The Trip is Over.

Fished last night in perfect weather. The lake was flat for the whole trip and the moon rise was gorgeous. We fished 6 miles south of the harbor in 60 to 100 feet of water. Had a good report that there were some nice fish in the area but we had a hard time catching them. Picked up 2 fish right at sunset off the meat rigs and that was it for us. We stayed out fishing until 10:00 PM because it so nice out. We made it out fishing this morning in very rough and windy weather. The temperature this morning was in the upper 50s and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 70s. The wind was out of the southwest 10 to 15 knots with waves 2 to 5 feet. We went back to fishing the shelf in the 80 to 120 foot range, which was a bad choice on my part. The temperature break last night was at 30 feet down and this morning it was at 85 feet down. We tried to set lines but with the wind and the waves it made it very tough. Fished out there for a couple of hours without a hit so we started trolling back into shallower water. After another hour of not catching any fish we called it quits and we knew that we were done fishing for the rest of our trip. The forecast was small craft warnings for the next 2 days. This years fishing was very disappointing. We had a lot of blow days and the water temp was 71 degrees for the whole week. Very few fish were in the river, which is unusual for this time of year.

2010 Results

We hooked 29 fish and landed 21 of them which gave us a 72 % catch rate. All the fish were King Salmon. We caught 17 fish in the morning and 4 fish in the evening. Of the 14 sessions we could have made it out fishing we only made it out 8 times. We totaled 31 hours of fishing and landed 21 fish for an average of .68 fish per hour. The 21 fish weighed 256.75 lbs. for an average of 12.23 lbs. per fish. The largest fish was 17.11 lbs. and the smallest was 3.5 lbs. The best setup was the regular dipsy set at 1 1/2 with a large Spin Doctor and a red meat head with red teasers. We lost 4 fish off the magnum Dipsy, 2 fish off the regular Dipsy and 2 fish off down rigger #2. Below is a list of lures that caught fish and the set ups used to catch them:

Large Spin Doctor with Red Meat Head..................12 hits
John J Rig..................................................................... 5 hits
Green Splatter Back-Ace High.................................. 4 hits
Large Spin Doctor with Glow Squid.......................... 4 hits
Silver Streak Black and White Glow Spoon............. 1 hit
Moo Moo Meat Rig...................................................... 1 hit
Large Spin Doctor with Frog Squid........................... 1 hit
Black Mamba Meat Rig............................................... 1 hit

Down Rigger #1 had 2 hits
Down Rigger #2 had 4 hits
Down Rigger #3 had 4 hits
Down Rigger #4 had 1 hit
The Regular Dipsy had 11 hits
The Magnum Dipsy had 7 hits