La Perla Kickoff Contest to win weekend trip:

Ok guys and gals of the Forum, here is the deal.

I REALLY appreciate your overwhelming support, especially once you learned the facts. You moved me from wanting to vomit and send all of the SAL fish back to the State, to being more motivated than ever about the project.

In thanks to the fishermen of the Forum, and in response to several of the suggestions made, I am going to initiate the first contest. Tomorrow at 4PM I am going to post a photograph of a creature. The first person who can give me It's scientific name, and tell me where they live, will win.

The winner gets a weekend trip to fish La Perla with me and see the Jalisco Project, along with one adult guest and up to two youth.

Here are the rules. For this first contest, the participants need to live no further South than San Antonio. Sorry South Texans, but you will get a chance on the next one I do. The trip has to happen in August, before my fall gets busy with bird hunter groups. You will arrive on a Friday evening, fish Saturday, and then we will depart early Sunday morning. I have learned that if I don't make church and then rest on Sunday afternoon, my week goes badly, so this is my routine I try to stick with.

So, there you have it. I hope to have a winner by Sunday night, but we will see!!
Gary

Wow its pretty amazing how this has progressed. Somebody is getting one special trip!!

Wow! What an awesome offer!

What a gesture!! Especially after all the bs you had to wade through. You are a true gentleman, it shows.

Wow a fishing trip of a lifetime. I read the whole thread and I admire your passion for Bass. Congrats to the eventual winner.

Very nice

Great offer!

I think the hole thing stinks to high heaven. Those fry should be in texas public lakes. They should have let frank know what they were going to do, not let him find out by looking on the texas fishing forum. I'm not saying this to get a fight started and I'm not going to respond to the bitching that is going to follow this. I'm just speaking my mind. I think it was a bad move for texas parks and wildlife to do this this way. It will hurt the sal program.again this is one persons view on it and it don't matter. But the more I read about it the less I like it. So there is my 2 cents worth.

Very nice gesture...

Educating the masses will help most people understand...

Awesome

That would be a chupacabra. Do I win?

its 4 o'clock

Yeah, I was ready to guess.

4:10 can't wait---watching immigration children swim the river lol

I feel like I'm 10 years old waiting for Santa, lol!

Peramelidae Perameles

I win I win!

hey he posted it in the crappie section! damit!

The crappie section just had more clicks on it in 1 minute than it has in 1 year, lol!

Do I get more than 1 guess??? LOL And they all live outside..

(Centrarchus macropterus crappie

hope all of the above is not true

Ok guys sorry, having trouble getting the pic to come through. Jordan is helping me. We thought we had sent it but it is not working. Hang on.

macrobrachium rosenbergii

I'll be happy to upload it for you

there is nothing in crappie section---what gives???

macrobrachium rosenbergii
From malaysia

Macrobrachium rosenbergii, Australia and Southeast Asia

Macrobrachium rosenbergii
Grand Prairie, TX

MACROBRACHIUM ROSENBERGII

Originally from Malaysia.

Said you have to say species and where you are from right?

Do I win?

Farfantepenaeus durarum North America

Macrobrachium carcinus

the pic was not even up yet, sheesh... Patience is a virtue

Giganticus Skrimpulupuguss

Water

Macrobrachium carcinus
_______________________ North Amerca

Macrobrachium rosenbergii
brackish water along both coasts

penaeus monodon Aka the prawn lives in the waters of the gulf is of the crustacean world

MACROBRACHIUM ROSENBERGII

San Ygnacio texas

Macrobrachium americanum

this species is widespread along the Pacific side of Meso and South America, ranging from Baja California southwards to northern Peru, including many offshore islands, as well as Isla de Coco (Costa Rica) and the Galapagos.

Macrobrachium carcinus lives in fresh and brackish water in eastern America from Florida to Brazil

Macrobrachium rosenbergii
Tropical freshwaters of Malaysia

Odocoileus virgianus

macrobrachium carcinus, found from florida, south to brazil and in the west, indies

macrobrachium americanus Sonora and sinaloa

Macrobrachium carcinus, the Bigclaw River Shrimp. Indigenous to Brazil, Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Venezuela.

The ones you have pictured probably live on La Perla Ranch.

All over... and now at La Perla

Dendrobranchiata----World wide

How are those with garlic butter

I'm good huh?

sub species Macrobrachium rosenbergii rosenbergii

the Philippines, the Indonesian regions of Sulawesi and Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea and northern Australia

who won?

the winner is in crappie section lol

Are we supposed to tell you where we live of where they(the creature) live? If its where we live:
College Station
Macrobrachium rosenbergii is the creature.
The anticipation is killing me.

Macrobrachium rosenbergii


La Perla Ranch
South Texas

Some of you are getting really warm, especiallyt the Odocoileus virginianus guy:)

But what I am looking for is not only to ID the creature, but to guess correctly what river or lake it was caught out of, not just continent or country.

I am going to be out of pocket for 4 hrs. Sorry , but I will check up on it then. The first to put it all together wins.

Good luck! You guys are cracking me up.

Macrobrachium rosenbergii
Jalisco Lake

Macrobrachium rosenbergii
Vembanad lake, India

Macrobrachium carcinus

Guadalupe river here in Texas.

Second guess... Macrobrachium carcinus from San Marcos River right here in Texas.

Macrobrachium carcinus


Freshwater pools along the La Mina and Mameyes rivers in the EYNF recreational area.

It is the:
KwameCavile

Caught in The:

Guadalupe River in 1998.

Hook'em!

Macrobrachium rosenbergii
La Perla Lake forage ponds!

Haha!

Macrobrachium grandimanus-Hawaiian islands

Macrobrachium carcinus

San Juan River, Nicaragua

macrobrachium rosenbergii
Weatherford, Texas

macrobrachium americanus from the Humaya River

macrobrachium americanus from the Fuerte River

Macrobrachium rosenbergii/ those came from Lake Falcon?

I guess:

Macrobrachium rosenbergii aka Giant River Prawn

Amazon River in Brazil

-Macrobrachium grandimanus-Hawaiian islands/river

-Macrobrachium carcinus-Brazil São Francisco River

macrobrachium americanus from the Yaqui River

Macrobrachium acanthurus
Rio grande/Lake Falcon

Macrobrachium carcinus
Comal River

Macrobrachium rosenbergii from the Simmons Bayou on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi

macrobrachium carcinus, jalisco lake

Macrobrachium carcinus
Nueces River

Macrobrachium carcinus- from Rio Grande - devils river.

If I win I will donate my trip to whoever else is close or second and I will go as well on my own dime just for the awesome experience. I'm just totally guessing anyway.! Fun!

Macrobrachium Rosenbergii caught from Texas A&M prawn hatchery

that can't be right, aggies would have tossed in some corn n taters and had a boil.

Macrobrachium acanthurus Brazil

Macrobrachium carcinus

La Perla Ranch

Macrobrachium Rosenbergii Giant freshwater Prawn from COSTA RICA!

macrobrachium rosenbergii

La Perla Ranch

Macrobrachium americanus

I live in Pernell Oklahoma.

tecomate ranch private lake.

No Aggie would ever think of that

OK, so who won? I was all ready to see a photo of a jaguarundi.

Macrobrachium carcinus Mexico Fuerte River

Macrobrachium rosenbergii
Brazos River, TX

Macrobrachium carcinus from Guadalupe River Texas

Odocoileus virginianus is a whitetail deer--how can this be getting warm---just saying

Macrobrachium carcinus in Francisco River Brazil

Macrobrachium carcinus in Sao Francisco River in Brazil

The sarcasm zoomed right by you

It was a joke Dudley. Made me laugh so I threw it back. By the way, we have a winner. (Well, actually two winners)

So who won? The suspense is brutal!

patience young jedi!

I won!

Dang nice Mr. Gary...... too bad i didnt see this eariler, i would have rundoft with the prize.....someone going to be a happy camper. Congrats!!

I started a new thread announcing winner so people would know to look. Go over there and I will announce it.

Hey Jordan what are the odds of going fishing with you on falcon lake and talking Brownwood lions football?