I had a great morning at Wickiup Saturday.
Started in a dense fog and had to trust the chart plotter for navigation. That was really interesting.
Fished for an hour and only got one strike using a pink hoochie on one side and orange spinner on the other. Then I called Fallriverguy and he clued me in on what was working, they had three in the box already.
Changed to his recommendation and had a fish in 15 minutes, 18.5 and later weighed in at 2.5 pounds. Things were pretty steady, not frantic, but busy enough to keep your attention. My last one was 19.5 but only weighed in at 2.64 but was by far the hardest fighter of them all, a real challenge.
I had to quit at 1100 and thought I had 9, but no matter how many times I counted, there were only 7, but all very nice and I am pleased with that number fishing alone running two lines. If I would have been camped there and fished all day I think a limit would have been possible.
I caught one smaller one, but it was still bigger and heavier than anything coming out of GP this year. It looked like the smaller on, 13.5 inches and very fat, was next years fish, which is encouragoing.
The larger fish were starting to get the hooked nose and had a slight reddish line down the side, looked almost like a rainbow when first caught. Scales were starting to go also.
They cut well, the largest couple were the brightest orange. Everything filleted except for the second largest, which has a date with the oven later today.
