Thursday, June 30, 2011

Big night fishing!

Paul and I had great night of fishing from 6 to 9:45pm on Wednesday.  It started off with the same lead line getting the first 3 hits (2 in the box).  It was a 15 color lead line with a magnum white wonderbread spoon.  We got the idea, and put a magnum silver wonderbread on a downrigger and then that took a fish.  So I looked for any other similar spoons to put out there.  I found a magnum bloody nose with a big black dot and tried that because it was the closest in color/size.  Then that took a fish.  Dipsies and flies were quiet all night. We ended the night 6 for 10, 5 kings and a nice 9 lb steelhead.  We had two double headers before 8 pm.  During one double, a huge king, 15 lbs or so, had its way going through our lines and making big mess - we ended up losing both fish.  We spent most our time in 120 to 130 FOW.  We heard from another boat fishing close to us that at 8:30 they didn't have any hits yet.  Most of the action on my boat was before 8pm.  The water was calm, 67 degrees on the surface, a great sunset, and a refreshing swim after the lines were up.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

June 28th in the Evening

Despite hearing slow reports from the weekend that mostly composed of Lake Trout, I decided to go out with Ryan and Dave Monday after work.  We fished from 6:30 to 9pm. The fishing was pretty good as we ended the night 4 for 5, all Kings. 2 were very nice fish, 10 & 14 lbs.  The other 2 were shakers that I pulled in while checking lines.  I'm pretty sure we would of picked up more fish had we not been dragging 2 around for most of the night.  The big kings came on flies and dipsies, one up high and one down low.  Both were homemade flies, one was blue and mirage and the other was orange and mirage.  The small fish came on a Green Dolphin Glow on lead & the other on a Wonderbread magnum (I previously was mistaken when I called it Cotton Candy). I'm hoping to get back out tonight, but its blowing really hard out of the West today.

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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Fished 12-3pm, went 1 for 2, a nice 10 lb king. Both hits on a magnum cotton candy spoon 60 down.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

6-21-11 Morning

Went out this morning and fished from 6:30 to 9:30 and ended up with 2 kings in the box.  We missed another 2 or 3.  Spoons of all different varietys were hit on lead and downriggers, including a Michael Jackson, a Green Dolphin Glow, a Coyote Ugly, and a Magnum Cotton Candy.  The hits came 2 at a time.  First in the 100 Foot Range, then in 125 FOW.  We spent all of our time between 80 and 135 FOW.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Went 3 for 8 tonight. All kings. Fished from 7 to 10pm in 80 to 120 FOW. Flies worked at sunset & spoons before. Black flies were bad; weather was perfect.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

3 for 5 today

One of the fisherman on E-dock went 3 for 5 this morning out of Holland.  A little slow taking small to medium size kings.


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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Sorry for the lack of first hand reports this year. I hope to do less work & more fishing in future weeks. Please respond with your reports. Thanks! Wade