Team Defiance/Raymarine WTC Report

Well it was a great event, I think that all that participated were glad that they did. The water was flat, and the fishing was good.

We Pre-fished with Tommy AKA CORNFED, and jskfish John on thursday. Those guys are great fisherman. Well done guys. (I figured that I better get my report up before Tommy, as he is a little more eloquent and always provides great pics.)

We found some fish on Thursday and then stopped in to catch a couple of salmon with Kevin and Gabe off the Willapa on our way in.

The Raymarine E140 with High Definition Radar was awesome both days. We took advantage of the "Bird Mode" which really helped with spotting breaking fish and Bait Balls that Salmon were feeding on when we fished Friday. The new Touchscreen E-Series is out of this world. If you haven't seen them yet, check them out.

Friday we decided to sleep in late and fish Salmon and rest up for the Carnage to come on Saturday. Mark from Raymarine was with us, along with Killerbee. Caught some Salmon and had a great time out there.

After the Friday clean up it was get ready for Game Time!!!

We headed out to our numbers from Thursday. We saw Tommy out there so we decided to run a little south to see if there was much going on south. Could not find any life in the water so we pulled up and were going to head back up to Thursday numbers, when we got a call from Tommy. He was on them. 1 mile SW of our Thursday numbers. We ran up about a mile short started trolling and got bit.

Game On!

From there on we were basically wide open all day. We moved a couple of times trying to find some big fish, but just could not find any real large ones. So we decided to just try and plug the boat and sort out the biggest ones when the carnage was done.

Got the call from Tommy that they were plugged and heading in. We had about 50 fish or so by then, but the guys would not let me leave. so we kept fishing and decided we wanted to hit the 60 mark.
When we hit 60 fish, I told the guys, "OK Dan can catch one more fish ( he was just flipping a bait in the water). After pulling a hook out of a fish and spiking and bleeding him I stood up to see EVERYONE SOAKING ANOTHER BAIT!!! So I said to Dave "Killerbee" Dave, I said to just have Dan catch one more and we were going to leave. To Which he replied, "If Dan gets to catch one, I get to catch one." It was like fishing with my 8 year old boys. We had a good laugh together over that one on ride back.
Dan and Casey put on some "Tuna Warpaint" and he headed for the Barn. No really big fish but a lot of fish. We ended with 62 Albacore on board for the day and some really tired Hombres on board. Although we finished 6th, we couldn't have asked for a better day fishing. We did manage to catch the most fish for the Second Straight WTC. So hopefully next year we find the big ones.

Congrats again to the Winners and also Team Defiance "THE CORNFED SHOW" and John "jskfish" as their teams did an awesome job.

The two Defiance Teams combined for a total of 119 Fish Caught for the Day. So it was a good day for the Defiance Teams.

Thanks to Raymarine , Honda Marine, Seeker Rods and all of our other sponsors who helped to make the day a great one!!

If you are going out of Westport, we were fishing 46.24 and 124.48. The water was around 58 degrees. Go Get Um Boys!!

If you can make it next year please do. It was great to have Del and some of the guys from the OTC there. But it just isn't the same fishing tournaments without more of the OTC Oregon crowd.

Rob lands a Personal Best 55lb White Sea Bass

Here is the Report From Rob! Way to Go Man!

...I heard the whispering about the WSB bite going on in our back yard, and had to take a late-night peek. Steven, Jared and I left Mission Bay on the Defiance 290 Guadalupe around 10:00pm last night and got all tanked up by the guys on the Outer Banks light boat.....They had a full-on float going, and making bait was easy...but since we didn't realize it until last minute, it was nice to have the guys out there.

So it was off to the bush to wait it out....A few guys were set up, and a few more came later.....Super important: come in slow, quiet, and stealthy. Nav-lights only - no spreaders.....hand-over-hand the anchor....no winches, music, slamming lids, dropping pliers on the deck....dark and quiet.....then wait.

My personal best came around 2:00am....I've been living with a forty pounder as my best croaker for twenty years, but this one hit 55-pounds on Seaforth landing's scale...

Steven got one about 35 around 3:30am....we fished it 'till Gray, and headed in to work......No sleep, but well worth it!!

Bloodydecks Yellowtail Shootout

Well it was a great day of fishing. The wind was blowing and the fishing was a little scratchy, we caught a fish at the Middle Grounds and then left to try the Rockpile, Pukey point and finally La Jolla working the bottom to try and catch a big Homeguard Yellow that might put us in contention, but it wasn't to be. Check it out at www.bloodydecks.com

Neah Bay

Another great Halibut Opening Weekend up in Neah Bay. It was great weather, flat seas and a lot of Halibut for all!

Check out the new halibut maps on TeamDefiance.com for the dope on all of the great areas and how to fish them to score the big fish!

Making a little time for Yellowtail Fishing

It was a great day on the Water! Got to fish the New Weedless Swimbait by MC Swimbaits. The Fishing was great and the Yellow finished off a fantastic day in San Diego

Team Defiance Wins Again!!! Washington Tuna Classic

The seas were fantastic, the swell was big at times, but really spaced out and very smooth. I am so glad that the great call was made to go with the tournament, because with no wind, it was flatter and much smoother than Friday.

We started out by running out to 46.33 and 124.50. Just about as soon as we got there we saw jumpers almost immediately. We slid up and threw bait on them and had a bait stop that went for over 2 hrs. After a couple of hours we got a couple decent fish, and one 25# fish, but just didn't seem to be getting the size of fish we wanted. I made a call to leave a basically wide open bait stop to try and find some bigger fish. At the Garibaldi OTC event we got into a similar situation and caught a whole bunch of small fish, and I didn't want the same thing to happen again. So off we went.

We ran NW to around the 46.36 and 125.04 and hit a small school of jumpers with some bigger models in the school. We pulled two 30# fish out of that one stop. The fish were very skittish and it was difficult to keep a bait stop going. The two big fish were both caught on set-ups with 20# floro top shot and small hooks. We kept working that general area but we were having to throw so much bait that we ended up using all of our 6 scoops of bait! We had a 120 gallon bait tank on the 290 Guadalupe and the amount of bait we were able to chum definitely helped get the fish going. Almost all of the fish were vomiting bunches of bait fish as we got them close to the boat, so perhaps they had been gorging themselves all night.

We trolled some swim baits for a little while and caught one fish on a trolled swimbait and pulled a couple more with swimbaits while our fish was hanging. But that ended up being our only troll fish of the day.

We ended with 38 Albacore for the day and a five fish total of 130.40# We had two 30# fish. One team weighed a 33# but didn't enter the big fish pot. I knew the feeling as we didn't enter the big fish in Ilwaco when we had the big fish. But they did a real nice job.( I forgot their team name)

We had a Wounded Warrior named Greg on the boat with us. He was a trooper and caught one of the 30# fish. We also had two guys that work at the factory on their second Tuna Trips. Casey ( Lamination Superviser) and Dan ( Assembly Supervisor) and they did great as well. With two of our regular team members myself and Rob Sanford on the boat, we were a bit busy helping the greenhorns at times, but they performed awsome!

Garibaldi Oregon Tuna Classic Event

Well we didn't win the event, but we caught a lot of Tuna and made a respectable showing of ourselves. We just couldn't seem to find any big fish. We were able to comeback with 38 tuna, just not the big ones we were hoping for. The fish was donated to the Oregon Food Bank from the event, so our fish went to a good cause. It was a great event and certainly one that we recommend supporting. It was the last event of the year for the Oregon Tuna Classic , but the Washington Tuna Classic is this weekend on the 12th of September so please come and support this great event if you are able. Washington Tuna Classic .

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