well, it was raining hard in AM and then slowed to showers for afternoon. Lot of boats in derby. Much hooting and hollering as the fish bite, came on off plumber bay, We saw waves of people catching fish. One large tin boat had the wifes along, boy they were hauling one after the other. Fish mostly 50-70 ft all day. LOTS of fish and jumpers all over. Our boat got full limit and good time was had. As a laugh, we spotted a large chum just below the surface towing a bright green flasher , it was going around in circles for awhile then we lost sight of it.

Must be a seine opening coming, as a bunch were moving up thru seymours.

Limited out by 12 today and that was with three of us on board. Tomorrow there will be 5 of us.

Very slow this morning. Heard it picked up later in the day. But I can not confirm that. I am sure some one can tho..

16 Saturday in Deepwater and Plumper 30-60'...5 Sunday same area 50-100'. Both days landed about 1 of every 3...pretty dismal display
Saturday had 3 quadruple headers and landed only 3 of the 12 fish...but what a blast!

wow what a great weekend! good times fishing with SB, RBF, Sherm & Jh
Friday limited must have been into at least 30 each day SB good work on steering with the commercial boats around
Saturday depsite the constant rain still managed to break out sweating trying to land so many fish
first triple header, then folowed by all four rods next set , then another triple it was hot all day long
wierd fishing in the rain but trying to take layers of so you dont sweat so much

Sunday great morning left early to beat the rush of boats outa there but we still hit fish the short time we fished
Best depths were a 100 feet to 70 feet for us

right on big chrome - was there a magic lure out there?

Saturday was nuts for us!

We 3 came off plane on the outside of the tea party at Separation head at 8am (late since one of us had a sore head and couldn't even remember going to bed) with the plan of chucking the hooks out and then trying to find a line in Deepwater.
(UN)fortunately we weren't tucked in to the Bay enough and ended up in a current heading north.
After 20 minutes of fish jumping all around us and seeing tons on the sounder I broke one of my rules which is not to use the DRs to chase fish the sounder shows! We were fishing 80-120' and the sounder said 30-60'. INSTANT hit.
We must have been in the middle of a HUGE school because we had 10 in the boat by about 9am - at one point we were 7 for 7.
We spend the next hour and a bit holding out for the last 2 to be a bit bigger but when the school seemed to only hold a certain size we topped up and ran back in.
We were literally sweating out there!

Sunday was quiet all over, then at about noon things got hot at Plumper, we weren't able to limit before the scales closed so quit at 1215.

One neat way we were getting them to hit was by throwing the gear out and simply peeling line off the reel to let it sink slowly (not attaching to the DR), this was a LOT of fun!

Almost all participants and staff were great.

This is the way a derby should be - good times and relaxing!

It was a pleasure to be around so many good people.

Thanks to help from many of you, I was able to get the braided line working and quite liked it by the second hour.

My one downer was an engine power issue, nothing some BOATing units won't fix (or hopefully a cheap tweak - yah right); and if I never used it, it wouldn't break!

Smiley.

Oh, yeah...the t-shirts look great!

We fished saturday in the rain with hastamanana, had our share of hits but only about half managed to get hooked up. Managed four fish 40 - 80 feet down.

Switched our hooks up for sunday, started off really slow with only a few hits in the first few hours but then the bite turned on and we landed 10 fish and lost a few others. Fishing in the crowd was pretty hectic when every boat had fish on, but for the most part went smoothly. Almost all the fish were hitting 70 or 80 feet down with only a few fish hitting the shallower gear. All but two fish were nice and chrome with a few showing no stripes at all. Stayed out past weigh in because the bite was on so i never heard what the winning fish was, biggest i heard of was 23 pounds?

heres our catch chrome fish

sorry if the image is not clear i had trouble reducing the pic

MM our hot lures were googly eyed chum things and pink squirts

what color are the googley eyed chum things? I have seen the spring thing in green and a slick as snot in black glow but not the chum thing?