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Title: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: cohoho on May 22, 2013, 09:28:46 AM
Meeting with Robodad, so we will two boats going after our winning derby fish...  Whose else is heading up?  Hmmmm, what buy with my winnings????   :chuckle:
Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: washingtonmuley on May 22, 2013, 09:36:41 AM
Good luck
Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: Mfowl on May 22, 2013, 04:53:36 PM
I'll be back out there this weekend, but I don't have a derby ticket as of yet. Probably get a toad to.   ;)
Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: robodad on May 22, 2013, 05:00:45 PM


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Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: pjb3 on May 22, 2013, 06:51:26 PM
Hmmm, whats the deal?
Might be in, is it out of PA? Long boat ride for me
How much?
Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: robodad on May 22, 2013, 09:10:06 PM
Hmmm, whats the deal?
Might be in, is it out of PA? Long boat ride for me
How much?

$40 for one or both days, boundary is from low point to the base of Dungeness spit then north to the Canadian border !!

1st place $5000
Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: MooseStock on May 22, 2013, 10:13:46 PM
Its not all of area 6. You should be able to get a PA Salmon club Derby pamphlet when you buy your tickets. It is most of the areas but there are boundary lines and you must weigh your fish in by boat at the PA Yacht club. I will be involved again and up there...it will be tough fishing with the big minus tides especially if your trying to fish deep water but some 30 people will make that ladder and there will probably be a !00lb+ fish on top as is usual.....Good Luck to all.............Les
Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: robodad on May 23, 2013, 06:36:28 AM
Its not all of area 6. You should be able to get a PA Salmon club Derby pamphlet when you buy your tickets. It is most of the areas but there are boundary lines and you must weigh your fish in by boat at the PA Yacht club. I will be involved again and up there...it will be tough fishing with the big minus tides especially if your trying to fish deep water but some 30 people will make that ladder and there will probably be a !00lb+ fish on top as is usual.....Good Luck to all.............Les

Your right its not all of area 6 and I fixed my post !!  ;)
Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: hawksfan75 on May 23, 2013, 11:47:15 AM
Any thoughts on how rough it will be this weekend? I know there's supposed to be some pretty big minus tides and it will probably be rough around the islands. But We're putting in at Washington Park in Anacortes and if Hein is going to be a zoo, we might stick closer to the islands.

Sorry to threadjack, but want to stay out of folks' way as I'm still learning the ropes out there...
Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: Mfowl on May 23, 2013, 01:12:33 PM
I'm in. See you all at the weigh in!   :tup:
Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: robodad on May 27, 2013, 07:14:30 AM
Fishing was brutal with those HUGE tides this weekend, Had a great time with Cohoho and crew even though he forgot his GPS/Fishfinder and was flying blind  :bash: and got lost a couple times it was still a great time fishin !! I was able to put a couple small fish in the boat and a handfull of shrimp as a bonus. I don't know what the board looked like at the end but there was a fish in the 90's and another in the 80's and I think 60's when I last checked, someone should have the actual numbers here and I'll see if I can find and post up the winners !!!

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Found the information...

1st 96#
2nd 93#
3rd 89#
4th 86#
5th 83#


Some dang nice fish !!!  :tup:

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PORT ANGELES — Second time was the charm for the Port Angeles Salmon Club’s 2013 Halibut Derby winner Sunday.

Robert Beauvais of Joyce won the derby in only his second try at a fishing derby by catching a 96-pound monster flattie.

The 49-year-old angler, who moved to the North Olympic Peninsula in 2004, caught the winning fish at 10:07 a.m. Sunday, not that he was looking at his watch at the time.

And like most hard-core fishermen, Beauvais wasn’t about to give up the location where he caught the huge fish.

“In the water,” was all he would say about the location. And he said it twice.

Beauvais had some soybean and herring rigged up for bait, and it took 20 minutes to reel the bottomfish up to the boat.

“He didn’t want to come in,” Beauvais said.

“He would take off on the run, headed to Neah Bay. Three times he did that.”

Beauvais won $5,000 for winning the derby, which he will share with the three other anglers on the boat, all old-time fishing buddies.

That includes Richard Logie of Renton, who caught the fourth-best fish at 86 pounds.

Logie didn’t do too bad financially, either, winning $1,200 for the fourth-place fish.

Logie caught his fish at the same secret location Beauvais reeled his in. Logie caught his at 1 p.m. Saturday.

The other two anglers on the winning boat weren’t so lucky, getting blanked the two days of the derby. Well, except for sharing the loot.

The four anglers earned their rewards, spending eight hours on the water Saturday and another six hours Sunday.

Beauvais beat out the runner-up by just 3 pounds as Josh Constant of Port Angeles caught the second biggest halibut, 93 pounds, to earn $2,500.

Constant caught his Saturday with the weigh-in at 1:44 p.m.

Third place went to Jesse Ahmann of Whitefish, Mont., who caught an 89-pound fish, also on Saturday.

Ahmann earned $1,500 in prize money.

Five of the eight top fish were caught on the first day of the derby.

The 13th annual derby gave out $20,000 to the top 30 halibut caught by ticket holders within the U.S. waters from Low Point to the base of Dungeness Spit.

There were 617 total entries for this year’s derby.

Last year’s winning halibut was a little bit bigger than this year’s.

The only two-time winner in the history of the derby, Jeff Reynolds, brought home the winning monster in 2012 at 112 pounds.

Reynolds was the only angler to catch a halibut that exceeded 100 pounds.

Other top-10 anglers for the 2013 event were Robert Shelton of Port Angeles, fifth place at 83 pounds for $1,100; Kenny Royer of Lacey, sixth place at 73 pounds for $1,000; Dale Clark of Shelton, seventh place at 67 pounds for $800; Don Sargent of Port Angeles, eighth place at 64 pounds for $700; Carla Murphy of Tacoma, ninth place at 60 pounds for $600; and Tim Allison of Port Angeles, 10th place at 55 pounds for $500.
Title: Re: PA Halibut Derby - whose in?
Post by: Mfowl on May 27, 2013, 09:53:46 AM
Cool, thanks! Those tides were rough for sure!
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