In the interest of organization, I thought it might be best for us to post our North Texas GTG pictures into one thread.

I took quite a few pictures today and I should have them uploaded to my Flickr page sometime tonight. I'll post a link later.

Here is a little teaser.

Shaun Russell - The man with the plan.



It was really great to finally meet some of you guys. I had an awesome time.

This was my first GTG with the guys from this forum. It will certainly not be my last.

To Neumie and all the people that helped out, thanks for going the extra mile putting on this event. Y'all did a great job!!!


The last couple days I have spent putting faces with names,and making friends with some really great people. Simply put, had a blast.
Between the awesome cooking,learning how to set up my kayak, to playing kayak games that someone had to be half lit to dream up.
I'll remember this for a long time to come.

District paddle- It was a pleasure to have met you. It was great to have your company as I was fishing around the lake today.

I took a couple pictures while I was out there. I'll post some as I get then downloaded.

Some of us were so eager to compete,we wanted to get in the water without our kayaks!!!!

A few more.

Disctrict Paddle...Dean, right? Your pictures are off the chart great.

Kudos to Josh for putting it all together.

Here are few more pics....

The big house at the "oil well."


This father/son duo, who won the crappie contest, walked away with a new rod/reel for the little guy and some cash for dad.



FishingRythe won the Golden Milk Crate Award for wearing the whitest shirt there.


Shaun helping Spiney after a yak race--apparently paddling your kayak backwards really fast is hard work.


Undercover brother Zombie, Jeremiah and me.

nice pics yall

check out the birds starting to work in the background of the pic above yall! i figured it would get good but had no idea we'd catch as many as we did. 2 easy limits for my son & i left the H20 camera at the house. sorry, no water pics. was a nice time on a nice day to hang with some nice folks...

surface temps in shallows 75+ main lake surface temps 64-67
found sandbass in 24-43ft between the islands
birds clued us in initially then stayed on em with sonar
bait: small white slabs & small white cranks
also took several on silver/gold cranks
2-3 more weeks & they will be surface feeding more freq
slow -fast retrieve worked well on cranks at down to 6'
winds 3-15 mph. trolled, slabed & anchored when winds kicked up

son adrian showing off some of his whites for your viewing pleasure. he didn't tourney but would have placed with his 1 bucket mouth


2 easy limits. heres a few of the bigger ones


cop a squat next ta papa's limit youngin


some where quit spunky


some of the fleet. was my pleasure meeting you all. saw some impressive rigging, loved the mudbugs, gumbo, taders & enjoyed the competition boys!


Neumie i want a rematch


......SUCKA!!!

Zombie...you da man...maybe next time, I'll pull you with the Mokai to the fishies and you can put me on them? LOL.

deal

Dean You have a great eye for photography, those are awesome pictures!! Keep them coming.

Zombie- Dude y'all made a killing on the sandies.I really wanted to go out there with y'all but I was totally spent. My shoulders were killing me after that backwards paddling contest.
Well that, and after showing my exemplary barbie rod throwing skills.LOL!!

Shaun, Now I know why you like the Johnson Branch so much! Good call, good work amigo.

It was Neumie, and Spiny Norman that made the call as to where to have the GTG.
But I was sure glad they chose where they did. That park is really special to me.I've had some great times there with my family. It really has great facilities for camping.

It also has a perfect protected shallow shelf that extends out a few hundred yards great for Kayaking. I really like that shallow area because it keeps the speeding boat traffic down.

As you saw it also provides some of the best sand bass fishing around if you can paddle out a couple hundred yards.

Even though it is a couple miles to the north of Isle du Bois park, I still think it's worth the trouble. Not to take anything away from Isle du Bois park, It's nice over there too.
Besides I sound like a idiot every time I try to pronounce Isle du Bois. LOL

Would you look at that game face!!!

Skills I tell ya. Spiny Norman just has the mad skills.


We are going to call this the "no paddle straddle"



There was some some stiff competition in the Barbie throwing event. Would you just look at the forum of these guys? They were serious!!!!

LOOK OUT!!!!!

Did anyone get any pictures of me jetting about in the Mokai? I only have pics of the creek and my feet...