Popeye
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For my 52nd birthday I decided screw it and screw the lawn, I was going fishing...
Tuna is what was the hot bait.
Shamrock colored cut plug with tuna in oil inside it.
It was the only bait hit today.
Ran it on a downrigger and after the first fish, a 7 pound 4 oz Coho, I lost the rubber band that holds it closed. Salmon must have snagged it when he slammed it. He was a greedy piggy too, 21 Alewives in his stomach. I found another rubber band on board so I tied a loop in it and it kinda worked holding the put plug shut.
A while later the same rig at the same depth was hit again, brought up a 3 poundish Laker. Removed the hook from it while it was still in the water. I don't care for Lake Trout.
After seeing another boat land what they reported was a 20+ King on a meat rig a little higher than I was fishing I pulled the cut plug and reloaded it. As soon as I reset it, I was still reeling in some slack, it got hit. Small 1 pound 14oz King swallowed the hook so deep it was in it gills.
Washed a lot of plugs, spoons and flies. Some the same color scheme as the cut plug and some different.
75 - 80 FOW and down 50 was what worked for me. I stayed north of the harbor and south of the Nuke.
The King doesn't look that small does he?
Tuna is what was the hot bait.
Shamrock colored cut plug with tuna in oil inside it.
It was the only bait hit today.
Ran it on a downrigger and after the first fish, a 7 pound 4 oz Coho, I lost the rubber band that holds it closed. Salmon must have snagged it when he slammed it. He was a greedy piggy too, 21 Alewives in his stomach. I found another rubber band on board so I tied a loop in it and it kinda worked holding the put plug shut.
A while later the same rig at the same depth was hit again, brought up a 3 poundish Laker. Removed the hook from it while it was still in the water. I don't care for Lake Trout.
After seeing another boat land what they reported was a 20+ King on a meat rig a little higher than I was fishing I pulled the cut plug and reloaded it. As soon as I reset it, I was still reeling in some slack, it got hit. Small 1 pound 14oz King swallowed the hook so deep it was in it gills.
Washed a lot of plugs, spoons and flies. Some the same color scheme as the cut plug and some different.
75 - 80 FOW and down 50 was what worked for me. I stayed north of the harbor and south of the Nuke.
The King doesn't look that small does he?
