Fishing Report

After the north blow yesterday the surface up north  at the Point dropped to 41 degrees. We checked the Coast Watch image and saw what looked like a nice break northwest of the Point so we headed out in that direction. We found an area where the surface temp dropped form 55 degrees to 39 degrees in about a 2 mile stretch. That is where we started fishing. Our first 2 fish were smaller Steelhead on 1 color cores with a Super Slim Magic Man and a SS Steelie Stomper. We got into 39 degree water and were making a turn to head back to the warm side of the break when a mature King hit our low wire diver out 45 ft. with an 8″ Blue Bubble Spin Doctor/Blue Bubble Action Fly. We took the Lake Trout pictured left in that 39 degree water 73 ft. down on the chute rigger with a 10″ White Crush Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. Except for about a 30 minute stretch when we made an in troll looking for a tighter break, the action was steady. The last few trips we’ve made to deep water most of our bites have came on clean birds and 1 & 2 color cores. We took a lot of hits on those rods  and also had several bites on our Slide Divers.  We had a Super Slim Mixed Veggie with a 60 ft. lead out 85 on a high Slide Diver that went 3 times. A Yeck Fireball with the same 60 ft. lead out 65 also went 3 times on our other high Slide Diver . Super Slim Starburst, Steelie Dan & Double Orange Pearl were good on our clean birds and short cores. A Yeck Red Laser was good on a 3 color core.  Our only rigger bite was the Trout we took on the chute rigger.We took a couple fish on a Yeck Fireball on a clean bird. It was a fun trip. I just wish we didn’t have to run so far to find the good water.

We started the morning up north today just off the Bank. We stopped around the Bathhouse and took a temp reading. It was 53 degrees at 50 feet. That is a lot better than the 39 to 41 degree readings the last couple days at 40 feet. For a Monday there were quite a few boats out so we ran further north to avoid the traffic. We set up about a mile short of the Point. When we dropped the Fish Hawk probe back down to 50 ft. we got a 41 degree reading. So instead of our usual north troll we turned and trolled south. We hit a big fish on a high Slide Diver out 90 feet with a magnum glow spoon, but it didn’t stay hooked very long.  We were seeing some marks on the graph near the bottom, but not many suspended. We stayed pretty much between 110 and 130 feet of water (fow). No bites all the way down to the high 00’s. We finally took a smaller King on a regular size Fuzzy Bear Yellow Tail Spoon free sliding above another Yellow Tail down 35 on an out down. We had already made up our minds to run out deep to try to find some Steelhead. We pulled and ran out northwest looking for surface temperature breaks. According to the latest Coast Watch report the beak we fished yesterday wasn’t there any more. We ran quite a ways and set up in the 07’s & 44’s and trolled west. It was 53 degrees on the surface and we could see some breaks ahead of us. We just had all our lines set when we hit a double on Steelhead. One on a Super Slim Steelie Stomper and the other on a SS Magic Man both on a 1 color cores. Got one lost one.We didn’t find a major  break like we had yesterday, it was more of a gradual drop. The coldest water we found was 45.8 degrees. It started to warm back up the further west we trolled so we turned back east in the 48’s. We never went too long without a bite, but the fish won quite a few of the battles today. We ran a lot of rods and the deepest hit we had was on a 3 color core with a Super Slim Steelie Dan. The rest of our hits came on clean birds, and 1, & 2 color cores. Our hot rod today was a Dreamweaver Little Devil Silver Spoon with a strip of Orange Laser tape across the front on a clean bird. It went 3 times. Other baits getting bites were Super Slim Starburst, Double Orange Pearl and a Yeck 22 Pat’s Bait. We took one fish on a Slide Diver out 80 with a Yeck Fireball. No trips the next 2 days. Back on the water on the 2nd.