Looks like we had around 12 - 14 rooms booked at the Dockside for the May date. With this late change in date and venue we probably won't have the turnout we were looking forward to. That being said, if we could get some definitive yes/no commitments maybe we could try and hold that many rooms. The last gathering at MacRae's they were very generous holding the rooms for us with a 30 day deadline before that gathering weekend. However with June 1,2 being the middle of prime fishing season it's time for us to "put up or shut up"!

Personally I cancelled my Dockside reservations, made some at the River Palm and if that does not work out for our gathering I'll cancel them also. It hurts, actually it pisses me off that our gathering dependable members like Mel and Moose got "screwed" on the Dockside issue so let's hope we can pull something together. If not we'll move on.

Awesome Moose sauce.

The WPB fishin club got some similar emails and calls.

I will wait until morning to cancel...
New fuel tanks?
That is not the same as dock renovations or is it?

I`m sorry gang, but we will move forward.

Tom at the fishin` club got the same news.

They are switching to RPC as well.

Fly Eagles Fly.

We really didn’t want to make alternative plans but if anyone wants to spend a day or two with us fishing offshore just let us know. We’ll have room and will be fishing every day weather permitting.

Not sure we will drag the boat down for the gathering but we will likely be there for the festivities and cornhole tournament on the Eagle boards.

You could fish on slacker...

That would be a no for us. Leaving Memorial w/e to mosey on up to Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, the last three states on my b-list of 49. (hope to try for the fall gathering)

Las Palmas?

Is Sportsman’s Lodge “Toast”?
 

Dang, I go down to Boca Grande for a few days and “off line” and the wheels fall off the East Coast Gathering....! I got an e-mail from them about their dock work delays and I wrote them back and said “We’ll (I) deal with the dock situation when I get there” and they e-mailed me back and said “You are Canceled”. I e-mailed them back earlier today and said “I didn’t cancel. I said I’d deal with the Dock situation when I get there”.

Did someone cancel the whole group? What the heck is going on? I had a dang manual lever King Autopilot that “held course” better than this. Tighten up - Archey Bell and the Drells.

I think they must have changed their name to the NoDockside Inn and the Sportsmans Lodge was out of it a while ago.

T-3 They pulled the rug on us with there dock b-$#it...:mad:
Those of us that canceled did so individually.

Said our best option was to load boats on trailers everyday and
park across the street ! I don't think so....

They left us with no choice then to bail out..:mad:

We had to hussell to find another location like NOW.
Hence River Palm Cottages down the road a piece in Jensen..
For sure we are losing some that booked, but on the other hand we
will gain some... :)

If it is just Don, Deb, Patti & I, so be it... we will have fun either way !

Si Senor! And Mel can’t stop thinking getting crab cakes at the market. We really appreciate you thinking of us and priming the pump at Sportsman as an option.

I’m a little concerned Mel might be utilizing this trip for a real estate recon. She really likes the area but I don’t want to work myself into the grave so her and the pool boy can have a nice home on the ditch with a custom SeaCraft on the lift.