Diamond Lake Huge success

[RogueRick]

WOW!!! Kokanee Power of Oregon's Inaugural Diamond Lake Derby
was a huge success. 80 plus entrants had the time of there life.
This type of derby is new to the area and with the entrants not knowing what to expect. They were blown away to say the least. We had entrants from as faraway as Folsom CA, Mariposa, Coarsegold and one from Oxnard Ca, flew in and rented a car and drove two more hours to fish it.
The Oregon weather ran the gauntlet from heavy snow, rain, wind, to a absolutely perfect day Sunday in the 70s.
The Trout ran from 1-3lbs with the big fish weighing 3.53 lbs.
Total lbs for the two day 10.53lbs first place, 10.52 second place. I will try to post photos soon.
We can't thank Gery Coe enough for his participation as a entrant and his help and expertise in running an event of the type. We are so fortunate to have a brother club to show us the ropes.
Thank you Gary Miralles & wife for your sponsorship. Gary did his usual fantastic job at the weigh in and at the dinner raffle thanks again.
Thank you California for helping us get the Oregon club started.
Our president Greg Gram and his wife worked non stop for the last 2 weeks putting the derby together. Along with the crew that they put together from the moose lodge. Reregistration and weigh in went flawlessly. I don't know the numbers yet but I know that we picked up 8-10 new members. I would like to thank all of our sponsors for there donations and participation. especially Mike and Pat Boulton from Boulton Power Boats and Jim Biddle of Willie Boats.

[capron6]

Ditto on everything Rogue Rick had to say regarding the Diamond Lake Derby. The efforts and results were OUTSTANDING. I would personally like to add my thanks to all the folks mentioned in Rick's report, your presence surely added to our success. I sincerely hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as I enjoyed having you there.

One more big Thank You to all the participants. YOU made it happen!! As for me, I can't wait until next year. I look forward to seeing all of you again. Next year bring a friend or two and enjoy the festivities.

Be sure to watch the forum for information on upcoming events. Rumor has it that some fun stuff might be happening in July and August. Information will be available soon.

[Dangerous Dave]

Man O Man! What a great Tournament and thank you to everyone who had a hand in it.
My team and I had an incredible time and it was great seeing some old faces.

Rick of Rogue Rods, man you did a top notch job my friend, the food was awesome, the weighins went very very well, everything was first class buddy. Gary Coe , always a pleasure seeing you my friend and Gary Miralles you are the man behind the mic greats seeing you buddy.

The fishing was great we caught and released just over 60 fish in 2 1/2 days, had to pour coffee on my kicker throttle to get it un frozen

We will have three teams there next year.
Thanks again for everything, we had a ball.

Sincerely
Dave Pitts

[kokaneeoregon]

Dave thanks for the great support from team shred ,glad to hear yall had a good time ,photos & final results will be posted soon .Greg Graham

[Dangerous Dave]

Greg, I want to say thank you to you and all of the work you put into it aswell, it was a pleasure meeting you
please go to the following link:

http://www.salmontroutandsteelhead.com/cover.html

We have a few pictures up there from the tournament.
If ever I can help in any way Greg let me know buddy.

Thanks again

Dave

[HiTechKoke]

The top 20 Derby winners are listed at this link:

Diamond Lake Derby Results

[HiTechKoke]

And here's some photos from the event. We'll have more later in the photo gallery...