FBD

Been a month yes a month like back when it was smoky out there since I’ve been looking for salmon, and my schedule for the next few weeks is garbage. Been living off your reports so thanks for keeping it fresh. Got out about seven last night chugged out at 6mph as the and I quote “nearly calm” offshore forecast was putting waves over the bow if I planed up going NW and going with them wasn’t any option due to about 32,865 sailboats racing right out front. Set up in 80 8 rod spread not much in there but my hunch and Aaron’s report said that should work. Wandered out little birdy told me 120’ was the spot but that’s a huge ride back in at dark with a 7am customer meeting looming and a slow boat. So out we headed and would you not know as soon as we hit 121’ a paddle down 80 fired with a nice king. Lots of marks on 110-120. Headed back in at eight to leave fish to hopefully find fish same paddle fired at 110’ but lost that quickly. Got into 80 and a flounder pounder on a one color down 65’ fired another solid king. Then the paddle had a swing and miss then a wire diver ticking bottom with a green glow ace hi got ripped but came off. Then got a 4# king on the swr. All this by 9 so we are set for the dark bite. Never happened. Don’t know if I left my stuff too deep never marked a fish in 80. Long lines all four of them were up higher then never went all night. Packed up at 9:30 then marked a ton of fish in 75-65 on the ride in. Hmm. Fun trip but I feel I left some meat on the bones.

Looks like one on EBay

Last time it was like this the pm bite was like 8-9 pm and not when the sun set and after as usual.

Sweet report, thanks for taking us along…

Coho are bulking up fast.

Currents should be opposite surface wind. Wind pushes surface water one way, deeper water has to move the opposite way to balance things out. Usually. Also it takes a while to get them started and then a while to get them stopped so it may be dead calm and you’ll have a current yet from two days ago. Or you get another big wind and an old current and you can get a mess. Having to troll head long into 4’ waves at 4mph with a huge trailing current in a tournament once was not fun, but the opposite troll would have been trying to go essentially zero mph while getting pushed by 4’ waves…

About time it broke open. Figured you’d be the one to do it…

Gotta appreciate a fish that has dinner then decided it needs more. That’s crazy…

Marked bait, and hooks on the bottom in 70-50 as it got dark last night, but no more action for us.

Nicer coho slide diver bloody nose moonshine 140’ out in 80’

Out now, two coho, zero pattern. 50-140 and back in fish in 75 on a three color fish in 110 50 down…

Did two laps in close last night never marked a fish or anything else when we worked from the dune climb back to the piers in 10-20’

Could still see the planer boards so it wasn’t so bad, but not having waves or wind made holding a troll a bit of a trick.

Last November channel in PS was ok (granted that could change) but I cut a bit too far north and found the bottom in Pigeon Lake proper. Made sure to hug the island to the south when we came back in.

Here’s what the pump couldn’t clear out. I think we had four waves in a row wash the bow lights.

Got out late, launched as JDH came in and got the crap kicked out of us. Before we tucked tail and limped back into port we were 3/4 with two steel and a laker and lost another steel.