16th Annual Suwannee BBQ Party and River Ride November 3 - 6 th - 2022

[dgscroggs]

Greetings from Albany Ga.

Found a great hotel on side of highway and plan to spend next 3 days getting 3 hrs south!

Great your makin it down , you picked a good one the river hasn’t been this nice in a long time

[Scream And Fly]

I will probably be able to make it. Been prioritizing repair work to the house but I think it's at point now where I can leave it to attend. Looking forward to getting some pics and video.

Greg

[Tom Foley]

I will probably be able to make it. Been prioritizing repair work to the house but I think it's at point now where I can leave it to attend. Looking forward to getting some pics and video.

Greg

Sounds great Greg , you will have some fun !

[Tom Foley]

Great your makin it down , you picked a good one the river hasn’t been this nice in a long time

Dan , will you make it to the BBQ ?

[dgscroggs]

Dan , will you make it to the BBQ ?

I’ll try and come see ya Friday night !

[Instigator]

We mAde it down and stopped to check on Tom.

He missed the window art in my earlier post so here it is again.

Then, Me and the Mrs had dinner on the shore line of the Suwannee.

[CUDA]

Did you bring the wake boards?

[DCP1986]

Anyone coming to Suwannee have a 15 spline small shaft hub kit?

[Instigator]

As a PSA, and in case Tom hasn’t heard of this:

Had my tow pig aligned at a local, Chiefland shop and the guy saw the boat stickers on it and asked what we were doing.

When I told him, he warned me of the jumping Sturgeon!

There is a picture, at the ramp by Tom’s, of a 3 yr old girl (as a memorial) killed by one!
Was his buddy’s daughter!

Said several people have died on the Suwannee from jumping sturgeon!

For those that don’t know, they can be 4’ - 5’ and 40 - 50 lbs or more.
You can imagine one hitting you in the head at 80+!

Said they have nasty scales too.

Told me the story of a fisherman having one jump in his boat and looked dead so he left it there.
Got back to the ramp to show it off and while holding it, it came back to life and went crazy.
He bear hugged it to get it under control and it’s scales tore the **** out of his chest!

Had heard similar stories up in Michigan but not this bad.

My 25’ Checkmate has enough freeboard to be way safer than you guys in your water rockets.

Used to carry a dive knife on board for fish nets that would work but don’t have it w/me this time.
Thinking wrap it w/a beach towel and throw it overboard?

Be careful out there guys.

That being said, have been to several ramps and spent a fair amount of time on the shoreline in the last 48 hrs and haven’t seen a single fish jump!

[dgscroggs]

As a PSA, and in case Tom hasn’t heard of this:

Had my tow pig aligned at a local, Chiefland shop and the guy saw the boat stickers on it and asked what we were doing.

When I told him, he warned me of the jumping Sturgeon!

There is a picture, at the ramp by Tom’s, of a 3 yr old girl (as a memorial) killed by one!
Was his buddy’s daughter!

Said several people have died on the Suwannee from jumping sturgeon!

For those that don’t know, they can be 4’ - 5’ and 40 - 50 lbs or more.
You can imagine one hitting you in the head at 80+!

Said they have nasty scales too.

Told me the story of a fisherman having one jump in his boat and looked dead so he left it there.
Got back to the ramp to show it off and while holding it, it came back to life and went crazy.
He bear hugged it to get it under control and it’s scales tore the **** out of his chest!

Had heard similar stories up in Michigan but not this bad.

My 25’ Checkmate has enough freeboard to be way safer than you guys in your water rockets.

Used to carry a dive knife on board for fish nets that would work but don’t have it w/me this time.
Thinking wrap it w/a beach towel and throw it overboard?

Be careful out there guys.

That being said, have been to several ramps and spent a fair amount of time on the shoreline in the last 48 hrs and haven’t seen a single fish jump!

They come in from the gulf to breed in the summer and then leave , that’s why there’s no runs in the summer

[Instigator]

Very interesting.
Thanks for that.
The guy at the shop, evidently did not know that.

Just read your location in your avatar to see your a local

Drove through your town yesterday.

They come in from the gulf to breed in the summer and then leave , that’s why there’s no runs in the summer

[dgscroggs]

Very interesting.
Thanks for that.
The guy at the shop, evidently did not know that.

Just read your location in your avatar to see your a local

Drove through your town yesterday.

somewhat local lol , I’m just weekender

[dgscroggs]

Dan , will you make it to the BBQ ?

Ended up getting over there a little later than I planned Friday, I’ll make it one of these days

[dgscroggs]

Some shots from the dock

[dgscroggs]

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