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Location - Calaveras Cove
 Updated:
 03/09/10  7:00 P.M.
 
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Welcome to the 5th Calaveras Catmen Get-together.
 
Catfish tournament  (Gentlemen's Rules) from Daybreak to Noon.

Fish Fry  1:00 P.M.  (eatin' time).

Visit, games, fish & boat stories until ???  Families welcome.   Bring your own drinks, chairs, and frisbies and any other food delights you want to share..

Remember that no exposed alcohol is allowed.  You must have your beer or alcoholic drinks in a bottle or can cover or cup.

What we need: 

Bring any extra drinks,( sodas, water and juice boxes for the kiddies). We also welcome hush puppies, beans, potato salad, coleslaw,  and desserts, (cookies again for the kiddies, young and old alike). Tarter sauce, cut fruits, Whole watermelon.  We will also need tables.

Volunteers Needed:

We will be needing someone (or two) to be at the ramp(s) early to register the participants for the tourney. Typically, a volunteer(s) is at a designated place to collect the tourney money before the start. We usually start about as soon as you can register and get going after the park opens. If a fisherman is not registered by 8:00 A.M., he is not in the competition....just fishin' for the fun of it. The volunteers are welcome to enter the tournament after 8 A.M. and putting in their $$$.

Next, we need a person or two who will do the weigh-in and recording at the fish cleaning area starting around 11:00 A.M.

If anyone knows that they will not be fishing, or will be bank fishing, or only doing a limited amount of fun fishing 8-11 A.M. and are willing to volunteer for these tasks, please P.M. me.


The coordinators will provide plates, plastic cups, utensils, paper towels, cooking oil, breading/batter, table covers, soap, ice, condiments, mixing and serving tins, site rental.  The expenses will be deducted from the tournament entries.
 

Please be sure to put a label with your name and phone number on anything that you bring and will be taking back with you, i.e.; fryers. tanks and tables. Just want to make sure you get back what you brought.

For those of you who are going to bring your own special batter recipe please bring all of the fixens' already prepared as much as possible. Also, please indicate on the sign up sheet that you are bringing it.  

One of the volunteers (when we get them) will be at the gate at 5:30 am. If it is at all possible, please bring your tables, fryers w/tanks to the sign-in area before you go through the gate.

       
Please sign up even though your name is listed already below.  Click on the Registration form below.

Sign up Here (password is 'cally')
Registration form

See what everyone is bringing and update your registration...  Registration  Results by individual

Name/
TFF Alias     		Bringing how many extra people to eat Items I will be bringing..  Fishing in the Tournament??
(Yes / No)  		Fishing Partner(s)
 
Don/  webmaster  coordinator
Texas Alien		 1 Basic Essentials Yes ?
Michael/  Coordinator
SouthernBoy		 0 TBD Yes Marty/
saringas321
John  /  Coordinator
parttime		 2 3 tables/ double fryer Yes Joe Willis
Eric Boenke
Stikshooter		 1 Fryer, Beans Yes Woody Glover
Jess
unclejess		 1 ?  you tell me Yes ?
Keith McKay/
hookem horns		 1 secret corn concoction, hush puppies Yes Eric Boenke
Marty
Saringas321		   Trophies Yes Mike
Cliff W./
SportFisher		 0 2 tables Yes Steven, Ernie
Lonnie Haffelder/
Dominoman		 0 2 tables Yes Roy Otto
George flores/
Ttblk94supra		 3 Sodas, desserts, and what ever you guys may need Yes ?
Marvin/
CATFISH KILLER		 2 Bait samples and what ever we need. Let me know what else that I need to bring or I will donate some money to help cover the expenses. If anyone wants to buy some bait let me know. Yes John and Justin
Rich/
Army Chief		 ?   ?  
Cliff Hill
Guide Cliff Hill		 ? Fryer,Propane Yes  
Omar Calzada/
StudyUrfish		 2 Cold Sodas Yes Ray Austin
Richard/
Rleo50		 2 Tartar sauce and jalapenos Yes Rich H
Phil Baci/
Phil B.		 2 Will update later Yes ?
Kevin Fuqua/
Fish Inspector		 1 French Fries
Beans		 Yes (Mrs FI) Sue
Jack/
to be determined		 2 Fries Yes Harry
Mark D/
?		 4 Chips & Dip, Cookies, Potatoe Salad No  
Larry Glaze/
DocDonut		 0 Chips Cookies, Trash Bags
Volunteer for weigh-in		 No  
Harold Mckee/
nbtex		 4 coleslaw and let me know what else Yes Tracy, Chad, Joe Mckee
         
         
         
         
         

Gentlemen's Rules:  
 This event is more of a fun way for friends to catch fish and brag than it is a tournament.  The "rules" are only meant to ask everyone to start and end on an even keel and to prove-up what they catch.   All participants are asked to have fun, build friendships, share knowledge, and bring in some food to eat.   We are probably going to have enough filets to provide a bountiful meal.
We have revised the guidelines this year:
1.  Each boat will be a team.
 
2.  There can be up to four participants per boat.
 
3.  There will be an ante of $10 by each participant to the Tourney Pot .
 
4.  The heaviest 10 catfish stringer submitted by a team wins the Tourney Pot.
 
5.   Expenses are deducted from the pot before distribution.

6.  There will be a separate "biggest" (heaviest) catfish pot.  The ante is $5 per participant to enter.   Expenses are not deducted from this Biggest Fish Pot before distribution.  

7.  If you expect to claim a prize, you must use the digital scales for weighing at the cleaning station.

 8.  Fishermen may catch and keep legal limits but are responsible for cleaning and storing extra fish separately from the tourney fish. They may donate their extra fish at the fry if we run short.

9.   Bank fishermen are welcome to form teams of 1-4 individuals.  Same rules above for bank fishermen as boat fishermen.



Times:  Daybreak until 12:00 P.M.  Entrants should be at cleaning station by 12:00 P.M. or earlier.  "Daybreak" should allow everyone to get in at the gate at 6:00 A.M. and to be fishing by daybreak.

Central Daylight Savings Time  
Date               Sunrise        Sunset 
April 10         7:13 A.M.

    Please take pictures or have someone else take digital pictures for posterity and bragging rights.  Please send event pictures to DLGadberry@aol.com for publication.


Expenses to be shared $50 Site reservation and setup.
 

Swap/Sell/Give-Away If you have boating and/or fishing items you want to sell, swap, or just give away, bring it.