Well the event at Silver Lake turned out better on a couple of issues than Phil & I expected.  The main issue was the weather, which despite the predictions of rain, turned out to be not too bad at all.  
It was nice to fish with an old ABA "T" partner and Phil summed it all up in his report.  While we didn't get rich on our winnings, we did cover our expenses with our 8+ pounds, so that made it nice on a day of difficult fishing.  The complete results will be posted on the Mt. St. Helen's Club website sometime on Monday.  You can see how the other club folks who fished it did at that time, as we didn't see anyone from the club at the awards ceremony.  Thats too bad, because there were quite a few nice raffle prizes which surprised me!   Phil managed to win a decent tackle pack while I blanked.  Oh well.
What made the "T" difficult was the fish we both located on separate trips pre-fishing the week before, were nowhere to be found!  The fact that the surface water temp dropped 9* might have had something to do with it.  I doubt that anyone who fished this "T" will have very much of an advantage when the club rolls in for our 1st "T" in a couple of weeks.

Smitty

Smitty,

Atleast you guys figured it out.  I can tell you between Bob,
Carlos,Nick and myself we couldn't figure it out to save our bacon. I found two toads on friday's practice but they disappeared on T-Day. We threw everything and the kitchen sink and still got blanked. We fished countless beaver huts,docks,rocks,red bushes,wood, and pads with only a dink for our efforts.

That lake has humbled me and I am stumped as to why it has become so tough.

Good job on a strong finish. You whooped our butts

Russ

Don't be worrying bout any forgiveness Bob.  We were just puzzled as to why everyone left, given all the hoopla that was raised at the last open when folks left early due to having soaked kids with a cold etc.  

The check they gave us will still deposit and clear all right, even if you guys didn't get to drool over it.

Smitty

Hey Ex-Prez,

I don't really know how the others did, they left before the weighin was complete.

Congrats to those who caught fish, collected money and prizes and to those who had breaks, hope ya get em fixed before this upcoming weekend.  Seems like it was a very tough bite for all..

Chuck P

I know it's kind of a late report but my friend Kegan and I caught three fish (one was a half inch short ) for 6.22lbs which would put us in about 9th since 8th had only 6.24lbs.  Another .02lbs and we would have took 8th for the second consecutive year .  But the fishing so far this year has been really inconsistent on Silver and Russ is right, it's becoming very hard lately.  We had the chance to probably place if we would have capitalized on all of our bites, but we had some mishaps in the morning that cost us.  Although we probably wouldn't have been anywhere near the 15+ lbs. that won it.  The fish have just been weird lately probably because of the weather, they aren't in the same spots from week to week just like Smitty and Russ have been saying, thats why I tried to warn Carlos and Nick to take the "humble" path in the pre-tourney smack talk but what are you going to do ?  Congrats to Smitty and Phil, you guys must have figured out something late in the game, because you were sitting on a big goose egg when we talked to you?  Anyone need a deep cycle battery?