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Team Fetha Styx at the 2010 Washington State Walleye Championship On Kettle Falls

The 5th and final tournament of the 2010 Washington State Walleye Circuit season was held on Lake Roosevelt on July 24th & 25th. The Washington State Walleye Championship presented by The Spokane Walleye Club is always an exciting event and with a guaranteed prize of $10,000 for first place and a close race for Angler of the Year, this year’s tournament did not disappoint.

Fishing on Lake Roosevelt in July is always exciting but add temps in the mid 90’s, extremely high water levels, excellent fishing, and 71 of the best walleye teams in the state, and you have the makings of one exciting tournament.

Team Fetha Styx had an excellent week of pre-fishing in preparation for this year’s event. During pre-fishing Jeff and Rod caught quality fish up to 24” and put together a run of 6 to 8 different fishing holes that they felt confident in. Their hard work paid off as they found themselves in 7th place after day one with a total of 6 fish for 13.14 lbs. Jeff and Rod were very excited for day two as they not only had a shot at the $10,000 top prize but they also put themselves in a good spot in the Angler of the Year race. Team Fetha Styx had another good day of fishing on day 2, but just needed one more quality bite to equal their weight from the previous day. At the end of the second day, they weighed in six fish for 10.86 lbs. and a two-day total of 24.00 lbs.

Team Fetha Styx finished the championship in 6th place. Rod Hewitt placed 3rd in the Angler of the Year standings, which qualifies Team Fetha Styx for the Cabela’s National Team Walleye Championship in 2011.

Here’s a brief fishing report and photos from Kim‘s trip to Alaska. She says the 934 downrigger from our CCA Series has been awesome up there!

We had another beautiful day today, saw whales bubble feeding and watched them for about an hour. I’ve included a picture of them coming up (there were about 10 humpback whales together). We caught a 30-pound king and one pink that we kept just because we were so low on salmon. Apparently no one is catching salmon – they’re just not in right now because the weather has been so nice. Everyone keeps saying that a good rain will bring them in, but it hasn’t rained in about three weeks (probably a record).

Enjoy the pictures!

Kim

We’re very excited to introduce our Homewater rods featuring Fetha Styx exclusive blank designs made by Gary Loomis and North Fork Composites. Currently the series is composed of a Salmon/Steelhead line, a Freshwater line and a Bass line. Manufactured in the USA and featuring counterbalanced Fuji Alconite guides and high-end Fuji or cork reel seats; portions of proceeds will go towards the Fetha Styx Foundation, which supports waterway conservation. Watch Derek show World Fishing Network the Homewater rods here.

Check out the new NASCAR rods up close!

Fetha Styx NASCAR series features five different drivers: Mark Martin #5, Danica Patrick #7, Jeff Gordon #24, Jimmie Johnson #48 and Dale Earnhardt Jr #88.

The World Fishing Network crew graciously stopped by the Fetha Styx booth to talk about our niche market rods for firefighters, police officers (True Hero series), conservation charities (CCA series) and NASCAR fans, as well as our new Homewater series. A big thanks to WFN for the time they spent with us!

And here’s Derek with our Homewater series. The series raises money for the Fetha Styx Foundation, which assists efforts to protect American water ways.

Videos courtesy of WFN.tv.

Here are some photos of our ICAST booth setup, including our new NASCAR rod series, our True Hero series and our CCA series. We’re having a great time and meeting lots of fine folks — stay tuned for more Fetha Styx updates from ICAST!

Rod Hewitt.

The Washington State Governor’s Cup was held at Kettle Falls on the beautiful Lake
Roosevelt on June 26th and 27th. There were 89 teams that competed in this year’s
tournament. Out of a possible 1068 fish that could be weighed in, the 89 teams brought
in 1047 fish to the scales. Many teams reported catching 30 to 40 fish per day. There are
a lot of walleye in Lake Roosevelt and the number of fish that were brought to the scales
over this two day tournament is a testament to how incredible and healthy this fishery is.

Team Fetha Styx had a good game plan going into this year’s Governor’s Cup based upon
our pre-fishing results, but as with any tournament, conditions do change and we found
this to be true on Saturday. After day one, we were sitting in 32nd place with a total
weight of 8.42 lbs. The leaders were at 15.78 lbs and we were almost 2 lbs behind 10th
place so Jeff and I knew we had to adapt our fishing if we wanted to have a chance at a
top 10 finish.

Take off!

When Sunday morning came, we decided to focus on fishing deeper water current
breaks and points that were closer to the main channel and oh did it pay off. We were
immediately rewarded with better quality fish up to 20”. After catching and sorting
through around 30 fish we were able to weigh in 6 fish for 11.66 lbs. Our two day total
of 20.08 lbs was good enough for a 7th place finish.

Jeff Dickinson

The next tournament for Team Fetha Styx is July 25th and 26th. The Spokane Walleye
Club presents the Washington State’s Walleye Championship back at Kettle Falls and the
winner is guaranteed a top prize of $10,000. Team Fetha Styx is currently in 3rd place in
the Angler of the Year standings and this will prove to be an exciting finish to this year’s
Washington State Walleye Circuit.

Rod Hewitt
Jeff Dickinson

Current WSWC Standings

DON GHRAMM
470.86

GREG OSBORNE
432.34

ROD HEWITT
425.54

STAN ROMIG
425.47

JIM STACK
406.08

KEVIN STACK
406.08

JIM STACK
406.08

STEVE ROMIG
397.38

RICK SUTHERLAND
395.24

TOM MORROW
395.24

Summer . . . well I think it’s summer, but I’m still not sure. Actually the weather from a fisherman’s point of view has been excellent. For me and the boat, the catching has been good, to great and then . . . downright SLOW! I’ve been focusing my time on the Snohomish system of late, focusing on the summer kings, side drifting bait. The water has finally started to drop into shape. Get out there and get after ’em before the July 31st retention closure!

Just a few days ago I had the pleasure of fishing with Jean, Cyndi, and Cathy of Puget Sound Anglers along with Glenn and Taj while filming a Hawg Quest episode. Great company and good times to say the least You will have to watch FSN channel 30 to see the results of our trip. I will say we had a blast!

Remember, it’s supposedly summertime . . . we have been catching fish on all methods from jet sled, to drift boat, to banking it. Try spinners, spoons, floats, plugs, and side drifting smaller baits for summer chrome in the form of steelhead and king salmon.

The summer run action is just beginning, give me a call if you want in on some of the ACTION!!

See you on the water.

Sincerely,
Bonner Daniels
bonnerfishon.com
425-281-8772

After traveling to the far reaches of salmon travel in Kodiak Island, Alaska to the famed Keani river — we were filming for an upcoming episode of Hawg Quest trying to catch that elusive 100lb king salmon — we realized that the best fishing is really right here on the Snohomish river system. As hard as that is to believe, we struggled to get fish in some of the the best salmon waters in the world.  All the while Bonner is sending me pix of steelhead and king limits almost everyday right here in Washington. We will be right here on the Snohomish system for the next month or so with the fishing only going to get better and better. If you want to go after some truly special fishing, give me a call and don’t miss out.

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