Ok guys and Team Sky Valley Sucks,

It is time once again for the not so great smack talk thread that has been a time honored tradition associated with the Snoopy Rod Classic!

The SRC 2018 will be on Friday Dec. 7th on the Bogey from the hatchery to Wilson. We once again have the SRC house booked for some fun festivities on Thursday evening with the awards banquet Friday night at a location TBD.

As always the SRC Committee (Paker, Bob, and yours truly) sincerely appreciate all donations of either gear or $ for the Gordon Gracey Medical fund. Please let one of us know if you are able to make a donation and we will coordinate pick up.

If you are interested in attending(i.e. becoming a target) the SRC 2018 please get in contact with a committee member and bribe one of us to get that coveted invitation. Remember this is event is by invitation only(not really that hard to get) and teams of 2 or 3 are necessary. We would love to see at least 10 teams this year. The crowning of the team champion(total weight divided by number of people) and biggest fish will happen at the Friday night dinner with the winners receiving the SRC Trophy(+ drink bill...lol) and Green Jacket respectively!

I will update the team list here as commitments are made on this thread. Please list your team members and team name. Travel safe and I look forward to seeing you all Thursday night.

Last and certainly not least remember:

TEAM SKY VALLEY SUCKS!!!

Teams:

1. Suck It (Canyon Man, Suck It(Chad), Fish4Brains)
2. Two Guides and a Ho(Bob, Carl, Paker)
3. SKY VALLEY SUCKS(Beezer, CraigO, TomS)
4. DogFish(Dogfish, FishRanger, ChuckS)
5. Chrome, Inc. (Scotty, Stephan, ?)
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CM

Its been a couple years since a Sky Valley victory and I am pretty sure we will take it this year.

Team Update
(Beezer, CraigO, TomS)

Nope.

Team 2 Guides and a Boat Ho are keeping the trophy in Forks this year.

PS. No coho boots this year. Hatchery steelhead or bust.

Paker,

After the last few years you can definitely drop the "Boat" part from your team name...it is listed correctly above.

Team Sky Valley Sucks and so does everyone else not participating!

CM

crickets..........................

That’s because they are all scared Shawn...Team Sky Valley Sucks and you can ALL Suck It!

CM

Loooong history of "you have to have been there" jargon going on here. Crazy pp kids...

Totally agree CC but we are always looking for new targets....errrr....I mean participants. Get a hold of an SRC committee member if you would like to participate this year. Looks like there may even be some fish around!

CM

Team Sky Valley Sucks

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This has got to be the worst trash talk thread ever...not only does Sky Valley Suck, but you ALL suck!!!

See ya next week,

CM

As a first time participating new target. . .what are the rules again?!?!?!

You know, max mag capacity, what caliber spud gun is legal,
level of armor required, how large of outboard is legal, helmet with full face shield or not. . .. .etc. . .

TARGET....errr, I mean, FishRanger,

Better talk to your veteran team mates about the rules. The committee would hate to have to disqualify you for breaking the rules. Actually don't worry, if you catch a BIG one we will make up a rule for disqualification...roflmao!

Team Sky Valley Sucks!

CM

RULES?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_q-aL4xQDI

Sounds like team Elwha Valley is rejoining team Sky Valley kicks ass. I’ll just leave the green jacket in my truck since it won’t be changing hands. Actually now that I think about it, who can I pawn that nasty thing off on?

The 2018 Snoopy Rod Classic Wrap UP and Post Event Post

First big change this year was that we decided to donate the proceeds from this year's event to the Sarge's Place in Forks. Sage's Place is an emergency shelter for homeless veterans in Forks.

We also decided to continue to donate to Sarge's Place next year, so for any of you that are in favor of this, support your veterans and the local Forks community, plan on attending in 2019 or making a donation.

Was a rather small gathering this year. I think we had 6 boats....maybe 6 and around a dozen or so participants. A lot of missing "regulars" this year and hope it's not a reflection of times to come.

Most everyone was staying at the Bogachiel rental house on Thurs/Fri and we had the usual pot-lock and poker game get together at the house. Lots of good laughs and good times were had. No one really demolished themselves as most people seemed human the next morning.

The Bogachiel was DIALED. The water was at a perfect flow and had a perfect color. You couldn't ask for better river conditions. The weather was cold and clear, but not overly brutally cold.

The potato guns were primed and many a potato was sent flying in the skies above Forks. Only causalty may have been a near miss at a civilian boat...but since that was MikeyZ, he was a good sport about it and didn't kill us at the end of the day.

As for fish..........

Suck it (Chad) broke one off up at the Hatchery Hole. Bob was on the oars and managed to get a fish to chew on a TadPolly for about a few seconds before it spit the plug and was gone.

That was it. ZERO fish landed.

Seems like the "high rods" guide boats that were working the river managed a fish.

Yes. A fish.

If you caught A FISH on the Bogi, you were THE high rod. Top Dawg. Head Cheese.

Not saying the hatchery run on the Bogachiel and Forks is in trouble, but man, they are probably in trouble this year. The fish are not late.......as their was a good push of fish on the high water at Thanksgiving....but they have all but vanished now.

Team Suck It took home the green jacket, as no one else wanted it. We think Bob has the trophy, as the Snoopy top on it broke last year and he was suppose to fix it. Don't think he did, and since no one really wanted it either, it was left to wherever it was or is.

I still had a fun weekend and appreciate those who showed up and participated. A great group of guys (and lady) and hope to see everyone plus a few more next year.

Oddly enough, it seems a lot of the SRC vehicles and boats got new bumper stickers this year......

Thanks for the game summary, really expected you boyz to hammer them.....got to get back in the game next year.

Thanks for the report !
The bumper stickers look nice.
Maybe that will be a new tradition ?

Here comes the rain we could have used last week, hopefully hear some reports of more fish on the backside of this system. Looks like it's going to last a few days.

Strange not many fish on the Bogey. River has changed by the hatchery with alot of flow going around the island. You can easily wade across at the ramp. Parker why did you steal Hank's bumper sticker?