First Pond Boss Conference and history - 02/15/09 12:43 PM
Eric West/Ewest posted a picture under Fishing 2009 of the first Pond Boss get together. With the 3rd PB National Convention coming up, this may be a good time to talk about that meeting and where Pond Boss has gone.
I had mentioned to Trent Lewis, the Pond Medic, that I thought it would be a good idea to meet some of the guys on the site for lunch or on a Saturday to put some names with faces. Then somebody around the D/FW area posted that they thought it would be a good idea. Trent responded that I wanted to do something like that. Contact Dave. Several guys posted that they thought it would be a good idea. Next thing I knew, Lusk was on the phone.
Lusk: Hey Dave. I hear that you want to arrange a Pond Boss get together.
Dave: Not really. That's Trent's idea. But I think it would be fun.
Lusk: When are you going to do it? Where are you going to do it?
Dave: Beats me. I hadn't thought about it. It's Trent's big idea but I guess I can figure it out.
Lusk: Let me check my schedule and we'll do it on a Saturday.
Dave: OK
About that time I got a deer in the headlights look. Heck, I attended a lot of meetings and conferences but didn't know where to start on organizing one. Maybe have a lunch. I posted on the site and got responses. Then Gary Condo/PondRookie Emailed and said that he had a lot of contacts at D/FW Airport and figured he could get us a room there and some sort of lunch catered but we would all have to go through airport security. No sweat and we were off and running with me having nothing to do but clerical work. At that time the PB website membership was pretty small so I started going through it looking for guys who were close. At that time, there weren't over about 300 web site members.
We had it with about a dozen attendees and I got to meet Mike Otto. What a sense of humor. Lusk did most of the talking in a question and answer setting.
The 2 biggest things I remember is Lusk dispelling the Evil Green Sunfish myth and Ewest providing University research saying that some bass never bit and their offspring seldom bite. It is all about genetics which can lead to a bass heavy pond.
As of this morning there are now 4,695 web site members and some are international. The third Annual Convention is scheduled with some of the biggest names in pond management speaking. Now, that is growth.
Things have come a long way from those days. To a large degree, the success of that first get together can be credited to Gary/Pond Rookie.
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For historical purposes PR and DD1 were the first Pond Boss guys I met . They set-up and handled the first PB regional meeting at the DFW Airport years ago and were nice enough to invite me by phone. Thanks guys. This pic is from the PB slide show but I don't think any DFW pics were posted here.
I had mentioned to Trent Lewis, the Pond Medic, that I thought it would be a good idea to meet some of the guys on the site for lunch or on a Saturday to put some names with faces. Then somebody around the D/FW area posted that they thought it would be a good idea. Trent responded that I wanted to do something like that. Contact Dave. Several guys posted that they thought it would be a good idea. Next thing I knew, Lusk was on the phone.
Lusk: Hey Dave. I hear that you want to arrange a Pond Boss get together.
Dave: Not really. That's Trent's idea. But I think it would be fun.
Lusk: When are you going to do it? Where are you going to do it?
Dave: Beats me. I hadn't thought about it. It's Trent's big idea but I guess I can figure it out.
Lusk: Let me check my schedule and we'll do it on a Saturday.
Dave: OK
About that time I got a deer in the headlights look. Heck, I attended a lot of meetings and conferences but didn't know where to start on organizing one. Maybe have a lunch. I posted on the site and got responses. Then Gary Condo/PondRookie Emailed and said that he had a lot of contacts at D/FW Airport and figured he could get us a room there and some sort of lunch catered but we would all have to go through airport security. No sweat and we were off and running with me having nothing to do but clerical work. At that time the PB website membership was pretty small so I started going through it looking for guys who were close. At that time, there weren't over about 300 web site members.
We had it with about a dozen attendees and I got to meet Mike Otto. What a sense of humor. Lusk did most of the talking in a question and answer setting.
The 2 biggest things I remember is Lusk dispelling the Evil Green Sunfish myth and Ewest providing University research saying that some bass never bit and their offspring seldom bite. It is all about genetics which can lead to a bass heavy pond.
As of this morning there are now 4,695 web site members and some are international. The third Annual Convention is scheduled with some of the biggest names in pond management speaking. Now, that is growth.
Things have come a long way from those days. To a large degree, the success of that first get together can be credited to Gary/Pond Rookie.
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For historical purposes PR and DD1 were the first Pond Boss guys I met . They set-up and handled the first PB regional meeting at the DFW Airport years ago and were nice enough to invite me by phone. Thanks guys. This pic is from the PB slide show but I don't think any DFW pics were posted here.