Fish Hunter

We run 2.2, 2.4 at the ball, at the break, with usually a warm and cold rod as well.

We launch there all the time. The short 5 mph ride, gives us a chance to start getting rods ready, and not for nothing, gives the engine a warm-up period. We are at our camper at Brennans from the 3rd-12th, in the "woods".

Try not to use a metal pan for brining. A plastic container works best. Bob, The brine in the water pan, in the smoker, is what I thought of being a great idea. Now that you mention about the plastic container for the actual brining makes sense.

We use a Manley spring scale. No buttons, or batteries. Not being a wise-guy, but the less complicated, the less hassles, at least from where we sit.

Fish were still being caught in 150 fow Saturday. Beaucoup' lake fishing left.

Bob, Pretty much N, to S. Weekend prior, we were pulling some long NE/SW look-&-find runs. We are on 68 most of the time.

On other note, good luck to all, no matter what choice of tackle your running.

VERY interesting indeed.....................

It this simple. One worked, one didn't, and it ain't the first time. We want the ones that do. Scott, out.

Bob's recipies are always good!! I'm going to give that a whirl over the Labor Day weekend up at our camper. My new Masterbuilt hasn't had any fish in it yet, but I'm going to change that. The brine in the pan with that apple juice sounds great!!

Thats an interesting opinion regarding your preference of flys. (the fish turn their noses up to a tom mik and others!) I'm sure the product is good and plenty of fish have been caught on Big Weenies, but as I type this, the LOC leaderboard indicates that 12 of the leaderbord fish were caught on A Tom Mik, some on Siggs as well as Howie. Suspiciously there in no mention of your preference of flys. I was wondering how that could be? I'm just thinking out loud!! 2 MDSD's with hammers get passed up, on 3 rigger set-ups, and can't keep the fish off the same attractor tipped with a Big Weenie, same depth, same leader length. After witnessing this, we switched over to all Big Weenies and had a hard time keeping our lines in the water last Saturday. Perhaps we are just doing it wrong??

There was an article about night Kings, in In Fisherman Magazine, a while back. Safety was discussed quite a few times.

I'd bet that'll pull 'em close to the river, and they'll get sucked in, especially if it rains a bunch, and they run water. Maybe not?

When we get behind at our business, we work longer hrs/weekends, and are unable to fish, but that's just us.

Those big weenie flys have flat out-caught the atm's for us this year, hands down, and have witnessed them absolutely turn their nose up at the "others". No plans on running anything else now, and we WILL NOT ever be without them on our boat.

We were running an 11" frog glow slasher with that rig, off the dipseys. Worked well!!!!!!!!!!! Scott

Their here now!!! Only 4 more days, and a wake up......

We went back out Sunday again, and we had bait/fish, same location, but with the cloud/ground lightning, we high-tailed it back in. YIKES!! Never had a chance to get things in motion again. Next weekend is only a few days away.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name:Fis Hunter II ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):8/20 Time on Water:6.5 hrs Weather/Temp:sunny/high 70's Wind Speed/Direction: south 5-7 mph Waves: 2-3 ft Surface Temp:74 Location:Sandy Pond area LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 8 Total Boated:8 Species Breakdown:5 Kings, 2 Coho, 1 Steelhead Hot Lure: Spindoctors/flies Trolling Speed: 2.7 Down Speed: 2.2 Boat Depth: 100-140 fow Lure Depth: 90 ft ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== My son brought his friend up to our camper for the weekend. We left out of the Big Salmon about 5:30 ish. Ran out to where me and the little woman were, last weekend. Barely got all the lines in the water, and the port rigger fires, while we are working that fish, the starboard one goes off. Doubles first thing. Ya-hooo!! Boated 2 Kings 20-22 each. Get things back in order, and the port fires again. Another 22 lb King. Stay on course from last weekend, and about 20 mins the port dipsey/meat is hooked up. 26 lber. We are excited now!!!!!!!!! At this point I'm not looking for fish any more, so we make our turn, and pull back over those marks, and no sooner get straightened out, and bang, doubles again on the outside riggers. Coho and Steelhead come to the boat, and JUST as they are boated, the chute rigger fires and we are locked up again!!!!!!!!!!!! Another king, about 18-19 lbs. Get all the gear back in the water and things slow up a bit for about 30 mins and the port rigger goes off, with a 23 lbs male King with an attitude. Kept pulling over that spot and no action, so we kept moving north. Nada. Moved back south, with the sun climbing higher, and changed up to to some chrome plate/fly combos and by this time it was heading towards about 1:00 pm. We picked up our gear to go in, and found a small coho on the meat, that did not trip the dipsey. Had an absolutely great morning, and the 2 rod-hogs, didn't even let the 'ol man land 1 fish. That's ok, as those 2 young men will always remember that day!!!!!!! Scott

Are you all set-up to fish for salmon?

Thanks for that. I have some in the cabin that I'll dig out. Thanks!!!! Scott

Okuma 45's will also hang onto 10 colors.

I'll give you a call Saturday, Rick.

Never broke one, but they just lay waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over with a mag dipsey, and never really want to try and pull it off to the side. Seemed as though the dipsey was in control of the rod, but with the US's, vise-versa now.

What flasher/slasher are they pulling those with?? We were JUST talking about running meat on the dipseys this weekend.