Riffe

[Randy B]

We fished Riffe on Sunday, it was a 40 fish day. we targeted the coho's I've heard were there. They are there alright, the numbers must be vast! We fished 5 spots from the headwaters to the dam. I marked fish everywhwere, all at 40 to 60 feet. We tried all day to find the larger coho's and only caught 2 that were 14.5" All the rest were 9" to 10" fish. The top rigs were orange Vance's hoochies towed behind Seps #3 blue dodger and both chrome #1.5 apex and cop car 1.5 apex's towed behind shasta tackle 6" UV sling blades. We were also using Shasta tackles new flasher releases on all 4 downriggers.
Trolling speed was 2mph. We tried fishing deep also but all the fish came in at the above listed depths. We were tipping our lures with small pieces of herring on some and berkley pink maggots on others, both worked well.
We fished Sekui on Friday and Sat. We should have stayed and fished there Sunday also. We had never fish up there before but did well 5 Coho's on Friday and 15 coho's and one king on Sat. Lots of wild fish, we could only keep 3.
Randy B

 

[southside]

Great report!!
I've been thinking about dragging my boat to the inlaws place in Morton and spending a day on the lake.

Peace, Tom

 

[Kokonuts]

Randy, Nice report on Riffe, can you give us more on Sekui? Where to launch, what did you use?

Thanks Kokonuts

 

[Randy B]

Siekiu

I went back to Seikiu on the weekend of the 27th, We launched out of Olson's
Marina. The fishing was not as hot as it was earlyer in the month. We were fishing in 200 to 300 feet of water stright out from Olson's and about 1 mile west. We put 4 silvers to the boat in 40 minutes. It was an early bite. started fishing at 6:00am and by 8:00 the bite was over for us. We were using black and white coho killers by gold star behind Shasta Tackle 8" dodgers with 24" leaders, also large Apex's in black and white behind the same Shasta Tackle dodgers. all fish were caught at 65 to 75 feet deep trolling with the tide. Pro Troll bait rollers with herring work too. All salmon were wild one's. No fish in the cooler this trip. Long day we left olympia at 2:00am and back home at 7:00pm. Good luck and let me know how you did.
Randy B