Got perch?

The perch are here, but the winds from the North and East have shut them down. Our salmon have come back real shallow, 20-30 feet of water! Find the bait, find the fish.

Pay attention to details for limit catches!

I just woke up in Montrose Harbor, (Yes, on my boat!) I am going out again this afternoon, but yesterday was red hot! THe salmon are munching on the massive schools of bait that are starting at 47 degree water(40 feet). Limit catches are the norm if you pay attention to details! One detail is speed! play around with around 2 knots(S.O.G.) and zig-zag to find out if they want it faster or slower. If the outside lines on a turn hit, speed up. If your inside birds hit on a turn, slow down.
Best rigger depth depth was 25 feet, but run your spoons back at least 30 feet up to 50 feet!
Small flies are still the deal for the cohos! The perch are close! Real close!
I am putting on my blades and trolling for girls this morning. Wish me luck! Maybe I will catch my limit. L.O.L.!

The fish are following the bait and the bait is relating to horizontal temperature stratifications. We left the harbor with 53 degree water temp. and by the time we were out at the crib-line, the temp. was 46 degrees! The water the fish were relating to was 46, so get to it and run that column of water with spoons and flies. Yellow-birds with 1 oz. of weight, back 50 feet was HOT. Spoons have to match the time of day and cloud conditions! Just because it worked this morning , doesn't mean it will work in the middle of the day. Play around with dark spoons in the am. and cloudy days. Middle of the day orange,... will do best.

I spotted the jumbo perch just outside the crib-line! The JUMBO'S are close!!


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Time to go deep...

We passed up the shallow water where there still are some nice fish to go out to the colder water at 70 feet. The surface temp. was 40 and within 3 hours there were 30 nice fish in the box! Surface to 90 feet down on both flies and spoons were working.

Coho Frenzy!

Just like the good old days! We pulled out at 6am and just came back in with our limit for 6 guys!
5 browns and 25 cohos! Time to come fishing guys.

Best coho fishing this year!

We went out for a few hours and took some browns on spoons , but when we got shallower than 18 feet the coho grabbed 7 flies at once!
You need to put out yellowbirds with small weights to catch these coho salmon.

Great weather equal great fishing!

The cohos have come in right behind the bait schools that are filling up the harbors and shores. Limit catches are becoming the norm! Spoons and dodger/flies are working well on the planer boards and down-riggers. Many huge browns are also mixed in with the cohos along with an occasional steehead, king, and lake trout.

Coho Time!

The heavy south east winds have brought a fresh school of cohos to the shoreline. Many huge browns are also coming home with us along with quite a few lakers. The alewives came into the harbor last night so the big ones are not far behind.