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Thanks to everyone who made this a tremendous success tonight! From Ludo who did the live webcast and sugar on snow to Razzle's shrimp dip to Bruce Mable who brought chips and soda. In addition, Gerry / David / Martin who brought desert and Lazy C's Veni sticks and pieces.

Bill Lowell "Popster" and Rob "Thorny" who did great demo's of LIte Bites / Invisa swivels before the drawings.

March 2, 2012 Workshop #10:

In summary: 

 We had 47 attend with a free drawing from 29 generous donors. 

I want to thank the folks below that donated some incredible products and forum members as well!

Lowrance: Elite 5 DSI and 12 hats
Raymarine: VHF radio
LCI: All-Season pass certificate for 2012
Tamiron: Tape
Invisa Swivel
Fathead Blades
Dockside Outdoors: Assorted tackle
Torpedo Divers: 2 oz / 4 oz Torpedo divers
U-Charters: Lite Bites / Mini-Slide Divers

Crazy Ivan Lures: Custom painted lure package.

Onyx Outdoor clothing: Arctic shield coat / pants.
Yasner Taxidermy: 2 certificates for $75 off each for a fish mount.

Great Lakes Angler magazine: 6 annual subscriptions.

Fish Hawk: TD temp / depth
Trax Tech: $50 gift certificate

Adventure Products: 2 nets EGO S2 Ez Slider 48”-60”
Dan Keating: 4 salmon videos / 4 salmon books.
Navionics: Certificate for any Navionics chip.
Smelt-Rite: 3 bottles of Smelt-Rite.
Riversider: Steelhead rod / reel combo.
Church Tackle: Assortment of products.
Rotary derby: Derby pass for 2012.
Old Fishing Hole: Assorted tackle
Chamberlain releases: 2 Releases
New Haven Bill: Gift certificate for the Tourterelle Restaurant
Thorny: Lure Caddy
Misty Knoll: Gift Certificate


2 minute video of tonight's fun:



Grand Prize Winner with his Lowrance Elite DSI / GPS unit Steve (FishDawg);




The Demo's:





Thorny's Lite Bite Demo:





Popster's Invisa demo:








Ludo's live cam setup:



















Jim from Tamiron's generous tape provided:






Surprise and Mike:

Looking forward for the next edition

Ron,
You just keep outdoing yourself! Another great job. Always enjoy chatting with the other members and hearing their stories. Good job Thorny and Popster.
Michael

Looks like you guys had a blast I need to get to one of these someday.
BARRY

The demo by Thorny and Bill was very well received and we discussed afterwards making this a regular event at our workshops prior to the free drawing. We all learn as a group and there was some good observations and question and answers. Well done Bill and Rob.

Another great event, a big thanks to Ron and all that helped make it such a good time. Maybe we should have a mid summer workshop as the salmon fishing slows...we could have it out side like at Sandbar Park with a byob (bring your own BBQ) after with our families involved so they can see that we are not the only ones and that fishing can be a family event....ANY way thanks Ron, great time every time!
TNTO Dean

A great time once again. Thanks again to Ron and Vermont Home and Marine for hosting.
This was the last of of this season so that means spring is nearly here.

Hats off to Bill and Rob. These two guys are always willing to share and help fellow fisherman. They're a tough act to follow.
Good people!

Great bunch of folks...all of you!

On the live webcam:
Date: 03/02/2012
Unique viewers: 28
Viewer hours: 16 hours 7 mins 58 secs

It means that 28 people have watched for approx 35min the event on the website

Good words, dean-wrecker. Good ideas.

I was sorry to have missed it this time other than about 10 minutes via live feed (which was sort of cool, BTW).

LOTS of faces I recognized and disappointed to have not chatted with cas, drag'n, Pat, light-and-animated, Raz, et cetera, et al. The Taping Sessions have been a most enjoyable social event for me. I learn things every time and feel blessed with the friendships I have been privileged to develop through the Champlain fishing community.

btw- I was intrigued by surprise's Lowrance trade-up post a while back. Seeing homewrecker's HDS-5 in operation at the DYP started a ball rolling... I don't really have it in the budget but if either my Eagle 480 sonar or 640C sonar/gps dies the HDS-5 or HDS-7 is the obvious replacement (even though I prefer grayscale sonar; the HDS-5 is the first color unit I have liked). Congrats fishdawg!

What can I say? Better every time.

Best bunch of people I know getting together and sharing anything that they know about salmon. Lots of laughs and stories....Hard to beat that!

Thanks Ron, Vt Home, Ludo & all Contributors.

Another one in the books. Thanks Ron and Jim for hosting the event. And thanks to all the donors for their support.
I believe Paul (Voyager) gets the award for traveling the longest distance.
Here's the link to the InvisaSwivel/Leader Wire site for those that couldn't make it last night or didn't get any of the samples.

http://www.aquateko.com/

Great Night! Thanks to all that put it on.. Look forward to seeing you on the water soon. Happy to have introduced a newbie to the group as well.

Tight Lines!


Sully

Ludo wrote:On the live webcam:
Date: 03/02/2012
Unique viewers: 28
Viewer hours: 16 hours 7 mins 58 secs

It means that 28 people have watched for approx 35min the event on the website

47+28= 75 participants! That is cool Ludo! I will use this data when I email thank you's to the donator's.

Sorry to have missed all the fun. I did turn the live feed on from work for a few minutes, really cool stuff. Great job.... Tooo everyone who works is so hard putting These events together.
Todd

A great time last night.Enjoyed meeting some very nice folks,just a great group of people(fisherman).Special thanks to ron and everyone involved.