Good luck everyone. 
So now I see where you guys are launching.  Safe to say no one is going to make the run to the main lake.  Is the best fishing on the skinny river portion, the main lake, or both ?  Looks like a lot of fun from the pictures they have on the campground webpage.

As for the fishing it was very good Lot went out Friday & caught quality fish even Smitty  . Lot of boats came in at 11am same as me.Some had limits already.They tied up & were going to see if it would let up so they could go back out.
The resort is nice but its next to the road & log trucks kept us up most of the nights.The camp host are very nice & helpful. The people who were in the cabins had it good.
The river moves fast & we had to run about 30min to find slack water.It looks like potholes when you find it. I am sure there will be some big bags. Think about this its late June post spawn for most the State & the weather was all over the place & that can shut the fish off but yet we were catching.
I was getting good at killing those pike   I had a Pike that was about 3ft long hit my jig freaked me out.

Again I can not stress how hard that rain was & it just kept coming non stop.

I concur with John about the weather being some of the craziest and dangerous I've personally witnessed while fishing.   After making approximately a 28 mile boat ride upriver Saturday morning with my backseater Jerry Beatty we arrived at our first fishing spot around 6:30am with broken clouds,partly sunny skies and basically no wind- It couldn't have been more scenic out.  I started fishing and hooked two really big fish within the first 10-15 minutes at our first fishing location but unfortunatley I lost both of them. I felt very optimistic however about what I was doing and figured I would eventually be successful if I just continued to do what I was doing....I couldn't have been more wrong.  

Shortly after that I started to notice really dark clouds forming in the horizon and they seemed to be coming our way.  Ten minutes later, the first rain drops started to slowly come down.  The rain drops quickly transitioned from light drops to a heavy downpour within just a couple minutes.  The rain was now coming down in sheets and was being accompanied by thunder claps, hail and lightning flashes.  The one thing I didn't count on was the overall intensety of this squall.  The lightning became so intense that it basically forced me to beach the boat so Jerry and I could wait the storm out under a small bush which felt safer than being exposed out in the boat and in the water near tall trees or powerlines.  

We waited about 15-20 minutes until we felt the storm cell had subsized enough to safely wander back out on to the water to return to fishing.  After dozens and dozens of casts without any bites, I decided to move our fishing locations to a different area across the river in  slough where Jerry and I had fished  Friday and saw two 4lb cruising largemouth and caught three smallmouth.  As soon as we arrived to this spot a second storm cell crashed down on us seemingly out of nowhere.  The same things were happening....heavy rain, hail, thunder and lightning,,,this time with more verocity.   The lightning flashes and thunder claps were longer and more intense.   We were in a small slough that only had tall trees surrounding which made us feel even more exposed than our first area.  we decided to just stay in the boat and get as low as possible.   As we're waiting for this particular storm cell to pass, I looked to my right and saw an extremely bright orange lighting bolt hit the ground less than about 50-75 yards from us which was shortly followed by a sonic boom.  This thing was so loud it made your heart jump out of your chest.....really scary!!!  As soon as this cell passed we deded to get the heck out of there and head back to the launch while we had an opportunity.  This lightning event shook us both up so much we decided to stay off the water for the rest of the day.

I thought all of you brave souls who went to box canyon this weekend might find the following article interesting since it's labout Lightning awareness week. ...too funny- NOT! 



http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/

The film that Rocky took only hints at how bad the weather was .  However, despite the crappy weather and despite the fact that my Fred Meyers $69.00 special shelter was destroyed by the hail storm , I had more fun at this club event than I've had in a long time .  I am glad that "Sparky" Paysno wasn't closer to the ground strike by lightning.  Great pre-fishing on Friday.  A great time socializing with all in attendance on Friday nite.  Great to share a shelter with the Dovers and the Wards  in what I thought was going to be my own private slough on Saturday.  Pretty darn good fishing for nearly every warm-water species in the book.  An outstanding Saturday evening food fest.
I will most definitely go back would not hesitate to vote for this one next year despite the long travel, even for me.
And yes Jack, I'll bring MORE Canadian!

Smitty

AKA Dune Hopper

Heres some video from Saturday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr_-TKBJZAg&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ZOa63IVng&feature=plcp

It sounds like rain, hail and lightning trumps snow for a good memorable tournament!  Wish I could have been there. Its good everybody was safe in the end. Great videos and posts! Can't wait to see the results! Too bad we all ready voted for next years lakes!

It sounds like the weather won. I haven't heard anyone talk about who won or placed, but how the weather kicked everyone's butt.