Fishing Report

We checked out the latest Coast Watch image this morning and the best picture didn’t look very good. The break appeared to be further west than yesterday and more spread out. We heard of a couple boats taking a few mature Kings on the bank yesterday. It was a tough decision to make. Go way out and north where we had been doing so good or try for mature Kings on the Bank? We opted to try the Bank. The surface temp was 47.7  where we set up in the 01’s and 120 feet of water (fow). Our fish Hawk probe was down 50 feet. The temp was 41 degrees there. We had most of our rods set when the chute rigger with an 11″ White Crush Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly set at 55 ft. started bouncing with a mature King on the other end. After a good fight it ended up in our box. That combo went 2 more times but, we missed  the other two  strikes. Another big King hit a high wire diver out 95 ft. with a 10″ White Crush Green Spin Doctor with a homemade Pickled Sunshine meat rig. A little later in the morning 1st mate Austin dropped it back to 135 ft. and we took 2 more Kings on that rig including the nice one Carlito , pictured above, landed. We had a low wire diver out 70 with a 10″ Dark Blue Slick Spin Doctor/Blue UV Meat Rig that took our last King. We took a good Steelhead on a 10 color core  with a mag Fuzzy Bear Carmel Dolphin and a Lake Trout on a 7.5 color core with a glow spoon. We spent most of our time this morning working between 120 and 180 fow. A friend made the run out to the deep water break and reported tough fishing out there. The break had widened and the bite was slow.

We fished northwest of the Point again today between 600 & 800 feet of water (fow). We set up in 55 degree water and trolled across a break into 39 degree water surface temperature. We hit fish right away. Our first hit came in 53 degree water on a clean bird with a Yeck Fireball. We hit another on a 1 color core with a Super Slim Magic Man in 44 degree water. By the time we landed that one we were in 39 degree water. I made a turn to go back to the warm water and hit 3 more Steelhead in the cold water. One on a Yeck Fireball out 65 feet on a high Slide Diver and the other 2 on clean birds. One on a SS Starburst and the other on a SS Steelie Stomper. We worked back and forth between 53 degree and 39 degree surface temps. There were a lot more boats to dodge out there today. We were hitting a few fish on the zig zag troll but by the sound of the boats on the radio they were having better action west of us. We put it on a 240 troll and our action picked up. We took a lot of our fish between 46 and 53 degree water. The Lake Trout on the left took a Super Slim Ruby Red  25 down on an out down. We took a Steelhead on it too. Some of our best rods were clean birds with Super Slim Starburst 3 bites, Little Devil Bumble Bee 3 bites, & a Yeck Fireball 3 bites. A Yeck Pat’s Bait on a 2 color core went 4 times and a Yeck Red Laser on a 3 color core took 2 Lakers. The chute rigger with a 11″ Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly took a nice Coho down 90 ft.  A SS Steelie Stomper on a clean bird was good too. We missed a few fish today and threw back 2 small Steelhead. Our best speed seamed to be between 2.4 and 2.7 over ground.