PFF 10.0 - Shenandoah VA
October 7 - 10, 2004


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Highcountry
FT Caddis
Trout Chaser
Thanks to Brent & Ft for putting this thing together. Thanks also to all the cooks -excellent food.

My memories:

Me & JT wading through water so fast that an elephant wouldn't be able to wade through it
"...but JT said the wood was WET"
Landlocked's new mothership
JT wanting to kick the crap outta PETA & Bill Maher
Brent taking me to one of the best trout streams on the planet.
Pan fried brookies (man, weren't they pretty)
Awesome BBQ Chicken & cool-@$$ grill
Shrimp Gumbo a la Thomas
FT: "THIS AIN'T NORTHERN VA, &#%^!#@!"
da goat
fireside chats, rants, jokes & stories
The escaping 22lb, corn fed possum
Flytyer: "why can't the new guys start the fire?"
uncooperative smallies
very cooperative trout
Big ole private stream trout & little bitty public water trout

Had a good urn, guys & gals. Can't wait for the next one.
The Goat ----HC, thanks for bringing him up. He is resting after initiating all the newbies.
"How many brookies would it take to fill that last rack? "
The great possum escape
Sitting around the campfire;Good job Flytyer
Citation size fallfish
5 course dinner Thursday night. Thanks, 9ft4wt
Meeting the newbies
3 PFFer's who rowed through their entire float so they could tour the battlefield.
Breakfast: Doug, thanks for coming over and feeding that motley crew Sat morning.
Ms G. Same for Sunday. ( I know Brent wasn't up at 4:30 to help you.)
More camping and fishing equipment coming out of a Ford F150 than is in a Cabela's catalog. Thanks Gary.
Fishing with JT, Leakywaders, nephew on Sat. Don't you just love them Shenandoah tarpon? Sorry about the bass going into hiding.
Hitting a new to me brookie stream on Sunday pm with WB, Leakywaders and nephew.
Fresh Page county peach juice.
Okra/shrimp Gumbo. I didn't think okra was meant for human consumption until I tasted that. Thanks JT.
Plumbob's tying demonstration. I promise not the be barbecuing any chicken at Charlotte so I can pay better attention.
Stomp
Clean porta-johns. Thank you Lowrod.
Landlockednow's oxygen preheater.
Shane and Creekscum charging two hats on my account at the Blue Ridge Angler.
Punkin bread-Thanks MsPlumbob
Scrapple--twice. And nobody even asked what it was., or maybe more importantly, "what'ss it made from?"
Plumbob and Ms Plumbob: Thanks for being such good sports about your dinner escaping and taking all the kidding so well. I hereby bestow on ya'll the distinction of Honorary Southerner
Another knockout tee shirt. Shane, I don't know how you keep doing it.

Thanks to everybody for pitching in to "Get'er done" The cleanup crews did an excellent job. Special thanks to BrentG, who did most of the work.
My take....

Thanks to FT & Brent for Strawbossin

Another Great Shirt, Thanks Shane!!

Thanks to Rabbit & the Mrs for allowing us to use their property, no finer folks around, cool cars also

Thursday afternoon Brookies with MBCaddis & Brent

Thursday night's gourmet meal provided by 9ft4wt and dessert of the liquid variety provided by ODG3 That's some good sippin whiskey

Fishing Susi Q on Friday morning compliments of the Mrs then chasing some Brookies in the afternoon with Brent

JT's gumbo....deliciooous, then sippin some peach stomp with DoahDoug, MARSHA man

Scrapple to start Saturday mmmm good Where was Jesse?

More Brookies and even a Brown on yet another great Stream with Marriott Mike.

Arrived back just as FT was removing the last possum , I mean chicken from the grill

The world's BEST Pecan pie

Ended the night sippin some grape stomp around Flytyter's fire

Sunday breakfast was great , biscuits and gravy my favorite Thanks Marilyn for getting up early

Went back to another West Slope stream on our way home had the honor of fishing with Flytyer

Flytyer using a Brookie to catch a Brookie.

Ending the day with Flytyer getting broke off on a monster Brookie using my cane rod and Brents beetle pattern

GREAT, Food, Fish and most importantly the people

It was agood urn... thanks for the memories

Let's do it again soon

TC