Sunday morning woke up at 3:30 and headed north again. Launched before the sun came up and headed to where we had all the bites the morning before. And wouldn’t you know it, fish weren’t there! After watching an amazing sunrise we started changing up the program and still nothing. Time
To make an adjustment, so we headed for deeper water towards the bridge and started picking up a couple fish. Ended up wanting to check out some new water so I did some running and checking temps and contours, always fun to explore. During our exploring mission we caught 2 lakers and a pickerel. After grilling up some venison Italian sausage I made this fall we decided to head back south to the bridge/bay area. North of the bridge we picked up our first steel head of the season just as we went into the stained water. Ended up back in the bay as there were no boats by 3pm. Picked up a couple more salmon. The small salmon were clean, but anything over 20” had those tiny little lampreys on them. I’ve never fished this early is this normal? Has any one else been seeing them this year?
Also, just as we were doing our last loop in the bay, I looked behind the boat just in time to see a gull dive bomb out of the sky about 150 feet behind us. I was like wow nice there must be some bait here....then I realized he had hammered down on my yozuri pin minnow I had been flatlining most of the day. Interesting fight to reel in a seagull on rod and reel. He had hooks in his beak and his foot somehow, but I got him reeled in and hooks out of him and watched him fly away. I’m thinking he will think twice about grabbing the next “minnow” he sees! Not sure what kind of grand slam it is if you catch a laker a salmon a steel head AND a seagull
Good luck to anyone fishing and stay healthy!
Tight lines- Tom
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