This unusually warm spring brought my first trip up a few weeks earlier than in the past. The wind picked up from the Southeast, but heading into it along with the sun made for a comfortable troll. Dropped lines at 110` and had our first hit at 140`. I ran a mixture of spoons off the slide divers and riggers, along with the usual "00" orange dodger/small flies behind the boards. Nothing hot and heavy to report about, did find it odd that I had 3 coho hit on a magnum Pro King Bumble-bee?? Had that out there for the Kings, the 12# king we did land took one of the new Stinger UV Green Dolphins down 30' with 3 colors of lead. Took a nice size laker down 130` on a blue dolphin Super Slim. Ventured out to 185` and turned as the bite slowed, the wind wasn`t letting up and the warmth of the sun was interrupted by clouds. No real pattern to go by, just about every rod took a hit, ended up with 14 or 15 ( too cold to take my shoes off to aid in the count), missing 4. Did mark some clouds of bait off the bottom, but only found a 4" alwieve in the king, and some 1 1/2"-2" bait, too far gone to disinguish, in the laker. When cleaning the cooler it looked like June bugs, beetles of some kind, that must have been coughed up by the coho. I have to admit, most of the coho we caught were a decent size for this early in the season. Thumbs Up You always relize you forgot something after you leave the dock... yesterday it was my camera...
"Wet Nets"
Captain Jim
"Fishing`s like a box of chocolates, you never know what you`re gonna` get!" :p
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