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Come on everyone brighten my day! Vacation has been cancelled for this summer and I need to hear some of what happened at the MadCow this weekend. Sure enjoyed fishing with Mr and Mrs BuxnDux on Friday evening, and Marty we are actually getting closer now to meeting each other! As for the moderator FJ the Low Holeing SOB, should be fired from anything to do with Fishin! Just kiddin, but he did interrupt the best trout fishing spot on the river. We had them trout dialed in! 
Can't wait to hear the rest...................
Doc
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Well...as for our team...on Saturday we had
"Captain Caveman", fondly known as "Cavey"
with his trusty sidekick
AuntyM.
Passengers included, The Brewer, The Pants and The 2 Princesses.
AuntyM had a brilliant showdown with a smolt. He was a frisky little bugger...and cute as a button!!  She next hooked into a cutthroat trout, and boy did he put on an exciting fight! AuntyM put the muscles to the test and reeled his sorry butt up onto the bow. We sure are proud of her! 
AuntyM had all of us onboard happy as a lark for her extraordinary success, but at the same time, jealous as heck! The next fight was another cutthroat trout, hooked by The Pants and reeled in by the littlest Princess.
Women 3....guys 0
The food was abundant and deliciously wonderful!
To list the highlights...Shrimp, Salmon, Sturgeon, Steelhead, Oysters, BBQ Ribs, homebrew, and to top it off...Smores around the campfire!
We had a great time and enjoyed meeting all of you.
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I went there with my two boys and all had a great time. Hunter, age 7, got his first steelhead thanks to Gooose and Desert Dog. The highlight for Ryan, age 4, was burning marshmallows in the fire and sleeping outside in a tent in a sleeping bag.
I ate some great food, drank some great beer, and met some great people for the first time after talking with them for a few years over the boards.
Andy
Oh yeah, Marty, I have your eggs. Let me know how you want me to get them to you.
A
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Be like Big Stick!
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Hi real bed. Hi real shower. Be around a bit later. Need sleep....need sleep......neeed..sleeeeeeep.
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Well, for you who missed it ya missed a good time.
Was very enjoyable to meet a bunch of you who I have chatted with several times. Ya's some nice people.
My story is very a very good time. We met Rapid Robert at the ramp at 5:00ish and waited for somebody that did finally"no-show" and got a little behing the pack, that 35th water is tough!!!!
After several drifts we managed to end up with 4 landed and one lost. Boy, it was a biggun' that got tangled in some of that "hard-line" doc left in the hole. Doc, I'm lookin' fer ya!!!!!!!!
Now, back to fishin' We whooped on some mighty fine smolts and a few Cutthroats and 1 nice Bugle-Mouthed Trout. Nobody would take the hand-off so I had to fight the Bugle for several seconds and even take it off the hook by myself. My guide wouldn't even do it for me. There went his tip!!
It was nice to fish with Robert, Timber and bux-n-dux for the day. I thank you all for putting up with me and my "short leaders". Timber, thanks for tying them for me. ha
Ihadagoodtimew/u
BTW. Did anybody lose their bananas? It didn't work for us very good.
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Gooose, you awake yet ....I'm heading to bed soon myself.
Was a bussy 4 days for me and Kev, fishing was good one day and slow the next  thanks Dan, Norm,Bighoof and rtlee
for the trips, it was fun.
TM and I and our friend Dan from Oregon had a good day thursday the 19th with some nice steel and a bonus springer! Bananas?.....anyone lose a boat load of bananas? ... 
fp,Bux,Tm and I had a good day on Cowtilla day the 21st, you guy's were a blast to fish with and fp, can't wait to fish with you on your rivers 
Lot's of great food, and was nice meeting all of you again or for the first time
We sold 90 FOC (Friends of the Cowlitz) raffle boat tickets....went to a great cause, FOC and I thanks you, and who would be a better person to win than a STEELHEADER.NET member @ Mad Cow 2 
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Boy sure wished I could have made it.. But the work thing keeps me home everytime you have a flotilla....
Keith
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That was a mighty fine get together folks! Glad to have met some new people.
For a few briefly.....Brewer thanks for the week and a half old banana bread..thats really the way it should be served and I hope my explanation of why you bust so many spinning reels helps  .....Chef Steelheader69 and RiverGal what can't you cook in that deep oil cooker(?)  ....Marty for the winning jig from the jig swap & show ....hope AuntM gets good use out of it .....98043&Alex, DesertDog and Rock Lizard for the boat rides....yes that chute sucks  ....RapidRobert for the brand new NorthRiver sled and the "to drool for" cedar planked springer ....Bux for showing me that flotillas in the future should include garage sale tours in their agendas ....FS for the fine jigs....oh and we left that sign on the door of the new facility FS in case you missed it    ....Dogfish for showing me and DesertDog how to use a snoopy rod and pinkworm to floss steelies....you didn't get one that way but thats a killer new method ......Dances for the assist in the new zipper Quilcene Rapid Limiter we codesigned .....Gizmo for his sage advice as always and for performing cleanup on them oysters....just how many of 10 dozen did you consume (?)......Fish Jesus and the Cowlitz Appreciation Fraternity for keeping the nites skys lit up and the dangerous animals away saturday nite and some time into sunday am .....hmmmmmmm more later.....thank you all for showing up or helping out!
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Too tired to stick around but I did want to post this one for Scott.
Night all. 
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Had a great time and met some new faces to put to the names.
Fished with FS and Trailrat Sat morning and made the mistake of showing TR my zipper spot  which was quickly brought up at the campfire, is nothing sacred?
BTW, Craven the pic was hilarious. We were on track with the fish and team lizard hooked its share of cutties as did most of the other boats.
Sunday....hmmm....sunday....dont remember much....woke up (late) puked, took the boat down with gooose and ron1 for one long drift, scraped bottom twice with kicker, took boat back up, hooked ron1 up with fishon grahn (thanks Mike) banged the sh!t out of my pump on "the corner", put boat up, puked again, and went to sleep.
Gooose and Ron1, I cant appologize enough, we will do it again soon, and this time we will do it right, again sorry.
All in all a great time with great food and great people, thanks for the good weekend and hope to do it again soon.
Now time for about 12 hours of sleep.
RL
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RockLizard noooooooooooooo problem! You should have see a certain boid at the Chehalis flotilla BTW considering the nite before...TrailRat and Craven probably don't remember much . Hmmmm I don't see how we can ever post that pic here Cravings.....but uhhhh thanks .
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What a great time!!!..i am thrilled that i made it back in time to meet everyone. once again, thanks for all the well wishes and welcome homes!!!....i have some thanks to send out...steve and mike, loads of thanks for a place to crash and filling my beer-laden belly with some grub, marty thanks for the hat....bob, great to meet you and will have lizard let you know about sunday :o).......last but certainly not least, Kelly and his son alex. I came down with no plans other then meeting eveyone and putting faces to monikers and these guys went above and beyond the call. Not only did they take me out both sat. and sun., but they supplied me with their gear and let me fish til my heart was content.....and i did not fail to cracker one off, so i am definately back!!!! I can't thank you both enough for such a great first " 'tilla " . to everyone else, it was great to meet you and can't wait to do it again....oh before i forget, special thanks to chris for bringing me along, but most of all, not throwing up on me when we headed home :o)...........'til next time....schrambo!!!
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Well, another tilla under the ol belt was a great time thanks to all who helped me out with my boat troubles,BW and wife for use of your cell phones. and caveman for tech support and Don for bringin and installin the parts. was nice to meet new faces and make new friends. fishin was slow but i maneged a few . thanks for the ride 98043. i had a lot of fun that morning. that is one sweeeeeet ride ya got there and Alex is one hell of a bait boy. i just cant wait til he sends me the BILL lol. thanks to all who cooked and eegs in a ziploc is a cool way to make an omlet marsha that was grubbin. the jig swap was cool too got some sweet stuff. heres my friday fish and a group photo after breakfast sun mourn.
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Cowtilla was fun, I was very thankful for the weather.. no sneezing for me.. great food, and too much beer., Oh yeah thanks jerry for the dubbing lesson, and I also thank RL for all the crown royal feelin better lol .. boat rides provided by RL, and the Rivers Northwest crew (rapid robert and timber)
I had a great time hanging out and talking to everyone..
Meet a few nice guys, tyee, skyguy, norm, and most importanly the brewer family
Was a good change from last year..
See you all at the next flotilla.
where is that half moon hole anyways
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Hey I just wanted to tell u guys got some great pics of fish. Its good to know some people are getting into the fish on the Cowlitz. I'm new to the site so I'm still getting to know people on here. Hopefully by next year I'll know enough site members to tag along, thats if the cowtilla is a yearly thing. Read about great food,nice people and chrome fish what can be better than a weekend of that. By the way if anyone wants to know fishing was pretty good this weekend (just South of there) . Limited out today in 15mins. Hopefully I'll get my scanner fixed and download them.  
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OK I was only there for a short while to say hello.But it was nice to say hi. Lets think about a NF Lewis summerrun get together. We could camp at Pekins Ferry and and fish.
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Bama I'm in on that!
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The Menu:
Deep Fried... Cajun Turkey, Spot prawns, crab, halibut, steelhead, sturgeon, rockfish, taters, I miss anything?
Burgers, elk burger, turkey burger, Banzai burgers. Beans, macaroni salad, week old banana bread, cookoies, pies, smoked crab, smoked salmon and steelhead, smoked sturgeon, smoked halibut, barbecued oysters, steamer clams, flotilla omelets , hot links, Gutz fried oysters , Martys tent, Zima, Brewers beer, other beer, Crown Royal, Gutz pork ribs, RR's pork ribs, cedar planked springer , , corn on the cob, hot dogs, muffins, Jim Beam, more beer and Zima, Spiffys biscuit and gravy, s'mores, camp marshmallows, Crown Royal and Canadian Mist, FishDoc's smoked salmon, oh I almost forgot again...Zima and beer. . Anything I forgot? 
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Well, well well! Were do I start. First off, I would like to send my appreciation out to Fishdoc for hooking the wife and I up on Friday night. You sure went out of your way. Next would be too Bob (Rapid Robert) for allowing me to fish with him on Saturday. The same trip I would like to say thanks to Ischool4U for showing us how it was done and to Timber for showing me how to lose gear He wouldn't tie my gear for me but I think it was cause he was to busy tying his own
Now for Saturday night. Since I wasn't there I am sure there are some good stories that I need to hear. But maybe I do not want to hear them The Taker filled me in a few. A great big thank you goes out to WildOutdoorsman for taking my wife fishing Sunday morning. She had a really great time!
I met alot of cool people, it is always nice to faces and real names with the monikers!
Till next garage sale, ahh I mean tilla!
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you forgot the capt hmm maybe i should go have some.. still got a lot left.. hmm
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Was a fun time. Wasn't able to come down until late morning on Saturday, and had to leave early Sunday. But RG and I had alot of fun. Nice to see some old friends, and meet some friends that I only knew by a moniker.
Would've been nice to hang out more. The jigswap got a big FUBAR'd. Spent all day on the cooker (but better then lounging at home drugged up, well, let me think about that lol). But, next year hope to be actually able to fish, but still will run the cooker as well. LOL
Next year, somebody put an order for weather we had last cowtilla, ok???
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Great time again good to see old friends and make some new ones. Thanks to Marsha for last minute boat rides, and to everyone for all the great food and entertainment, like the way Caveman spun the boat and I ended up in the lap of that young woman and FJ for throwing that wake on us so I got a bath. I could go on and on but heck we will just do it again soon... Don
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Oh! Where was WoodsyWayne? Or Osprey? What do they both like the huskies?
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I had a great time as usual.. Special thanks for the boat rides (fj, DD, Wildoutdoorsman) Another special thanks to group who helped load the large Yamaha into the gooose mobile. (bux,shrambo, rl, alex, dd, goose).... And another to everybody who helped in food, tents, fires, signs.
Had a really good time...
Enjoyed seeing some new faces and always a pleasure seeing the old friends again. Sure I will think of more after a solid sleep..... remind me to bring two tents so I can sleep away from the party and have a decoy.
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what do you mean wango wasnt there?? heck i didnt even notice
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Tyee Dog, you called my wife a young women ? Oops I'm in trouble again.
It was a blast good food, good company. Thanks Kelly and son for takeing me out Saturday. Glad I could keep the smolts of Fishon's hook long enough for him to hook that nice steelie.
AuntyM and Caveman Thanks for taking Aud and I on Sunday and making us feel welcome when we got there it was a blast and we are ready for the next one.
Also really good to meet Gooose and everyone else.
But I think we needed more beer.........
Oh by the way Rapid Robert, I talked with the wife (she was in the boat with AuntyM at the boat launch). Some how you managed to miss them.. Are we going to have to put a scope on that thing.
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Well Bux
I had arranged for Friday off, which I was able to get. I woke up Fri morning with a Migraine, and a sinus thing going on,(good thing I had the day off)  not the start I wanted !!).
As the morning progressed, so did my Migraine!
At that point I knew, It did not look good, and I did not feel like a 3 hr drive.I attempted cell communication to my rides, with no success. I called the motel where one of them was staying and passed along the info.
I wanted to go, and had the truck packed, but just did not feel to good!
I have some other personal issues which I will keep to myself, but also affected my decision to stay home!
Anyways, I felt a little better Sat morn, but still not enough to make the cruise. By Saturday late afternoon, I was jonesin to camp,and fish, but the Cow seemed way too far,so since the truck was already packed, I decided on a overnighter to the Upper Sky wilderness area.(much closer to home)
I set up camp, fished, took Smokey for a lesson on "swimmin in the current", I had him tied around my waste while fishing, and let him venture as I was, except he is slightly shorter than me, so he got better at swimming. Then I bagged the fishing, and just made it a swimmin lesson day for my dog.
I built a nice fire, cooked some grub, watched the glacier water roll down hill,then it started rainin hard, so moved to the tent, and watched a few dvd movies on the laptop, and munched out on brownies, cookies, and fell asleep with a wet dogs nose stuffed inside my sleeping bag with me.
I am bummed I did not make it, but that is just "life".
I am glad everyone had a good time, I knew Ya'All would!
98043 Thanks for the boat ride offer, I appreciate it, Fishon same deal, sorry I could not make it, fellas
Wildoutdoorsman,... You have a package in route
The weather sucked, I felt like crap, and I missed my favorite Flotilla, ah well, hopefully I will make the next one! Sorry I missed the new faces in the crowd, was looking forward to meeting and seeing everyone again.
I did one other Flotilla when I was sick,(Chehalis) and it was miserable, so decided to not repeat that feeling.
I STILL have a big 0, in case anyone is wonderin 
WW
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thanks to evryone i had a great time it was my first and i felt like i had known everyone for years and were old old freinds. thanks to all who help me with my tent and other things. and thanks to RR for a great trip on friday, maybe we can get some shad next time
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Bama-
That sounds like a blast, I may not be able to make it out for the weekend fishery but could certainly make it up for the eve to b.s. and drink some beer... Let's try and plan on that, I'd love it. Do it sometime around mid-july when the river should be stuffed with fish...
Keith
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Gooose pretty well summed it up!
Thank You 98043. Sweet ride! Kelly and Alex!Been a very long time since someone handed me a baited up rod and said "cast there" That was pretty cool. I will try and find some way to pay you back. Perhaps a little trolling on the Sound?
Good plan there Kalamabama. When? You will have to get some time off. Tell the Boss you have to "Guide a Party" Just don't tell him it's a party of 50 or so!
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