August inland sea trolling... 8/4 wife's personal best

[Reelax]

Hit the sea at 8am with wife... Told her it would blow... And blow it did.. Started smooth and kicked up to 2 footers by 9am. We picked away at small salmon for a while and headed north with cedar to our east. It was 10:20am and the port rigger fired hard. It was 85 ft down with a orange and copper speedy back 20.



Theresa jumped on the rod and began the fight, I pulled it outta gear and left boat drift at 2mph north. By this time we had 3 footers and white caps as far as you could see south. Once the fish hit the warm water it was over...

Theresa got a good look at him during the fight and got pretty excited... She didn't want a net error ...



6.9lbs. 24" kyped male... Her best salmon ever....




I had told her we would get one chance at a nice fish, and she made it stick....

Ended at 9 salmon and 3 yellow perch. This was only fish worth taking pics of....

Fish on!

[Wdrnr]

Matt, remember a couple years ago... it's about that time again....

[Wallyandre (Andre)]

Congrats on a very nice fish!

[Sawyer]

That's a supper nice 'Salmon'. Congrats Theresa. you got yellow perch. remember Last year the white perch were everywhere.

[digitroll (ron)]

A very great fish! Nice photo too! Congratulations you guys for keeping the Sea alive in August!

[Trackertroller]

I can only imagine the excitement!!
Congrats Theresa on your personal best!!!!

[lazycs]

saw a pic this afternoon, great silver Theresa and Matt, congrats...

[fishmaster176]

Another nice IS Silver. Congrats on a fantastic catch. The ladies are setting the bar pretty high.

[Gecha (Gerry)]

That is a beautiful salmon, congrats Theresa.
I hope I can get you on some fish when you come south in 2 weeks.

[riddlervt]

Wow! Nice fish...Thanks for sharing
Riddler

[fishy1]

good job theresa on your personal best and good job netting it matt. great team work. i got very excited when you texted me the pic to my phone . that is one nice male salmon and healthy. im also glad you got some smaller ones it tells me the salmon are there. funny how it was windy up there and here at home the wind was very still.

[homewrecker]

Way to go T nice fish, mount worthy!

[jimbow]

Nice fish! Classic Landlock color on that one...Congrats!!!

[DreamWeaver]

Great catch for your wife Reelax !! Congrats. Know the feeling when our better halfs boat a good fish after an active fight. My wife and fished the IS twice in the last 2 weeks, marked a lot of fish between 55 and 85 feet, no biters, apart from white perch. I haven't had time to post reports, but the strange thing again was no defined thermocline. My FishHawk TD indicated between 71 to 58 degrees down to 60 feet. I had dropped in a 100 feet of water, and got a reading of 52 to 48 degrees at 70 to 80 feet respectively. Bent rods and tight lines

[Bearcat]

Nice!! While the overall numbers are low, it's shaping up to be a good season for some larger thank average silvers.