Week 7 was about the same or should I say consistent with previous weeks. We weighed in 41 fishes with average weight being about 2  ?" lbs. The weather was cold and windy this last week with mostly sunny skies. Biggest for the week goes to Jeanann Nagy of Markleeville weighing in at 4.0 lbs and 23  ?". Second place goes to Joe Simplicio of Topaz weighing in at 3.9 lbs. 22  ?". I was looking at last year's derby sheets and after week 2 we weighed in about 5 to 10 fish per week. This year we are weighing in about 40 per week. The new Fish and game systems have been pretty neat and will only get better with each year. So Anglers and Hunters hold on to your old licenses and next time you come in to purchase your license it should be much easier. Also I would like to bring up a subject that has been quite disappointing to anglers this Derby. Nevada Fish and game put their own tagged fish in the lake this year. The tags are not worth any money but are designed to help fish and game in tracking the fish they planted in Topaz. Some of our Derby participants have caught them and thinking they were our tags assumed they would win $100.00. I am very sorry to say these tags are not redeemable to Topaz Lodge. The tags are about twice as long as ours. Our tags read TL 2011 and then the number of the tag. We check to make sure all tags are genuine at the store. The other problem we have had this year is people taking the tags off of the fish. All tags have to be affixed to the fish to be redeemed for cash and tickets into the drawing. Thank you to all that are partaking in the festivities this year.