August 21

Tuesday, NE Wind, 3-5’ waves, COLD

Daylight reveled a rough sea, but not too rough that we could not fish it so we headed out. Once past the breakwall we were hit with cold air and colder water. The surface temperature was a cold 40 degrees and the air at water level was not much warmer, in fact may have been cooler due to wind chill. The crew probably figured it would be cold when I began putting on my insulated coveralls on our way out the channel.

We were immediately faced with a dilemma, go home and not fish, head north 10+ miles and find warm – fish rich water (reports had the offshore seas at 5-7’) or fish the cold water in hopes of finding some fish that had stuck around for a meal of cold shocked baitfish. The crew opted for fishing the cold water and before we even finalized the decision the dipsy rod began to sing and the decision was finalized for us.

The first fish hit on a white echip with a blue Moonshine fly 75’ out. The fish were high, and we set all of our lines in the top 45 feet of water. The next fish hit a M & M down 42’. Hal and Jan fought these salmon with great skill overcoming the high waves, maintaining balance and fighting back other obstacles. Later in the day we missed a couple more before pulling the plug around noon.

We had accomplished our mission we braved the elements caught fish and returned safely!!

HOT LURES

White echip/ moonshine blue fly dipsy 75’

M & M down 42

Silver bullet down 16’

WMD dipsy 65’