Left the boat launch this morning around 6:30 AM. Headed out and tried for salmon for a few hours around the islands and could only seem to get the suspended lakers to hit. I decided to give stackers a try and picked up some lakers on those too. Earlier in the day the Needlefish in "copcar" was working good and as the sun got higher anything in silver/blue seemed to be the ticket. It was weird as I swear when the sun came out the bite stopped and as soon as it went behind a cloud the fish would hit. Decided to slow down and target the lake trout as it seemed the salmon were going to be tough. 52' down about 10' back. Williams wabler size 50 in silver/blue.
The baitfish seemed to be scattered around and I didn't see the huge clouds of them like I did last week but when I found even small clouds of them the lakers were right there with them. Ended up getting 10 lakers to the boat with about 5 shaking off and one absolute monster that snapped 15lb test like it was nothing. Biggest that came to the boat was just over 10lbs. Kept two small keepers and released all the bigger ones. Ended up catching a Beautiful 5lb Brown !! It was a good day for me and the Brown was the icing on the cake.
I had a bunch of firsts today.....
1. First time catching a fish on a stacker.
2. First time catching a fish on a Lite Bite slide diver.
3. First time catching a brown trout on the lake.
4. First time losing a stacker....
5. First time losing a Lite Bite side diver....
Shawn-
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
