Well, the annual salmon fishing trip was a success, again!  We had a great time and enjoyed the time on the lake.  We took the 8th Annual journey to Point Breeze to participate in the Professional Abatement Contractors of New York (#PACNY) Salmon Fishing Pro-Am Derby.  This year 18 boats participated in the derby.  We left Orchard Creek to fish the Great Lake of Ontario at 6 AM.  Future Environment Designs (#FEDTC) was represented by Ms. Sheryl Exposito, Ms. Veronica Hansen-Garcia, Mr. Matt Dech, and Mr. Angelo Garcia, III, and we were in the same boat as last year’s “Catchin Hell” piloted by Captain Tom.  This year we hoped to defend the trophy we won last year.

Sunrise from our Hotel Room in Warwick

As always, a great big “THANK YOU” to Darren Yehl of Cornerstone Training (CTI) and PACNY for organizing this event.  This event allows us to catch up with many of the PACNY members and see how the year is doing.  Here was this year’s line-up of PACNY members and boats:

• Cornerstone – Sunrise II
• Cornerstone  – Legacy
• Expert Environmental – get Hooked
• Expert Environmental – Richmond 4
• Expert Environmental – Lucas
• AAC Contracting – Bite Me
• Future Environment Designs – Catchin’ Hell
• US Ecology – Shotgun
• US Ecology – Bait Master
• Abscope Environmental – Reel Excitement
• Metro Environmental – Rusty Lure
• Paradigm Environmental – Trolling Tails
• Lozier – Screem
• Sessler Environmental Services – Intimidator 
• First On-site – Creeper
• Aramsco – Mister 
• Aramsco- Lake Runner
• United Rentals – Tomahawk

It was a beautiful day, the Lake was a little rough and because of it, we bounced around a bit on the way out and during the fishing.  Captain Tom did a great job handing us the poles and giving us encouragement as we reeled in our catches.  We stayed on the lake until about noon and then came ashore to weigh our catches and see who won the derby.  After the weigh-in, a catered buffet lunch was provided by the Black North Inn, and the trophies/prizes were awarded.  This year’s winners were:

Expert 1/Get Hooked won Big Fish & Aramsco/Mister won Big Box

We had a great time, we caught 1 King Salmon and 3 Rainbow Trout.  We are looking forward to some good eating over the year as we usually bring all the fish home to have some over the next few days and then freeze the rest to have until next year’s catch.  Thank you to Darren Yehl for adding to what we brought home.  This year we were a little disappointed in that we didn’t bring home more King Salmon or maintain our title from last year, however, we have been very fortunate in the past and we are very grateful for attending the event every year.  Looking forward to next year on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, save the date!