Nobananas

For sure ! I thought I was doomed when my wife hauled out bananas and granola bars for a snack

Quick rundown without a story 113 fow rigger 80 down2.7-3.0 sog south troll / east troll kinda don’t really know I was a little busy . green and white glow mag spoon with black and white ladder back caught a 13-14 lb king landed that also same water but lost the fish was rigger down 40 with standard size MS green jeans with tape . Weeds at the ramp are very thick. Now with the story Friday night when I was leaving with a couple friends to go out on the lake my son was begging to come I told him the next trip I go out I promise you can come ( not an easy task as my wife does not like being on the big lake with our kids 7,5,3 they get squirmy) . While sitting at work I pulled up the bouy cam it was so calm I though for giggles I’d shoot my wife a text “let’s take the kids salmon fishing tonight the lake is flat”. She said yes sounds fun so at about 6 we headed for the launch my kids wanted to swim more than they wanted to fish so we swam until about 7:30 then we hit the big water as I was setting my lines I had my wife and oldest drive , if you were out in that 110 ish fow I sincerely apologize if we were to close or accidentally cut you off ( bit off more than I could chew trying to set lines and teach them how to keep a straight heading ) I set one rigger at 80 and one at 40 then set out a low diver with a white paddle out 150 and a spiny with a green fly I took over the steering and started to head south to try and get away from people to give my son another shot at driving but my youngest was pretty bored and the whining was less than ideal so at that point I decided to pack up after only having lines out for about 20 minutes . I pulled the high diver got that in and then the rigger at 80 down went I handed the pole over to my wife and oldest then the other rigger went as I was starting to reel that fish in the fish they were fighting got wrapped up in my low diver so my attention shifted to landing the larger fish and somehow got it out of the low diver . So at about 8:45 we landed that fish and decided it was a great time to head in . My oldest sons first salmon was a good one ! My wife had a blast too fun night As you can tell from the graph photo direction was a challenge

Great trip ! I got hooked on salmon fishing around that age I’m sure these trips will be core memories for him !

Thank you for the report I am always impressed ! I lost 4 fish on The same night 2 on divers and 2 on the riggers does anyone have any good tips or insight on what I could do different ? I alway stress with everyone who is fighting the fish on my boat to keep the line tight no slack etc. from what I was seeing no one was giving any slack or pumping etc. it’s hard for me to tell without having the rod in my hands . I did end up having a bent hook on a fly what size/brand hooks do you prefer for flys standard spoons and mag spoons ?

Went 7/8 Set lines a 7:30 pm in 67 fow sse troll ms green jeans standard size uv tape I belive? got hit while I was holding the rod in my hand setting the rigger down 37 feet down 30out no other lines in the water yet, very exciting ! I set the other downrigger down 45 out 30 added a new release so when that one fired right away I thought I needed to tighten the clasp , Nope ! Another nice medium sized king ! On MS dancing anchovies After we land those two fish I reset down riggers let out a 10 color half bloody nose mag ,plane that to the side then set dipseys large white paddle out 125 on mag diver usually a setup that produces for me , not lastnight . Other side I had a yeck mag spoon blue and white from 8 pm to 9:45 pm nothing went out to 90fow headed back in (beside a shaker on the 10 color lord knows how long we weee dragging ) once the sun set we hit that 67 fow area graph lit up and it started popping Off 4 more solid kings down riggers lost one on a dipsey I pulled up dancing anchovies for a green white glow mag set it down that got two more fish and the green jeans produced the next two then headed in at 10:30 pm SE troll 2.7-3.1 sog was good and East troll 67fow-58 fow is where we caught all of them down riggers set 40 down and 45-55 depending on marks . green spoons with glow standard and mag seemed to work best for us downriggers were on fire all great fighting fish they did not want to get in the boat , several strong runs ! It was an excellent night

Thank you all!

Caught fish in 130-145 fow rigger was down 80 Mrchrome Hailstorm spoon caught two and DW soda SS caught a small one that was on a slider on a rigger down 80 . Lost one on a half bloody nose DW 7 color with a 5oz snap weight . Lost another on a low diver with a green glow spoon with black ladder back . (Lost them while we were doubled up ) exciting morning ! I seem to only catch coho. the only kings I caught this year were during the run, close to the plume and the fish were starting to get some brown color . Any insight possibly on why I’m usually only getting coho could it be Speed ? Maybe depth ? I don’t have a temp or speed probe I usually try to stay around 3 mph sog and watch my diver rod bend . I believe the fish in the pictures are coho . Black gums white mouth , scales falling off .

Set lines at 6:30 pm in 125 ish fow marked plenty of fish all over from 35-the bottom ended up getting one nice coho in 111 fow on a large pearl glow DW paddle with a pickled sunshine fly 135 out on setting two DW deeper diver pulled lines at 8pm

Short version : 4/5 fished 89 fow - 150 fow 2.5 average sog hard to tell with the waves. fish seemed to like the 137-142 range we had riggers down 60 wonderbread glow spoon 1 fish . spoon green glow spoon with white and black ladder 1 caught 1 lost . dipsey diver out 185 of setting 3 large white glow paddle with pickled sunshine fly caught 1 DW deeper diver out 190 chrome / green spotted flasher blue fly setting 3 caught 1 south east troll going with the waves was best(for us mainly because it was so wavy maybe a north south troll would work better ) . No luck with a chrome j plug . Long : Great morning fishing ! 4/5 Arrived at the launch around 5:20 am to a mostly empty lot . The lake was rough. Started setting lines around 6am 6:20 am in 89 fow north west troll ( into the waves as we set lines) green glow white and black strip down the center ( don’t know the name) spoon went on a rigger down 60 speed was 2.5ish sog next fish was in 97 fow same speed and direction down 60 on a wonderbread glow spoon . Shortly after we lost a fish on the green glow spoon . Then things slowed down for about an hour we kept the samE northwest troll so we ended up in 150 fow most markings where in about 142-137 fow so we turned around headind south east with the waves and in about 139 fow large DW double pearl glow paddle with a pickled sunshine fly went landed I believe a nice coho . Later we landed another on a diver chrome flasher with blue fly coho or steelhead not sure , I’m not good at fish ID had a great time beautiful weather !

Do you keep the catfish to eat ? I assume they are very clean coming from the lake . Very cool I didn’t know they were out there biting spoons