9/4- Sandy Creek report

[fosterm22]

Decided to give it a try this morning. Left the dock headed west into the nice open 4 foot rollers. Set up just west of Devils Nose in about 60 fow trolling east- with the waves. Water temp was 73 on top and 72 on the bottom. Pointed the boat north east, hit 120 and the screen lit up. Fish and bait stacked on the bottom. About that same time, the wind really started to pick up from the south west. Managed to get 4 rods into the water, probe read 51 degrees on the bottom.

5 minutes of trolling, deep rigger fires- size 4 silver/crome bullet; king in the low 20s. I had 130 foot of cable out over 120 fow. Set back up, 100 rigger fires. Mag size silver streak- green/glow. Turns out to be a king in the mid 20s. Set back up again, tried to hold an east troll but impossible with the wind.

By that time, the rollers were solid 6 footers from the west with 2-4 foot chop in between from the south- like a huge washing machine. Could not hold any sort of line to keep the rods tracking, back at the dock by 8 AM.

[Traveling Circus]

Nice Job Foster...... and thanks for the report.....

We didn't have the kahunas to try it..... maybe tomorrow afternoon it'll lighten up some...

[Lund SSS]

Nice Job Foster...... and thanks for the report.....

We didn't have the kahunas to try it..... maybe tomorrow afternoon it'll lighten up some...

Mike,

Why wait for it to lay down I just looked at the Bouy and she's rocking at 13.8' maybe the fish will be in the top 10'. We should be able to see them in the trough of each wave. Probably work some glo bugs on a 8 wt. and get them to take

Steve