The weather report is becoming more favorable for Saturday. 10% chance of rain in the evening, highs about 68 degrees, winds building up to 10-15 mph by late afternoon at North Bonneville. We should be off the water by 2 or 3 pm, BBQ by 5pm, in camp and drunk by 9 pm.

Make sure you have enough PFD's in your boat. If you have questions about tackle please call me. I'll be bringing hundreds of shad darts, and extra circle hook 10/0 hooks for sturgeon to share. I'll also have a couple of extra rain jackets in my boat. If you have a fighting belt/rod belt, please bring it. Bring whatever beer you like to drink, I'll also be bringing extra beer.

There is an overflow parking area, picnic site near the campsite, I'm offering to park my truck there and sleep Friday night in order to provide some security for the boats if there isn't room at the camp site (about 200 yards away).

Launch is planned for 830-9am. Gives us about 5 hours on the water.

Lastly, I'm leaving my house now to pick up food and supplies. Most importantly I'll be picking up a two piece swimsuit in Mergantroiders size. Maybe even a thong bikini. He knows he's gonna be wearing it if I don't fill up those boats.

Expecting to see

Tom P. with boat
Vhawk with Dumblucks boat and truck, gas BBQ, cooler of ribs and chicken, and DL's fine home brew.
Jerry with his boat and Benwa as baitboy
Stever_from_Everett with his new boat
Steve B. (Hook Up) with his boat?

Hohbomb with high end rental camera
J-Hawk, keeping an eye on VHawk until she's drank too much beer

Merg with assorted young and firm girls. ...Or Merg fishing for sturgeon in a thong. I'd prefer to see the girls.


Am I missing anyone?

Hook Up, if your coming please get ahold of me at 360 259-3169
Vince.

I'll be able to relax once I see people (and girls) at the campsite.

I wish I could go.

Fishing on the Estuary I use size 5/0 or 6/0 hooks with 3-4 ft dacron leaders. Usually I just pick up a couple packs of Brad's at Bob's in Longveiw.

Just my $.02

Oh, and let me answer the "why" question as it applies to me only.
I'm doing this for several reasons:

5. Because not enough girls fish. Maybe fishing will be the next "sexy" thing.
4.It's fun to fish with friends, and even more so when they are sexy
3.Because I'm an attention 'ho
2.Because its worth some popularity points if it works

Number one most important reason, because I can spend those points for more important things. I'm not returning to Sun Valley for cancer camp this year because I've applied to volunteer at Camp Goodtimes, which covers Western Washington.

If I ever arrange another group flotilla, it'll be for them and I want it to be huge. I want to see dads and daughters out on a boat with guys who can put them into fish. Moms and sons who are making memories that can help lift the burdens of constant illness and the rigors of chemo. Those kind of things are worth me getting an ulcer. For the opportunity to help coordinate something like that, I'll risk possible humiliation now. Arranging for a group of good looking girls to fish, and provide the rest of us with some entertainment will be good for a chuckle ten years from now. But those things we do for others, they provide us answer when we meet our maker and he asks us "What did you do with your life?"

So here's hoping for a warm day, lots of fish, and a fun time.

VHawk

Vince, just returned from 3 Rivers with lead, power pro and dacron for leaders. Aslo I have prepared some food in advance for the group. I'll bring some extra PFDs and coats. What is the word on camp gear? I was told the "secret" lure is the ..... plus I have some special scents for the oversized sturgeon. I'll bring gear for shad (7), salmon(5) and sturgeon(3). Let me know this evening if there is anything else we will be needing. Say hello to Jess.

Reason one makes my day. Your making a difference. Good luck, good fishing, and good fun.

Bravo Vince!

The prospect of humiliations doesn't seem to deter you, and that's probably a good thing in our world today. Nothing great was ever achieved by those afraid to dream big - I hope the angling and weather gods treat you well.

Tight L~a$$es

Brian

Good attitudes all around. Vince has been the all-american PR man that he always lives up to in this whole situation. I will be in a bikini....i think i owe you guys that much. Humiliation is just another word for trying as far as i am concerened. i saw no one a\else attempting this ( for good reason i might add ) so when Vince proposed it...i thought i would try to give a hand.

But Vince touched on something that is very important...yes we are attention ho's but the primary reason for this is to provide some fun times and interesting conversation for years to come....something that is entertaining to all...and different then the regular trip. hopefully we achieve that goal. Only time will tell. Should be fun either way : )

and i am a size 6 in womens : ) ..... dont ask how i know that. and i am a big "a" cup size. i want an 80's flame pink bikini. and lots of beer

I don't care what your cup size is, this is the outfit you'll be wearing if you don't come through as promised. Plus you'll be banned for 20 years from giving anymore advice regarding women.






I've called off Tom P. due to cancellations. And I've not talked with Steve Bramhall, but we won't need him either. Looking at three boats including the one I'm dragging along participating.

We have enough at this time to fill the 2 boats, with mine in reserve. Merg, If another girl drops out, your wearing that bikini all day long. I'll bring you a sweater if you get cold.

VHawk

I will see you guys on the river. We will be fishing in the same erea. Marroon Willie Raptor. Say Howdy if you see us out.have the gals flash or something. We will be going down Friday evening and putting on the water early Saturday A.M. Looks like we will be putting in @ Becon Rock and running down to fish oversize fish.

VHawk. That must have been you In Sportsman Warhouse buying a brick of life vest. I figured they were for the gals. was going to say howdy but you slipped out before I could get payed up.

Kris

Yup that was me. And yes we'll probably run across each other on the river. I've sent you a PM.

Vince

VHawk,

No PM . try my e-mail.

dcrzfitter@comcast.net


Kris

Dont need me? Did you ask the girls?

maybe next time

Next time? If there is a next time, It'll be 28-40 y/o hot moms, who I pick. Not only will they be there, and on time, but they'll be paying for their seats as well. And we'll have legendary fun. And never, ever will I have to worry about whether they'll show.

Amazing how quickly I tired of the BS that comes from dealing with 22 year old girls. They are like horses, pretty to look at, probably fun to ride, but way too much trouble to keep around.

Makes me glad I'm married to Jess. This is a good reminder of what I already have. Kind of amazing where life's lessons pop up.

I hope she picks up a huge sturgeon. She's due.

I'm hoping you guy's pull this off.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

Rain could be a good thing I like the look of a woman in a bikini with raindrops running down her back, wet hair, and a pouty look on her face.... Maybe even a yellow rain hat?
Good luck fellas.

hahahah yeah....with it blowin at 20 knots rain could easlily spell pnuemonia. yeah....fathers day claimed over half the girls. oh well....its all about having PERSONAL responsibility and doing what you say your gonna do, or having the best excuse known to man ( my genitals fell off/ bleeding to death)....thats the problem...apperantly girls dont develop that until.......who knows? should be fun though. Just wish the cancelations would have been earlier so i could have some time. but you can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up first.

Worst case you guys will just make this into a nice sturgeon trip....doesn't sound all that bad to me.

Not everything works out the first time but you learn what to do better next time. So don't give up if it doesn't work out, try again.

I have a 23 year old daughter thats pretty hot myself. Tell ya what, I would be kinda pissed if she spent this sunday out showing off her cans to some dudes on an internet fishing board instead of kissing my ass for fathers day.

I don't know what the hell you just said there, Brent!

Is this some kinda of Iderho thing?

I don't either !!! It was pointless and yes, its a Iddunno thing

Speaking of gators.. We are headed out for some tater gaters in about 3 hours. I am betting right here and now on this here internet fishing board that we catch a bigger gator tonight than will be landed at Chicks and Dicks tomorrow !!!

However, there will be no eye candy.. so our pictures will vbe lame in compairison...

Word out, we need to get some fresh crappie rounded up first

If you were on the boat, she could do both...

Sorry, couldn't resist

i concur...i dont what you just said...but its funny

nah...any fishin picture is a good fishin picture whether shes got huge funbags......or a dude ina camo bikini...wait....

Sudden urge to go bank fishing with my water balloon sling shot.

dude.....that would be awesome...." wow thats a big sturgeon...alright..pull back on the rod...now reel.....what is that nut doing on the bank? " "INCOMING!!!" hahahah

To bad the gals' are backing out,can't blame them though.Poor date planning.The second & third weekend of July is alway's the best weather in the state @ right around 90 plus.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

Launching a squirrel into the boat would be funnier.

Fun with Squirrels

B-Run, that story about your daughter and her friend in the car, and you wagging your tongue at her, that's still one of my fav stories ever.





I didn't pick the date based on weather, I picked it based on the historical peak of the shad run. All summer long, and every weekend, there's some excuse of a holiday...memorial day, fathers day, July 4th, Summer solstice, pick your crack day, etc etc.

Tell me what's running 3rd weekend in July that'll provide consistent action on the Columbia, more consistent than shad and oversized fish?

Anyways, Merg and Hohbomb are meeting up with us Sat morning. They'll be staying up late in Portland on a suicidal mission for replacements. I don't have much hope in that, due to VHawks' "No Skanks" rule. I'm not sure how that rule will conflict if Merg fails, and he's forced to wear the bikini.

Dude, you will be wearing that camo bottom and top if you fail to provide eye candy for the men of PP. And I'll be forwarding those pics on to every conceivable gay networking site. Actually I need someone with a video camera. I smell a viral video here. Anybody up for shooting a YouTube classic? Merg in his two piece bikini, hooking up with a sturgeon.

I will have no mercy, there will be no sanctuary given.


VHawk


Next posting will be Monday. Tight lines to you all...

Photos, Vince. Take lots and lots and lots of photos...and don't let JHawk delete any of the *good* ones, either!

PS. Superly and I will volunteer to pre "screen" out all the "good" photos for you!

Hmmmmm......maybe this is something I should have been informed of.......

agreed

Better read this first.

German squirrel on a rampage injures 3 people

Vince,
If ya need a photographer, I am equiped with a Canon 10D digital SLR. It is 4 years old and only 6.1 MP. I have two lenses; a 28-80 MM and a 70-300 MM and two 1 GB Compact flas card that hold about 450 pictures each. Of course I would have to some how water proof it with all the drooling around!!!

Joe

That first squirrel link was killer. I need to rig one of those up in the back yard!

First pictures in a minute I want to see if she will whip a boob out. I am slightly intoxicated here and posting from my phone. Give me a second

She is sober. And she knows this is going on the internet.

Isn't she one of the govenor's daughters?

So what happened? Did any girls show? Where are the pics? Did merg wear the bikini?

After all the hype I kind of thought that we'd be greeted this morning with pics of nubile fisher maidens in scant clothing, but I can definitly do without pics of the Merg in a bikini.

oh i cant wiat until the pictures of me in the bikini show up. they are pretty bad...but i definetly felt obligated too.

I am sort of gald that not many girls showed up. the weather was not good for most girls.

I have called all the girls that canceled and the feeling i get was that they didnt understand the importance of NOT flaking out. they thought it was just some camping trip. They didnt know how much time and money went into this. incidentally i am not friends anymore with a few of them. just outright flakiness i cannot stand. They committed over a month ago. oh well.....we had a great time. got some decent pictures...yes...of me ina bikini. Vince wouldnt let it die..." strip strip!!!" thats all i heard all day. hohbomb and i were starting to wonder. It was cold and wet most of the time and poured down rain towards the end of fishing on saturday.


Steve Rieter.....that guy is the most prepared SOB i have ever seen. Everytime we were like " [censored] i forgot the..."

steve would say..." oh no big deal i brought 4 spares and some different kinds" i am hiring him for a company trip in october for silvers. absolutely amazing guy. very fun.

...I wasn't involved in hyping this, so I don't feel right posting the pics. They are in my possesion, however, until I can get vhawk the dvd. Suffice to say that you all WILL be seeing merg in a bikini...

The weather sucked. The girls were too few and wore too much clothing. Didn't even see any of the hundred or so boats catch anything "oversized".

Other than that, the company was good. The camping was awesome (thanks in large part to Steve). The shad fishing was the best I've ever seen (having only shad fished one other time)... slaying 'em with the dart-divers!!

Thanks for the good times and for all the work everyone did to put this together! It will take a few days to get Vince the pics (very large jpegs impractical to email), he can sort, edit, resize, and post as he sees fit...

Thanks

I'll chime in with a brief report. We all met up at Beacon Rock State park on Friday. After unpacking and setting up camp we consumed many barley pops. After swapping a few stories, some secrets were reveiled about Mergantroider who was the last to arrive. We stayed up way to late to get an early start plus my head didn't feel too good when I got up at 6 AM. We launched after a brief breakfast and were on the water by 9 AM. Having never fished the big river in a boat I followed Vhawk up river eating his two cycle fumes.YUMMMM. We anchored up and fished for about an hour and a half before one of "my girls" had to head back due to her work schedule. Oh did I mention that all the women who showed up were in my boat? At this point we hadn't caught a single fish. When we returned to our spot the other boat ( Vhawk, Hohbomb 73 and Mergantroider) had figured out the "secret method" dart 24" behind a bait diver. After we set up our rods that way we began to hit fish. After boating several shad for bait we headed down river to mile marker 85 to fish for sturgeon.
We gave this a very brief try as the wind was starting to blow. We decided to pick up and return to the protected channel on the north side of Pierce Island. We anchored up in 24 feet of water and as soon as we put out the darts we had fish on. We caught some really nice shad there and were out of the main part of the wind. About 3:30 PM the weather turned on us and the rain drove us off the river. I must say that the women in my boat were real troopers for staying out and fishing. Mergs girlfriend may even wat to go fishing again and Jhawk , Vhawks better half, is always a sport and loves to fish. I think that we all had a good time and although the event was a "little" over hyped I would gladly do it again.
Now as an after story I was involved in a hit and run accident on S.R. 14 after I left Saturday evening. No injuries and only slight damage to my truck. The other driver was later arrested for drunk driving.
WARNING!
The whole story is below and don't read further if you aren't interested.
Below is a brief narrative of the accident and what happened afterwards.

After I left the Beacon Rock state campground and got onto Hwy 14 towards Vancouver, between Cape Horn Rd. and Oregon View Rd., I was driving up a twisting turning section of the road, in a no passing zone with blind corners, I was side swiped by a pickup that was passing me and several other cars. It happened so quickly that at first I didn't even know what happened. I thought that I had been hit by an oncoming car. My side mirror exploded and shot across my windshield. All I could see at first through my side window was silver almost like a flash bulb exploding. The truck kept going as I laid on my horn. I saw it pull in ahead of the car in front of me then pull out and pass the next four or five cars in a row. I got on my cell phone and called 911 in the same minute and gave them a partial description of the truck. I described the truck as being either silver or grey with a hard tano cover that was slightly ajar. The 911 operator instructed me to meet the State Patrol at the next major cross road which was S.E. Evergreen Blvd.
While I was waiting there for the State Patrol, I was out walking my dog and the truck that had side swiped me went by, still heading west on 14. I grabbed the dog and got in my truck and went after it. I got on the phone again and gave the dispatcher a better description, a silver Toyota ext. cab T.R.D. with a hard tano cover that was slightly ajar. I couldn't catch up to the truck as I had the boat behind me but I could see the truck pulling away still west bound. The dispatcher again instructed me wait for the S.P. in Washougal. While I was still on the phone with the dispatcher I saw a S.P. U turn ahead of me and give chase to a vehicle. After waiting on the roadside for 15 minutes the S.P came back and said that they had pulled over a truck but that it wasn't the right one (canopy instead of tano cover). Well by now there was a second S.P. unit and the Washougal city police was cruising nearby. I filled out an accident report and then the S.P. let me go. I drove down the road about 3 to 4 miles and one of the S.P. that was on the scene pulled me over and said that they had the truck and could I identify it. I said sure I could and turned around and followed the S.P. back to almost the same place I had made contact with the S.P before. There they had the hit and run driver alone in his Toyota with a broken passenger side mirror.
After administering a field sobriety test which he failed they gave him a Breathalyzer which he also failed. The driver was hand cuffed and placed in the back of the patrol car. At this time I was instructed that I free to go and left the scene.

sounds like wsp did there job hope your truck wasnt damaged to bad and the other guy had insurance?

gawd...thats horrible. TRD's are nice trucks too. Not to mention he hit your truck...with a boat behind it...whew...on those roads...lucky you didnt end up at the bottom of a very high cliff. wow...sucky buddy.

yeah.....if i were to do this again...i would require some sort of 20 dollar deposit from the girls for gas for the boats or something. like a i said..they had no idea how important this was. Must be the hair over the ears that blocked the long conversations we would have about going : )

i have organized a lot of "nights out" but they always involved clubs/bars of some sort and free entry. They know about clubs and how fun of a time it is and its at night so theres no real infringing plans that could deter or make them cancel

on a sober side note....it would have been close to a nightmare if alot had shown up. the campground was not near big enough, or the campsites large enough to fit any amount of people. Dont get me wrong the sites were nice in and of itself. the bathrooms were clean and the showers were also. Just the size of them was for like...a couple...or a family of midgets ( yes vince...midgets) i believe that the whole campground was sold out also. not to mention, just us four or five people got noise complaints. if there had been more....who knows. The rangers were complete miscreants. absolutely rude, condescending bungholes to everyone. We never said a bad word or had a bad attitude but they treated us like garbage.

i think had there been a lot of people it would have been close to a disaster. now a few more....like 4 or 5 may have worked. But we would all had been at our wits end listening to the complaining. Also need to be bringing more supplies....i didnt take into consideration of all the little things...i had essentials

-rum
-more rum
-coke
-tent ( with no rain fly, freak dumping accident going down I-5 )
-woman ( girlfriend? nope. just met her last week. i got rid of my girlfriend two weeks ago)
-snacks for the day on the river ( that i forgot at the tent)
- lots of blankets
- pillow
-coat

Now if i had to do it again....i would just call steve and ask what he packs...and then pack all of that. the man had vaccum sealed up gravy for biscuits and had the bisquits in tin foil ready to go on the grill....spare EVERYTHING. If he would have whipped out a collapsable kitchen sink i wouldnt even have batted an eye.

" dang steve....theres a tree down on the road here...says the campgrounds closed for the summer"

" no biggee, got my ax and splittn' maul in the back and my chainsaws in the boat. works out good anyway because i only brought enough firewood for a few days"

seriously....

By the way steve i have your LED tiny lantern still.


it was fun. Wish we could have caught an over size though....

hohbomb....that guy brought all sorts of different cheeses..and pepporni/salami for the day on the river....stuff was great. coming back out....not so much. but hey cant have cheese and not feel it too right ?

you know...i really dont recall...started with an "S"..slippy...slappy...swanny...swanson? SWANSON?

The S.P. gave me his insurance number and I have already started a claim. Damage was minor. Lost a side mirror and some scraping on the driver side door and front fender. Startled the sh!t out of me and it took a few seconds to recover and find the phone but I stayed in my lane and on the road. Dog didn't even wake up.