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.
