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boats fishing in the 2005 Juan de Fuca Derby

2007 is the Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby's 21st AnniversaryWelcome to the official Alpine Group Juan de Fuca Salmon Championship web site.

Check All Derby Results from the 2008 JDF Salmon Derby Results Board by FishTactics

2008 Winner is Joe Kadar with a 36.8 pound Chinook which he caught entirely on his own!

Second place went to Gary Cooper who was put on the fish by number one guide Joanne of Island Outfitters. They came in with a 34.2 pound spring & lead the derby for all of Saturday.
3rd place went to Conrad DePalma who reeled in a 31.8 pound spring.
4th: William Cooper with a 31.1 pound chinook.
5th was Vern Storry with a 30.7 pound chinook.

Fishing was quite a bit slower this year with only 54 chinook coming in on Saturday and 29 fish coming in on Sunday. It looks like they are a little late this year as reports up island both days were pretty hot fishing. Weather was superb.

Please check the web site periodically over the next while as the main sections are updated.

Pro-Troll Fishing Products, based out of California recently contacted the derby executive and let us know that they think that the Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby is now the "Top Derby in Canada". Thanks to all who make this event such a tremendous success.

At this time we especially want to give a very heartfelt thank you to all of our sponsors who have called and e-mailed to let us know that they are back this year and also for their encouraging comments about what a great derby the Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby is. Their moral support as well as their financial support is what keeps this derby going so strong. The prize board and the Salmon Enhancement program both benefit widely from their enthusiastic support. Their high energy support and encouragement means a lot more to us than we can say in words alone.

The 2007 Photo Galleries are posted on our photo page.

2007 JDF Salmon Derby Winners
If these guys look tired & happy, that's cause they just finished winning the 2007 Alpine Juan de Fuca Derby. Congratulations to Ron Leier and net partner for their 42.29 pound Chinook. These lucky guys donated $1,000.00 of their prize money to the Salmon Ehancement fund. More results are listed below.

February 12, 2008: The, work has already started on the plans for the 23nd Annual Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby slated for Father's Day weekend, June 14 and 15, 2008. As most participants know, there is a tremendous amount of work that goes into this derby. As the old saying goes, "Many hands make light work". So, to that end, we would like to invite and encourage anyone interested in helping out this year to volunteer in any way possible. To help out, please contact George at: gwetherell@jdfsalmonderby.com or Fred at: mcculloughfred@shaw.ca  Your help is needed... Please help us to make this yet again the best salmon derby in North America. Each year continually brings great new opportunities for improving this awesome event.

February 20 , 2008: We will be able to continue with the very successful and innovativemethod of weighing the fish caught this year. Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby has teamed up with the folks at Fish Tactics to bring participants live fish weights as they occur. When you bring your fish in this year, it will be weighed at the patented "Dockside Terminal" weigh scale. The Dockside Terminal takes a photo of the fish and angler & records the weight. Consequently you will be able to see a picture of each fish as it is weighted & the results board is automatically updated. Web space is set up but, the actual results board is activated at our Derby opening time and can not be viewed until then. The real action starts opening derby day. Click on any of the results on the board to go to the individual pictures, also live time on the FishTactics.com site. The results board & individual photos will remain online after the derby is over. In the meantime, use the link above to see what is happening. Use the links there now to see how FishTactics is able to make this happen.

2007 DERBY HIGHLIGHTS:

2007 was a fairly rough year out on the water. As participants well know, Sunday 2:00 AM is was already blowing 45 knots & the only forecast change for the day was the wind direction. Consequently a lot of boats did not leave the docks on Sunday. That being said, a lot of very nice fish were weighed in. Total numbers were down slightly due to the rough seas but that's the way it goes when Mother Nature decides not to co-operate.

$14,000.00 was donated to Local Salmon Enhancement Projects through the Pacific Salmon Foundation. Ron Leier and partner donated $1,000.00 of that total. The Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby has now donated over $175,000.00 to local salmon restoration.

$2,000.00 was also donated to the 2007 Pink Salmon Festival that focuses on getting kids out on the water and fishing.

A special thank you to all of the contributors and sponsors that helped make this derby the best one yet. Keep your eye on this site for pictures of all of the winners and the great prizes that were up for grabs!

We wish a very special thank you to all of the volunteers that helped make the 2007 Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby such a successful event. We could not do this without you.

The 2007 Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby had 650 participants. 103 fish over 15 pounds were weighed in over the two days.

The Top 10 Winners plus the Gross Weight & Gross Hidden Weight Winners

Ron Leier
Jay Shilling
Gilles Derepentigny
Pam Mills
Jerald Frost
Brenda Simpson
Kari Lindross
Dennis Zarelli
Sigrid Gidlof
Wayne Garrington

Gross Weight: Pat Fantillo
Gross Hidden Weight: Ken Arsenault

42.29 pounds
35.74
32.44
31.61
31.30
30.84
28.16
28.07
27.23
27.03

47.8
43.52

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The top 4 Chinook of the 2007 JDF Salmon Derby

The Juan de Fuca Salmon Derby executive, society members and sponsors wish our sincere congratulations to the winners & participants in this year's derby. We hope that you all had a great time! This was our 21st Anniversary & this has been one H. E. double hockey sticks of a derby.

Click here to Start the 2006 JFD Salmon Derby On the Water Slideshow