Seward Silver Salmon Derby- Round 1

Seward Silver Salmon Derby - Round 1
August 13 & 14, 2011

Saturday I get off to a late start.  Don't get in the water till 11am.  8 hours later...nadda...for salmon.  Got bored so dropped deep and got a DOUBLE! Too bad it was P-Cod.  Argh.



So I stay at a great Bed and Breakfast, Alaskan Odyssey http://www.alaskanodyssey.com/  Check it out if you are staying in Seward.

I sleep in again! Ack! But at least I am on the water by 7am.



Nothing for the first hour and then my rod doubles over!  Oh yeah!...Dang lost it...wait...what the heck?

WHaaaa?  THAT caused my rod to double over?  Hmmm..... something fishy going on here...




Finally after paddling out to Tonsina Creek, I see a few boats hooking up.  It took me over an hour but finally I get hit.  Nothing.  ARGH! 

Finally I get in the groove and quickly land 3.  My first one I thought was a monster.  Then I weighed it and it was only 12 pounds.  Needs to be 50% bigger to even have a shot. One's a runt that I let go after closely examining the fish for tags.

I get hit another 3 or 4 times and no hook ups.  I hate shortening the second hook.  But I don't want to leave snag marks even if the first hook is in the mouth.  I'm going to make them longer.  I got to land them before I have to worry about snag marks. 90% will be ok. 

2 more towards the end of the day closer to Miller's Landing. Keep one, let the other go.

So the tally after two days, 20 hours of on water time....5 fish landed.  Biggest a respectable 12 pounds and 30+ inches for an upgarde for my AOTY points!  Got something out of it at least! 

Because it was a derby, I really didn't mess around with the video.

I'll be back next week!

   Glad to see the report Rudy.It sucks to have  to be fishing vicariously through your posts,instead of being out there myself.But I do appreciate that you put it out here for us all.
   Now what,,,,wait til next weekend for round 2.Any idea of the lead fish so far ? Never mind I can look on their web-site and see.
  Okay.so go get the big guy next time out..oh yeah...and that $50,000 tagged puppy too.Good luck ,my friend.

Leader is 19.15lbs!!  That would have won the derby 51 out of the 55 years.  Another 17+ pounder was landed along with two tagged fish...$100 though. 

Wow...I thought my 12 pounder seemed big out of yak.  19lbs is like a king.

Derby ends Sunday at Noon so try to hit it again next weekend if parent company board meeting doesn't intervene!

     ""Board Meeting"------we don't need no stinkin board meeting.


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