2012 Lowrance/Simrad Boat Event Schedule

Hello All,

Many of you have requested our event schedule for this year where the boats will be appearing. These are the current on the water events for the boats where consumers get to go hands on with products and seminars where I will be promoting products.

Understand that it changes monthly and many more events get added.

1. Olympic Peninsula Salmon Derby 17-20 Feb. Sea Marine dock Port Townsend WA. (Both boats)
2. Cabela’s Lacy WA store. 3-4 March (Seminars)
3. Anacortes Salmon Derby 30 March-1 April Anacortes WA. Cape Sante Marina (Both Boats and seminar)
4. Tacoma Metro Parks all day fishing seminar 28 April Tacoma WA. (Both boats, 4 Seminars expect 100-120 people)
5. Lowrance Days, Sportco Fife WA and Outdoor Emporium Seattle WA. DTBD (Boats and seminar)
6. Gig Harbor Puget Sound Anglers fishing club Seminar 7 Aug. Tacoma WA. (Seminar)
7. Gig Harbor Salmon Derby 11 Aug. Point Defiance Dock Tacoma WA (Both Boats)
8. Vashon Island Salmon Derby 25 Aug. Bremerton WA. (Both Boats)
9. Everett Coho Derby 22-23 Sept. Everett WA, Everett Marina (Both Boats)
10.Salt Patrol Marlin Tournament, East Cape Mexico 8-12 Nov. Van Wormers Resort-Palmas de Cortez

More seminars and events to come.

Thanks for your support.

John Keizer
www.SaltPatrol.com

Salt Patrol Fall Marlin Classic Nov 2011

Salt Patrol congratulates Team Blue Fin for taking the overall win as tournament champions fishing onboard El Tio with 2800 points. Team Blue Fin is the first team to ever win the Fall Marlin Classic twice and also with a back to back win. Way to go guys! We had anglers from England, Germany, Canada, Alaska, Washington and from across the US making this a truly international tournament.

Anglers in the Fall Marlin Classic caught and released close to a hundred marlin in this 3 day event with two blue marlin to 400lbs caught during the tournament. Day one was flat water and hot fishing, with Team Blue Fin and Team Lowrance running neck in neck. Day two the wind picked up, very unusual for early November but our NW & Alaska anglers battled through as it was still anyone’s tournament to win and what the heck, wind, not like that’s an issue back home fishing. The final fishing day was again on some great flat Sea of Cortez water but tougher fishing. All the teams fought it out and it was still great overall catch numbers once again this year.

Here are the final results and we look forward to seeing you all again next November. For More tournament pictures Click Here

Final standings:

1^st Place-Team Blue Fin- 2800 points

2^nd Place-Team Lowrance-1825 points

3^rd Place Team-Bill Fighter-1725 points

Largest Dorado was caught by Jerry Henderson 27lbs

Largest Wahoo was caught by Merca Azghr 37lbs

After the first day of offshore fishing we held our first Shoreline Derby Beach Fishing Competition in front of the resort with 19 anglers taking part.

Results:

1st Place: Mark Douglas

2^nd Place Tie: Dan Groff & Mike Sheridan

Team Tee Shirt Competition was won by: A Trio of English Gentleman

We would also like to thank our 2011 sponsors: Van Wormer Resorts, Salt Life, Lowrance, Scotty, Ballyhood, Kone Zone, Silver Horde, 4 Wheel Parts, Pro-Troll, Snachin Lips Custom Fishing Rods.

Team Lowrance and Salt Patrol Win Salmon Smackdown Tournament

originally posted 8/10/2011

Team Lowrance fishing onboard Salt Patrol held on to their day one lead winning the Northwest’s newest big dollar salmon tournament the Salmon Smackdown.
Day one found boats leaving the shotgun start at Jeff Head fishing from Bremerton to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Marine Areas 4-11 were are all open. With a 5 PM weigh in back at the Bremerton Marina by 5 PM each of the two day event it was an interesting team strategy to see how far teams would run to find fish.
The tournament fishing format is a 4 man team with the biggest eight fish (4 salmon each day) for total combined tournament weight.

This event is the brain child of Defiance Marine owner Bo Palmer. The idea is to show who the best fishing teams are over a couple of days not just the luckiest one day big fish winner; which is the normal format most NW salmon derby events are setup for. Bo Palmer hopes to explain the event into several tournaments with a grand finally similar to the Red Fish Tournament Series held on the east coast.
Most of the teams found day one fishing very tough, with not many fish turned in across the field of anglers that included teams from the Outdoor Line, All-Star Charters, Team Defiance (corn fed) and Defiance Marine.
Team Lowrance caught the bulk of their fish right at the end of the day Sunday on Mid Channel Bank near Port Townsend fishing a Pro-Troll Coyote Flasher with 40-inches of leader to a Silver Horde White Lighting Coho Killer. We notice the bait starting to setup on the Wilson end of Mid Channel Bank and trolled using our Lowrance Structure Scan to stay on the bait. We were able to land several fish giving us the win.
Team Lowrance Members:
Capt John Keizer, Capt Mark Abetz, Steve Ng, Gary Lukenvill
Overall Results:
1. Team Lowrance
2. Team 8-Balls
3. Team Outdoor line
More information on the Salmon Smackdown visit: http://salmonsmackdown.com/