Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations PB Conf. Attendance by State/Country

I'm a little far away, Cat, but IF I was staying home, I'd offer to "take care" of your groundhog for you.

(17) days and counting down....

Sunil, One more for Texas.

Huzzah!

PA-1
CA-2
TX-14
GA-3
MS-3
WV-2
OH-2
IL-8
IN-2
NE-1
SD-5
AR-1
AZ-1

Total - 46

We're going to need to start finalizing some plans for the fish fry. We need some fresh fish suppliers and a few folks who want to try some of their recipes.

I'd love to go and get that PA count up to 2 - BUT I'll be in Montana riding horses, hiking and wading in the Madison River trying to convince a very large trout to eat a fly so that I can possibly see Cecil work his magic again.

I'd love to get the PA count up to two also. I'm losing legitimacy here!

Anyway, I will work out details, but who can bring some fish to cook?

Does anyone want to participate in the actual cooking?

Sorry Sunil, I don't eat fish.

Well...there ya go
Fatty McFryerpants

Don't worry, Fattay, I'll have some mystery meat available for you.

My wife and I can help cook -- bluegill fingers, catfish chunks, etc. Any ideas on how, where, and how many people?

I don't think I'd want to try and bring a box of dead fish on the airplane with me. But, even if things got really bad, COSTCO always seems to have decent and fresh catfish fillets.

Ken

I'm still hashing out some details, Ken, so I'll have more info. as we get closer.

I do know that Fattay prefers liver, kidney, or sweet breads (as well as head cheese), so we'll need some special recipes for him.

I think you guys are nuts - my kind of folks...!
I might be able to help....what does the BOSS say?

I do not have a booth this year, Sorry Bob. Only one talk so I have been behind many a propoan cooker. I will volunteer to cook fish fillets if some are avaialble.

Im in ------------- Don't drink beer but maybe a lil Red Wine [ it goe's with fish to ]

PA-1
CA-2
TX-15
GA-3
MS-3
WV-2
OH-2
IL-8
IN-2
NE-1
SD-5
AR-1
AZ-1

Total - 47

Harvey, long time, no posts. How've you been?

Here is an idea of some of what to expect. What a great line-up.

Dale Hall—U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Director - Tales from the Top of the Food Chain

Ray Scott—What About Ponds

Bob Lusk—Warning Signs from the Pond

Greg Grimes—Fertilizing a pond

Dr. Mark Griffin—What’s the Big Deal with Feed Trained Bass?

Mark Cornwell—What the Heck is “Water Quality?”

Bill Cody—Microbial Use to Manage Water Quality

Bob Lusk—Pond Fish species

Mike Otto—The Great Pond Creation—Today’s world of building ponds

Dan VanSchaik—Wildlife—How Attractive is your Pond?

Ken Hale—What’s All the Fuss About Tilapia

Dr. Bruce Condello—A Sunfish is a Sunfish, or is it?

Bill Cody—Effectiveness of bass predation on green sunfish.

Dr. David Willis—Methods and Interpreting Fish Populations

Dr. Jeff Slipke—Throw Tradition Out the Window

Melissa Wuellner—Competition? What’s that?

Bob Robinson—Move water to clean it.

Bob Lusk—The Latest and Greatest Feeding programs

Leonard Jirak—Feeding Huge Fish—Great Expectations…and Consequences

Jim Liner—Capturing Wildlife on Camera—How to Shoot Better Photos

Ed Rogers—Soft Plastics

Eric West— A Sense of Time & Place - How to protect it.

Ray Scott—Philosophically Speaking


Additional events


Visit with the vendors - booths and products on display

George Glazener and fisheries biologist and pro Fly Fisherman Brandon Powers, Temple Fork Outfitters —Fly Fishing Your Pond

Aquatic Plant workshop—hands on—Panel of Experts.

Aeration Panel Q&A

Smorgasbord - One on one Q&A with speakers

How to find answers on the Internet—Pond Boss Forum Moderators

Silent Auction for fisheries research at SDSU

Moderators' Booth filled with surprises - come by and visit.

And here is a sampling of the after-hours topics:

Sunil Ramchrandran - Clandestine Pond Stocking

Dr. Bruce Condello - Dress for Success

Theo Gallus - What Kind of Cows I Have

Fatty McButterpants - What Larry the Cable Guy is Like Backstage

"Bill Cody—Effectiveness of bass predation on green sunfish."

We will be monitoring this presentation for heretical blasphemy.




Since we have not been invited to have an official booth, the GSA may have an unwelcome/unauthorized booth next to the Pond Boss booth. We intend to offer free pokes in the eye. Limit one per customer please. Must be over 18 to participate.

blasphemy - shasphemy. And I suppose the free pokes in the eye will be with a dorsal fin spine plucked from a rambunctious green sunfish. ewest warned me about you guys. Bring your best teammates to the convention. You ain't been challenged till you've come up against a siliceous diatom carrying armored Dinoflagellate packin live bait on a 2x tippet. We'll send the GSA back to chasin whimpy YOY fathead minnows.

As always, attendees will get some enlightening new information.

Jeff - bass predation on green sunfish - that is what is going on in your pond - right.

I have no idea what the heck that means but I must admit is sounds scary. However the GSA looks fear in the face and laughs and not one of those high pitched squeaky girl laughs either.



That Sir will never happen. No matter how much you barrage us with multi-syllable highly technical scientific words that we don't understand.

Yes, but the GSA's position on this is that the magnificent GSF is surrendering it's life for the betterment of the pond as a whole and accordingly is actually a pond hero.

Actually, speaking now as JHAP and not the Seargent in Arms of the GSA, I'm really looking forward to hearing your presentation Bill as well as many of the other presentations listed above.

The caliber of this conference is fantastic.