Holland 8-17-26 Evening

[Jolly Time]

8 for 15. Had a buddy out tonight who doesn't l fish much which was fun. Fish were aggressive and wanting to play tonight. Waves were sporty tonight at first. 3 footers. Ran out to 150fow. Spun the boat around and fished south east. 130-135fow was magic depth. Rigger with 11"slick pickle went 3 times. Inside dipseys 120 out setting 1 and 140 out setting 1 with white slick/sweet pea fly went 3 times, Kevin's girlfriend/pickle went twice. High dipsey out 210 setting 3 early with MOP blue ladder back plug went once early later 160 back with stranglehold bloody knuckles went. 225 copper went with ace high with glow ladder back twice. 250 copper went twice with MOP blue ladder 300 copper went once with bloody knuckles. Starboard rigger went three times with stranglehold hulk smash and bloody knuckles free slide. 75 down and 80 down. We couldn't keep the wire dipsey flasher flies hooked up. Not enough drag I believe at the hit and my buddy horsing them a bit. The last fish at 9pm took out everything! Dipseys coppers riggers. Everything! What a mess. It never stopped dipped the board and wrapped everything up like a bow! Argh! Fun night though. 18lb, 14lb a couple 11lbers a couple nice cohos a steelhead and a smaller king. 

2.2 at the ball early when running paddles and flies and plugs. 2.5-2.9  later when running spoons in the spread. 

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

NW winds can be hard to get fish to go but you killed it.  Lot of plugs in the spread - thanks for the report!  Glad you made it back safely.

[FBD]

I’ve had some messes before but I can’t recall one that epic.  Love the details in the report.

[Salmonguy9]

Great report, ty! Sorry bout the tangle, I’ve had a few myself! Good luck on the water, tight lines…


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[tkat1000]

Great report. Sounds like a busy and exciting evening. Seems like when the actions constant, it turns them on to a host of different offerings. Fun to experiment with some off the wall stuff.

Glad that tangle stayed our of the prop. Boy howdy did a big king wrap us up at dark 30 a few years ago. Like you said it hit a high diver and spiraled around the low diver on that side, charged back under the boat and through the dipsys on the other side. Drew both rigger lines right into the prop. Having had this before cut the engine. Still had to take turns in the pluge with the cutters and prop wrench. Good days past.

 

[Jolly Time]

100% All we could do was keep saying " watch out" "don't let anything get into the prop".