Fishing Report

We started out fishing today just off the Bank in 110 feet of water (fow) south of the Bathhouse.  The down temp had had cooled dramatically since yesterday. Yesterday morning at 50 feet it was 53 degrees. Today at 40 feet it was 44 degrees. We set our first rod, a 11″ White Crush Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly , down at 55 ft. We didn’t even get the second rod set when it took off screaming out drag. It turned out to be a 15 lb. King. It wasn’t long when a 5 color core with a regular size DW Bloody Nose took a hit but we missed it. We were marking some fish and bait near the bottom but the further north we trolled the less we saw on the graph. By the time we were north of the Stick the screen was clean. We have been able to pull some nice catches the last 3 days from that water but it looked like it wasn’t going to happen today. After checking the Coastwatch site we saw what looked like a good surface temp break to the northwest.  When we started pulling lines the chute rigger with the big Paddle/Pickled Sunshine took about a 6 or 7 lb. King. That didn’t change our minds about pulling and running. We ran about 5 miles northwest and found a break. We set up in 55 degree water and continued on a  northwest troll. We started hitting fish right away. Most of our action was on clean birds, and 1, 2, & 3 color cores. Our 2 best rods were a clean bird with a Dreamweaver Little Devil (LD) with a piece orange laser tape across the front of it and a Yeck 22 Pat’s Bait on a 2 color core. Other good baits were Super Slim Starbursts, Goldilocks, Ruby Red, Magic Man and Double Orange Pearl. We kept 14 fish out there and threw back 10 small Steelhead. The 2 small ones we kept were mortally wounded. It was a long run back home , but it was worth it.

We fished up north again today setting up south of the Bathhouse in 110 feet of water (fow) and trolling north. We hit 3 big Kings right away. We didn’t have any cores or coppers in the water yet when the chute rigger down 82 with a 11″ White crush Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly fired with a big fish. It made a long run but got off. When we reeled in the Paddle we saw how it got away, turned the hook. An out down set at 65 ft. with a mag size glow spoon went next. We got that one. As soon as we put it in the cooler the chute rigger fired again. That one didn’t get away and is pictured left. That was it for the morning flurry. We talked to a couple other boats and they said the same thing. A couple bites early then nothing. We put a Tin Can Dodger/Green Chartreuse Spin n Glo down on the bottom hoping to pull a few Lake Trout. We caught 5 trout on it, but only 1 keeper. The other 4 were between 13 & 14 inches long.   We  turned back south when we hit the middle of the 05’s with only 1 bite, a small throw back Trout. We had a little flurry at the Point. We took a big Laker on a 7.5 color core with a Super Slim Beefeater, a keeper Laker on an out down set a 90 ft. with a regular size glow spoon, and another throw back Laker. We worked between the 02’s & 05’s mostly between 100 & 130 fow. We had Spin Doctors and meat rigs on our divers, and coppers but only had 1 meat bite all morning. It was a good size King the hit a low wire diver with a 10″ Green Sparkler Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline DW Meat Rig out 100. Our chute rigger with the Paddle Pickle combo took a couple keeper Trout too.