Well fellas, this is the countdown. Not near as many guys coming as promised at the bunny-hunt, but, it IS summer and I suppose they are busy doing family stuff.
We will all meet at Landon Bay campgrounds, we will have sites B15 and B16.
www.landonbay.org (http://www.landonbay.org)
Friday, me, Tom, Nick and maybe Luke will hook up and set-up camp( quickly so we can go and shoot some fish!)
Manny and Jake are to roll in on Saturday morning and friday nite.
Barry will join us on Sat. and hopefully Swampbuck can sneak over on Sunday for a visit.
this is gonna be alot of fun, let's pray for nice weather.
It is our long weekend due to Canada Day on the 1st of July.
We will be wading for the spawning carp, the most fun way to shoot them. When you get almost eye to eye with a big carp, kinda evens the playing field. also, having a 40 pound fish slamming ya in the onions???? well, THAT is living! ;) :archer:
Good food, good fun, lots of camaraderie, some beer drinking, campfires, shooting our bows( and we are ALL longbow shooters) at the campsite, swapping tall tales etc.
There is still room for a couple of guys, but you have to get in now.
See you all soon.
I'll email you all with plans for food provisions.
BD :archer:
I'm pumped! I don't know about my onions;-(, but I'm pumped to hand drag one of those hogs.
I didn't know they had onions in Canada.
:biglaugh:
It's not lookin good for me Cary,my sister is in town for the grad parties and plans on stayin at my house that weekend after my folks head over to my other sister's house.She's her from Texas(my folks from Fla) so unless she books out early I'm hangin around home.
If you,ve got a cell PM me a number I can reach ya at incase I can get away.
"maybe" Luke? Oh I'm there.
sorry Luke, I meant maybe Tom...I figured you would be there my friend.
BD
What do you mean you meant Tom ??? What is going on here ya bastard ? I'm getting confused !!!
LOL
Tom aka SWAMPBUCK...ya good now Tom????not the OBB. ;) :p
That's better !!!
If some guy shows up to the Carp-Palooza claiming to be OBB (Harl) be prepared to ask for ID,, I'm just warning you guys
Hi guys.
Hey Tom from Barrie, are you still into drinking Timmys with double cream because you are sweet enough? :scared:
Three more sleeps as my son would say until the celebrating begins, have the best of times, getting friends together and telling big fish stories!!!
TFW
Tom is bringing a fully staffed Timmy's with him... ;) :p :archer:
When you are as sweet as me there is no need for sugar!!! That is a personal opinion mind you.When I go camping I do bring along my coffee maker,no telling what would happen if I did'nt. :banghead:
Hello Gentlemen,
So it sounds like the excitement is beginning to mount towards the end of the week about the festivities of proper bow-fishing... Are we going to start having official documents for hunting? Frank seems to think that there will be imposters showing up as the OBB! :readit: :eek: Tom, I'm sure that someone will do a coffee run for you, if just ask them and flash your grand grin!! :bigsmyl: Remember we have lots of mosquitoes and POISON IVY, please come prepared!
Kelly
Hi Kelly,, Great to hear from you again,, All I want to do is warn the gang when someone shows up and "claims" to be the OBB,, Think "Extreme Makeover"
If you forget the coffee maker Tom...you gotta go back and get it! I ain't camping with you WITHOUT it... ;) :p :scared:
Frank did Tom go back to his look from his days of dancing to "I Don't Feel like Dancing"??? :scared: :scared:
Yeah Frank,
you seem to be up on all this business of the OBB.
Maybe you should give us another look at those dancing steps of Tom's... :clapper: It's been awhile and bet everyone forgets how it went. Maybe you could pull up the link for us and refresh our memories!
TFW
LOL I didn,t forget the dance move's HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Got your PM Cary it's gonna hafta wait till the bitter end for me,you'd think I could get a straight answer as to where and when my faimly are gonna be staying at then,all I know is where I need to be on Sat.....oh yea and Thur/Fri settin up for the party Sat
Good luck everybody
Its one of these,,,
http://www.dancesisterdance.com/myvid/index.php?v=ab02475cb69ab
http://www.dancesisterdance.com/myvid/index.php?v=14f53c90b68fc
Hey Frank,
I can't seem to get either of the links to work? :confused: :confused: :confused:
TFW
neither can I.....c'mon Frankie, get it going there short stuff! LOL
Ok Cary,, That is certainly the pot calling the kettle black,, Sorry I couldn't get the link to work,, However study this pic: The Former OBB,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/4297432frank/OBB.jpg)
You will see the "New Tom " on Friday,, Think "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" ,, All I can say is Tom went "Metro" and He's never looked better ;-),, LOL
LOL...yeah I guess the extra 4" I got on ya ain't much.... ;) ;) :p I heard he is all GQed up now...maybe he'll be attracting all the babes to our campsite! LOL
BD
Ok Cary .. I'll admit that you have 1 - 1 1/2 " vertical ,, but I make it up horizontally,,being Belgian and all,,LOL,, I will admit the OBB looks better now ,, you know, Undercover narc vs Good cop ,, Grizzley Adams vs Chuck Adams , Biker vs Business man but I degress ,, he's still the same "Motiviational Trad Bow Shooter Speaker" and best Modern day Hill shooter that we will ever know,, I love him like a much, much, much older Brother, All the best this Carp weekend,,Frank
;) I hate tell women that I have...LOL, we won't go there...ha ha ha! and as a writer, it is "Digress"
( you'll have to get a copy of my book when it comes out this fall;) :) )
Thanks Frank, wish you were here to join us, we could have a blast my friend.
BD
Hey Cary,, Thanks for the sp correction,, can't wait to read your book,, If its anything like you its bound to be a best seller,, All the best ,,Frank
Thanks Frankie, I'll make sure you get a FREE copy... "Bent Wood and Skinny Grass" is the title.
Flyfishing and longbow hunting all across Ontario.
BD
Bastards !!!! I was gonna surprise them all Frankie.They wooda thought I was a cop,until I opened my mouth that is.It's gonna be a blast.I'll be heading out in the am and picking that young feller up on the way.
Hey Tom,
have you changed your profession? What's this about being a cop?
I thought that the dancing tours were keeping you very busy!
I guess that the campers won't have to worry with officer Grinning Tom on the beat at Landon Bay. LOL :bigsmyl: Don't forget tp pick up your sidekick Luke or we will never hear the end of it!! :) I know not to tell Frank a secret, he gets too excited to share. Friday is starting out to be another glorious day, just perfect for a campfire later under the stars... Have a wonderful and auspicious weekend. Enjoy!
Kelly
Hopefully Tom and Luke can make it thru...the Mohawks have blockaded the 401, our major highway across Ontario.
Some dispute again over native rights, or land, or money... :readit: :readit: :readit: :rolleyes:
BD
Hope you guys are haveing as nice a day as we are today,a bit breazy but real nice.This AM was mint dead calm birds chirpin just real nice...
It's gonna be a no show for me entirely.My sister isn't headin back for a few days yet and my daughter wants to go to a friends grad party more than go to a carp shoot go figure LOL
Hope everybody is having a blast
Well,
the weather has decided to not be cooperative for the carp shoot... :( :mad: :eek: More rain again this year!! Hopefull Cary's crew will not be drowning rats and are able to have a nice warm campfire... :campfire: The Trad gang will just have to wait and seen until next week how the bow-fishing went, hopefully very sucessful :p
TFW
Pics Cary,, we need pics,,,,
Cary is still camping.Should have some pics up by the weekend.
I'm wanting to see the pics too. It only took me two days to finally get the angle! Some of us take a little longer to learn I guess? Tom thanks for all the coaching.
Hello HARL, was nice meeting you and the crew!
:campfire: :archer:
F-Manny
Nick it was a blast.Manny,are your teeth OK ?
:knothead: :biglaugh:
F-Manny
Patience,LOL I always tell folks to aim real real low and when ya think your aimin low enuff aim another 6" lower than that.Sorry I had to miss it this yr hopefully I'll be able to make it next yr,I made it the last 2 but this yr just wasn,t in the cards.
Swampbuck, That's what they kept telling me. Aim low, then lower, when you think your low enough aim lower. Tom got me shooting at the weed roots. That helped.
Manny, good meeting you and I hope the weather changed when I left! I look forward to meeting you again.
Tom, Hi I'm Nick Ri...oh S**t. :confused: :biglaugh:
Nick, same here, we will meet again soon! :)
Take care,
F-Manny
Swampbuck,we missed you !! You could have soaked up some of the rain drops we had.Not as bad as last years though.
The hair cut did fool a few now eh. :bigsmyl:
I'm home 1 day early...pics soon guys, and I have alot of them!!!
BD :)
Glad to see you guys had fun. Cary, better post some pics of Tom now that he's joined the Witness Protection Plan. I wanna recognize him next time I see him.
well....it was windy, hot, sunny, cloudy, drizzly, sideways-rain, heavy rain, calm, cool...you name it we had it for weather!
But we all had a blast, shot some fish, missed alot of fish, drank some beer, ate well and shared some great times.
I'll go through, put on the pics and a little caption for each one; just easier that way.
The other fellas can sound-off and say their 2 cents when they see them.
Enjoy! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1151.jpg) our camp, a bit soggy, but a fine camp!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1153.jpg)
some guy that showed up claiming to be Harl...he was a good guy though;)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1152.jpg) doing a "Carp" drive...Water was fine...after awhile;) :)
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Biggest carp of the weekend, 15 yard shot from an 8 foot cliff, who shot it?? well... your's truly! it was pushing 40 easily if not more, nice fish. Luke put another shot through a scale or 2 to help me get him in. :p
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1156.jpg)
a nice gar, we saw a whole whack of them in this spot, I shot this at the same time as Manny, he went just over it's back..HOLD LOW MANNY!!!! (me and my son Trey, he waded with us the whole first day.)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1229.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1161.jpg)
a couple of Luke's kills...he outshot almost everybody on the weekend...must be the extra 6" in vertical he has on most of us! :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1150.jpg)
DO NOT TALK TO ME UNTIL I HAVE DRANK A POT OR TWO>>>> :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1157.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1169.jpg)
Manny on the stalk, he kept shooting high...Tom aka "Motivational speaker" hard-nosing Manny..."Now Manny, I had better not have to tell you to hold LOW one more time...if I do??? no more shooting my Hill! you got that!!!! GRRRRR!!!!! ( it's okay Manny, we love ya anyways... ;) ) LOL
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1172.jpg)
Manny getting in Harl's good books...drying his shorts over the fire! :) :) ;)
You are happy now Tom???? I promise to hold low, really, I promise!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1228.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1159.jpg)
Nick, last 30 minutes of his hunt, FINALLY!!! a fish!! YEEEEHAWWWWW!!!! Does he look happy or what???
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1162.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1170.jpg)
Hardcore outdoor cooks...End-game??? Luke Carnivoring his way thru a HUGE steak...we ate a crap-load of steak..MMMMMMMMM>>>> :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1166.jpg) Luke took this pic with my waterproof Pentax...it was raining hard. Anybody know what kind of moth this is??? very pretty.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ashstyk/carp-a-palooza%20III/IMGP1175.jpg)
Our group minus Nick, he had to leave the nite before. Great group of guys, great times and I will share camp with them anytime.
Hope you all enjoyed the pics.
BD
Big Dog, :bigsmyl: :bigsmyl: :bigsmyl: you B.stard! :)
These were my shorts for the record!
:wavey:
Thank you for organizing such a fun event!
F-Manny
Hey Guys,
it looks like everyone had a great time! :knothead:
Luke, you certainly made some great shots! Good for you Nick, finally getting the hang of bow-fishing.
Cary, I wouldn't expect anything less than you getting the biggest fish!
Jake I hear you were dozing off quite nicely around the campfire,taking the well deserved randr from the hard days spent at the office. :knothead: Manny, for the record, I do believe they were your shorts LOL! :biglaugh:
Good Friends and Good Times,
Best Wishes
kelly
Dang them things are huge!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like alot of fun gang!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Shooting!!!!!!!!!!!
Jake
nothing to say Tom???, I'm shocked. ;)
Hey man my shorts got dried did'nt they ??? I don't want to give anyone the wrong impression so I thought I'd sit back and watch. :bigsmyl:
I don't have any pictures to throw in the pot, but I had a great weekend, despite how close I came to losing a few toes. It was great seeing you guys again, and finally putting a face to Manny's name.
I'm sure one of these years the weather will cooperate perfectly, but until then, we'll still be having a great time making do with whatever we're given.
*Dances with Turtles*
Cary, thanks for the invite and i'll deffinatly be there for carp-a-palloza III. I had a great time and should have stayed longer (I'm sure the wife would have understood;-) ). You got the biggest fish with a great shot, should I say it was expected? Tom, I'm glad I met some who loves their coffee as much as I do and thats for the coaching, always appreciated. Luke, you definatly out shot us, but I expect that from you. You will have big things in your future. Manny, this is just the start, keep in touch, my door is always open. I might even have a present for you. you seemed to enjoy the arrows I made. I have loads of extras (douglas fir if you don't mind). Jake it was good seeing you again, and you are always welcome at my place. You know how to get here. Again, my only regret was leaving early!
Nick
Luke, I just noticed that nothing was mentioned about the dance. He realy was pissed and wanted a piece of you. I'm sure you didn't notice, but I was keeping my distance while peeing myself laughing. You'll look back on that and have a good laugh, trust me, I have been.
You see all it was like this...Windy, shallow water, lots of smoke from busting-out carp...Well Luke made a magnificent shot on a large shadow...it was only when the HUGE head of a snapper came out of the water, hissing and pissed at Luke that we all laughed our collective a$$es off! LOL
He was truly dancing, hence his new name, "Dances with Turtles" :) :) HA HA HA, that young fella can bust a move let me tell you.
That thing came AT me! It was after blood, I tell you. Thankfully I remembered my dignity, and calmly exited the scene. The only scary scene was when my knee almost put a hole through my forehead.
:knothead: :knothead: :knothead: :knothead:
I'm thinking Luke, an animated version of you dancing...might end up being the new "Dancing baby" :p :p :clapper: :jumper:
And Nick, this WAS Carp-a-palooza III, you'll be back for "IV" I hope! ;0 ;0
51 weeks to go to Carp a Palooza IV ;)
I look forward to the next get together
:wavey:
F-Manny
Hey Luke,
I have a big snapping turtle that goes across my front yard to lay her eggs. If you end up for a visit at Witch Manor, I'll make sure that you are not allowed to go off the deck. It might be too dangerous! :scared: :scared:
Hey guys, just to give you an update, there were a couple of deer right in my yard over the last two days... I guess they know that they don't have to have any fear of tradgang members being present!!! ;)
Well Cary, I guess that you better start putting the next shoot on the drawing board because it sounds like the numbers will be growing with new guests showing up... :saywhat: :)
Everyone, I hope that you all have a great weekend and the weather is supposed to be better!!!
Kelly
There certainly was a few new dance steps performed I had never seen.Luke's knees where higher then his head.It was great to see such a performance. :biglaugh:
I'm glad to see that the weekend turned out as well as it did fer ya'all.Wish I could have been there but it is a long way from here to there and my bears need to eat.Those brutes are starting to cost me more than my kids(ha ha )
I really enjoyed the pics.I hope at some point we can meet up again some day.
When you have so many guys that love the same thing,it is only a matter of time before we will cross pathes again
Gary
ttt
Great pics Cary,, I knew that French Manny wasn't drying Harls shorts,, They seemed , well,, too small,, Looks like a great time was had by all,, Is the deer hunt going to happen this year?,, All the best,,Frank
The deer hunt will happen...been scouting out some new and potentially big buck areas!
prolly late Oct.
They are saying the prime chase this year will be in mid to the third week of Oct; With an early rut taking place.
BTW, the moth in one of the pics is a Giant Leopard Moth from the tiger moth family.
BD :thumbsup: :archer: