ch312 Posted September 12, 2013 Report Share Posted September 12, 2013 Hit the north shore of the west end of the lake to see if I could get into my first lake O salmon and I ended up having one heck of a morning. Hit the water at 730-745 am and had the lines down around 8 am and it didn't take long to realize that the fish gods were on my side that day as I had 4 double headers and tons of action from 8 am until 1 pm or so. The wind started to die down around that time and it was like someone hit a switch because the fish just turned off and it didn't take long for the 10-12 other boats to clear the area. I believe I ended up going 14 for 25 with very acrobatic bows up to 9 lbs, a bunch of smaller fish (i'm guessing coho and chinook?) ranging from 3-8 lbs, and a 14 lb chinook that put up one heck of a fight. I did hook into a beast of a fish that fired the rigger and made a very fast and powerful run near bottom from behind the boat and just screamed past the boat before breaking the split ring after a brief fight. All fish came on spoons on the riggers at 3-3.5 mph in 50-75 FOW. I was running one rigger 30 ft down and the other 45ft down all day with cheaters on each, which took 3/4 of the fish. NBK was the hot spoon of the day with pinks and blues taking the rest of the fish. The big salmon took an orange monkey puke 2 ft off the deeper rigger. Tons of bait out there and it was my first time experiencing the rods bouncing from the lines hitting all the alewives down there and I even managed to snag a 6 incher, which I later realized I should have used for bait as the big salmons stomach was crammed full of them! I made a Sabiki rig last night and will be trying to catch some bait to use on Friday. I didn't get pics of all the fish as the camera died. I then started using the cell phone, but that died too! Spoon's tail is slightly bent after the big fish I lost had some fun with it! Argh matey Didn't want to keep the two bows and would have preferred keeping a couple small ones, but each one lost an eye to the spoon and couldn't be revived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAW Posted September 12, 2013 Report Share Posted September 12, 2013 That is one heck of a morning in deed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishnsled Posted September 12, 2013 Report Share Posted September 12, 2013 Awesome day on the water!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishhunter Posted September 12, 2013 Report Share Posted September 12, 2013 Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishindevil Posted September 13, 2013 Report Share Posted September 13, 2013 you did great out there for sure !!! the NBK is one of my fav spoons of all time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeytier Posted September 13, 2013 Report Share Posted September 13, 2013 The monkey puke strikes again! Thats a great morning of riggin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captpierre Posted September 13, 2013 Report Share Posted September 13, 2013 those bows are phsyco suicidal. sucks to lose a big fish when a 5 cent piece of tackle fails Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey buoy Posted September 13, 2013 Report Share Posted September 13, 2013 Amazing,great fishing for sure,what a day!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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