HB2

Went out 3 mornings and 3 afternoons solo Fished from 12 to 70 ft . Didn't do great I landed 4 kings and I think 5 or 6 browns .Lost a few more of each. I see a fair amount of marks but me thinks a lot are browns . Not seeing many Kings jumping out there. And I'm putting my time out there . Went with Coyote K last night and this morning. 9 browns total , no kings. All on spoons . I fish J plugs mostly in search of kings . Got 2 nice browns on my flasher rig , one on a # 2 j plug the rest spoons Kings came on J plugs . Temp was good as it can't be be this time of year . This is what happens I guess when you don't pen rear kings . Or at least it seems that way . There is a direct correlation between when we stopped pen rearing kings and return rates. I see it with my own eyes because I'm here all the time . Let's see how the skien thing goes .

I researched a lot . I wanted to get the best for the buck. I went into Sportsman Wearhouse to buy some jig stuff in Feb . I walked by the depthfiders and saw SALE . I looked at Lawrence marked down. I wound up with a Hook Reveal 7 Split Shot. I'm extremely happy with it , does everything I could want Best part , original price 599$ . Marked down 349$ .When I said that's the one I wanted to the guy working there he said " this is your lucky day " he had stickers in his hand to mark it down to 279 $ . Did not like it at first , modern depth finders are more complicated than early models . Once I set transducer to 200 kz , set noise to low and increases sensitivity a little , it works great .

I have waved off and told numerous boaters to stay between the bouys going in and out of Sandy . East side of the channel is very shallow and getting worse as lake drops . Red on right when returning from sea. Red on right when going upstream . And the channel that was dredged out to 9 ft deep is as shallow as 4 ft now . That didn't take long .

Do they make replacement drag washers for these reels ? Maybe one of the best reels ever made for the money .

Went out yesterday afternoon for a while Fished 150 to 80 ft Pretty decent picture Got 6 browns a laker and lost a few more Stacker went off at 45 ft , ripped out a bunch of line , flew out of the water and threw the hooks. The big one got away . Might have been a good steelhead or probably a king black green UV spoons

That's what we're about on here !

So I went on a trip to the mountains with my big boat. I noticed when I got close to home my tires looked different . I looked at the axle and it had a big stress crack in it from rust . 20 years old , very lucky it didn't break on my the road I ordered a new one on line ,just got done installing it . It really wasn't a hard job . 612 $ total . New hubs bearings ,trailer bolts If that thing had gone on the road I don't know what I would have done . It really could have been bad going 70 mph down rt 81 . Might be a good idea to take a look at yours

I took a Scotty power grip and made a 4 ft lead from scrap coated downrigger cable , and attached it to the tail of my cannonball on my probe rigger. I made a another with weed Wacker string and electrical crimps. Worked just as well I took a wooden broomstick and put a cup hook on the end . I bring the rigger up and ball is just underwater . I reach down with the stick , snatch the cable set line in release and throw it over. Works great.

Fish Hawk and Cannon have teamed up . Big money in lost probes .

Well , back out this morning first light Temp sure came up the last few days with the South wind . We stayed close with the impending weather. Searching for a board brown . We boated 7 and lost a few more and a small salmon . Slide diver mostly and 2 rigger fish . An assortment of spoons

Went out first light . Heard temp was deep and fishing not great so we headed north . Saw bait at 200 and started there and headed north . Fished till 450 and turned around . Good pic w / fish and bait but not the good hooks we like to see . Temp was down 90 ft . Most hits came 70 to 90 . Temp came up a little as day went on so it straightening out Wound up 6 for 11 I think . 3 salmon 2 steelhead 1atlantic . Nothing big Lost a good fish on a flasher . Spoons mostly . Silver back frog , carbon 14

Back when cut bait was brand new on the lake I talked to charter guy from Pulaski on an early fly fishing run . He asked if I was running cut bait yet and no I wasn't . He told me what to get and how to run it . He told me when he ran cut bait he ran 3 rods on 3 riggers spread out and that was it . He said he had a 36 ft boat with 5 riggers 12 ft beam . He said if the kings are down there , they will see the flashers . So I did what he told me and ran 1 flasher each on 2 of my 4 riggers and it worked. Don't crowd the zone This was before I ran dipsys . Was like 1989 I still kind of fish that way . I agree with Gambler . To much can scare the fish away . And furthermore , a bad setup can also .

I went thru this a few years ago I finally , by accident , found that the silicone tubing used on spinner bait trailer hooks was the same thing. Got a 5 pack of hooks and tube for 2$ at Walmart

Everybody has bad days . You are not alone . I know I have had more than I would like to admit . Some days , they don't hit .