Ok so lots of new guys I have not met, and a number of the old gang I have not seen in some time. I was just surprised with the weekend off so anyone interested in getting together for a non-fishing, air-conditioned social event? We could do a dinner/drinks thing, BBQ at someone's house (remember the pool party?) or whatever. Was thinking wives/kids welcome if you don't mind them being exposed to a buncha carpers.... thoughts? Anyone free? I hear a few guys like the flying saucer....

I am tied up Saturday evening and Sunday

Out of town.

Out of town.

You people suck.. if i sit at home for my first weekend off in months.. i blame you! don't make me take my wife out alone! Bah maybe I'll take the boat out it hard to hear the wife over the wind....

Sounds good to me if others can make it.Mark give me a call about 3:00 today or later.Either way meeting up or just going fishing.

what you need it the following:


a cheap lawn chair

some sanbags

a sombrero

a tall pod

an inflatable raft.

what you do is:

set the lawn chair in water just deep enough that if you're sitting in it, you are at neck level.

set your pod up at the same level. (storm poles in a fox pod are brilliant for this)

use the sandbags to hold your chair down

put your bait, method, ice chest and radio in the inflatable raft and tie it to the lawn chair

sit in chair with sombrero on your melon.

catch fish.

some guys have to much time at the lake!

rememeber that tourney where i spent the whole time laying neck deep in the lake with my uwbrella over me.. at least when I wasn't kayak surfing... what won that tourney? 1 4lb buffalo and the only one caught in 12 hours... screw carp fishing in the summer

Mark -- shame we aren't a little closer - I'd be there -- however, I have a date with some golden thugs in the AM. New idea's for both method & stick mixes need to be tested, and -- sorry, gotta go and check my sanity is still as unstable as it has been for all these years

Ha! Kayak surfing was a great way to keep cool. I think there were at least 3 of us under that umbrella. I also remember picking up heavy rocks and walking them as deep as we could before dropping them and swimming to the surface. It was ridiculously hot but we had fun!

do it somehwere closer than DFW and i may make it

I forgot about that. We sure found a lot of ways to have a blast while blanking, and stayed cool in the process.

Ok so you guys left me hanging.. I ended up bored and went to watch TV which I never do. I realized that I needed a new entertainment center to store all the my audio/video [censored] and my old broken down TV. Ended up buying a new TV AND cabinet! and its HD so now I need a blueray player and I have to upgrade my cable to HD service and prob gonna have to upgrade my cable package to get all the cool outdoor channels too, cause man HD is cool! All of this is your fault! Yes you.. stop looking around I'm talking to you...

Ha!

And when you go and get a Blue Ray player, you are going to need to replace your DVD collection.

You are screwed.