LongLine

Spoon

Not familiar with that kind of rig - guessing that a cable/shift linkage screw/connection has backed out somewhere. If it was a spline, it'd probably ok but you'd go nowhere.

GLF - Big-O fishery strong this year. Fall LOC derby 20th place was 32 Lbs. (winner 38 Lbs) Water temps strange this year with cold water piling up on West end. Strong Easterlies in last couple weeks finally pushed it to the South shore. Every once in a while we do run into these: (from a month ago or so)

:o

Launched 5:30 at the River. 1st one in today. Took it slow on the way out. Made a loop around the mouth 20-25 FOW. Didn’t see much but looked back & saw 8 boats behind me. Worked out a little deeper till the sun came up then headed West towards Russell. Wasn’t going to get caught up in this: (At 1 count there were 47 boats) Calm with patchy fog till about 8:30.

Anyways, saw some screen activity in 37-42FOW & stayed with it going west. Surface 63F, 25 ft down 61F. Found some cooler water ½ way to Russell – 58.5F down 25. Came across this guy on the rigger, Watermelon NK 80 back, 2 1/2 at the ball heading Southwest. (19Lb King, clean). Lots of energy in this beast he made 3 good runs & broke water twice.

Pretty good scum line formed from about 25FOW off Mud Pond to about 45 FOW just East of Russell. Found a new J-plug floating in it. Strange, but it was a couple degrees warmer on the North side of the line.

Got this guy at 25 over 40 FOW off Russell. Bloody Blk/Silver R&R. Again 2 ½ at the ball, same heading. (26 Lb King, clean)

(box is 27" long)

Some wood in the river. A lot of wood on west side of piers. Couple of really big logs. One had to be 15 ft long & 1 ½ ft diameter. The Stephen B. Roman came in earlier. He may have made a path, although most of the mud seemed to be towards the west. Some guys having a good day, some not. Couple boats went way out & sounded like they were doing well. Ragboats out in full force. Off at noon.

Luck to all,

Tom B.

(LongLine)

Rolling a little too rough this morning for the lake so headed straight up the river after a 6:15 launch. Figured the current was between 11/2 & 2 mph. Brown water & lot of debris. Heavy cloud cover, probably in the low 60’s today. Surface 64F, down 10ft was 62F.

Quite a bit of wildlife out & about. Herron, cormorant, deer, hawk, bunch of crows, & some goofy blue colored bird that couldn’t make up its mind where it wanted to go. Anyways, got 1 salmon near the concrete station heading south on a silver bullet. Rigger at 6. Down speed 3 , gps 1.4 mph. Maybe 15 Lbs, very dark. C&R from the net. Saw a couple go skipping over the surface before 8:00. Kind of neat when they do that. Almost like they’re being chased by an alligator or something.

Chatter was that not much doing around the piers. Couple guys went out & found fish scattered top to bottom out past 150 FOW. Didn’t hear anybody killing them though. When I headed back, met up with 8 larger boats and a few smaller trying the river. (Got’ta love that 40 footer staying in the middle with outriggers lowered. All the others were very courteous though.)

I was the 1st up the river & I wasn’t going back thru them so pulled out when I got to the launch. (about 10:30) No attendant, 9 trailers in the parking lot.

As Reeljerks said: Lots of debris in the water. Sticks, branches, & big logs. Medium-heavy water flow over Maplewood with enough wood to build a couple houses stuck above the falls. Guess the floodgates are open.

Luck to all,

Tom B.

(LongLine)

Reef Shark

River Carpsucker (Carpiodes Caspio)

Highfin Carpsucker (Carpiodes Velifer)

Man...get off these H's & T's

Rainbow Trout

Electric Eel (?)

Small craft advisory replaced with gale warnings :angry2: so here's a time killer:

Sardine

Sauger

Hammerhead Shark

SATURDAY

EAST WINDS 15 TO 20 KNOTS BECOMING NORTHEAST AND

INCREASING TO 30 KNOTS. RAIN. WAVES 3 TO 5 FEET BUILDING TO 6 TO

9 FEET.

SATURDAY NIGHT

NORTHEAST WINDS TO 30 KNOTS BECOMING SOUTHEAST

AND DIMINISHING TO 10 TO 20 KNOTS. SHOWERS LIKELY IN THE

EVENING...THEN CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVERNIGHT. WAVES 8 TO 11 FEET

SUBSIDING TO 3 TO 5 FEET.

National Weather Service

Generated 0036 UTC, Saturday, Sep 02, 2006

Hey Ernie -

:angry2:

Amberjack

Kokanee Salmon

Horneyhead Chub

Anchovy

("pizzarus yumyumus")

Alewife

(fake herring)

Nemo

(aka Disneyfish)

Esox Lucius

(Northern Pike)

Eel (American)

Tom B.

(LongLine)

ooops where'd they come from?

Drum

Tom B.

(LongLine)

Rudd

(Rock Bass is too easy)

Tom B.

(LongLine)