Dah, dah, da, da Derby Time!

[popeshawnpaul]

What good is a post without photos?   

Ok, here we are Friday pre-fishing the tourney.  Bite was ok, but not great.  Cohoho got a short fat one.  Back in the drink it went.


Late in the day, with no beer on boat we managed to hook into a 4 footer.  It fought Mike pretty good so I took a few pictures.


Mike boated the fish.  48".  Not bad.  These things are big and ugly.  I'm not sure which is uglier, a sturgeon or a lingcod.  I know they both taste good.  Maybe there is a correllation there...?


Along comes derby day.  Here we are, the three amigos ready to take off with 100 other boats around us waiting...


They call down the start on the radio and everyone guns it.  Mike's boat is pretty fast at about 40 mph so we are near the front of the pack.  About 5 boats pull away from us going 50 mph +.  It was nuts as you don't slow down for waves...


The action was a little slow for us.  We didn't make the mistake of not having beer on the boat today.  Along floated a guide boat with an oversized fish on.  I think the guide running the boat helped put this tourney on.  This was a serious sturgeon on...


I'm not sure they knew they were being photographed as I had my big lens on.  This fish put up a fight.


Looked like about a 7 footer to me?  I think that fish is older and taller than me...


We didn't get a keeper the tourney day.  We caught a few though.  Here are a few fish at the weigh station.

[Red Dawg]

looks like you guys had a great time. That sounds like it could be a lot of fun.

[cohoho]

It was for sure, here are a couple more pics on my super duper high quailty red cheapo camera....  Even Shawn takes good pictures with that camera....  All the lack of high tech settings had him confused for a moment...   

[popeshawnpaul]

Oh, you had to show me with a dinker...     Yeah, there was only one setting, it was auto.  Had me confused for a minute...   

[cohoho]

I know that on and off button gets confusing for sure sometimes, it was the only couple pics on my camera......

[boneaddict]

AWESOME GUYS.  I'm sad I missed out!  Rob, we should figure out a team next year (notice I am inviting myself)

[huntnphool]

 

[hogsniper]

THats awesome, my uncle's team weighed in 70 plus pounds with 2 fish...They just couldnt get that 3 one but still managed 4th in the tourny....Awesome photos guys...Justin

[shoot-em-dead]

Looks like you all had fun. Any more tournys comming up?

[huntnphool]

Boatersworld sponsors a good one every year

[cohoho]

Rob, You happen to know when, looked at their web site but couldn't find anything?  I heard there is also another one in Astoria towards summer for the Policemen Associations?

[huntnphool]

Its generally fathers day weekend, although last year they had to change it because the high school gym was being used for graduation. They moved the derby back and the fishing sucked. I think this year they have moved it back to fathers day weekend or the weekend after but not sure. I get the info in the mail every year so I will let you know when. 3 person teams, everyone in the boat has to be on a team. Fish need to be weighed in alive and there is no shotgun start, weigh in as at 3;00 pm and trust me, they have guys there with a clock that cuts off the weigh in line right on the hour. Every year I see guys show up with nice fish but are a minute late, there are no exceptions given. The part that kills me is there are local police and game cops there for the weigh in, you would be amazed how many people stand in line with illegal fish, get up to the weigh in, and are shocked when the game cops write them up right there at the scales in front of everyone,

[huntnphool]

Here you go Mike, I forgot its headed up by SouthWest Washington Anglers, here is the link from their site.

http://www.swwa.org/derby.htm

[popeshawnpaul]

I got my anchor welded up and ready...