So, it has been said many times on this forum that Jason is rediculously nice. Scary, in fact. Some of us have wondered if he is secretly a serial killer.

Anyway, the point is that Jason is constantly doing nice things for many of us, but never allows us to repay him. Until tonight...

...but he really had no choice.


Way back in April, when he picked me up in Athens and took me down to Emma, I came up with an idea...a surprise birthday party. On that session, I ran it by Justin, who loved it. At the May Fork Fish-In, I got his parents and Eva on board.

Next, I got Chad on board, since Eva thought we should have it at Rockfish.

Then came the PM thread. Now, I don't send pm's out to a ton of people and didn't think I had the ability to do so. So...I got Justin to send out a mass pm about the party. He did, but there was a HUGE problem...

He also sent it to Jason.

So, in the middle of the night, me and a couple of others scramble to get him to change the pm to a drunken rant. It worked, and after much suspicion, I came to the conclusion that Jason had no clue about the party.

Somehow, we managed to hide this party from Jason since the end of May. I don't know how we did it, but it worked out to be awesome.

Of course, not knowing about this shin-dig, Jason threw some wrenches into my plans, but Eva and I handled everything he threw at us.

Several of us met at Rockfish tonight and waited for Jason. Some of his family and other friends were there and we watched him come in. The funny thing was that he noticed his brother sitting there, and you could almost see the gears turning. As he walked around the corner and saw us sitting there, the look on his face was priceless.

We had a great dinner and it was good to see everybody. I tried to get as many people as I could to contribute to a book that I made for Jason, and it turned out to be pretty awesome.

Jason had no idea, and that's what counted the most. I am now number one on his list of people to kill, but that's ok. He always falls asleep before I do when we go fishing and doesn't wake up easily!

He just better be glad that our plans to kidnap him got derailed. That would have been really awesome.

Anyway, thanks to Eva and Chad for helping me plan this thing. It was truly a "tremendous success!" Thanks to everybody that came out and contributed to the book.

I will post pics and the video of Jason walking in and realizing what was happening tomorrow, but I am absolutely spent tonight.

What a great night. Jason, you deserved all of it and happy birthday.

sorry i didnt show up i forgot it was tonight untill scottevil told me via text message happy b-day jason

EXCELLENT! Very glad to hear it went so well! I sent Jason a text from the concert saying Happy Birthday, but this time I waited till I was sure he was supposed to see it, lmao.

Jason, sorry I couldn't be there as well man, but I'd had previous plans for the 6th for the last four months hehe, so it just didn't work out.

Hope you liked the book, and happy birthday!

Krista, thanks for all the hard work!

And yeah...I really did send the initial PM about the party to Jason as well! And I wasn't even drinking ( Much ) lol.

I was just so used to including Jason on LSCB PMs, that I'd always start them by clicking his name and hitting PM, since his was the only one I couldn't spell on my own lmao.

Luckily he goes to bed early, so I came back later at night to lots of PMs calling me nasty names, and was able to edit the WHOLE thing, including title, to make it look as though I'd just been off on a drunken rant about something, and everyone else was able to play along hehehe.

Awesome.

Congrat JJ - Sorry I couldnt be there all.

Well done Krisa/Chad.

Happy B-day Jason!

Funny stuff about starless send ing the PM to Jason too! ROFL!

GG

"Tremendous success" indeed!

Happy B-day Jason & Kuddos to Krista glad it all went great! Kid intensive weekend and wife strarted new job today!! woo hoooo sorry i missed it!

yeah I got bored with the 28 pages of PM messages about it and forgot when it was.

Awsome that I wasn't on the list of recipents for this lot of LSCB PM's.

Glad it worked out and Jason had a good time.

Happy Birthday, Jason!!!! Sounds like the party was a blast.

Congratulations, & Good Fishin',
LlindeX

Great party Krista it went great.
Thanks to Chad and Rockfish for the letting us have it there
and the appetizers.

Jason glad you had a great birthday party. Happy Belated Birthday to ya! (I'm just now aware of this..hehehe)

GOOD TIMES!!

Happy Birthday, Jason!

Thanks to Krista and Eva for throwing this all together; and thanks to all who showed up!

Chad

happy belated birthday jason ..mine was the first ,we are both cancers .i knew i liked you alot for some reason lol .hope ypu see many more b/days !jesse, on the outside looking in lol

Had a good time last night and nice meeting those I hadn't met before.

Yeah, Scott, I realized too late you were not on the list lol. Sorry about that!

But that was the list that I sent first, that list that also included Jason lmao. Before I could send a new one, since I had screwed it up, Krista took over, and sent out the new mass PM to everyone, so I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to who all she had sent it too and figured she just had everyone, yourself included. I heard Chad was able to send you an invite though after our mistakes.

Krista, so how many people showed up total?

Happy Birthday Jason!!! Sorry I couldnt be there. I had a car wreck this past saturday.

Nasty Tracy, sorry to hear it, you ok?

Just my back.

i thought we all had tremendous success. it's eva, the wifey. jason is fishing because of part of his surprise and now wont be by a computer for a while. lol. it turned out to be a great POWW! the funny part about it is that jason has a tiny seed planted in his head early on by chad and it was jason's idea to go out to eat that night to visit chad. great planning! great to see everyone... and meet the wonderful faces and spouses too. eva

happy birthday dude! glad you had a great time

That's not from the wreck! It's from carrying Scott!lol

Hope your ok dude

seriously Jason there is a novel going in the PM's I would have been there..in fact I showed up once but it was the wrong date!
happy birthday! thanks for all you have done for our group! you and your family have gone way above and beyond!

Scott, you would be at the top of my party list! just make sure you bring that peach heffi!

gonna climb up on a soap box for a minute.....

Scott detractors need to lighten up, I deemed him foghorn leghorn...and he embraced it...he is what he is an amazing angler that has always been willing to help the brigade and promote carp angling in Texas he has worked at the craft harder then most and has some amazing success as a result, he may not always come across the right way in fact at times he can seem to be a real [censored]..but we can all be a bit assy...thats a required trait for carp anglers I think.....

Scott's a friend of mine,

watch this next clip and just imagine its about the hair rig....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCP2Sh6GLP8

I say, I say there now he's a nice kid but don't listen to a word I say. LOL

glad to hear your ok tracy.

Sorry you weren't on the list Scott, but I just copied the list Justin used, minus Jason. When Chad told me that he invited you, I wasn't worried.

Would have loved to have attended and met some of you in person.

No worries Krista, I'm glad it turned out well.

In that case Krista, my mistake. Sorry Scott, you were meant to be there, it just didn't work out. Sorry man!

Tracy, oh, well, as long as it's "just" your back! Lol, glad you're ok otherwise!

The Princess pushed me in the pool with my phone in my pocket last week- I lost all my contacts. Krista had posted my # in the PM and I got several texts telling me who was going to be there; one was an 817 number, and I asked who it was from- The reply came: "Scott". Since it was an 817 # and the Evil Scott lives in GP, I thought it was Brewboy Scott. I was surprised when you, your sweetie, and the Aliens weren't there.

My Bad.

Chad

Here are the pics...


Double trouble for Jason!





Jason and his present...





Donny and Gail...




I'll get the video up later...

awesome pics glad to hear that he enjoyed the book

Sweet pics!

Looks like a awesome book!

Happy belated B-day Jason. Sorry to have missed it. I had planned on attending but got sick last weekend. You are a tribute to the sport and a damn fine person!

We were all sick last weekend, too. One kid got a stomach bug Friday night, then my wife and the other kid had it on Sunday, and I finally had it the next morning. One of the worst bouts I've been through: the kind that keeps you flat on your back between sprints to the porcelain throne.

oooooo sorry to hear that S&N glad your better..

Actually, that was probably more than you (or anyone else) wanted to here.

But thanks, we're all better.

You guys rock! I thought that the family and I were just going to have dinner with Chad and swap reels. I had no idea about the rest. lol!

No one has ever done anything like that for me. A sincere and HUGE thanks to all of you.

The LSCB is the best bunch of folks and best fishing club on earth.

Krista, you rock!