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May 12, 2007

 

Fished 200 – 300 fow (Feet of Water) surface temp 45 degrees, N/E wind, 1-3’ chop, Sunny, COLD.

 

I love to fish, any day I can get on the water is a good day to fish, but the BEST days to fish is when I have a crew that includes youngsters!!  Today was such a day!!!!

 

We began a slow troll north watching for some type of temperature structure, typically a NE wind will move the warm water offshore.  We continued out to the 300 fow area with a constant temp on the surface.  The temp was just beginning to fall as we made a turn and the starboard dipsy began to dance, followed by a glow frog at 59’.  We landed the fish on the glow frog, a nice 7 pound king.

 

We worked the area over for a little while then proceeded west and had a hit here and there.  We made some adjustment to our program and then things started clicking.  First a watermelon reef runner took a nice steelhead then the orange flasher-blue fly-thumper, a Coho on the red honeybee slider; got all the lines reset and they all took off again with a Coho 4-banger.  We ended the trip with several throw back Kings, counting the throwbacks the boys (maybe dad and grandpa got a turn too) landed 12 fish and we missed 7.

 

 

 

Hot lures

Glow frog 59’

Red & White Honeybee slider on 39’ rigger

Black magic 40’

Watermelon Reef Runner

Red flasher blue fly (thumper & 200’ copper)