My wife Susan, son Jacob and I met Rob and Rick (Cowboy) at the dock at 5am Sunday morning. What a great day to be on the water!
Rob got us on fish pretty quickly, with my son Jacob being the first one up. He put a nice 21+" salmon in the box. My wife was up next for a shot at the first salmon of her life. It didn't take long and she ALMOST beat out my son's fish with a 21"er of her own. Then it was my turn and we struggled to keep fish buttoned up. We had plenty of opportunities, but it took a while to finally get one to stay hooked. I think we were 3 for 7 at that point. Rob blamed it on Rick "ripping their lips off" ... It's always good to have a scapegoat on board with you!
By then we were constantly surrounded by boats. Rob would get away from the pack, we'd find some fish that wanted to play and before we could get turned around for another pass there were boats everywhere. We had 4 salmon in the box at that point, and decided to make a move to get away from the crowds. Rob took us to his "secret" laker haunt and switched up some of the lures to target lakers and work out our arms a little more.
He found them! We ended up with doubles on at one point with a 3rd rod firing just as the first laker was in the boat. Two of those were twins ... nice fat lakers at ~29". My wife got a chance to catch her first laker, too.
We ended the day with 4 salmon and 5 lakers boated during tough conditions due to the flat calm water, sunny skies and LOTS of boat traffic.
I'd like to thank Rob for donating this trip for the Winter Workshop and for putting us on fish. We had a great time!
