved to death going round in circles:D
I'm glad you all had a good time!!! i SUUURE wished my son and I could have mad it. I'm going to start making plans to try to make the next one. By the way, Happy Easter everyone.
Well yall it is a proven fact that you will always remember a fishing trip or camping trip.And WP is going to be one to remember. I can truly say that at long as you have a great group of new friends to tell stories to and listen to you will totally forget about things in life. Weather/Cold/Wind /BURRRRRR Thank God were back home to a heater. It was a blast hanging out with Smitty/Shinerunner /Reelcrappie/ Trump/and my new friend (Jonathen) I believe that he was the star of the show.I thank him for gathering up pine straw and pine combs to get the fire hot. Shine you got a wonderful boy he is well mannered and respectfull. Smitty thanks for a great trip and fire wood it really helped alot .We got to get us a motorcycle helment so we can do drive by's like those dang bass fishermen..... Reelcrappie thanks for showing us your boat daddy is in the big boat buying mood we need a bigger boat .. This weekend was a blast thanks guys Rusty...
Congratulations Lt. Dan. I know Jonathan had to have had a blast. Guys do not Lt. Dan fool you!!!! Jonathan more than likely caught all of the fish!!!!!!!!! Great jobs guys. See ya soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reading these postings reminds me of a tournament I was in with the Atlanta Bass Club (I was one of the founding members) back in 1971 out of Chewalla Marina on Eufaula. We were in against a club out of Alabama and the conditions were like you guys were in at West Point and was pure hell. In fact we had 2 guys go out and they didnt come back. They capsized and died from hypothermia in 4 feet of water over on the Alabama side...and both had their life jackets on too. The cold water just did them in. Both were in their mid-thirties, married with kids. What a tragedy.
I remember coming out of that cut from Chewalla Marina (I had that big Bomber with the 125 on it) and when I turned north away from the bridge out there I thought it was the pacific ocean...it was horrible! Went back south, got on the south side of the rip rap along the causeway and ended the day with one stunning 2 pound bass which almost won the thing!
Those Rangers were taking on water right and left and their bilge pumps were going all day long. I turned mine on once in that Bomber...the safest boat I ever had.
Looking back, I cannot imagine why I would do something that foolhardy and ridiculous, being out in that wide open flatlander in such dangerous conditions. Sure glad I got out of that nonsense and turned into a full scale crappie and bluegill fisherman. Bass Clubs.......BAHHHH! Humbug!
Regards,
Doug Bush
doug we are far from being a bass club. We share info. We let other members know where and how we are catching them...even during the tourney. We are more like an anti-bass club..lol not all of them are bad. One tailhole can make many miserable. We have had few problems! I have met some good people here. Some i expect will be my friends for life. I hope we can keep these events friendly with entire families. One way to be sure is to just stop having the tourney for money if we do get into problems. Like the bible says;
"for the love of money is the root of evil" bragging rights are worth more than money but a little extra cash to buy fishing gear is nice.:) I have bought gear with every penny I have won. Hope you will join us and bring your family. just wear boots if you stand around the campfires..;)
Doug, come to the slabfest at blackshear and I will show you a bunch of happy campers. If it's anything like the last one I guarantee you'll have a blast. Good fishing, good food, and great friends, it don't get any better than that.
Besides, I'm tired of being the oldest one there. LOL
Smitty spoken well, Never met you are many on this site Hope to make one of your slabfest from what I`ve read it is a great time(wish yall would come a little bit north and give lanier a try it is a great crappie lake ) Like you said not about the money but braggin rights. If you want to get rich try bassmasters, you guys just have a good time.Got some good campgrounds here. GOOD FISHING..DENNIS