It was a choppy & cold start to the derby today, and the fishing was fun, the catching could have improved however. Alot of fisherman ended up with this face on after the waves bumped up.

It seems as if area 10 is dead...At least today it was...That's safely said when you put 50 or so experienced Salmon fishermen/women out there and only 2 fish were weighed.

What a great time, good job putting this together Sky-Guy! It was nice to meet you and the rest of the crew at the Sloop. B. Gray and I hit 7 shakers, 2 were right at 21". We'll be in the running next time. I guess one way to look at it is that everyone else took third place!

Looking forward to warmer days on the water!

Kev

I Second what Kev said....it was a great time despite the uncooperative weather. Thanks Sky-Guy for putting this together. I look forward to the next one.
JMS

SG, hats off to you man. You did a great job organizing. It was sure nice to meet up and put a face to people you chat with on here. Great bunch of guys. Hope to get to know more you of you guys as we do more like these. SG, please thank 3 rivers for me for the rod. It'll get pleanty of use. Hopefully we can turn this in to a yearly event. Thx, again to the Sloop Tav. Good grub. Next, SPRINGERS, man this never stops.

Fish On,

ErnDog

Great job putting the derby together Sky-Guy. Hope we all can do this as much as the river boys do the flotilla's. Had a great time despite the broken window it still has me how a 32 year old window that has been through twice if not more severe weather just blows. Well its better then a drive or motor I guess and thank god I work for a glass manufacturing company so this will not cost anything.
Thanks again it was fun and was nice to meet some of you guys now we have a face to go with the name.
KFM

Thanks again Sky-Guy, that was alot of fun, you did a great job putting that together. , I had a great time today. Our scorecard today was 6-7 shakers with none of them even close to measureable.

Would I have won with the crab trap I caught the day before?

AkKing sorry i didn't meet up at the sloop with ya, after getting the boat through the locks and getting it cleaned up is was getting late, but thanks for the fun day nice to meet some people and put faces to the names, Easy don't your trap would of taken a prize, because i had a more current trap catch for the day, there must me a lot of lost traps down there between me and cd seattle we might just go into the crab trap buisness(jk) had a good time, Doug

....thats funny, because my big catch for derby day was a stainless steel crab trap just South of Westpoint.

Erndog- Great job on the first place finish! Wish I could have made it out to meet everyone, always next time. The birthday party went great, we now officially have a teenage daughter; I officially have some extra fishing passes!

Condolences for a teenage daughter may be sent to steve@omegaconsultantsinc.com. Donations are gladly accepted.

Sounds like there's alot of lost crab pots in that area.

The derby was a lot of fun, fishing was great as usual, catching was poor. We thought about giving my 21 " a chiropractic adjustment, but better sense prevailed. I think we could have won a flat fish derby though!

Sky Guy it was great to meet you and the others at the Sloop. Great job and thanks for all the work.



-rbf

Thanks for the Hard Work SkyGuy.

And a Huge Thank You to FishSlayer75 for dragging the Ballard 'Ho back to Shilshole. I wasn't on it but my good friends Davie, Byron and The Smurf truly appreciated it. Huge Karma Points.

I suppose you could have been a little easier on 'em on the Pool Table!

Check this out -
Kind of confirms FS75's theory that the fish have moved North -

Results of the Stanwood Hotel Derby which was conducted on Feb 22 and Feb 23 in Marine Areas 8-1 & 8-2: First place was an impressive 20 lb 8 oz fish taken from Elger Bay by Guy Mossington; 2nd place was 16 lb 8 oz caught by Ben Vinning and 3rd place went to Wayne Logsdon with a fish weighing 15 lb 7 oz. A total of 36 fish were entered.

Damn, one area turns off and the one next door turns on.

I guess Erndog's Fish was lost then huh?

For the next derby we can chat about a good fishery and when to hold the derby. That way we can drag fish in to be weighed instead of dragging our tails in to get sloshed cause we didnt catch a fish.

Still had a great time!

I know it may be a bit early to talk about the next derby, but Sekiu in Sept is incredible. Those who were at the Sekiu Flotilla last year can attest to that. We caught a lot of fish and had a great time! The 2nd or 3rd weekend is always good.


Kev

Sorry I didn't make it to the Sloop for weigh in, but how can you justifi a big fat zero for weight? I ran all the way over to Manchester first thing and it was nice and flat. Next thing I know. I'm looking at some pretty nasty white caps out towards the middle!!!! It took me well over an hour to get back across.
So I ran up by 4 mile rock and tried that for a while, but decided to tuck in behind the marina on the south side of Magnolia. Had 2 good fish up to the side of the boat and lost them both!! *&%$#@!!!! Caught a crap load of shakers.
Also got skunked on crab traps.

Sky Guy, Great derby and we all really appreciate your hard work. And you are right, the fishing is always great

Great to meet you and a bunch of the other guys - didn't mind at all being blown off the water and having to spend 4 hours in a great place, eating great food, swilling great bear, and swapping great fishing stories - and Kev is right, all the rest of us tied for third! Definately got to do this again soon.

It was a great show and I had a blast dispite finding out that my little-friend / partner only asks me to go fishing with him 'cuz I am his ballast. I ate waves for him and us as a team got soaked but still 079084 was the last # called in the raffle and I still won great prizes thanks again for the setting up of the derby and doing all the legwork so we can all get together and fish and drink some beer.

Man, I think mine was the step child left behind on their way to Stanwood. I'm thinking we should all go to Stanwood next year and bring some fish back to area 10.

So when are we planning a Springer road trip. Call it the PP RUN TO THE COLUMBIA or something like that. Be pretty cool to see about 50 boats going down I-5 in a single line. Imagine all the beer drinking at the camp sights. Heck forget cans and bottles, KEG it.

Fish on,

ErnDog