Hot grill and a cold bite
Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 12:03 pm
Went back to the promise land Saturday to battle the south blow with Travis (Cardinal) and Pat (Mistress). With thermo cline so high last week and 6 days to settle out the weeds and mud we had high hopes.
NO boats at launch and hardly anyone out all day. Water temps had the themocline down at 60-70 again and the weeds had moved in. Mostly suspended in the water collum by Barbers getting much worse as you get south of Beaver Brook. Could even dodge em as they were suspended and invisible till you got a line jiggin.
We struggled landing active fish. I fought a nice salmon off a downrigger set to 58 for a few min till he launched into a jump and spit the hook before laying back down. Knowing it was a good salmon got our spirits up and we started the baby back pork ribs on the grill at 930am marinated in yellow mustard in tinfoil.
We changed spoons and pulled weeds off sets for another hour or 2 before a slide diver fired. Travis jumped on that and fought another nice salmon for a while. We say salmon because this fish also spit the hook on a jump right in front of us after pulling a slide diver up from 60fow!
We we did want to keep one salmon today, so let’s keep the next one buttoned! lol
More hrs go by, we added some Japaleno poppers to the grill and started building the bark on the ribs by taking them out of the mustard tinfoil and bbqing with special sause and rub..
It always works out that when we begin to eat a rod fires. Well it worked again, even on this slow bite day… I jumped on a slide diver set. (2nd fish in this slide diver with the sonic attractor) and and a long pull with a good laker to get the SKUNKY smell off the boat.. Man that took a long time. This this poor laker grew up with a broken bottom jaw. he fought like a champ and looks to have eaten well, what a trooper!
By 230pm the south of us seems to get rilled up and the waves started breaking up to 3’. We decided the bite was not enough to warrant a nautical fight so we packed it in. 9hrs 3 releases… that is a slow bite! Can’t win em all:)
Great to reconnect with Travis who I haven’t fished with since before Covid. Appreciate the poppers Pat they went perfectly with the ribs!
Thanks for the trip guys. The stories made the time between the action go by in a flash.
Fish on!
NO boats at launch and hardly anyone out all day. Water temps had the themocline down at 60-70 again and the weeds had moved in. Mostly suspended in the water collum by Barbers getting much worse as you get south of Beaver Brook. Could even dodge em as they were suspended and invisible till you got a line jiggin.
We struggled landing active fish. I fought a nice salmon off a downrigger set to 58 for a few min till he launched into a jump and spit the hook before laying back down. Knowing it was a good salmon got our spirits up and we started the baby back pork ribs on the grill at 930am marinated in yellow mustard in tinfoil.
We changed spoons and pulled weeds off sets for another hour or 2 before a slide diver fired. Travis jumped on that and fought another nice salmon for a while. We say salmon because this fish also spit the hook on a jump right in front of us after pulling a slide diver up from 60fow!
We we did want to keep one salmon today, so let’s keep the next one buttoned! lol
More hrs go by, we added some Japaleno poppers to the grill and started building the bark on the ribs by taking them out of the mustard tinfoil and bbqing with special sause and rub..
It always works out that when we begin to eat a rod fires. Well it worked again, even on this slow bite day… I jumped on a slide diver set. (2nd fish in this slide diver with the sonic attractor) and and a long pull with a good laker to get the SKUNKY smell off the boat.. Man that took a long time. This this poor laker grew up with a broken bottom jaw. he fought like a champ and looks to have eaten well, what a trooper!
By 230pm the south of us seems to get rilled up and the waves started breaking up to 3’. We decided the bite was not enough to warrant a nautical fight so we packed it in. 9hrs 3 releases… that is a slow bite! Can’t win em all:)
Great to reconnect with Travis who I haven’t fished with since before Covid. Appreciate the poppers Pat they went perfectly with the ribs!
Thanks for the trip guys. The stories made the time between the action go by in a flash.
Fish on!
