August 13

Monday, sunny, cool, WNW wind, 2-4’ waves

Same crew as yesterday—if you have not seen yesterday’s report click here.

OH MY! Sort of big waves, lots of wind — the good thing was that I knew that there were kings inshore on the bottom. I also knew that my Cannon Downrigger with bottom tracking could keep a lure in front of them. What I did not expect was the warm water, in 100 fow the bottom was a warm 59 degrees.

We set up our rough water set, 3 riggers, 1 dipsy and 1 copper. We marked a fish early at 60’, I raised the rigger and the TNT exploded stripping line off the reel. The fish ran in-front of the center rigger set at 100’ we dipped the rod around the cable and a 35 minute fight ensued. Just the start we needed to give us the confidence that the salmon were still around!!

The next fish came an hour later when it hit a Blue Moonshine fly behind a white echip bottom tracking at 110’. The next fish came an hour later when it hit a Blue Moonshine fly behind a white echip bottom tracking at 123’. The next fish came an hour later when it hit a Blue Moonshine fly behind a white echip bottom tracking at 122’. The next fish came 20 minutes later when it hit a Blue Moonshine fly behind a white echip bottom tracking at 135’. Finally hit on something different — a dalmatian Spin Dr with a blue MOONSHINE fly on the 550’ copper (120’ down). We missed a couple on the bottom tracker, then took a skipper on a Do-D-K down 122’ then at 12:10 the copper began screaming again, the bottom tracker popped with a miss then after the copper fish was half way in the WMD/green Moonshine spin fly took off down 122’ ending our day!

The Blue Moonshine fly turned a day with tough conditions into a heavy board of fish. The limit for the clients and a bonus fish for the mate!! (sorry about the non color pics someone messed with my camera)

HOT LURES

MOONSHINE TNT 60’ (Early)

White Echip blue Moonshine fly Bottom tracking

Do-D-K 122’

Dalmatian Spin Dr. Blue Moonshine fly 550’ copper

WMD/Green Moonshine fly 122’