Kinghunter

We went off the Island at 6:30 p.m. fished till 9:30. Caught 3 shaker Chinooks and missed one big fish which hit a white/white SD with white jons fly on wire dispsy set 250 feet back on #2 setting. The fish snapped my leader between dipsy and flasher! I'm switching to 30 flouro from now on rather that my usual 25 lb. Marked some good numbers of hooks from about 40 feet down to bottom at 150. Bait seemed to be between 30 and 80 feet. Surface temp 61 deg. at 70 feet was 50.8 deg. 1 mile per hour current between top to ball at 70' out of the East. This was my first 'shaking out' trip after getting my 'old' boat painted, plus the first time I used my new Fish Hawk...........awesome! Prepping for the Port Credit Pen Derby on Saturday. "Long live the King!"

Like to introduce myself to my American neigbour and fellow Canadian salmon and trout fisherman. My 'handle' is "Kinghunter" because I consider myself a hunter of one of the greatest sportfish in the World...............the KING salmon! I've been fishing for salmon since 1977 during the early days of the Coho stocking program, followed by Chinook a few years later. Been at it continuous since then. I fish out of a modified 21 1/2 foot Sylvan Offshore. Mostly out of the North shore ports of Ashbridges, Port Credit, Humber Bay and occasionally Dalhousie. I do fish New York state in the fall for steelhead. Largest lake salmon to date is a 37 1/4 pounder I caught 4 years ago during the Sun Derby........................no ticket! Cost me a boat/motor/trailer as it would have been the big fish of the week. That was the first time in 25 years I didn't have 'time' to buy a ticket before I went fishing, sure enough as luck would have it. Look forward to this year. Regards to all.