Tim Bromund

Hi Richard, I don't think so, I believe we'll be staying local this year. It's too much hassle pulling the boat out of it's slip and heading east since I don't really have a tow vehicle anymore. Tim

That actually happens quite a bit, that is why I always let the divers just creep out on a light drag with the rod in its holder, fishing their way out to the depth I want to park that diver at. That actually happened another time on Saturday as well with a nice steelhead. Tim

Every chinook salmon stocked in the lake since 2008 on both sides of the pond were adipose clipped and starting last year, all received coded wire tags embedded in their snouts to identify where and how they were stocked (direct vs pen reared at a particular port, etc). If you see a king with it's adipose it is most likely a wild fish. Since the power co normalized flows on the Salmon River back in the late 90's, that river has been producing an estimated 5 to 10 million wild king salmon smolts a spring. Many of the North Shore streams also have significant natural reproduction. The question they are trying to answer with the ongoing adipose clipping and wire tagging study is to determine to what extent those wild fish recruit to and contribute to the fishery. The past couple years we have been seeing an average of around 40% juvenile kings with the adipose fin that would theoretically be wild fish. Tim

better still, get the Scotty power grip pinch pad releases. As is well documented on here, I hate blacks releases. Scotty's do everything that blacks do, but IMO, are superior in every aspect and they are much easier to set and also to see on the rod when you have a shaker on. You can load the crap out of the rods and don't get any false releases. Tim

Actually with the full moon and the kings feeding all night, yes the first light bite is usually pretty weak as they fish are full, however, they typically get hungry again mid day, so that 11:00am-2:00pm period can be super hot the day after a clear sky/full moon. Tim

try shortening up your leads. I seldom ever run a spoon back more than 15 -20 feet, quite often closer regardless of how deep they are running. we had fish hitting spoons on 15 foot leads on 35 and 45 foot riggers this past weekend, both on the main line and on free sliders. If I see fishing streaking into my spread on the graph but not bite, I typically take that to mean the fish are aggressive and coming right into the commotion from the cannonballs so I'll tighten up my leads to not more than 10' off the ball. As Mortigan mentioned, some spoons are more speed tolerant than others, make sure the spoons you are running are running properly at the speeds you are tolling. Tim

Shoulda got a Depth Raider......... Sorry Ray, Couldn't resist. Can't help you with a solution, my probe rigger fires just as often as the non probe rigger. Tim

Nice. Looks like the new boat is fishing well for you!!

Thanks guys, looks like she ended up in 10th place. We've had quite a few on the board over the years, but this is the 1st to hold on til the end since the one I had in the 2001 Spring Derby. Tim

Nice Shark Skeiner!!!

Really nice fish!! With the long leading edge on the anal fin, the kind of unusual radial pattern on the tail (not really a typical king's tail) very few spots on the tail and spotting pattern not typical for a king, that really kind of looks like it might be a chinook-coho hybrid. Tim

you needed to continue west. on Saturday, we dropped off plane in 70 fow in front of the barn and trolled WNW and then basically did a big circle once we found a good concentration of fish. We actually spent the day much closer to Wilson in 100-200 fow and had almost no company all morning. Tim

We fished the LOTSA Curt Meddaugh Memorial Prefish Tournament and LOTSA Club Salmon Tournament on Friday and Saturday and Fishing continues to be out of this world out of Olcott. East and NE winds didn't quite cause an upwelling, but it brought the down temp inshore up high. we had low 70's on the surface and 40-44 deg down 45-50 feet both days, with temp getting a little deeper as you headed offshore. Best fishing was in 100-200 fow, mostly in the top 50 feet. Spoons and flasher flies were both going off regularly so there really didn't seem to be a preference for one over the other. We landed 20+ on Friday and over 30 on Saturday. I couldn't even begin to tell you now many bites we had. Doubled up repeatedly both days and had 1 triple on Sat. The highlight of the weekend was a 29 lb king that hit an NBK stingray first thing Saturday morning as we were letting the starboard wire diver creep out (1st rod out) and the fish hit as it was creeping out with maybe 70' of wire out and took the line counter over 550 on it's initial run. That fish is currently sitting in 9th place on the LOC leaderboard and also took 2nd place in the LOTSA Tourny. Lots of steelhead in tight in that pocket of cold water. Colors: lots of green and chrome and mirage type flasher/fly combos, green and purple spoons, dalmatian spinny/hammer fly on a 200 copper went repeatedly both days. Riggers were at 45 and 35 and took a ton of shots. fleas were pretty bad in there both days. At the LOC Weigh Station nice king from Friday Oh yeah, and ah, where have we seen THIS before Fun time to be on the lake. Tim

what would be better? a New Yack Spankmees hat?

This one: Tim

That would be a question better asked on the spoonpullers site as that is a Canadian based website. The requirements on your side of the border are vastly different from those that are in place here in the States, so the info you'll get here most likely won't help you out at all. http://spoonpullers.proboards.com/index.cgi? Tim

looks like a zebco 808 with an electric motor of some sort attached to the reel handle shaft. Tim

Matt, We do that to get all the slack out of the line as quickly as possible. Once you are tight to the fish, then get the rod out of the holder. That is especially important if you are running sliders. Tim

We are enjoying the same insane action in the Olcott - Wilson area right now. It actually sounds like almost the entire south shore is on fire. Tim

Mark, Do NOT set the hook on wire. All you'll do is rip the hooks out of the fish's mouth. If the dipsey doesn't pop on its own, the release on the diver is set too tight. Back the screw off, just a bit. The diver releasing and that sudden lift and change of direction when it pops is key to getting a good hook set. It takes a little playing some times to get the release set properly on a wire diver. It kind of runs a fine line where it doesn't pop on it's own when trolling, yet will trip with just a quick snap of the wrist when you want to bring it in. Tim

Another great day out of Olcott. Dad and I headed out of the harbor and headed NW to about 75 fow and set up on a WNW troll. Stayed in 100-180 fow all morning between the barn and the harbor. Temps were high, fish were high and active. We had anywhere from 43 to 48 deg down 45 feet. Barely got all 4 rods set before they started popping. Started off the day with a nice high teen king on the 45' rigger on an NK black and purple and spoons with purple seemed to be the pattern for the day. Ended up with the riggers parked at 35 and 45 and both were firing all morning. Wire diver at 140 and 10 color core completed the spread and both took multiple shots as well. Lost count of the number of bites but ended up with 3 mid-high teen kings, an 8 lb coho and a 9 lb steelhead in the box. Unfortunately the steelhead looked bigger than it weighed and we bonked it thinking we had a board fish, couldn't believe it only weighted 9. Old School NK Black/Purple or Black/Raspberry (on a free slider) took a bunch of shots on the 35' rigger, as did a purple/silver R&R superlight (matching spoons on main and slider) at 45 feet. Only flasher/fly bite all day was a chrome/silver prism protroll with a no see um fly on the 140 diver. Took several nice steelies including the 9 lber that we boxed, on a hi ho silver MC Rocket in a glow frog head, clean (no flasher in front) on the lead core. Dropped several real nice fish near the back of the boat today. Beauty Day on the water. Forgot camera so no pics today. Tim

Thanks Jeremy!!

Mark, Any word on when Walter will have them available on the GLTS website? All that shows as available right now on t he website are the whole alewives and I already have a bunch of those. Thanks, Tim

BW, nothing to do with being offensive, a black spoon with glow ladderback tape has been know as a spook for many years, so I was expecting the fly to be the same color pattern. Tim

40+ won the 1st week of the Great Ontario Salmon Derby last summer as well. http://www.greatontariosalmonderby.ca/2010_winners/ Tim