glen, i'm not sure this would effect our area as much.  tourney says scapoose bay which would be quite a run up to the camas area.  i do see what you're saying though.  plus i would rather fish lower columbia then silver lake anyway  .   i was unaware that so many clubbers didnt want to fish this event to me it looks challenging but intriguing.

troy

Troy - the distance is roughly equivelant to the distance on Roosevelt between our launch site at the J&J and Keller's Ferry.  No doubt we'll be intertwined.

Leave it alone.  Many of us have already made arrangement.  Having another tourney is no different than Washington, Sammamish or Banks on just about any given weekend.  If I remember right there was a lot of fuss some years back about Roosevelt and it's been on our venue ever since.  We need to give a fair shake I feel.  Whatever it is, I'll be there.

Mark - I HIGHLY doubt ANY of us voted on it with the full intent of fishing it on the same weekend of a charity tournament.  So the "we voted on it" argument doesn't hold water.

Guys & Gals - all I'm saying is I'm sick and tired of people whining about low turnouts. It  seems we're destined for a low turnout on this event, and so we have a chance to avoid it.  But it seems people would rather complain than do something about it.

So it's time to put up or shut up! 

I'm fishing it with O.D. unless a certain family member's health condition turns worse that it currently is. 
O.D. is committed to this tourney, and has promised to use his nose to his best ability to "Put Dad on Fish".   To that extent, he has been sniffing at my stack of fishing magazines a lot more.  I think it's his way of pre-fishin. 

Smitty

OK as much as I would like to fish Silver I would have to say that switching there is a bad choice.  August, especially towards the end of the month, is extremely crowded!  When I go there I get there at 5 in the morning and usually have only enough time to fish one spot before every spot on the lake is crawling with people.  By the time we would blast off I would assume that many of the best spots will be taken, it would be much worse than any compettition we are going to have with the boats out of scappoose bay.  Also Mark's right, I wouldn't expect many boats to venture past the willamette, and they're blasting off a good distance away from us.  As far as the water being dangerous I feel that even in a small lake like silver your more likely to get into trouble because of all the rock piles and pillings.

Trophies for everyone!

KILL THE MESSENGER, KILL THE MESSENGER  ,  Just kidding Glenn,  Hey I know it's about getting people to participate.  I think that those that do show up will have a great time, fishing will be better than people think and the river is not nearly as intimidating in that area as some might make it out to be.  On a different note, as some of you know, I crashed the "Bath Tub" during the Sammamish BASS qualifier.  Was told it would be a long time to get her fixed.  I just wanted to let everyone know that Gonnason's took care of me and moved my boat to the front of their sevice schedule and got their part done of fixing her up and she is now at the glass repair shop.  I am hoping to have her up and running for this tourney.

Mark