Elk Tourney Report 8/12/06

some of the fish prints - hosted by Team Bodega Bay .......

Presenting the Master of Ceremonies: MC Scwafish 

despite the bum leg....Mike/Tote was FIRST on the chow line.....followed by an Alien.....illegal that is 

Hope you heal fast Mike 

the crowd gathers for the dive catch of Stu,Harold / Fuzz and Fred / Savage.....note Selli Jr. eye-poking the ling 

here's the ling Harold / Fuzz shot  (da Hawaiian Robin Hood)

Just got back from a "stretched" Elk weekend. Played down the coast on the way home. The postings have already well documented the event with pictures and kind words but I must add mine as well.

Thanks Mooch for the phone call that got me registered in time. Thanks Sean and the whole White family for the countless hours required to make this happen. Thanks Bill for maintaining the web site and all you do to make these events possible. Chuck, Stu and Howard; your Friday catch both impressed, motivated and fed us all well Friday evening. I don't know how you guys do it but we all owe you dearly. Thanks to the residents of Elk who allow us to play in their backyard. Thanks to all the outrageous cooks who prepared and shared the food. Thanks to those who posted the wonderful pictures documenting the event. Mooch, you've become quite the photographer!! Thanks to the winners, sponsors and Coastside for its efforts to maintain some of our fishing rights. It was great fun with all our new and established friends.

My personnal score included one underling hitchiking on a black, a nice china, yellow and black, several small blacks and a half dozen gophers. All are happily back with their families and friends amongst the rocks. Hopefully they will be bigger next year.

Looking forward to Mendo.  Mooch, there will be chile for sure!!

 

Well guys-

A little late post but I just wanted to thank everybody involved with getting this together. I didn't do that well fishing wise but the great company more than made up for it. It's always good to share water and bs stories with all of you guys. Next year, I'm going to finish my diving early... missed out on all of the great eats again. The crackers and cold cuts was more than enough for me though. What really got me was everybody teasing me about how good everything was and how they had to force themselves to eat more food. Yup... that's how it goes though. I'm looking forward to Bendo... I'll pull a Tote and be first in the chow line... yeah baby!!!

Freddie

man I missed out,by the time I caught the post Elk was full.nice Abs.Stuart what was the size of them snails?,they look about ten inches.

Alright... I think I finally figured out how to tweak these video clips so they stream a bit quicker. 

I posted two video clips from the Elk Derby on my server...

One is about a 1:20 clip from on the water to give you a taste of the conditions that day... albeit in one of the more mellow areas closer to Cuffy's point.

The other is the soon-to-be famous Mooch call.

http://www.kzreelrods.com/Movies/Movies.htm

Enjoy... EK

Those are cool.  I have a new helmet cam on the way, hoping to shoot some cool video this fall.

The other is the soon-to-be famous Mooch call.

Great videos Erik...I was expecting the Mooch turkey call.

sea i used to use a helmet cam bodyboarding...way cool footage

chef

Nice Erik!

With my knee jacked up the only thing that got me down Heart Atttack Hill was the potential for food. The only thing that got me back up the hill was the guarantee of it! I tried to beat the rush as this GIMP didn't want to hold anyone up. Food was off the hook!

Very nice Erik! Way cool.

It's been almost a week and just found a few minuets to post my thanks to the Great White family for all the hospitality given at the event and to Bill for hellping me do a last minuet install on my fishfinder. Thanks to all that made my week end enjoyable and memorable. Thanks to all the great Cooks for the good eats and to all the Bartenders that provided the Cocktails. I'm still recovering. And thanks to all the photographers that captured all the smiles to look back on to remember what great time we all shared.
 Good to see all the familiar faces and good to meet all the new ones!

Again Thank you !Thank you ! Thank you


Alex