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Location - Calaveras Cove
 Updated:
 04/08/10  5:00P
 
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Welcome to the 5th Calaveras Catmen Get-together.
 
Catfish tournament  (Gentlemen's Rules) from Daybreak to Noon.

Deadline for signing up is Thursday, April 8th @ 4 P.M.

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:  If you are bringing side dishes, please bring any serving utensils needed for that item.

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:

Update:  John's (parttime) fulltime wife will be meeting fishermen at the gate and collecting the antes.  If you have items to be used at the cook out, please take them to the camping area before going to the ramps.

We have volunteers for the weigh-in 


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.  

Please bring your tables, fryers w/tanks to the Camp area before you go to the ramps.

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

Sign up is Over
 

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		 4 Basic Essentials
Breading, Oil for the fryers, serving tins, eating utensils, ice, plates&bowls, paper towels, dip batter, utensils for the fish, wash hands water, weigh-in equipment, sign-in and weigh-in rosters.		 No  
Michael/  Coordinator
SouthernBoy		 0 TBD, securing campsite on Friday Yes Marty/
saringas321
John  /  Coordinator
parttime		 2 3 tables/ double fryer - wife will check everyone in at the gate and collect the tourney $$$ 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		 0 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		 1 ? Yes Eric Gray
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.		 1 Devilled eggs and black olives Yes Son Luke
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, Potato 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
Ronnie Hallum/
lawnman tx		 1 Will help in anyway if I get get off ? Wife
Dave Thomas/
haligan225		 ? tartar sauce, anything else needed Yes CLiff Hill
Michael Cox/
USMC_Gy_09		 4 Water, Soda, banana puddin' Yes  
Josh/
big_one		 1 Fruit Salad Yes Jeffrey
Roy B/
royb		 3 Chewy Bar Cookies Yes Melissa, David, Chris
Henry/
67Merc		 2 Sodas, chips Yes Emmit, Keith
Paul Johnson/
Geezo		 2 Chips and Salsa Yes Clifford and Pete
Eric Gray/
Neophyte2009		 0 What do you need ? Rich/Army Chief
Tim Davey/
ILive2Fish		 1 A couple of coolers filled with ice and several cases of bottled water. Yes Susan
Ernie Coburn/
Tall Tale		 0 Let me know what we may need in the way of tables, cookers, coolers Yes Cliff Wells, Steven Gonzales
Kenny/
elcapitanken		 4 Pies, Potato salad, and 2 cases of water Yes Larry, Lawrence, ken, and ken

Tony Brown
tbskiff

 0 Additional fryer or tables would be good Yes Kent Dood
Brett Burkhart/
DeerSlayer		 3 Potato Salad, Drinks Yes Shane Burkhart, Brett Harlan Burkhart, Shawn Burkhart
Monte Smith/
PSG2628		 ? What  do you need Yes ?
         

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.