Ric66

I fished out of Sandy and even had them caked on my dipsy wire rods. Never seen them so bad. I have flea flicker line that I bought years ago but I don't use it. I believe blood run makes a sea flea line??? Yeah, agree. Flea flicker line wasn't great- tended to get twisted.

I think we saw you guys at the launch. I tried to use bigger baits to keep the skips off. The other thing was fleas were getting bad. I even had them on my wire dipsy rods.

Started fishing around 6am and set up in 125ft. Ran two riggers one with f and one with mag spoon. Ran two dipsy with ff. Mag dipsy took first couple of hits; lost first one but second was a nice 18lb king. Things slowed so put out two coppers with spoons and started seeing action again. Two small kings and a small brown. Broke off two kings when they got tangled in the wire dipsy. I’ve tried a meat rig with no success last three times out but willing to try again with a mussel head rig with blue powder SD on a rigger set at 85. 10 minutes later it goes off and peels line. This one also got tangle in the dipsy but we managed to net it. 24lb king. Ended up 5 for 8. Most fish had one or two eels attached. They were given burial at sea honors.

After ready Gator’s report had second thoughts about going out but I had to do some bunk work on the trailer and have been having issues with the kicker, so decided to go. Launched and headed west in about 200ft. Put a meat rig down about 150 and mag spoon down 120. Marked fish deep so put riggers there. Kicker conked out after half an hour so used the big motor. Put out a dipsy on 2 setting out 275 with FF and shortly after got hit with a coho. Set it out again and same thing. This time could tell it was a better fish. Got tangled in my downrigger but able to net it. Always an adventure netting salmon on your own. Fished 3 hours total. Nice night to be out

We fished from 4-7:30 this evening. Lots of dink salmon. 10 lead core with mag carmel dolphin was the only rod that got a decent teenage king. We probably trolled quite a bit with smaller salmon on our boards without knowing it. Mostly fished 125 to 145. Very few boats out. Water temp was 56 on top, 46 degrees down about 70feet.

I did that right away after reading someone else's post about legacy vs advanced. Good to know my motor is working same as others. seeyawader, I used to clean my fish in the kitchen but finally had to put a sink in the basement so I could clean them there. Now everybody is happy

Sorry about that pap. My wife took that in our dining room. You can tell she likes modern art from the painting on the wall. Me? Not so much. I think this is going to be a great year for salmon fishing. When I fished out of Olcott during the derby the depth finder screen was lit up with fish.

It’s from Ecsboats.com. Basically extends the skeg already on the motor

I'm going to try and put a skeg on and see if I can use a lower setting. I'll let you know how it works.

That's the speed I had mine at. I was hoping I could get by with it at 1 or 2 setting to save battery power. Also looking into the possibility of a skeg to help the motor. I have a 17 foot aluminum boat with a 5 hp kicker

Pap. what setting do you have the TM set on?

Got to the launch around 5pm and it was deserted. Not a good sign I thought. I knew most of the salmon were still on the west side but wanted to try out my new terrova trolling motor so catching fish would just be a bonus. Definitely a learning curve using the i-Pilot. Trolling motor would get over powered by my kicker if I didn’t have the TM set on at least 4. Got the hang of it and had a rigger release after awhile. Started taking line out so thought it could be a salmon but turned out to be a big laker. Put out a 10 color LC with mag Carmel dolphin on planer board and got a small salmon that I ended up giving to a woman fishing on the bank. Let out the core again and within a few minutes got another hit this time with the planner board being dragged backwards. Finally got enough line in to take the board off and landed this guy. Was fishing in 125 to 140. Was about 53 degrees on surface and 46 down over a hundred feet. Ended up 3 for 3. Very pleasant day on the water.