Annual Club Event Suggestion

[Johnny Max]

The Foam Rangers have an Annual Homebrewer’s Camp-out and other clubs are invited. They lost the place they normally have it, just outside LaGrange TX and they are thinking about someplace along the Guadalupe river this year. Last year some of us Golden Triangle Home brewers made it, Doug, Raybo Mark M. myself and wives and kids. It was a blast.

I was wondering if we wanted to host an Annual event like that as a club and open it up to all homebrewers and clubs.
We have access to a FREE Public beach at McFadden.

We could call it something like the:

"1st Annual Homebrew Beer Beach Bash"

Show up on Friday evening set up camp and leave Saturday or Sunday, when ever you like.

No open fires, but we could use our fire-pits and grills.

On Saturday we could have "Beach Beer Olympics" and give homemade crappy trophies to the winners. We could have competitions like.
1) Keg Toss
2) Time who can down a 24 oz beer the fastest
3) Plastic (full) carboy relay
4) Fishing contest for biggest fish
5) Dumb Ass Drunk Stunt Award
Or what ever.

Mc Madden beach is much more rustic and not very commercialized.
There are no homes around at all. Kind of in the middle of no-where!
Hell, if girls can lay around naked, I bet we can have a lot of fun and it be okay. I think we would need to do it away from any homes to avoid any complaints.

We would need to do it when it warms up enough for swimming.

Any Interest?

[bbushmaster]

I no a better beach rite there at rollover its reall close for us we can burn fires drive on the beach, ECT. and there is plenty of facilities for camping,and travel trailers and what not and you can have fires on the beach or you can just pull your trailer or camp on the beach and there are motels just up the road for those who cant rough it and its a (thats where I caught that <<<<<<<)great fishing hole as well or we could do something on the the river we have just north of here I cant think of the name of it rite now but I have been canoeing on it a bunch of times its awsome out there (you no where the zoo is at)
anyway there is a bunch of beaches we could rent canoes and have a blast on the river but you can camp anywhere out there its an official state canoe trail (Village creek thats the name) but we could all have a camp under the bridge there

[bbushmaster]

the reason I say that I'm not a very big fan of McFadden oh and the beaches are not free anymore its I think ten bucks a year for a beach sticker or you can get a day pass P.S. yall allready lost the biggest fish one ;D

[Johnny Max]

Personally, I think the beach idea is best, because the Foam Rangers have an annual Homebrew camp-out already and I am going to it for sure. I guess Roll-Over will work fine, but I did not think you had to have a beach permit for McFadden. Bummer....

[Johnny Max]

The Bolivar Beach Parking Permit does not include McFadden beach. I think McFadded beach is still FREE and with a hell of a lot less harrasment from authorities. Crystal beach and that whole area they all harrass the hell out of everybody. You are not supposed to make a fire on crystal either. They do though as they do at McFadden. I am still leaning to more rustic and more free. My 2 cents....

[bbushmaster]

and naw I,m talking much closer to us down the paninsula not crystal they dont mess with ya there and if we go rite there where high island meets the beach there are no homes for miles just dunes some of us will have to take a fishing trip down there soon and we'll go scout the locations (excuse to go fishing I like it)

[brokethingybrewery]

did some one say Camping and Fishing???

[bbushmaster]

Hell yeah thats one of Johnny's Ideas I'm ready thats the kind of shit I like to do

[brokethingybrewery]

same here if i can keep the dog out of the water lol she loves to swim, she jumps off the docks just to go for a swim then i have to grab her and pull her up when she is done and the camping part is always fun

[Johnny Max]

Sound good to me, I guess we can bring it up at the next meeting.

"Annual Homebrewed Beer Beach Bash"

[brokethingybrewery]

the Broke Thingy Queen is in sounds like a blast

[Johnny Max]

Well, I talked with the owners of Rocky's RV Park & Pier (used to be Meacom's pier) and they said there is no problem for us gathering there, if we decide to. They do not have a bunch of RV spots, but they do have a few. Personally, I would just set up a tent over the dunes and a canopy, unless Jason has roon in his RV.
There is a wide section out on the pier that is pretty roomy, we can pay a little extra and they will rope it off for us and we can set up our canopy out there and have our chairs, icechests and all, or set up on the beach.

How about hosting a:
Homebrew BIG Fish Challenge

It would be so easy to host a BIG Fish Challenge. $10 entry fee and just give a trophy for the Biggest Shark and one for the Biggest Non-Shark. 5 or 6 entries would cover the trophy cost. We could invite homebrewers from other clubs and their families. If we planned it after shcool is out it should be nice and warm.

Schedule tournament check-in between 6:00pm Friday to 9:00am Saturday and all fish need to be weighed in by 6:00pm Saturday. We would have to make it so that if a fish is too big to be weighed, then it goes by length. I need to see if they have scales to weigh large sharks at the pier, you never know, somebofy could drag a 1,000 lb shark out of the Gulf.

Actually organizing something like this is very easy. We could also have a Trophy for the best keg of homebrew, that way we are more likely to have homebrew there from other clubs and or members.

Just spitting out more ideas. I love fishing at that pier though. I used to fish at the Dirty Pelican up the road, but they closed it down. How about June 20th - 21st

1st Annual - Homebrew BIG Fish Challenge

[bbushmaster]

there is a calculation you can do on fish to figure there weight its something like girth x weight x pi or3.1416/800 but I'll find out before then its real easy to do on a calculator thats how the state recorded the weight of my fish

[brokethingybrewery]

sounds like a blast, ill warn ya tho sand gets into places that you wouldnt think it could get lol but ill be in a Tent like always in the sand.... the bigest fish sounds great count me i have some experiance fishing in the gulf but i doubt a big shark will be there, i have mostly caught shark after dark, but who knows, the water depth there is prolly around 14- 30 ft deep rite? if so the speckled trout or grouper should be there, even maby a few bull reds, and some hard heads for sure.

[bbushmaster]

I have been fishing that area since i was 4 years old I can show you some awsome shark holes well any kind of fish you want I can tell you the spot to catch it I no all the bait holes also we shouldnt have to worry about bait if any of yall have powered bait wells bring um I usualy catch a shit load of shrimp and I like to keep them alive and away from other bait I have one or two but for all of us we will need more i'll throw the net and johnny has one too.

I should have my Kayak by then woohoo
the formula is
(Girth x Girth) x Length) / 800 = weight in pounds
(girth and length are inches)

[brokethingybrewery]

cool i should be buying the Broke Queen's dads boat by then its a lil alumunum flat bottom that can hold 3 peeps and a 25 hp merc

[bbushmaster]

I have a boat but I don't think I'm gunna bring it because I'll probably be pulling the trailer and the only place (most of the time) to take a small boat is on the bay side but I can take my kayak out there in the ocean I think I'm going to go buy it tomorrow i have a 300 dollar gift certificate to academy i want the i think its a pelican three rod holders dry hatch cargo area drink holder padded seat paddle every thing for around 400

[Johnny Max]

How much does a Kayak cost?

[bbushmaster]

well you can get one pretty cheap around 100 bucks maybe a little more but usually those are sit inside style kayaks but I dont no how to roll over once im upside down so i didnt want one of those sit ontop style you just fall out if it rolls over but anyway you can get one of those (sit on top) for about 150 bucks but i wanted one that was more for fishing there a little higher about 3-4 hundred but I just wanted stuff like rod holders adjustable foot rest and seat but mainly i wanted one with a dry hatch a place to put a cooler and tackle box and they have one on sale at academy for 379 ( usualy about 5-6 hundred) that has 2 fixed one swivel rod holders dry hatch drink holder area to put your tackle with stretch cords adjustable padded seat adjustable foot rest's and paddle
link
academy.com/index.php?page=catalog&target=weeklyad&pgNum=7
but only good till the 9th

P.S. heres a link to pic of my record 53 1/2" fish you can see the strain on my face his gills were cutting the shit out of me i caught him on 12 pound test thats mainly why the record i was a bit bigger then though kinda like you johnny
strong scotch ale now good drinkin one now starting to work get off computer now bring some thusday
hey if you can bring some of your "ssa" thurs so we can compare
www.4freeimagehost.com/show.php?i=98b1e42797b3.jpg
i tried this link and i had to do it twice hit cancel on all the bull shit close it down and hit it again and it works if you have that problem

[brokethingybrewery]

ill bring the boat since ill be in a tent, my dog will prolly jump out of it to go swimming so ill have to buy the dog ramp but other then that it sounds like a Blast.no one is afraid of a big black lab puppy about 75 lbs are they?

[bbushmaster]

naw I was thinking about bringing mine to I have a big black lab male and female male is mean so i was just going to bring the female

[brokethingybrewery]

mine is a female also and will lick ya to death she is almost 2 yo

[bbushmaster]

mines like 3 or 4 but she is getting so damb fat she is way bigger than my male (maybe because of spade)we are going to go fishing next friday you want to go ( I just got my Kayak)

[brokethingybrewery]

all depends on if im not working, i have alot of inspections to get done before i quit