Out of I-Bay.

[rolmops]

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Total Hits: 17

Total Boated:9

Species Breakdown:Coho,laker, king

Hot Lure:

Trolling Speed: 2.5

Down Speed: 2.5

Boat Depth: 130/250

Lure Depth: variable

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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After leaving I-Bay towards the Genny mouth I realized that it would be combat fishing over there so I went to Longline's stomping grounds in front of Russel power station a few miles out.

It took a while to get away from the cold water that started at 12 feet but I found some nice breaks where 50 degrees was anywhere between 45 and 80 feet so that is where I set up. A few boats that had been fishing farther inside and one that was quite close to me in the 50 to 70 foot range went way out to what I think must have been 500 feet ,but I just did 8 knots on the way out there when I found lots of fish and bait. I set up there with spin doctors and spoons.The spoons were useless,but the spin doctors and flies were busy all the time specially on the dipsy divers which gave me a lot of big hits , a few seconds of fighting but they mostly popped loose. ( one of these days I will stop using snubbers) On a 10 color leadcore with a coho setup I caught the only king of the day, it was about 8 inches long, but very feisty. I was thinking that I probably fed that one a lot of pellets when it was in the cage.All 7 cohos all came on spin doctors and flies and so did the the laker.

At the end of the day the DEC people were at the the I-Bay entrance and they weighed the 2 Cohos that I brought back ) One was 15 and the other 14 pounds.

A very nice day out indeed.

The DEC guys told me that they are hiring people again, mostly to work in the hatcheries

Cornelis.

[LongLine]

Those are nice Cohos.

DEC will be collecting eggs pretty soon. Hope they're able to hire more permanent positions.

Tom B.

(LongLine)

[FISHIN AGAIN?]

The DEC got the ok to hire 10 new entry level positions in the Hatcheries to backfill current openings. Hopefully they go through.

[Pike Hunter]

Good work on the fish, Cornelis.

[BAZOOKAJOE]

Nice job on the ho's! The DEC were at Port Bay doing surveys too.