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Huge Trophy Lake Trout!

The southwest winds have blown away the warm surface waters and created a situation called an upwelling, which means the cold water from the deepest part of the lake is coming in towards the shore to replace that water that has been blown away. The surface water outside the harbor is 50 degrees and the Alewives are packed into the harbor along with the Perch that came in yesterday afternoon. The Coho's are in 43 to 48 ft. of water.......... find the bait, find the fish! The Lake Trout are 90 ft. and deeper on the bottom with a big dodger with and fly behind it.

Don't put your boats away yet!

Some of the best fishing of the year is upon us, as every Fall. (The problem is the weather is bad also) The Salmon and Trout have come to their Winter sanctuary in deep water (130 feet to 180 feet). From now until the Lake starts freezing, the Spring Cohos and next years Kings are schooling and can be taken on the surface with Spring patterns (Cohos on small red dodgers and tiny flies,...) . The huge spawner Lakers are also readily available along with Browns ( in 46 to 60 feet of water). There are alot of Kings out there hitting spoons down 30-60 feet.

Following the "Yellow-brick-road"

The Kings are knocking at my back door every morning here in the harbor. The fish have arrived at the harbors in search of the river they were promised by mother nature only to be disappointed. They are waiting for the rains to swell the river so they can make their final journey upstream to spawn. The fact there is no river will become reality eventually, right before they die. Nice Kings and Cohos as well as Steelhead are being taken during the early mornings and at sunset on a variety of baits from spoons to body baits to spawn, even minnows are working because the bait is tiny (small perch)

Awesome Action!

The Salmon and Trout ( Not Lakers) are working the shallow bait pods, which are moving into skinnier water every day. These off-shore winds (40 M.P.H.) today are changing the water temperature drastically. An upwelling is taking place resulting in the shore temps being in the high fifties by tonight, or even colder. The salmon are gathering around the harbor mouths looking for the "river" to run up after the rains bring the water level up. The larger "spawners are coming into very predictable areas (outside all the harbor mouths), which makes for great fun.

Lucky King!

The off-shore winds have pulled the cold water and bait up against the ridges (46- 51 feet) and the salmon followed. The sun is dropping quickly in the sky and goes down earlier and earlier every day. This indicates to the spawning fish that it is time to gather for the "river run up-stream". Spoons trolled up and down the outside edge is producing great catches! Going fast allows for covering more water and gets the aggression bite from the angry Kings.

Pirates?

This morning we went back to where the bait was yesterday, but it had moved shallower. WE started taking fish in 51 feet of water and trolled out with a following sea to 115 feet taking nice Salmon and Steelhead the whole way. No best depth for catching fish because the sun drove the fish out away from the shallow bait pods.