Monday, August 3, 2009

Team Defiance Wins Oregon Tuna Classic Ilwaco Event




Congrats to the guys on the Defiance Fishing Team. Here is a copy and past from another site.


Well we prefished for the tournament and invited Dave "Killerbee" along with us. It was great to have him on the boat with us. Great fisherman and a great guy. If you ever need to fill a seat, keep Dave at the top of your list.

Most of the pics and the video are from Friday. We were to busy being serious on Saturday to try and shoot video. But it was fun to try out our new underwater camera. We ran North on Friday and Saturday. On Friday we fished 46.25 x 125.06. Thanks to Salt Patrol for calling us in on a nice bite he had going on Friday. We fished there for a little while, and after we filled our boat and verified where the fish were, we headed in to fish the CR buoy for some Salmon. It was lights out Silvers. We fished for about an hour and caught some really nice silvers and a couple small Kings. But then it was time to Cark Tuna, clean salmon and get ready for the Captains meeting.

We headed out on Saturday Morning to the same spot, and wouldn't you know it, Dirty Green water. We hooked up a couple of fish, but it was really dirty, so we picked up and ran west. Found a really nice Blue- Green Line at about 46.24 and 125.09 and had a couple real nice bait stops. After fishing there for a while, we started trolling again and finished off at 46.22 and 125.15. Another really nice bait stop. Almost all of our fish were from Bait stops. We had one double hook-up and the rest were singles. Just baiting them up, we did throw some Iron as well, and caught a few fish on Iron. One of our Big ones was on Iron. But almost all of our fish we weighed were on live bait. The bait was large and active and worked real well for us. At 1:30 we left a wide open bait stop and headed for home. It was really tough to leave that many fish.

We crossed the line at about 3:40 with 20 minutes to spare.

Just wanted to thank all of the Volunteers that put this great event together. I know how much work these things are. A great group of fisherman. And really a great attitude among all. It was really a great time. I am also posting a video of some of our fishing from the Friday before the event. Hope the numbers are helpful.

Go get em Guys!

Here is the Video Link
Team Defiance Oregon Tuna Classic

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