Well, all, after nearly a year of advance planning, the time is neigh to open the doors to Extravaganza 2014, our twelfth (count ‘em!) foray into the wilds and wonders of Montana. This year, as we did in 2008 and 2011, Da WTF Ones (yes, there is a story to that WTF handle!) will motor coach over to the Missouri River to test the perfectly flowing waters and 7200 fish/mile of the Mighty Missouri River. Under the capable navigation of Beach Transportation’s Commander Cliff Goodman, all three fishing days for the WTF’s will be spent on the Mighty Mo and, watch out gang, as the Twenty Inch Board is going to take a blistering as a result!!
The Line-Up for the E-14 Ones is a star and veteran studded one, with longest in the tooth John “SOS” Reimann returning for his tenth time to be saddled next to his nearly as long in the tooth sidekick Demetry “The Ghost” Kondrasheff. One of the great memories for me in all of the Extravaganzas was in 2011 when the Ones had just come back from a lights-out Mo day and we were logging in the Twenty Inchers. At the end of that long and rewarding process I was putting the dented board back on the hearth when The Ghost quietly said, “what about mine?” Well, he added three to that board, got the Yellow Hat for the largest trout of the day and re-solidified his nickname “The Ghost”!
Other returning seasoned veterans includes the “Shepard Six”: father Brian “Moraine” Shepard who, for nearly a decade now, has spent Father’s Day with us with one or more of his issue and, for the fourth year in a row now, all three…Eliza “Beautiful Jane”, Josef “Fear The Beard”, Nicholas “The Tsar”…this year with returning fisherman Liam “Son of Blackfoot” Handron and rookie Jean Prominiski (who with that name is ripe for a soon-to-be-awarded Montana moniker!).
And then there is the six time returning Rosenbaum Three: father “Big John” and sons “Big Ben” and “Yellow Hat” Adam who, again this year will be paired up with returning veteran Tarry “Not” Winfrey! Also returning to the place where he belongs is Mechanics Bank new Chairman of the Board Michael “Big Fish” Downer (who will be fishing with long1time friend but yet-rookie to these here parts Michael Murray (their boat already doffed the SS 2X Michael (but the latter is realty a 3X!!) as well as the dazzling couple of Chris “Hook ‘Em” and bride Mayte “Bonita” Barger and four time veteran Josh Genser who, in a moment of weakness, allowed that I change his MT name back from “B ’Gosh” to his original handle of “Commie Pinko”.
Following with baited breath (literally) are five more Extravaganza rookies…one from Napa, California---vineyard manager par excellence Davie Pina, and the others being the “Denver Four”: Armistead Browning and his sidekicks Tom Rodeno and the “Mick and Mike Show”, Mick Stefan and Mike Davis.
So there it is, folks, the WTFers of Extravaganza 2014…get to the airport early, Ones!
Best to all on the eve of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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