As we hit the middle of blackmouth season it is time to get into derby mode. The 2011 Roche Harbor Salmon Classic is in full swing, truly one of the highlight events of the year. Always good to see so many familiar faces having
a great time. We had some fun newcomers to the crew this year, shout out to "Little Miss"! As usual, we smashed it the first night with the annual Mental Floss wine and cheese event. Then it was Saturday morning and time for business. Our morning seemed to start our promising with two quick salmon strikes out of the riggers, but no hook ups. After spending a few more hours on the north side and scratching out one 10# fish, we decided to hit the south side. We had one more that we had to rele
ase and then with only 15 minutes remaining for before the daily time limit, boom. The reel screamed as an 18 pound hatchery chinook ripped off line. We got it in the boat with 3 minutes to spare and called it in to the fish patrol. It was good enough for a first day 4th place, but got bumped to 7th by the end of the second day. We did however as a total weight per boat take 5th place out of 100 boats. Good times
