Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations re: "Who's coming to the conference?"

Yes John, BPS sells the fishing licenses.

EDIT: It may or may not be a little early come conference time, but the sandies start running the creeks right around the end of Feb, first of March. That can be a blast, and all it takes are roadrunners, and a bucket for the fish.

annual sand bass run

When the sandies(whites to the Yanks) start running, dang near anything works. And, Al is right. They are a blast.

They are a blast when you hit the run. I travel to OK in early April each year to catch them out Illinois River feeding Lake Tenkiller.

Jodi and I are coming... made reservations yesterday

Hey DJ, can't wait to meet you. Let's make an effort to circle around.

Yo, Mods: Is it be possible to post attendees by their forum handles?

Is Dwight coming?

DJ, Great to hear you and Jodi will be there to see again! Maybe we can get first place this year fishing! I'm gonna be there, and looks like I'll have the spray barge in tow.

I'll be in TX a week or two so I decided to stay off site at a 2BR extended stay place...I'll have extra space if anyone needs a place to stay for the conference.

Dwight unfortunately won't be able to attend.

Are you thinking about an online list of names vs. forum names? There may be some people who are hiding under aliases or other assumed names. Like what would happen if reprobates like Sock Puppet or Barnes were to show up?

I'm sure there is something we can do to provide a cross reference. Maybe we just have such a list in the moderator's booth. Or, we could just ask Sunil. He knows everybody.

Not to mention the damage Buck and Tan would do to your eyes if annoyed!!

Thanks Ken, what I was hoping is we could list them on the forum, you know, like this:

Sunil
Catmandoo
Bruce Condello
Rainman
DJstauder
Fireishot
Dave Davidson1
John Wann
Sue Cruz
Nate Herman
Zep
Rmedgar
Highflyer
Chris Steelman
Ewest
Esshup

I guess I started a list! Who else am I missing?

Bing & Mrs. Bing

Wonderful!

I'm pretty sure Greg Grimes and Kelly Duffie will be there.

Yeah, those guys are presenting.

I need to razz grimes and owe Kelly a soda pop for all his guidance. Beasley and Scotty are also coming, what about Blaine? Oh canada sadly is remaining up north this time.

I just sent Blaine a text. Will see what he says...

He just replied asking "when is it?"

Blaine is not coming.

He has some other shows to do that conflict.

Ugh, band members dropping like flies! Brilliant idea agreeing to provide "live music" on the booze cruise barge, guess we gotta step up. I can manage a trap kit - plus the jug, triangle, wood block, castanets, and maybe the washboard. You'd better recruit some fellow strings players. Someone needs to fill in for Cody - spoken word and beat poetry, Al might be a fit. Condello can run the fog machine and laser lights, maybe. Frantic over here, just throwing ideas against the wall kinda thing at this point.

If you do bring the trap-kit, watch out for spontaneous combustion.

We've been bit by that before when it comes to drummers, percussionists, and flutists.

Man, where's a flaming jazz flutist when you need one? DD1? I promise, no one will find your fluting emasculating, except maybe fellow Texans.

Has anybody heard from "O Canada Blair?" He's been kind of scarce since the Lake Erie walleye trip. Did some of you guys do something to him or his brother after I left?

To address your former query: He is not coming, sadly.

To address your latter query: Yes, we did...or rather, they did to themselves, but we were supportive.

Dr. Dave is also a casualty, unfortunately.

Can you play the mouth harp, Ken? We need some help in the band.

Blair/Oh Canada is working for the man now...

Me thinks it's best not to go down that road.

I learned at a very young age not to even try to coordinate my brain and body via music rhythm. I probably could do OK blowing across the top of an old moonshine jug or running my fingernails up and down a washboard -- but not simultaneously.



So unfortunately, you'll just have to count me out for this memorable effort.

How about recruiting/enticing Al Hurts (aka Fire is Hot) with a can of beans?