*** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results ***

Posted by: Mitch P.

*** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 01:39 PM



The kids enjoyed a fun day at Gardner Lake on Saturday. The rain stayed away, a bunch of fish were caught, we enjoyed some great pizza and all the kids walked away with a ton of great gear & goodies!

Thanks to everyone from the CTF Game Dinner who bought raffle tickets and donated prizes to help fund this event. Thanks to Tony Mel for a ton of goodies, and Kazz for some rods for the kids.

Big thanks to Larry (Mongo) for stepping up to help run this event. Also big thanks to Larry's wife and daughter for helping run the weigh in, take pics and help set up.

Random recap video:
http://www.ctfisherman.com/video/ctfkidsday17.mp4

Larry will have more to add, but here are some pics from the fun day ...


A variety of species were brought in alive, including largemouth bass, pickerel, crappie and sunfish.








Great to see Ryan getting his family together out on the water once again. applause

After the fishing, we enjoyed some absolutely delicious pizza from the Plum Tomato. (Thanks to Paul Dona for turning us on to this place a few years ago!)










Tony Mel, thank you for all of the gear you donated for the kids! applause We divvied it up to give out to all of the kids.








Kazz, thanks for the rods you donated for the kids.


Larry announcing the big fish!










One of my favorite pics from the day. Larry handing out all of the loot to the kids. No one left empty handed!


AJ sporting an old school Kids Day shirt.

I had a great time fishing with my daughters. We got a bunch of sunnies, and they landed a crappie for the first time. Our fish story was getting bitten off by a pickerel. By the time we realized one of our bobbers was under, he bit us clean off. We'll back back to get 'em next year!



Help preserve the sport and get some kids out on the water this summer!




Posted by: onthewater102

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 02:07 PM

Another big thank you from Mr. T and I to everyone who put on this great event.

A foggy start:




Hey O'Bass look what daddy found!:




Mr. T culling his first fish:



The fish that came back for the weigh-in just before its swim of shame:




Making new friends - what it's all about:


Posted by: Mitch P.

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 02:09 PM

Awesome. Your little man is a fishing machine! Love it!
Posted by: PDona

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 02:44 PM

GREAT job!! Glad to see the tradition still alive!
Posted by: Mitch P.

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 02:49 PM

Here's a cool little video that Google generated from my photo gallery:
http://www.ctfisherman.com/video/ctfkidsday17.mp4

I didn't do any editing, so there's one shot of the ground there, sorry. But, I thought it was cool for being randomly generated.
Posted by: O-BASS

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 03:58 PM

great work all of you, Mongo, great stuff and way to step up.

cant wait to do this next year with April for the first time.
Posted by: Mitch P.

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 04:03 PM

Nice, Mike. We need new recruits to keep this going.
Posted by: Tall 1

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 04:56 PM

Nice job guys!!
Posted by: JohnS

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 05:32 PM

Thats great! I really missed not being there this year. Looks like everyone had a good time lots of smiles and a whole lot of goodies. bow2 Turned out to be a perfect day for it.
Posted by: Daddy Pickle

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 07:51 PM

i messed up, i thought it was july.
Posted by: FarmerJay

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 08:30 PM

Nice job CTF!!! Way to keep a nice tradition alive!
Posted by: Don P

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 09:43 PM

Great job all! Looks like everyone had fun.
Posted by: mongo

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/19/17 11:13 PM

Well y'all stole my thunder LOL - Great to see some serious future fishermen this year. Everyone had a great time and everyone caught fish!
Big fish was a 3.01 Pickeral Caught by Me_Fisherman (Ryan) son Tyler. The kids got a ton of giveaways too. Thanks to Mitch and everyone who helped out with sorting out all those baits and all that pizza, guess next year I'll have to get two El-Taco pizzas.
I'd like to also thank: Garden Catering and Hooters for the gift cards ( which I forgot to bring ) They'll be in the mail tomorrow.
As well as LEWS, Paul Narducci outdoors and ofcourse the members of CtFisherman. Hopefully I'll make the game dinner this year lol.I'll add pictures another time... computer is not cooperating frown
Posted by: LargeFry

Re: *** 2017 CTF Kids Fishing Day Results *** - 06/21/17 10:56 AM

Great time as always!


Thanks Mitch and Larry for setting this up and thanks to ALL the CTFer's who attend the events and donate to make this happen!! applause

I've got countless numbers of these down, at least five more to go...