Sh 8-24

[Far Beyond Driven]

Plan: get salmon spectacular fish on board with daughters crewing in row boat.

Reality: one daughter too tired, ripped oldest out of bed at 4:30 and we're rolling at 4:40. Man the line at the launch is long. Well, it is if you stay behind all the people rigging their boats off to the side. How cool is that, other than me sitting there.

Chug out to 60 and set up, marking nothing. At 79 a wire diver gets popped, nothing special. Work it up behind the boat and can't figure out why the tail is about 5' behind the spunky. Wake up daughter to net it, she can't reach ( long leader) so she sets the net down so we can swap rod and net. Net lands on fuel hose clip and pops it off motor. Slap that back on, comes off. Slap that on again and somehow it keeps running. Grab leader and line king to boat, fly is buried so I drill it with a maglite and tail it. Big kings are slimy, back into the lake it falls. Pull it back in and gill it. Nice fish.

Look up and the rigger down 75' is funny and trips, fight a heavy fish tobthe boat. Go to net it, net catches on pull tab on motor. Fish thrashed around and pops lose, I lift the net and throw it over the fish, pull it back, and it's there. Beautiful dark 13# laker. With no need to kill it, it was carefully released and shot away. It pulled harder than the king. At 105' a mag Mongolian beef on a full core tore off for 15 seconds and was gone.

First two fish on white spinnies with mirage flies.

Trolled south then into 60', marked a bunch around 85' but no hits. Packed up and ran in for perch, fail.

Pyle's was great about logging my fish into the derby, 19 7.4. They did put 8/23 as the date though, which I didn't see. Then I chased some kids around the parking lot with the fish, causing one to almost fall on his bike.

Fun time with my girl, with our biggest ( but not 20 ) for the year.

[fishsniffer]

Great report Kevin.

[flyman013]

Thanks for the great report. Glad you were able to rip one of the girls out of bed!

[j1musser]

Sounds like an exciting day. It was gorgeous out there.

[danthebuilder]

Nice job on the 19 lber.

I have found out that if I unplug the fuel line idling at the launch. The motor will run for 4-5 minutes.