Official 2006 Elk info thread- More prizes added!!

Thanks! 

Wow.  I can think of a good His/Her winning combo for the matching boats...........

Thank you for the incredible invent, Sean.

Hey, anyone interested in having some informal teams for the Elk tournament. 
The winning team would have the best average of each individuals largest fish with zeros included for those who fail to bring in a fish.

I'm thinking this could be set up a couple different ways...

1.) pick your own crew of 4-5 people and give yourself a silly name
2.) simply represent the county you live in.  Mendocino vs Sonoma vs ,etc...
3.) and my personal favorite... North vs South with the Golden Gate being the rough dividing line.

Here's a map of what I'm thinking about..
 

OH NO YOU D'INT just suggest a county battle!!!!

Santa Clara all the way baby!

I'm thinking we should get a list together of all the enterants and their county of residence...
We could easily do a North vs South as well as a county by county battle that way.
I imagine the Mendocino folks would want a chance to defend their territory.

My prediction for the tournament is as follows...

North over South with the following as the top three counties...

1.) Sonoma County
2.) Mendocino County
3.) San Mateo County

Don't even dis SC county man, we will take you down! Just to give you a flava of the power SC brings to the table...

1. Stu
2. Freddie
3. Martin
4. Bill
5. Dave
6. Scott Thornley

and probably some more I am missing.

Bring it on!!!!!!

Brian,

Bring your wallet and be prepared to hand over that title.   

Stuart

San Mateo... Santa Cruz... Santa Clara... whatever.... actually, I have no idea who lives in which county down there... I just picked one to make you "south of the gate" folks feel better even though I know it will be Humbodlt or Marin county up in the top three along with Sonoma and Mendocino.

The "South of the Gate" gang will surely take the honors this year The Bodega Bay Clan is going down 

I suggest you guys keep an eye on your kayaks 

This should be fun... let the smack talk begin!!!

....I already installed a motion detecting alarm on my yak...just in case I get "bananad" again Chris / Cpyak, prepare for retaliation "from the Mendo banana in the dry box incident" 


...and Bill, keep an eye on your cooler, you may just find a rotting carcass in yours .....retaliation for leaving a rotten banana in my cooler on our last Linda Mar trip together 


Let the War Games begin 

those of us in the bay area counties are the truly SKILLED anglers.  anyone can catch a fish up north, but you gotta be GOOD to catch one in the bay!oh yeah!!

Sweet, Mooch is already causing discord among his fellow "below the gate" anglers.

Besides the friendly rivalry, I think we should consider a few non-fishing activities at Elk this year.

My personal contribution this year will be "Gyotaku" (a.k.a. Japanese Fish Printing) Saturday afternoon.

Here's an example of a vermilion I did last year.

It's a great way to record your catch and once you wash off the non-toxic paint, you can still eat it.

I'll bring some supplies (non-toxic paints, brushes, rice paper, etc...) and once I get back from fishing the tournament people can start making prints.  My friends at the lab who are coming all know how to do this so we should have plenty of people to help out.   Even little kids can (with a bit of help) make nice prints.  Add a nice frame and you have a great gift for all your fish loving friends.   

Also, I'll look into getting a few tubes of fabric paint so people can try making t-shirts.  So remember to bring a couple plain t-shirts (any solid color will do).

Brian

Awesome Brian I have been looking forward to that!

So North vs south or counties????