Seneca Derby ‘25

[Frogger]

Well another year in the books. Congrats to the winners and to all of those who battled the weather this past weekend. Good to see the fellow fisherman and friends and family during it. All in all it was a struggle to keep a focus on what was catching fish as it wouldn’t last long. Flexibility was our theme bouncing from different techniques as the wind and weather would allow. The boys wanted to at least try and pull the pflugars /copper just like there uncle who recently passed would fish. We hit a period of time Sunday pm in the brutal west wind where we couldn’t keep the fish off. We lost a stud. Told the boys keep em down, now is the time. Brody hits his 8.5 lber with us having to make that dreaded decision, go now to weigh in or stay. We decided to go in. Once we got back for the last hr the bite died. Oh well. We did 35+ for the weekend.  No real pattern.  Scattered was an understatement. Fish were to my surprise marked up quite a bit from lamprey with us catching a few for fish food. Seemed more than last year but could be wrong. I hope the derby stays around with having some new direction. It needs it. Changes are needed to get the interest back. Thanks again Steve (Roy’s Boys) Larry and Roz @ Roy’s Marina for the hospitality and support. Congrats Steve on that stud Brown. I was rooting for ya. Some pics of me attempting to be as good as my late brother was in pulling copper and Brodys 1st in teen division.  

[GAMBLER]

Congrats Mike!  Good job getting the young guns into some fish!  

[Frogger]

Thank Brian! Those colors I got from you are still producing!

[Roys Boys]

Thanks Mike, glad you guys get a spot every year at the marina.. hopefully next year we can get some more people and sponsors and make the derby even bigger! We ended up mainly chasing silver for the derby maybe spent 2 hour for lakers. Silver fishing was great Saturday night we got a 6lb rainbow unfortunately the weigh stations were closing soon and my main motor was down. Sunday we hit a few in the am them my brother called and said the fishing was better were he was at so we shot over and set lines before the spot and popped a 5lb brown two minutes later we went threw a cloud of bait and the big one hit and popped the 9.19 brown.. that night we got a few salmon but nothing for the board.