Converse 12/18
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 9:04 am
Great morning of frostbiting before the snowstorm - launched along with the Country Angler crew, James & Pike Slayer, and started catching fish almost immediately. A few fish were acting funny...
fish #1 for me was a salmon that hit while I was trolling at only 1.5 mph - still setting lines out and using the electric trolling motor for propulsion so I could steer with the foot pedal while working in the back of the boat. Line #1 was barely set w/ 5 colors of lead and a CI Fat Buzzy, I hadn't even got lure #2 in the water and there was Fish On. A fat 16" salmon was in the boat after about a minute of trolling.
After that I could only catch lakers, with one of them jumping so high out of the water I thought it had to be another salmon until I got it in the net. The thing was almost impossible to net, it kept zigzagging away again and again.
The other 2 boats in our fleet caught a lot of salmon, even a nice brown for Pike Slayer, and just a few lakers.
The lake was deceptively calm at the launch, but outside the bay there was a stiff NW wind and rolling waves that got a few of us a little seasick. Best to look at the horizon, NOT at that fishfinder when the boats rolling like that
We headed off the water as the mountains disappeared in the brewing snowstorm - love seeing the snow clouds roll in like that !
fish #1 for me was a salmon that hit while I was trolling at only 1.5 mph - still setting lines out and using the electric trolling motor for propulsion so I could steer with the foot pedal while working in the back of the boat. Line #1 was barely set w/ 5 colors of lead and a CI Fat Buzzy, I hadn't even got lure #2 in the water and there was Fish On. A fat 16" salmon was in the boat after about a minute of trolling.
After that I could only catch lakers, with one of them jumping so high out of the water I thought it had to be another salmon until I got it in the net. The thing was almost impossible to net, it kept zigzagging away again and again.
The other 2 boats in our fleet caught a lot of salmon, even a nice brown for Pike Slayer, and just a few lakers.
The lake was deceptively calm at the launch, but outside the bay there was a stiff NW wind and rolling waves that got a few of us a little seasick. Best to look at the horizon, NOT at that fishfinder when the boats rolling like that
We headed off the water as the mountains disappeared in the brewing snowstorm - love seeing the snow clouds roll in like that !