My family had a 1st annual fishing derby this past weekend in areas 9 and 10. The fishing derby is in honor of my grandfather. He was a supreme hardcore fisherman.
He won a car in the 1940 cracker fishing derby with a 15pd silver at 29 yrs old.
My uncles told stories of how he would take a 6hp little boat out 2 1/2 hours into the straights, westport, neahbay, near tatoosh or past and many other places. He would then row all day with 12inch spinner cut herring.

In the 70's he stopped fishing because there were no more fish. No one sold his herring anymore, he liked it because he got to pieces of bait with one herring. He would only use 2oz banana weight, 3oz if it was rough. He was also mad that people were using new fancy equipment and bait, especially the new small cut plug herring.

My uncle finally got him back into fishing, all it took was one blackmouth and the passion returned. Anyways enough talk.

The saturday was tough, at the time my brother had the only fish out of 42 boats checked at Kingston. It was 16 pounds


The tail got cut in the picture when I downloaded it


We then had a family BBQ







This is my grandma, she was in sixth grade and my grandfather was a senior whenshe saw him pitch. He pitched for the pilots and was going pro but his parents told him he couldn't and get a real job. He started an oil business in West Seattle. As your about to go over the west seattle bridge his buiding now has a coffee shop in it. The story goes that he bought all or part of Alki point for $5000 with a friend a looooong time ago. A couple years later someone wanted it and gave him $10,000. At the time it was a good deal.






Sunday morning was much better weather and the fishing picked up a little for some of us. The winner was 22pds, although a high 20's was released in part of a double header, there were 2 dbles that day
Here is another 16 for my brother

here is one dbl

here is the other

couple of the vessels, someone might recognize the olympic, my uncle fishes constantly in the summer





and the winning fish


here are a couple morning sun shots





All in all it was a great time even though the fishing was subpar. Now go easy on me with the pic quality, its my first digital camera and not everyone there knew how to hold a fish for a quality picture.

Very nice story and pictures!!

Great family time & outstanding fish!

Very Nice!

Looks like you guy's had a great time.

Cool stuff! Nice post.

well done thanks for sharing.

RIGHT ON! Looks like you had a great time. I really like the old school fishbox! Looks like a future hoops star in the family to!

Looks like fun.

Nice

Nice work

Id heard somewhere that the Carlsons knew how to catch fish! Nice pics. Its always fun to see the family get together for a little fishin fun.

Jadeball,

You probably heard it from a Carlsen .

Who ended up winning the rod?

My uncle John, the little brother of this ugly bunch


He won it with most fish caught, he won money with the biggest fish. We also had a prize for smallest legal King, I don't know who won that prize.

Clary had fished the opener through that Saturday without much luck, so sunday he planned to fish edmonds area. He decided at the last minute to fish Southworth because he heard that fishing was decent. I told him that fish were moving in because I saw at least 10 caught at PNP that saturday morning.

His son Chris called him after he had 4 fish in the boat in area 9. Clarys cousin Lou caught 1 16pdr at southworth at 5:00 that morning, there only bite and only fish.
The plaque has a picture of my grandfather holding his 40+ pd king. Names will be engraved each year of the biggest fish winner

Thats pretty cool. Looks like you had quite the crowd, and a real good time. And thats what you get for thinking, Clary

Very cool post. Looks like good times to me.

Sounds like a good time. Awesome photos too. Thanks for sharing. Those kinds of things are what it is all about isn't it?

Hard to see, but here is the plaque that will have the biggest fish winner engraved each year.