I had a great time, everybody gets a big thanks for all the help and work you did. Thanks to Billy's family for all the food and treats. Thanks to Dr Rob for taking the new memberships and helping with registration. A big hug to Joanne for guarding the parking lot for us, and for giving me sympathy for my owwees. Another big thanks to Mike Hooe (the fisheries biologist) who not only was our official fish counter but also brought doughnuts. Thanks to everybody who signed up as new and renewing members. Thanks to Slim and the Indy Boys for taking care of the fish.

A total of 1,261 fish weretaken at the tournament.

Here are some pictures...

The cookout gets going.


The Carp-Ender's took this boat out for it's maiden voyage and it performed flawlessly.


The INDY BOYS took out their newly unveiled 'Catastrophe'. Beautiful boat guys!


Alex with the truck and it's cool stickers.



Team Carp Lungs from Decatur.


Team Shot n the Dark.


Dr Rob grins... Is that a -big- pile of fish in the Triton of Terror??!!


Ryan and Drew start tossing the TOT's fish.


Mike clicks away.


There were a lot to count......


The winner's 'circle'. No suprise about Slim's team or the Indy Boys... but what the heck is Rob doing there? Ryan and Drew must really be his secret weapons. (the rest of Slim's team (Kristina andBill) had to leave early)

Congrats!!

The board.


I can understand how we got beat by Team Shot n the Dark but how'd we get beat by both the Triton of Terror and The Carp-Enders?? [:@]

Snuffy wins the overall big fish pot with a 21+lb common carp. (he sure does know how to find the big ones)


Drew had never shot a tourney and never shot a gar before. He ends up shooting the winning gar and helping the TOTto it's third place finish!(and being under 18 he didn't even have to pay an entry fee) Pretty sweet.

Thisspotted garwas just over 39" and weighed a hair over 10lbs. (it looks tiny next to Drew)

To make sureDrew got the total experience, we then put him to work cleaning gar.

(He wore out before he got all 757 gar cleaned but he did get a nice pile of fillets.)

Somewhere there should be a picture of Steve with his winning bowfin but I don't have it. [:-]

Kendall and I got into some big carp. While our biggest was only 18 1/2 lbs, we averaged about 11-12lb fish.The boat got overloaded pretty fast tho'.

Great job everybody!



Billy's missing presence was just as hard if not harder this year. We sure do miss him.





Again, thanks everybody! You guys and gals are what make this event so enjoyable.