Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations What a great time!

Hard to tell.... who wears glasses like that?

We interrupt this thread to bring you some late breaking news.

Pancho Villa and the Unabomber were seen partying together recently at a pond management conference....

...Details at 11.

Goodness...I was unaware a film crew was following me. I'm thinking these just might appear again should I ever entertain pursuing a City Council seat.

Not only did Sunil bring beers at lunch time, he iced them down with the soda pop being sold by Big Cedar! Didn't take long and we weren't drinking beers anymore.

Unibomber? I heard that was Kenny from South Park.

It seemed like those Coronas were warmish everytime I stumbled upon the Sunil twelve pack...

Yep the BC employees did not know what to think when Sunil used their ice and cooler to cool his right next to theirs (which were for sale). They started crying and whined to Diane with PB who took the party away. Next time just bring the cooler to the mods booth like last time. Then use a cup.

Chilly for Bruce only; TJ showed no reaction to the sub-zero weather.

Your political career is over before it started.

I can almost guarantee that this photo will reappear should you choose to run for the city council, neighborhood watch captain, PTA board member, or even if you just decide to run around the block for exercise.

It was a great time! Just a short note, I'll be doing a lot of reading tonight. Good to put faces with names. I just pulled in at 11:30 a.m. today (Thurs). I took the long way home, going thru Dallas then stopping at Plano to say HI to George. Lots of catching up to do, 254 posts in the "Questions and Observations" sub forum alone.....

Very informative. The guy who gave the whitetail presentation is a natural born speaker. Exiting to hear what is in development at the fish farms with all female bass.
When I told the wife that the speaker at the dinner would be a outdoor show host she gave the eyeroll as she is not interested in hunting/fishing. The next day she is talking on the cell to friends about how interesting his speech was and how much she enjoyed it. We get home and she is on the outdoor ed website. Alan did a great job "getting though".

I have to defend my actions with the beers at the convention center and the potential "warmish" nature of the beers.

While I agree that icing down the beers in Big Cedar's ice bins was risque, I did not know if those beers were cold enough as they'd been in my trunk overnight but then also for the entire morning and lunch our. At the time of my decision to put the beers on ice, I had not yet cracked one open.

Then, when Big Cedar denied us basic constitutional rights, Diane put the beers in the trunk of her car. The day was starting to warm up. Then the time arrived for the outdoor pond activities, so we had to take the beers to the pond. I did not have a cooler.

We should get you an Official "Vertex Sponsored" Pond Boss Cooler for the next convention. Despite them being "warmish", they sure hit the spot. You never saw me turn one down, did you? Thanks for always being there, with a busted into Corona twelve pack when I needed it!!

I had a cooler with ice. I just did not bring it to the booth. We need to coordinate better to avoid the beer police.

No defense needed.

Is it wrong that incriminating photos of TJ make me happy? Maybe I'm just MEAN!

Best conference ever! Glad to meet (most) of you

Amanda, it was good to meet you.

Do you or Sue know how many gallons of water a single diffuser will lift if placed below a 10" or 12" diameter tube that has a flared bottom? Diffuser would be 1' to 2' below the flared end of the tube.

Yes, sidekick, you are a onery one - a fine quality for a Vertex representative!

Great meeting you, though - I will be sure to be aiming my camera at YOU during our next conference so we can help explain why the charges to your "client" expense account were so high...glug glug glug.

Here's some pics that were on my camera:
I liked the sayings that were at the ceiling:


Mr. Texas Hunter on the left:


Alan Warren, Otto and ?


Sue getting ready for a day of work.


View of the lake from the convention center


Part of Bill Cody's seminar


Bruce looking at his monster LMB that he caught. Note to George: they DO look smaller when you can see his fingers!


Here fishy, fishy......


I think they flop less when you cover their eyes.....

One more:

The fish are getting a shot of O2.

Don't be jealous because I'm smart enough to stay off camera, TJ

That's definitely a Sue question. I'll forward that to her.

Why place the diffuser below a 10"-12" diameter vertical tube. What is the advantage or goal of doing this? The flow out the tube can be affected by the length of the tube.

Because I'll have to get a significantly larget tube if the diffuser is in the tube to allow the water to get past the diffuser to carry it to the surface.

The top end of the tube won't be past the surface film.

Hi Scott ~ I don't know how much a single diffuser disc will lift, but our 2 - disc AirStation will lift about 3250 GPM at 10' of depth with 2 CFM. You need to talk to Amanda about performing that AirStation suspension experiment to see if we can oxigenate the deeper water with out de-stratifying it this summer.

We sure had a great time. Nice to meet so many of you. We will be back for sure. I learned a lot too.
I still can't believe my wife won the drawing for the free weekend at Big Cedar. She is still getting over the embarrassment of having to go to the podium. I'll have to use that puppy later this summer.

I thought TJ won that?