Extravaganza in Napa: May 1st--Save the Date!

Extravagant Ones:

 

May 1, 2010, will mark the 12th anniversary of the day when your Hostess With The Mostess, Kocktail Kathy, and I met [on a blind date in Florida, I might add], as well as our 11th wedding anniversary.  Culminating plans that have been in the works for about a month now, as members of the faithful cadre of Extravaganza 2010 we would like each of you to join us in a special anniversary party that we are going to be hosting at, appropriately, the Leland Sonoma Fly Fishing Ranch on Saturday, May 1st from 3:00 until 700 p.m. 

 

Located just north of the Viansa Winery and adjacent to the bi-plane airport on the way from the raceway to the vineyards of Napa and Sonoma, we have rented the Leland Fly Fishing Ranch for our exclusive and extravagant use that May 1st late afternoon and early evening--complete with three [count 'em!] fly casting instructors who will be at your beck, call and [provided]rod to cast to real rising trout on their 3 1/2 acre and 1/2 acre trout-laden newly constructed ponds.

 

This fun-filled, May Day mayfly hatch-ful evening event will be an opportunity for all of you E-10 participants [and your families!], just as did last year's Napa concert [mark your calendars now for November 6, 2010 for the re-play of this to-be-sold-out-again extravagant event, btw!], to convene before your arrival(s) in Missoula and allow each of you to meet and greet those in the other two groups who you otherwise might not meet.  I know that for you E-10 out-of-staters, this may not be the most convenient time or place for "y'all", but, for those of you in the greater Bay Area, Kathy and I can't think of a better way to celebrate our many years together, most of which have had an extravagantly Extravaganza overtone to them!

 

For now, just mark the date:  May 1, 2010  3:00 p.m. 'til 7:00 p.m.

 

More details and sign-up info to follow!

 

Best to all in anticipation of it all,

 

Rock Creek Ron & Kocktail Kathy

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E-09 Quiz Answers/Photos

E-10ers:

 

The silence to our first E-10 quiz having been deafening, undaunted and gratuitously, here are the answers to the questions that I know each of you have been pondering all week long (accompanied by last year's amazing species-altering photos--out of order, btw, such that you have to work a little, at least, to pair the answers with their digital proof):

 

    1.  Marin County DVM Jim Clark is shown having just landed his legendary 60" Billtrout--photo courtesy of his (fishing and professional) partner in crime, DVM Chris Rodi.

 

    2.  Hailing from New York City, investment banker par excellence Mike "BS" Stakias is featured with his now worldwide renowned Bullshit Fish.

 

    3.  The motorcycle-caught Deer Trout is the proud prize of Marin's Brian McLeran, photographed, post landing, in the ER of a not-to-be-named Missoula hospital (note the doffed and coveted E-09 Yellow Hat awarded to "Biker Brian" for the "catch")

 

    4.  And, finally, the feared Snake Trout was landed by none other than Rutherford's fairest vino marketing guru of them all, Elizabeth Pressler.

 

With the photos telling the tale(s) of it all, yes, indeed, a good time was had by all during E-09...and let the good times begin to roll for E-10!!

 

Best to all,

 

RCR

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FW: Extravagant Muse

And so says Group Three rookie Mark "I'm Da" Pope [and, if anyone should know, it should be He!]:

 

     both...

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FW: Extravagant Muse

As replied to by  "true fisherman", Group Three Floridian Bob "Liar" Kingsland:

 

 I believe this is an accurate statement that applies to everybody, except me!

 

   

FW: Extravagant Muse

And from one veteran who knows (Group Two's Ralph "I Fly" McLeran):

  

 Both.....

   

FW: Extravagant Muse

And so muses Group One's Mike "Oh So" Wise:

 

  I’d say it’s a little of both! 

 

RCR 

 

 

Extravagant Muse

 

                                                        We ask a simple question

                                                        And that is all we wish:

                                                        Are fishermen all liars?

                                                        Or do only liars fish?

 

                            [by William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954]

 

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