Who's Coming To Lake Anna, Virginia?

[Zoff]

What do you guys need me to get? Burger and dogs... buns... fixins? Or everything?

[Nitrofreak]

What do you guys need me to get? Burger and dogs... buns... fixins? Or everything?

If you can get the Redskins cheerleaders to come that would be good !!!!

[Traveler2586]

If you can get the Redskins cheerleaders to come that would be good !!!!

YES YES YES

[Zoff]

Shoot... My wife would kill me.

[Traveler2586]

Shoot... My wife would kill me.

aw, tell her what we want you to bring, and then tell us how hard she laughs.

[Zoff]

I got "the look".

[Traveler2586]

I got "the look".

You mean the feared "do & die" look, OMG.

[Zoff]

You mean the feared "do & die" look, OMG.

That's the one!

[Curved]

Wish I could come but it looks like any more people and the boats will be sunk.

[Zoff]

From the looks of things... one more won't matter. May have to fish in shifts. Take one or two in the boats for half a day then switch. Hope we get more boaters but I am not holding my breath.

[Eddie-NoVA]

To be honest, with this many people going as non-boaters i'm going to give the chance for others to fish and go to the next one. Me and Jspoone will probably goto a local spot and get the lines wet. Make sure someone takes pictures!

[Nitrofreak]

To be honest, with this many people going as non-boaters i'm going to give the chance for others to fish and go to the next one. Me and Jspoone will probably goto a local spot and get the lines wet. Make sure someone takes pictures!

To be honest here too Eddie, we were really hoping for more boaters, I wish you guys would change your minds and come join us, we are willing to do whatever it takes to get you all some time on the water and have some fun with us.

You guys are still welcome to come join us for the cook out if you wish, I know it's a good trip just for some food but it should still be a lot of fun, don't forget your families are invited too !!

It is very noble of both of you to give up your seats for others, we understand how you feel and we regret deeply that you won't make this trip, we were looking forward to meeting you both but should we not meet this time around there will be a next time.

Eddie and Jspoon, thank you both for what you are doing, we hope you have a great weekend and we will take some pics for you guys, we want to see pics from you all as well.

Good luck and be safe !!!

[Traveler2586]

To be honest, with this many people going as non-boaters I'm going to give the chance for others to fish and go to the next one. Me and Jspoone will probably goto a local spot and get the lines wet. Make sure someone takes pictures!

Hi Eddie,

If you like, there should be a lot of good bank fishing; we could look over the map, pick out some promising section of shore and transport you to & from it.

If you're going to get a line wet anyway, might as well make some new friends in the process. And don't forget, we'll have some goodies to hand out to attendees; I'm going to through in some home made spinner & buzz baits for everyone. Surprise!!

[Nitrofreak]

WOW !!!

NOW I REALLY CAN'T WAIT !!!!

I WILL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING TRAVELER !!!!

[Nitrofreak]

To everyone,

I look forward to meeting all of you on Saturday morning, it should be a lot of fun !!!

Have a safe trip !!!!

[Nitrofreak]

Hi Eddie,

If you like, there should be a lot of good bank fishing; we could look over the map, pick out some promising section of shore and transport you to & from it.

If you're going to get a line wet anyway, might as well make some new friends in the process. And don't forget, we'll have some goodies to hand out to attendees; I'm going to through in some home made spinner & buzz baits for everyone. Surprise!!

What a great idea !!!

Come on guy's you know you wanna !!!

[Zoff]

NF... tried to call u several times. Can you give me a call?

[Broke bass fisherman]

Good luck and tight lines all!!! Hopefully I'll make the next one be safe out there.

[00 mod]

Today is the day.....let us know how it all went!

Jeff

[endless]

Had a blast today. I met Sam and rode with him as well was his fish partner. We manage 10 bass and 6 warmouths. My biggest was 2.1. We launch at 7 and came back in around 4. The wind was awful. afterwards we had a cookout at Traveler's campground. It was nice meeting the Sam, Nitro and his daughter's boyfriend, Traveler, Zoff, Steve and his son, and Chris. Thanks to Traveler for the gifts! Thanks to Sam for giving me the opportunity to fish with him and thanks guys for a great time! Nitro your family was very nice and it was a pleasure meeting everyone today.

[Zoff]

Just rolled into the homestead. Had a great day but I skunked... Windy as all get out. Chris caught but I didn't. Everybody I met made the day for me... fish or not. Thanks to everybody... Especially Mrs. Nitrofreak.

[Sam]

I think we all had a great time.

It was very nice to meet the guys and Nitro's family plus Traveler.

The give aways are outstanding. I am going to write a thank you note to Nitro and Michael Siebert for their generosity and the beautiful jigs I won in the drawing.

Travelers gave us some of his buzzbaits and spinnerbaits that are beautiful. Can't wait to throw them.

Was fun fishing with Endless. He is a very nice guy and we got him to smile! I am sure Zoff and Travelers will post pics. I will try to do the same.

We have to find a place where guys can fish from the bank and take turns going out in the boats for our next meet and greet. Suggestions?

And special thanks to Nitro for his help trailering my boat. The wind was a major factor why we had trouble trailering it. You guys should have seen Endless with the rope trying to get the boat off the dock so I could start her to get her on the trailer. We looked like the Keystone Cops!

Great day and I enjoyed meeting everyone.

[quanjig]

Sounds like you guys had a great time! I wish I could have been able to attend but had previous commitment scheduled! We need pics, especially if Sam said endless smiled!! Lol!!

[Nitrofreak]

Well?

What can I say, I had a great time meeting everybody.

The first one I met was Traveler, Right from the get-go, one of the most interesting people I think I have ever met, always smiling, always friendly, full of stories that I love listening too, he told me the story of the reasoning behind his handle and thought I was going to LMAO !!!

gophers and cubicles, almost sounds like a TV commercial.

We had not talked 5 minutes and already he gave me something from his house that him and his wife thought would be a nice gift and sure enough it was, the gift is one thing that Traveler and his wife will most likely not think was much at all, but to be thought of was more important than the gift and I would like to thank you both for each.

The next one I met was Zoff, hhhhmmm, what do I say about Zoff? well?...hhhhmmmm, got to be one of the most wired up people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting, I thought I was wired, wait till you meet this guy !!!

Zoff, you have got to be one of the most outgoing, laid back people I have ever met, I do not think you nor I have ever met a stranger, our first meeting was like this, Hello Sonny it's nice to finally meet you, Here have a beer !!!

Now how can you not like a guy like that !!!

We are going to have to work on getting you a more refined pallet though my friend, LOL !!

The next ones came in a pair, Aj and Steve, We did not get to talk too much at all but I could tell you two are a class act, really nice people that I hope to someday meet again and soon...hopefully you will let me try out some of that equiptment you guys had there LOL !!!

The next pair was Sam and Endless,

Sam I have to say I wish we could have spoken a little more, you have a great sence of humor and you started our day off with a few laughs, what better way to start and end a day, good job finding some fish, I think your boat outfished us all, congrats !!!

I would also like to say congrats on getting Endless to smile for a photo, that is a feat all in itself LOL !!

Endless, what a great guy and also funny as well, you caught the largest fish of the day, we had something weird going on though, it seems the larger fish had no weight and the smaller fish had more weight, I don't know what the heck was up with that but it definately was weird, hey buddy congrats on big fish and I was happy to see you smiling !!!

Chris, I don't know if you had fun or not you were one of those quiet kind of guys, you said you did, but you did not say too much so I hope you really did, I was looking forward to having a conversation with you but everything ended as quickly as it started, I hope we can meet again sometime and have that conversation and do a little fishing too !!

There will be pics for everyone to see from the trip so stay tuned, but I have to agree, the wind there was terrible, at 7am the lake was already white capping down by the dam, and by 8:30 both of my trolling motor batteries were already all but dead, I headed there to fish an old road bed and some bowling ball size rocks, but with the current coming from dike 3's return port and the 30mph winds I knew that was going to be impossible, so my daughters boyfriend Chris and I tried the rocks over in Valentine cove and had no luck there with anything, that we could keep in contact with, Finess baits would have been pretty tough, then we tried the stumps that were just on the other side and the long point just before that but we just had too many issues holding the boat and almost ran aground several times, so we headed back up lake and found Traveler with Aj and Steve, they were having some ok luck with Senko's but as I had approached Traveler's boat I had seen he was tangled in a line a from a rod off of the near by deck, as I untangled the line that was wrapped around the prop, the line suddenly came loose and the hook caught my left index finger...SON OF A !!!!, oh well nothing a band-aid did not take care of, Chris and I headed around the bridge at Christopher Run and went back into the cove that had some grass and some small lay downs and we found a pattern we could work with, they were hitting spinners off of the edges of grass, we landed two, one about a pound and a half and the other about two pounds, and just wait until you see the other two he had caught, MONSTERS I TELL YOU !!

By the time we worked that cove, my trolling motor batteries were completly gone, we had to stop fishing and go back and retreive a battery from my camper, there went 45 minutes of the day, so we decided to go over to another creek and finish out the day, I tried to fish the point at the entry, it has a few stumps there that I usually get some pretty good bites but no luck, the wind just kept pushing us well away from where we needed to be, then we found Sam and Endless in the same cove, so we had a small conversation of having any luck?, Sam replies, yes we caught 10 with one good size one Endless had caught, and then he asked me the same question, my reply we caught 50, now you can imagine what Sam and Endless thought at that moment, let me tell ya their facial expressions said it all, YOU GUYS CAUGHT 50? Sam, a "one fish Anna" patriarch almost believed I think that we actually caught 50 fish for maybe a second and then asked, really? No just kidding, only 2 buddy LOL !!!

We were going to do the cook out at the park but the wind would just not let up enough to allow us to do that, so we went back to Travelers camp and had the cook out, he had the best site with hardly any wind, I cooked and Traveler and Zoff gave away the prizes we had recieved from our sponsors.

Seibert Outdoors gave us NOT ONE, which is all we asked for, but 6 jigs, I did manage to get a look at these jigs when they arrived at my house, I have to tell you guys I wanted to fish these jigs on Friday so bad I could not stand it !!!

Mike at G-Man jigs, It was an amazing thing you did for us, we can not thank you enough for pitching in and helping us out with this, your jigs looked absolutly amazing and if any of you guy's and gal's out there have any questions about jigs, I can promise you that Mike is amazing to work with and will be more than happy to hook you up with a product that is in my opinion second to none, he has some really cool cosmic trailers that he uses and sells on his site as well, He has a slew of different varities and colors to choose from and he is even willing to help you make the right choice for your needs, JUST ASK HIM, you will see the difference !!!

Mark at Bass Angler Magizine,

Dude your Mag looks so AWESOME !!!

Guy's and gal's this guy gave away a FREE one year subscription to his magizine, and Mark we can not thank you enough either, what you did was equaly amazing, this magizine from front to back is packed with info that will help us all become better fisherman and women, the best part about this Mag is that it is packed, each one has 30 or more articals to help even the experienced angler become better at their trade, 30 articals, thats a ton of stuff !!!

The major difference that makes this mag stand out from the rest is that they are not selling you their advertisers products, they research and write important information about products that have been proven to help you catch bass !!!

You all should visit both of their web sites and take a look at what they have to offer, you won't be dissapointed !!!

Glenn and Keri, of our Bass Resource

Thank you both for helping us out and sending us the Bass Resource stickers... I am going to put them on my boat or my truck I have not figured out which yet, maybe one each,... the line conditioner you sent was an AWESOME gift and you sent a ton of it, enough for everyone to have at least two bottles, that is a HUGE donation there was enough stuff for everyone to be able to have multiple items to take back home with them.

Traveler,

You added to the list by bringing your hand made gifts of spinners and buzz baits and just freely gave them away, and as many as we wanted too !!

They are awesome, I tried mine the next morning, I used the Fire Tiger spinner you picked out for me as I was cooking and fished a lay down, on the very second cast, wham!! I landed a small one but still a fish from a bait made by someone I am happy to call a friend.

Traveler, you are a truly remarkable guy, meeting you this weekend and having the chance to fish with you from your boat was one of the best times I have had in a long time.

Thank you for everything everybody, it was a ton of fun and I hope and look forward to doing it again !!!!

One more person left to thank,

I want to thank my wife for helping with everything, she loves to fish and she knew there was room on my boat to go fishing, yet she stayed behind and took care of getting the food and what we needed for the cook out.

I love ya baby !!!

Keep an eye out for all the pics everybody !!!

[Nitrofreak]

This one was from Friday night, pitched a 1/2oz Seibert Outdoors jig with a touch of chart with some black and green pumkin with a Biffle bug as a trailer behind a log, never felt the hit, all I had seen was the line moving, right at 4lbs, my scale is not digital so I had to get my wife to help me double check what I was seeing since I did not have my specticals on.

This Chris my youngest daughters boyfriend, the fourth fish for the day, he had earlier caught 2 really beautiful fish but we will get to that in a moment, no scale, just guessed at about a pound and a half, give or take.

This was our third fish for the day, that's me holding a huge beautiful 2lb bass, isn't she pretty !!! again no scale so 2lbs give or take.

OK are you all ready for the next two?

Warning what you are about to see is two giant fish that may make your eyeballs hurt !!!...they certainly made mine hurt !!

Keep in mind we did not use scales so I am just guessing here at roughly 9 to 10 lbs each.

TAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!

Or I could be just B.S'ing too LOL !!!

BUT JUST LOOK AT THEM BAD BOYS DO THEY LOOK FUN OR WHAT !!!!