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.

Chicago Browns

All the action Saturday was deeper most of the day (65 feet to 75 feet of water). All the boats went back to that location this morning, but the sun was obscured by a haze and this kept the fish shallow with the bait all day. I noticed a huge school of bait in 51 feet of water that was half a mile long and couldn't see myself going out deeper where no fish were caught up to that point in the morning out deep. We set lines and aggressively went back and forth from 51 feet to 56 feet of water using tiny spoons that were the size of the forage base there. WE had our limit within a few hours!

Never seen anything like this morning!!!!!

We left at 6am with my group and went out to 60 feet of water where we started to observe surface feeding fish all around us. The conditions were perfect: cold surface temperature, fog, and a tremendous bug hatch. There were fish gobbling up bugs everywhere! We were running 5 and 6 core lead lines with small spoons because there are huge amounts of last years spawn of Perch down 20 feet all over. Riggers down 40 feet popped every 5 minutes with Small spoons along with everything else. Action was hot all the way to 100 feet where we turned around and slayed them some more. Straight East of Montrose. We were trolling real fast( 3.6 knots SOG)

Limit Catches!

This morning began with rain and calm waters, the perfect combination for great fishing. We began trolling in 55 feet of water and immediately started taking fish. Spoons down 30 to 40 feet were working best, but everything was taking Salmon and Steel head, from Dipsy-Divers, lead core (7 colors to 13 colors out) , copper lines. We trolled out to 125 feet and back to 60 feet taking fish the whole time. Lakers were best in 90 feet of water on the bottom with big dodgers and flies. Spin-and-glow rigs also took Lakers.

The Perch are hitting hard outside of the harbor on anything you present to them.