Just woke up (Woodpecker in Neighbor's yard) so I will follow up in more detail later, but great time last night with many thanks going out and a few surprises!

Great to See Bill & Julie last night :love: , Bill - last year did not seem like seeing you would be happening, glad things changed :btu:

S-B Angler of the Year I'll put up in another thread.

Congrats to Skippy for winning most awards.

SFW & NSFW Videos will be posted later today

Thank you everyone!

Good time but Bomba obviously rigged the raffle. I heard he had to rent a uhaul to get his winnings back to the stix! Lol
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:love:Bill and I had a great time last night, It was so good to see everybody and be able to give some hugs and thank you's for all the prayers that you all have sent our way. It was so good to get out and Laugh!!! I feel like I have not laughhed in so long.

It was a great time and I definaltely think Bomba rigged the raffle, sounded like the same dam ticket number being called every third prize, whats up with that. LOL

Food was freakin awesome. video was awesome johnR, great time for sure, thanks all it was great seeing you!!!!

Well I guess I didn't win the Vise :scratch: Sounds like everyone had a good time.

Glen Googman won the vise! He should get a 50 this year as he has a Horseshoe thing going for sure...

Good times :uhuh:

April Fools day

thanks for the laughs everyone
and thanks for wishing Dan a Happy birthday
Thanks VB for helping out with the cake

food was enough for an army and tasted GREAT

here's Johnny, most likely to jinx a boat



and Dan

Food was awesome! Thanks to all who brought dishes, it was quite a spread. :buds:

Raffle table was awesome too. So many nice plugs, my numbers were called late and I still got some quality stuff. Top that off with a Century blank, charter trip from Bill and Jules (Priceless!) and a Commando bag. How can it get better than that. Great job by all that donated and who helped out, just shows what a great site this is. :)

Last but not least, thanks John for all you do!

Great time. First time for my nephew Chris (Team Sanchez). He ended up with 8 plugs, a DVD, a couple of tins and an RonZ eel. He was ON FIRE!!!

Enough food to feed a small army. All great. Thanks John for another memorable event.

Well, I'm psyched that after 10 years I finally cashed in....Good to see everybody, happy birthday Danny, and I'm out!

Wife and I had a great time. It is so nice to be able to talk, drink and eat with so many friends. The video that JR put together had some absolutely beautiful photos taken by members who were at the right place at the right time. Waiting to see it again.

Good times. Next year i will get a room again.

AS always it was a successful party. Way way more food than could possibly be eaten. Desert table was excellent. Only won on 1on my tickets and one on Smokey's tickets but still good prizes.

great to see people you only see once a year at the party. Really great to see Bill and Jules.

Since I sat that winless so long I had some time to think and I even had an idea to make the raffle easier! Will detail that later.

Great gig as always John,thank's for a great time!

So Rick are your going to open your on bait store with all of that cool stuff you won?:biglaugh:
Nice job to all who helped out & brought food,thank's.


Bob

Good time again. Nice to have Freak to ride down and back with me. Swimmer, thanks for the plug! Bomba, Katie, Googooman, andJred really dominated the raffle! I went Ofer....:smash: unbelievable with all the loot that was there. Great to see Bill and Jules there. Other walking wounded seen were Redlite and Piemma. Mike, good luck with the surgeries. Some chose to self medicate more than others....Late arrivals at SeaMule's table made it hard to hear Bomba's ticket numbers get called. Or it could be that it was only Alan, Numbskull and myself that were struggling to hear....
At least I was able to get out of my chair to accept awards for Rockfish, which I will deliver this week.

Had a great time. Thanks to tysdad for a ride, niko for hooking me up with the ride. Everything was great.
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Congrats to Skippy for winning most awards.



After it was over, Fishbones and I remembered another funny one for Skip.
Most likely to talk alot of #^&#^&#^&#^&, but scamper away and hide his head while someone has to drive a hook through their arm. :biglaugh::rotf2:

I had a good time at the party. I made a day out of it and did a little fishing before To Cold To Fish. I worked pretty hard for one fish. But it was my biggest of the year so far and actually took a nice run. I had to put the brakes on her or it would have been lost to fallen tree. I'm guessing around 12-14#. It was great seeing everybody. Enjoy the blurry picture. I also had a pic of Eelskimmer accepting his plack. But it came out way to blurry. Time to get a new phone.

Great time. Plenty of good food. Bomba and his crew did a great job running the food. He deserved to win SOME of those prizes but Geezz, how many did he get?? Good to see Bill and Jules. Thanks to JREDFLY for the ride. Thanks John.

Great time with great people. Awesome food (thanks Bomba crew), great raffle and very cool slide show. big thanks to the Melody family, JohnR and everyone else who helped out!
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The raffle table had more prizes on it than I have ever seen. The only thing that slowed calling the numbers this years was JR checking his own tickets in his right hand with the called ticket in his left hand. After he made sure it wasn't any of his raffle tickets he told the rest of us what the number was. No really, no just kidding.

It was quieter this year. Down below a roar. No arrests. No summonses issued. Had an awesome time even still. Some guys did go large on the raffle prizes though, really frieking large. I got my one plug, and RM jointed swimmer with a cool paint patern. Made my day. Katie tell us how many times your going to use that big fishing? I bet it hold a lot of makeup Katie.

When I left I noticed and undercover fireman across the street waiting for our party to get over. I could tell he was uindercover, he was dressed up as a fireplug, and a dog was pissing on his leg. Just kidding.

P.S. I missed Starfish!

Yeah, it wasn't the same w/o the 2 caseys, TLap, Dangles, I don't even bother calling Chris L anymore, Remember Jimbo from Joisey?? I know I'm forgetting some, O h yeah Raven. Anyway, There wasn't even an afterhours in the weight room(or Don). (I checked three times). Ricky called me and told me he won 17 plugs. At an average of 15 $ a plug that makes around 2 billion dollars worth of wood. Now it's time to shut up and fish!

After it was over, Fishbones and I remembered another funny one for Skip.
Most likely to talk alot of #^&#^&#^&#^&, but scamper away and hide his head while someone has to drive a hook through their arm. :biglaugh::rotf2:

You wouldn't let me video it, but admittingly greg i have to give you credit for a) the googan bubble weed move that got you in that situation and b) no bs dude that to some **lls to push it threw your forearm, but i still came through for you with the snips even though again i had to ride back cause the fell out of my basket lol. Im not sure whos tougher you or ODMike when he took the treb in his finger pushed it threw, we cut it and fished the day.

Hats off to both you gentalmen for being able to do that.
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Sorry I missed it, but, I got to see a decent hockey game (and a B's win), enjoyed a slice of real NY style pizza before it, and had dinner at a great Thai place afterwards.

Instead of losing $20 on a set of unlucky raffle tickets, I spent it for two overpriced beers at the game.

S-B 2011 Videos:

NOT Safe for Work or Kids: http://striped-bass.com/video/tfctfn2012-nsfwa.wmv

Arguably safe for work / most kids: http://striped-bass.com/video/TFCTFN2012-SFW.wmv

Spelling errors are mine, images and insulting commentary is all yours

Downloaded but why can't I view these?

Downloaded but why can't I view these?

MAC? Or you won't have the right video codecs. :huh: ?

Google & Download VLC Player - this should work for you.

If someone with a MAC can check & confirm?

We have a MAC?? Quicktime Player it says?

We have a MAC?? Quicktime Player it says?

VideoLAN - Download official VLC media player for Mac OS X (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html)

I haven't used this on a MAC but I am supposing it will work.

nice video John.

not sure what "spot buring" is though :smash:

nice to see a lot of my pics made the video and my snapped lami, that broke when the bite was epic and I sat there watching toaster bail in 20lb fish one after another.

This year was my first tcftfn and it was great lot of really good guys and food...
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nice video John.

not sure what "spot buring" is though :smash:

nice to see a lot of my pics made the video and my snapped lami, that broke when the bite was epic and I sat there watching toaster bail in 20lb fish one after another.


There was an "award" for you if you had showed :tooth:

There was an "award" for you if you had showed :tooth:

I will be presenting it to him at work tomorrow. :p
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Ty and I had a great time, Thank you John and everone else who helped out.

VideoLAN - Download official VLC media player for Mac OS X (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html)

I haven't used this on a MAC but I am supposing it will work.

Real Player works for me.

I heartedly resent the warning poster with
my picture on it. Now people will avoid me
at all costs on the Canal and I need all the
help i can get. Can anyone change the
video to show a younger, more attractive
me?
:yak5:

As said before I had an awesome time and was excited to win rookie angler of the year. Thanks everyone
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Since you were denied your eloquent reception speech , you should enlighten us here John..

Sorry I couldn't make it. Sounds like a good time was had by all!
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The food...................geez, the food. Who made the little custard pies? Or I should ask, whose wife made the custard pies?

The food...................geez, the food. Who made the little custard pies? Or I should ask, whose wife made the custard pies?

That's a pordagee Fall River treat. All the little bakerys make them. I didn't think 5 dozen would go that fast. Pm me when the fishing gets going and I'll bring a box down for ya.
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Thank you very much. I will certainly do that.

Thank you very much. I will certainly do that.

Just make sure if it's a warm day to have a cooler with ice on stand by.
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For those that missed it - Grand Prize was one of Tom's Commando Surfcasting Bags with 4 special Slipknot plugs, Bruins, Celts, Pats, and Sox :love:

Wow,,, I am honored... and look forward to helping support more S-B functions in the future.....

Just make sure if it's a warm day to have a cooler with ice on stand by.
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Defiantly bring a cooler,cause on the way to the party some flew out of the box & onto the HWY:fury:

Defiantly bring a cooler,cause on the way to the party some flew out of the box & onto the HWY:fury:

Ya some one is riding around with a custard on the grill of their camry LOL....
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I'm pretty sure Mike left my house to go find it. Lol
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Figured i would post a pic of the Bike that won me the awards, :uhuh: she is race ready again for this year minus the 60# i lost lol