Frankfort 9/4 pm

[jdh]

Went to East Platte Bay around 2 pm, and tried jigging and skein for coho to no avail.  Fish are there and pretty thick too.  We switch to trolling after and hour and a half and went 3/5 in about an hour until someone ran us up the drop off into 20 feet of water. 

So I hate fishing in crowds, so at that point instead of being an ass and turning directly into that boats spread we pulled lines quickly and ran back to West Platte Bay where we fished yesterday.  

It was a non stop action from basically 6 pm until we quit at 8:30.  Ended the day 15/20 or so.  All our lines went off between 8:15 and 8:30 as we were trying to pack up and go home.  So we did a lot of releasing right at the end.  Fished 150-200 fow.  2.0-2.3 mph.  Downriggers at 90 & 100 feet with meat rigs.  360 and 400 copper with 5 inch ace high plugs.  Mag divers back 185 to 225 feet with flasher flies.

Were dealing with weird waves.  About a 1 foot chop out of the NNE and about 2 foot rollers from the SSW.  Odd.

Amazing day of fishing!

Mostly kings 13-19 lbs. A few coho and 1 steelie.

[2MD]

sounds like the best day yet!

[jdh]

It's been great.  And keeps getting better!

[littleboat]

Great catches! Way to pull them in and reposition yourselves. You need another cooler! Keep it going!

[zgrinder on Fin Warrior]

That is a big catch day indeed.

[bobthebuilder]

Congrats on a great time at Platte- I've been wanting to reminisce and go back up there some time but just have not done it yet.  The combat fishing you experienced reminded me of fishing there in the late 70s, early 80s. (at that time I lived in Traverse)  Fishing for cohos was crazy good as long as you did not play bumper boats. When you can count around 250 boats in a 360 degree head spin- there will always be many that don't know how to drive and fish.  Those drop offs are steep.