Threes For All Time

Well, gang, we have now finished our final day of fishing for Extravaganza 2011 and what a story Them Threes have told.  Using as a barometer our Twenty Inch Club board (which in a “normal” Extravaganza year finds an average of 15 entrants), the E-11 Ones started the E-11 pace by registering 23 twenty + inchers in their three days of fishing, only to see this then all-Extravaganza record short lived for but a week, as the Tattoos picked up where the Ones left off as they posted their (new record) 35 twenty + inchers to the big board, only to see Them Threes come into town this week and, on their first day, post 19 twenty inchers on their Day One, followed by 15 more on their Day Two and then, get this, pounding the 34 cumulative posting with 19 more beasts on the Three’s Day Three, making a total of 53 twenty + inchers for Them Threes—a record that I simply cannot ever see being exceeded (unless we end up with a[nother] big water Mo year, that is!).

 

Shown above in the aftermath of the Three’s third day of fishing are Group Three’s Yellow Shirt winners (posing with Montana Matters’ inimitable Bob Wire who, as shown in the second of the above shots, serenaded the Threes on Headquarters’ back porch with such favorites of his as “The Ballad of Rock Creek Ron”, “Erry’s Place” and, the perpetual crowd pleaser, “”You’re On My Shit List”) Paul “Heel” Miller on the left with Grady “GQ” Garret on the far right and the Wireman posting center stage—each landing [and releasing] a 22 incher {every 22 incher—all five of them--winning a Yellow Shirt in each of our groups this year}, with GQ shown separately doffed in his brand new Yellow Hat and, appropriately, Houston’s “Gentleman Jim” Carmody pouttingly boasting the Three’s Cry-die towel, he limiting himself to just one fish each of the Threes three days and suggesting that E-11’s “fairness in fishing” mantra was asterisked in his case.

 

Yes, Them Threes have done it to the Mo and their celebration all the way home après Day Three’s fishing told the story of their regal success—a tale that will most likely nerve again be either matched or exceeded in forthcoming Extravaganzas.

 

Bravo, bravo, bravo, Threes…may you bask in the glory of your success until your return next year to defend your honor in Extravaganza 2012!!

 

Best to all from the scene of it all,

 

Rock Creek Ron

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