There were so many great tips submitted to this contest it was very difficult to pick 10 to send to the other 3 guys for voting (plus myself with equal voting weight). I wound up sending a top 14 tips list to vote on; 3 pts. for each guy's 1st place tip, 2 pts. 2nd, and 1 pt. 3rd - then add up the totals. Here is the outcome:

First Place (Springer or fall trip for 2 with RT) - Bobber Down's Tip #5: "If your unsure how to get land access to a fishing hole???? Pull up a satelite shot and zoom in. Try Terraserver http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/default.asp "

Second Place (Half dozen Kwikfish in new packages) - Stlhdr1 "I have actually rigged sardine fillets on spinners before. Which actually leads into another tip, another one I really didn't want to share because it's something that if someone had the time and money could make a lot of money on this idea.
I have successfully fished the mouth of the cowlitz with alvins but in the last two years I have just dominated with this rig, it goes like this:
What you need-
The ability to tie a spinner, a package of light sticks, components to a spinner and variable blades.
First, I tie my treble hook on then when you open the package to the light stick there will be a clear plastic tube inside. Take the clear plastic tube and slide it down on the spinner shank as if it were the body, next finish with a bead, interchangable blade clevis and you're done tying the spinner. Now when fishing the spinner, take the light stick and crack it so it luminates usually green or red light sticks work best. Insert the light stick into the plastic tube (you may need to lube up the tube so you can insert the light stick) once the light stick is in, the spinner sits a little cockeyed, so that is where the bait wrap comes in. I take a small piece of sardine or herring and wrap it on the opposite side of the light stick. It covers all senses that salmon and steelhead have. It's like a strobe light when you put it in the water.
I have had a ton of success on this at the mouth of the cowlitz during the fall, catching limits of chinook, steelhead and silvers. I have fished it both anchored and trolling with great success." Keith ...

Special mention: This goes to Hawk for the single most informative post. But the contest is for a winning tip, and was to be limitied to 5 entries. Hawk's great post had 9 good ones in it (one of his 8 listed had 2 tips in it). Thanks Troy . ...

Another mention: I must say that while Bobber's tip and URL are great and won, I did not give it my first place vote because many of the satelite photos are years old on that site. Very interesting site though!! I could spend hour after hour on there! I located and zoomed in on the Oregon City area and zoomed in on likely shad fishing boats anchored along Yucca Island in the Willamette off the mouth of the Clackamas River. I also zoomed in on the lower Elwah River until I could see river banks and then down to where it entered the Straight of Jaun DeFuca. Cool. I don't think it possible due to security reasons, but if we could get such a detailed satelite feature that was a live shot we could see how many boats or bankies are fishing the spots we are thinking of fishing the next day. It isn't quite detailed enough to see if guys are netting fish, but close! Now that would be 'the cat's meow'. Someday maybe we will be able to zoom in on what successful fishers are using - wow, or not ...

Bobber, let's get in contact to set up a trip (it's pretty low water right now and I'm leaving tomorrow for 4 or 5 days B.C. saltwater fishing). If we get rain soon we can go for springers still. If this dought continues we may rather fish this fall in Tillamook or Washington. Keith, e-mail me your address to send the Kwikfish's to (or I can give them to you if we fish the Washougal together). ...

Thanks much to all of you for the great tips! We have all helped each other become better fishermen. Also, I will likely put over half of these into my book. If you gave a good one which didn't make it in, that could be due to it having been given out by me on here or on ifish already the last couple years; including the ifish old DB where I started with lots of tips. For the book, I will use the tip's moniker unless you send me your name via e-mail, putting it too your tip (to be varified).

Thanks again everybody. Fish on! - Steve (RT)