Great Spring Fishing!

The salmon are feeding on the alewives in the low light hours and running miles back to deeper sanctuary during the day. Spoons down near the bottom and surface patterns(yellow-birds...) with small weights (5/8 oz. and smaller) with small dodgers and tiny flies are taking the Steelhead and Cohos. Lake Trout are plentiful outside of 80 feet of water, down near the bottom with larger dodgers and "green crinkle" flies. Early mornings there are cohos and browns near the shore, even saw a bunch of cohos in the harbor while perch fishing. BTW the perch are in the harbors and just outside, hitting minnows. I catch them on a "paddle-bug" jig with a small split shot above it.

Nice Cohos!

The cohos are real nice sized for spring. Surface baits (yellow-birds) small dodgers with tiny flies are taking most of the cohos. Spoons down 20 feet on the riggers are taking brown trout and nice kings. Orange was working well when the sun was out. Limit catches has been the norm !

Spring Fishing in Chicago or Alaska?

So here they are. Close to shore. Kings on spoons down deep near bottom. Cohos are on surface with small flies.