AlreadyGone
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We put the boat in the slip at Buckboard for the season on Saturday. By the time we set everything up, It was way too windy to go out. We waited till about 6pm, headed south over by Jap Island. We were able to catch 1 and get 3 to the boat but the winds were making it very difficult to hold a course and keep fish on the line to the boat.
This morning was a different story-went out at about 8am and headed to where we had gone yesterday-last year was fantastic over there. I told my wife we needed to get fish on the deck quick to beat the wind. We went to our spot at Jap Island where we had over a dozen waypoints on our HDS 7 last year. We ran 3 downriggers at different depths. In the end, 10-13 feet was where it was all happening and it was a full Chinese fire drill. We had 4 kokes landed on the boat in about 1 hour and was looking for that last one to top it off. We lost 3-4, caught a few rainbows and then hit a triple. We got 2 to the boat-let one go, lost one and immediately put our stuff away as we had our limit and the wind was starting to come up. We pulled into our slip around 10:30-11. Then the wind really picked up and let loose around 12:30-1PM.
We were using RMT fire\ice and fusion dodgers with Christensen pink hooker squids at 10 to 15 feet down. You better hold on to your rod because these kokes were hitting our lines like the hammer of Thor and running line out everywhere. Another thing-these are the size of fish that were coming out of the water last year in late July. We caught 3-4 small bruisers that were pretty respectable. If I get a chance I put up some pics.
The thing you have to watch for is that stinkin wind! After we tied up and put everything away, we were watching some boats come in that had no control whatsoever and had to help them get into a slip-some were spinning like tops with almost no motor control. If you can get out in the morning-find a pod, you can hit them hard and fast and get off the water asap.
Another note-be aware the fish cleaning station is not running yet. We iced off todays catch immediately and filleted them at home-
MP
This morning was a different story-went out at about 8am and headed to where we had gone yesterday-last year was fantastic over there. I told my wife we needed to get fish on the deck quick to beat the wind. We went to our spot at Jap Island where we had over a dozen waypoints on our HDS 7 last year. We ran 3 downriggers at different depths. In the end, 10-13 feet was where it was all happening and it was a full Chinese fire drill. We had 4 kokes landed on the boat in about 1 hour and was looking for that last one to top it off. We lost 3-4, caught a few rainbows and then hit a triple. We got 2 to the boat-let one go, lost one and immediately put our stuff away as we had our limit and the wind was starting to come up. We pulled into our slip around 10:30-11. Then the wind really picked up and let loose around 12:30-1PM.
We were using RMT fire\ice and fusion dodgers with Christensen pink hooker squids at 10 to 15 feet down. You better hold on to your rod because these kokes were hitting our lines like the hammer of Thor and running line out everywhere. Another thing-these are the size of fish that were coming out of the water last year in late July. We caught 3-4 small bruisers that were pretty respectable. If I get a chance I put up some pics.
The thing you have to watch for is that stinkin wind! After we tied up and put everything away, we were watching some boats come in that had no control whatsoever and had to help them get into a slip-some were spinning like tops with almost no motor control. If you can get out in the morning-find a pod, you can hit them hard and fast and get off the water asap.
Another note-be aware the fish cleaning station is not running yet. We iced off todays catch immediately and filleted them at home-
MP
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