Albion 2010

Craig and Linelle, Thanks so much for all the hard work putting on this event, you two are awsome people(and Tessa too). Congadulations to all the winners, I felt like a winner just by being there.  Next year I got to place in the top three, I want one of those cool paintings by Ben(Guitarzan), already have a place to hang it.

THANK YOU mIKE(Tote) and Becky, you two were great neighbors, best margarita I've ever had and the oysters were'nt bad either.

David(Tigerfish) thanks for the swimbaits, and that bacon wrapped wahoo was the bomb man I'm getting hungy again just thinking about it.

I've been going to Albion for over 20 yrs with my family vacations.  Being there with the NCKA is a whole other level of fun, I'll never forget this last weekend

Thank you NCKA

Another late post. Many thanks to Craig and Linelle and all others who gave time or otherwise contributed to making this a special time for so many. Don D said it best for me, being there made me a winner. I skipped the Saturday fishing but had a great time on the Friday party boat (thanks Rich), playing pee-wee golf with the young'un, river trip on Saturday, and diving for a nice limit of abs with Brian G and company on Sunday, plus chilling it at camp NCKA.

Big Jim invited me for abbing on Sunday morning but I missed the early start and didn't want to be playing catch-up and holding folks up. Brian came through and it was really a treat to get back out in a wetsuit for the first time in more than 5 years. Whoo-hooo back in the saddle! 

And thanks to Dave Blatt for coming through on a campsite!

  Life is good.

Well, It is now!.....Welcome Back Brother Sean!               

What a spectacular weekend we all enjoyed so much. The event was so well planned and executed, Kudos to Craig & Linelle, Spike & all the other contributors. Then the Mooch is present, awesome as ever in spite of what he's going through. The buffet was out of this world, there are many gourmet cooks in this NCKA club. Pam and I got to share the site with Dave (flyingfishrow) & Doug (grumpy) same place with you guys next year please. Dave C, Hobie-Pam wants that 2ND tandem picture for show&tell at work. most of my shots sucked so they went away, except one of Tiny on our way out Sat. and my AOTY gopher rockfish. dave...

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Aww, such love!      

Wow! What an amazing time we all had at the Albion Open. Thank you so very
much Craig and Linelle for all your hard work making it happened for all of us to
enjoy. Congrats to Fishworks,Rockroach,MontanaN8V, and Christina on catching
the winning fish.

I only managed to catch a few rockfish and an under size ling on Saturday and that was it. The water condition was no joke. My worst ocean condition so far
but I didn't give up so easily so I stayed as long as I can.

Thanks to Saltydog, William102,FishMaster1,Bloodbath,and Solsf for letting a newbie tag along for some ab dive on Sunday. Our camp enjoyed the gift BTW Jim, William, and Jimbo. We all appreciate it.

Thanks Rey and Patty for my daughter's Birthday gift.

Jedmo

Craig, thanks so much for putting this on.  Great job.

There was so much good will going on, I'd say watch out:  Art is going to start calling you HIPPIES.  Fish Hippies 

Nice Abs and Uni Jedmo!  Pretty good for a newbie diver.  Did you dive with the dry suit? Walang anuman with the gift. 

Rey

Craig, thanks so much for putting this on.  Great job.

There was so much good will going on, I'd say watch out:  Art is going to start calling you HIPPIES.  Fish Hippies 

Art probably wont ever go to Albion because the creed now will be, " all welcome at Albion Open. All races, all walks of life, all cultures, all lifestyles. Hippies especially!". There wasnt one person who was there this year that i just didnt get a kick out of. We are in this together. We are fisherpeople above all else. Plus a big welcome to those coming home to their roots. The dude who showed up because he was going over the bridge and saw all the kayaks and campers was Keith Keahi from Maui. He couldnt grasp the love and fellowship that was there for him to partake of. Lifes a gas , why not enjoy it to the fullest and let the hate and ego just fall to the wayside. Thanks DaveW for all you do.

The uni was a gift from William and the abs were from
Jim and Jimbo. Thanks again fellas for we all had
enjoyed it very much.

Jedmo

It’s mostly been said, but I have to add to the chorus. GREAT JOB CRAIG & LINELLE !!!!

Chose the peace and quite of Schooners over the many friendly offers to camp share as this was my wife Janis’ first foray into one of these events. Probably won’t be her last as she kept commenting on how helpful and friendly everybody was and what a great time she had. Eric B you made her day with the gift of fresh Uni, Thanks ! Thanks to Andy & Brenda, Al & Sara for letting me “mooch” their BBQ facilities when I was too lazy to start my own fire (cause that’s the way I roll). A special shout out to our camping neighbors at Schooner’s, Ricci & Christina. Way to go. Couldn't happen to a nicer couple. Ricci, excellent job on the heartfelt acceptance speech  . Awesome cookies. Bring more next time.  

Back to the relative quite of Schooner’s. I didn’t realize seals could make so many bizarre sounds at night, bubble blowing, farting, gurgling and splashing. Then there was the weird, is that a chicken, a turkey, a ???? sounds during the day and even in the middle of the night, which turned out to be a clutch of nesting Great Blue Herons at feeding time – aka O dark :30.

Saturday didn’t lead to any fish for me. Sanity prevailed and I tucked it into the cove like many others. I did get some redemption on Sunday. Joined MontanaN8V just beyond the foghorn rock for an hour or so. On my first drop, as soon as it hit bottom  - fish on – a modest Gopher.  A few minutes later a  fat 20” Cabby slammed my lure. . I did a couple more drifts and headed in.

Took the long road home down the coast, checking out all the fishing spots I‘d heard about  and fantasizing about ways to get my kayak down cliff faces to some really fishy looking spots

Here’s my share of photos - enjoy

More pics

is this keith? i was buzzin pretty good but i remember this guy was from hawai and new to the club