This year's club trip was to Mattawoman Creek on the Potomac River in Maryland (camping at Smallwood State Park).  This is a location that our club used to take annual trips to in our early days.  The boat groups that attended this year's trip were:  Fred Lentz/Rick Lentz; Scott Bowen/Bill Ridel; Bill Duckardt/ Dennis Snyder; Jim Miller/Mike Miller Jr; Mike Miller Sr; Sean Summers.  On this trip we held lunker contests on two days and a five bass tourney on one day.  A torrential downpour took place on the day we drove down and that severely muddied the water in almost all fishing areas for the whole time we were there.  In general the fishing was very slow, with all of the boats struggling to catch bass over the 15 inch minimum size.  The weather was nice on most of the days, but there was a lot of debris on the water from the storm.  Four of the boat groups each hosted a dinner for the entire club group.

Bill Duckardt (new club record lunker for this location)	Fred Lentz
Mike Miller Jr	Picking a lunker entry

Bill Ridel & Scott Bowen	Scott Bowen with his team's lunker entry
Bill Duckardt & Dennis Snyder	Sean Summers

Bill Ridel	Jim Miller
Bill Duckardt	Sean Summers
Bill Ridel & Scott Bowen display their entries	Fred Lentz's boat
Scott Bowen's boat	Mike Miller Sr's boat

Various other trip photos
Duckardt/Snyder/Lentz campsite	Evening get-together
Evening get-together	Cabin #21
Large floating debris on the creek & river after a major storm on Wednesday.
Osprey patroling the area	The reason the osprey was patroling the area
Northern Snakehead (fairly common now)	Sight along the Potomac River. (It's a sheet of 6 inch thick steel with a large hole blasted through it.  Located at a military explosives testing area.)
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