Full Metal Jousting

[pondman]

Is that the old Irby construction place where they had the polo field?

Yes.

[dubmckay]

Is that the old Irby construction place where they had the polo field?

Yes.

That's where I learned to dove hunt and shoot skeet- which has developed into my love for waterfowl hunting. On one occasion, My old man decided he would teach me how to fly fish during one of our numerous trips out there for bream in what we called the concrete dam pond (bunch of quickcrete dumped on the emergency spillway to keep it from washing). Once I got the hang of rolling the flies under the overhanging limbs around the bream beds, he left me on the bank and jumped in his flyfishing "boat". Pops boat consisted of an old washtub with a board spanning the top of the tub for a seat. He would then place the tub in a tractor intertube for some extra stability. It was a great little rig to fish out of with a small paddle except on windy days. Dad was catching the bream as fast as he could pull them in and placing them on a string he had tied to the tub. I begin to notice that the tub was beginning to drift against the wind instead of with the wind, and I just wrote in off thinking the fish on the stringer were pulling him around. Suddenly the tub started dancing up and down in the water, and I noticed my dad began to get slightly nervous. He pulled up the stringer and there was a snapping turtle with a head the size of a grown man's fist latched on to another bream that he was about to devour. That snapping turtle left with one heckuva headache from where dad beat it with a paddle, but I know he had a full stomach from the several bream heads he left on the stringer.

I had heard they made several improvements to the place over the past few years- it sure looks amazing on the tube.

[Odis]

The place is amazing, their sporting clays range is awesome and the fishing in the lakes terrific!

[ALfwlmth]

Absolute TV Gold!! I would be in, and out Im sure, in a heart beat. There is nothing better than 2 guys running on horses, with a little sheet metal attached, and holding sticks that are intended to poke a hole in you. Better TV, had the "baseball bat" test been aimed towards the head. Lots of beers tho.

[skuna]

WHY??? I mean I know the one who survives the tournament gets like 100 grand, but is it worth your health?

$100K? where's that money coming from? ......guess maybe TV dollars, but before they got a TV gig, that had to do if for zero, b/c that bunch looks like a bunch of trash, rounded up from a bad lands beer joint.