This Year's Tournament Will Be
Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Prizes are TBD, but in past years the prize categories have included... Heaviest Fish, Prettiest Fish, Ugliest Fish, and Highest Total Weight of Three Fish Caught by an Individual
 
Your Entrance Fee Includes...
Your Very Own Popeil Pocket Fisherman
Fishing License for the Day
Fish-tabulous Deck Party at Marker 20
(Discount provided if you BYOPPF)

Stop by Marker 20 to sign up or
send email to

On Sunday of Labor Day Weekend 2008, we had our first ever Pocket Fisherman Tournament. (Possibly the first ever Pocket Fisherman Tournament.) The plan was easy... Meet up at Marker 20 at 10am for the Captains' Meeting where you'd received your Pocket Fisherman and fishing license. Then go forth and catch fish. All fish must be caught with the Pocket Fisherman in the mighty Hampton River north of channel marker 20. Fish from a boat, a dock, or even a hovercraft full of eels for all we care. Just get back to the deck at Marker 20 with your catch by 4pm for the weigh-in.
 
"Why the Pocket Fisherman?" you ask? Well here's the deal... Every few years, Carlyle would bring up the Ron Popeil Pocket Fisherman... how cool they were and how he wishes he could find one. I (Chrisi) got really sick of hearing about it. I felt that he was only bringing it up so he could say "Popeil Pocket". Carlyle's a man who loves alliteration. Don't get me started on how many times he's worked in the fact that we live near Rip Rap Road!! But I digress. I finally went to my local Walgreens and picked one up for him, thinking that would be the last of it. But nooooo! Now he's made a whole fishing tournament out of it!
 
If you participated in or heard anything about our Freaky Kon-Tiki on Memorial Day Weekend, you'll understand that our sporting events are part competition, part wacky, and mostly an excuse to hang out with friends and drink beer. So don't worry too much about your fishing skills!

 
Congratulations to the winners of the 2nd Annual MARKER 20 Popeil Pocket Fisherman Tournament! Competition was fierce among the two dozen competitors.
 
Heaviest Fish: Dale (1lb 6.8oz)
Prettiest Fish: Judy (Fish Barbie)
Ugliest Fish: Traci (Mean Oyster Toad)
Heaviest 3: Bruce & Baleigh (2lb 8.3oz)
 

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The Kentucky Derby Day Party is, as always, the 1st Saturday in May. It's the day we dust off the ice crusher, pick some fresh mint, and break out the bourbon.
 
Ladies! Grab your guns... your glue guns that is. The Derby hat contest winner will be picked at 5:30pm. We've had some really inventive entries in past years. Star with her birds and nests, Stephanie with her screws and beer caps, and my personal favorite -- Mary Anne whose hat resembled a mini-bar! 
 

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Now we have cornhole two times a week!
 
Sunday Signup at 2:30pm...
Play Starts at 3:00pm

Marker 20 Cornhole in the news
 
Join the craze that's sweeping the nation!  Cornhole is a cross between horseshoes and bean bag toss.  It's REALLY big in Ohio, so you know it must be fun! :)
 
Cornhole is played on the back deck at Marker 20 every Tuesday and Sunday. Each time we have eight teams participating, we'll up the competition by giving away a prize!
 
So grab your friends, come on down, and shoot for the hole at Marker 20!

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Hurricane Hanna cancelled Bay Days 2008, but the party kept going at Marker 20 as Heather's favorite band dada rocked out a three hour set right in our back room! It was sweaty and gritty and a whole lot of fun! Thanks guys for giving your fans what they came for!!

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For three quarters of a century, it has been illegal for restaurants in Virginia to serve Sangria, that great Summertime refresher.  You see Sangria is wine mixed with various fruits and that demon brandy.  I guess the prohibitionists thought slipping the brandy in there would cause otherwise upstanding wine drinkers to be subverted into drinking the hard stuff, the first slippery step to moral depravity!
 
But after an Alexandria restaurant was ordered to pour ten gallons of Sangria down the drain and then fined $2,000, the law was challeged and repealed!
 
The new law goes into effect July 1st, 2008.  In honor of this momentous event, Marker 20 is celebrating with Sangria Week July 1st through 7th, 2008.  We'll be serving up our house made Sangria and other south of the border specials all week!

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Ten teams competed in the 1st Annual Memorial Day Weekend Marker 20 Freaky Kon-Tiki Hampton River Raft Race on May 25th, 2008!
 
Rafts were built on site for under $100, paddled down the river, then run overland to the finish line (and one heck of an after party) at Marker 20.
 
Thanks to Sandie and J.D. for the great idea! And MUCH thanks to Sandie for her fantastic organizational skills!
 

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We had another great Guest Bartender Night! This time to benefit our local YMCA.
 
Thanks to Bruce and J. D. for bartending on one of the busiest bar holidays of the year!
 

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Thanks to everyone who came out for our second guest bartender night! While celebrating Fat Tuesday, we raised just over $1,000 to benefit Brad Pitt's Make It Right project for rebuilding the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina.
 
Thanks to Frank and Rebecca for putting up with the craziness!
 

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At our first guest bartender night, to benefit the Peninsula SPCA, we raised just over $2,000 and got three animals adopted!
 
Thanks to Randy and Judy for slinging the drinks!