After an uneventful first 50 minutes we had our first hit. Steve landed a little laker and the skunk was off. A few minutes later and a slide diver fired and I landed another laker. We got on them really good around a hump and circled that catching fish until the early clouds moved out. The bite shut off when the sun came out and we decided to head north along the drop on appletree bay. At this point we were sitting on 9 including one really really old laker.
We marked lots of fish but no takers then the clouds started to move back in and it got busy. Landed a few more lakers including a double. As we were resetting gear the 60 ft rigger fired. I grabbed it and the line was slack I reeled it in half way and set the rob down to click the rigger up, and all the sudden a salmon come flying out of the water 15ft back. Grabbed the rod, and Steve grabbed the net. The fish didn't do any screaming runs but when we went to net it, it wrapped around the other sides rigger cable. The salmon kept leaping 5 ft back as we tried to net it and finally got lucky and it landed in the net. We cut the line to get it off the rigger and pulled the fish in the boat. A nice 5lb salmon.
After that fish it started to pour and the bite died down for a bit, then the rain stopped. Soaked I set a 20 fish or 4pm leave time. We ran the same section a couple more times and picked up another salmon and a couple more lakers. We were at 19 fish at 2:50 having just boated a small laker, when a rigger fired. I get the fish within 20ft and it pops off, I look right and see a diver go off, drop the rigger rod and grab the diver, and lose that fish too. We now have 0 gear in the water. I start resetting gear and as I set the first diver while the rigger is on its way down the diver goes nuts. Drag screams and I know it's a decent fish. After about 10 minutes I get the biggest laker of the day to the boat. Number 20 and we are headed home.
Ended with 18 lakers, 2 salmon, and about 10 misses most that the fish got off during the fight. Color didn't matter we caught fish on every lure we put in the water and only switched because 2 lures got ravaged by laker teeth, though both salmon came on copper watermelon crazy Ivan on the rigger 10 back 60 down in 55-59degree water.
