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Arizona Shooting Club Open Carry Night

You're invited to attend a dinner where everyone attending will be openly carrying a side arm of some type.

The event will be held at the Golden Corral on the west side at the Golden Corral 79th Ave and Thomas Rd on Saturday, November 14th at 6:00 pm.

This is a community outreach program held to educate people on their right to bear arms and to show the general public how to carry guns responsibly.

If you don't handle a weapon on a regular basis, please DO NOT attend this event. If you want to learn about guns please attend one of our gun range events.

You're invited to attend a camping trip to Cataract Lake. A good lake for trout fishing and kayaking. We are bringing ATVs and will go for a long ATV ride on Saturday. 4-wheel drive trucks can follow us. It will be cold at night. Bring thermal underwear, warm clothes and a heavy sleeping bag. Daytime 78 degrees/Nighttime 40 degrees. We will be camped somewhere on the campground loop. See the map below. Just look for my black suburban with white hunting and fishing decals on it. I usually have a hunter's orange baseball cap on.

There is a $10 per night camping fee. So bring little cash for a camping spot and firewood.

Directions:
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From I-40, take exit 161; turn right onto Golf Course Drive if coming from the east or left if coming from the west. After passing under the railroad tracks, turn right immediately and go about 1 mile to the campground entrance on your left. The road is paved and open year-round. Click here for a map.

There are 18 campsites with picnic tables and fire rings (fee for camping). Pit toilets are provided, and drinking water is available but limited. There is a concrete boat-launch ramp. Power boats can have only single electric motors or single gasoline engines of 8 HP or less.

Please read this whole event before calling me with questions.

Lake Powell Ski Boat Aramada Fishing, Scuba Diving Camping Trip

You're invited to a fun-filled weekend of sunning, swimming, skiing and fishing at Lake Powell. The weather will be cooling off, but the water will still be perfect for swimming. If you like to fish do not pass up this opportunity. We catch fish all day long, including stripers, catfish, small mouth bass and lots of sunfish.

If you have never been to Lake Powell, imagine what it would be like to fill up the Grand Canyon with water. The water is deep and crystal clear. The shoreline is sandy beaches and the canyon walls are the same red rock structures as you find in the Grand Canyon. Click here to see last year's pictures!

Since no one could afford the houseboat, we are currently seeking boat owners that want to carry 4-5 people and their camping gear around Lake Powell for the weekend. The cost for the trip is $25 plus gas/oil for the boats.

We will assign people to ski boats, gather their contact information and then share it with everyone that will be riding in the ski boat together.

Each day we will break camp and move to a different secret cove with a sandy beach. Pack light so it will be easy to move. You'll need a tent, sleeping bag and ice chest full of food and drinks.

So far, we have 6 big ski boats going, but have 3 maybes from other boat owners. If you know someone with a boat and want to invite them to attend this event, tell them we will pay all gas/oil expenses for travel related to moving people from one campsite to another on our scheduled trip segments. Boat captains will need to provide me receipts on a daily basis. I will enter them into a log and give the receipts back. No reciepts equals no reimbursement. I don't care what happened to the receipt.

We DO NOT pay gas money for renegade captains that want to stray from the armada and do their own thing. We will plan a couple of day trips that will cost riders a little bit extra if they want to go on that day's event. Money for each trip will be negotiated by each boat captain.

At the end of the trip, I will add up the costs and the group will split them evenly among all passengers.

If there is room, I highly encourage scuba divers to bring their gear. This lake has fantastic visibility, but bring a wet suit if you have one. After about 40 ft. the water gets very cold. The coves are usually warmer and more conducive to diving without a wet suit.

If you plan to bring kids or pets, make sure they stay in your presence for the entire trip. We will not serve as babysitter while you are out playing around on the lake.

In addition to big ski boats, we could use a couple of pontoon boats to carry the bulk of the camping gear. The number of people we can take depends on the number of dependable boats we have to serve as water taxis.

Here are the boat captains so far:
1. David - 6 passengers
2. Gino - 6 passengers
3. Mark - 6 passengers
4. Mike - 4 passengers
5. Robert K. - ?
6. Roy - 6 passengers

The plan is to meet at 9:00 am on Friday morning at the boat ramp near Wahweap Marina in Page, Arizona. We will spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the lake and return sometime late Sunday afternoon. The drive takes about 5 hours. I plan on leaving Friday morning at 4:00 am.

Lake Powell Fishing Report
Aug. 19, 2009, Lake elevation: 3,639. Water Temp: 75 - 79 F.
Stripers are performing a Lake Powell balancing act. When boils cool in the upper lake it seems boils take off in the south. At the end of July boils slowed near the dam and stripers at Hite went ballistic. Bullfrog has been the fulcrum with steady surface activity throughout most of the summer.

Early this week the entire northern and middle lake went quiet. True to form stripers in the south took up the slack. But today boils were back at Bullfrog and bigger and better. Many anglers took 40 or more stripers from hour-long, acre-wide boils in Slick Rock Canyon, Halls buoy field and Tapestry Wall.

The general boiling pattern prevails. Stripers hit the surface just as the first ray of sunlight peaks over the eastern horizon. Most of the action is centered near the main channel as shad have returned to open water. Shad size is larger now forcing stripers to work harder to drive them to surface and keep them corralled for feeding purposes. This makes stripers more aggressive, which equates to more fish caught if the lure hits reasonably near a fresh splash ring.

Get on the water early for best success. The first hour of daylight is critical. Single stripers splash constantly during the magic hour. Hit the ring - catch the fish. Usually a big school joins up and feeds for 15 minutes before breaking down into single splashes once more. Feeding sometimes ends one hour after it begins but some days feeding is extended for two hours or more.

Always as the sun gets higher in the sky, boils become more random and unpredictable. A huge boil could erupt at anytime, anyplace and last for an extended period. But these mid day boils are unpredictable. It is best to go on with the recreation plan for the day and just keep a rod ready in case of "emergencies".

Afternoon boils are not as likely as the summer wind pattern tends to blow them away. On a rare calm afternoon it is a good bet to look for boils in the portion of the lake where boils were found in the morning.

Lure choice is wide ranging. It is more important to throw a long accurate cast than to have the right color lure. I prefer big floating stick baits that cast a mile and have stout hooks. There is less lure maintenance with this outfit. It is not necessary to change plastic lure bodies with the hard plastic bait. After a good morning of boils it is necessary to change bent hooks and replace broken split rings. If using light line it is only necessary to restock the tackle box to replace lost lures.

Striper size is increasing daily. They started the year at about 2.5 pounds and now are close to 4 pounds and 23 inches long. They are strong and thick bodied. The fillets are excellent and perhaps the best I have ever seen. This is a year to remember for striper fishing. The good news - It will only get better as water temperatures continue to cool.

From one of the other meetup group's I run:

You're invited to attend a free consumer-oriented Arizona Solar Power Conference, which will be held Saturday, August 29th from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Peoria Home & Garden Expo Center located at 8606 W. Ludlow Dr. Peoria, AZ 85381.

Customers will be able to solicit quotes from Arizona’s leading solar installation companies for the best deal on a solar system and learn how to get up to a 60%-80% discount via APS and SRP incentive programs.

Residents and businesses can get a free estimate on how much it will cost to install solar on homes, apartments, condominiums, shopping centers, business buildings, parking lots, warehouses, retail outlets, strip malls, franchises, convention centers, airports, hospitals, hotels, schools, government buildings, manufacturing plants, grocery stores, supercenters, casinos, car dealerships, movie theaters, sports arenas, etc.

If you own a real estate business or property management company in Cave Creek, Chandler, Fountain Hills, Gilbert, Glendale, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix, Paradise Valley, Scottsdale, Surprise, or Tempe, this will be a great opportunity to learn how to give your property a competitive edge via fixed utility costs for the next 25 years.

The first 1,000 attendees will receive a free copy of our Arizona Solar Buyer’s Guide and Business Directory, which provides contact information for more than 80 solar installation companies in Arizona.

The publication will also educate consumers on how to tap into more than $185 million worth of energy efficiency/renewable energy utility incentive/rebates to make energy efficiency and solar power as affordable as possible.

There is also information on the Arizona Solar Watchdog program that gives consumers a step-by-step guide on how to select a solar installation contractor as well as how to check out their ROC license number to make sure they are in good standing.

This is the only place in Peoria where you will be able to solicit quotes from 10-20 solar companies in one day, compare quotes and build a relationship with the solar installation company that best meets your needs and budget.

Arizona Hunt Unit 6a Hunting Trip for Archery Deer

You're invited to attend a free Arizona Hunting Club campout and hunting trip in Arizona Hunt Unit 6a for both deer and elk. We will be camping due north of Stoneman Lake at the intersection of Forest Service Road 9473L and Forest Service Road 127 and Forest Service Road 127B, which is just northeast of Lee Butte. The GPS coordinates are N34.838676° W111.526711°.

You need to be have your annual dues paid to attend this trip.

You will need a bow/arrows, 4x4, rhino or ATV, clip on flashlight, baseball cap, a GPS unit, binoculars and a digital camera to participate in the hunting trip.

You will need the standard camping gear including a tent, sleeping bag, warm clothes plus food and drinks for the weekend.

Hopefully you joined us several weeks ago when we scouted this unit.