Olcott 9-29, 9-30

[Tim Bromund]

We hit the harbor saturday morning to see if the perch were in. Got a couple but the run isn't in very heavy yet, we put a dozen or so in the bucket. They were a nice class of fish, most were 11-13". I would guess were a couple of weeks away from the perch action really taking off.

Sundy we went offshore to fish for silvers. I set down at the 22 line right in front of Olcott and we started trollling North. hit our first around the 25 line a nice 15 lb teenage king. fishing got better as we wnt north, 27-29 lines were smoking. We ended up 17/21 with a mix of steelhead to 10 lbs and juvenile/teenage kings. Everything was working. chrome green Spindoctor/mirage atommik took a couple, but it was mostly a spoon bite.

NK watermelon in both mag and 28 took multiple fish, gold back kevorkian, stingray NBK, R&R spook. We even went old school and had hits on both a chart fire dot luhr jensen flutterspoon and a green/chart black dot alpena diamond (both on sliders).

Doubled up 3 times, in fact one was technically a triple because the rigger rod ended up having steelies on both the main line and the slider (10 lb on the main line and about a 4-5 lb on the slider). getting both in the net was a challenge.

both riggers, wire diver, power pro diver and 200' copper all took multiple hits.

Oh yeah, the fleas were still out there in force.

Great day out there and we were all alone.

beautiful 1' salmon chop on the water

the 15 lb teenager

we boxed out with 7 steelies and 2 kings kept.

probably have 1 last trip this year when I drag the trailer down to pull the boat out for the season.

Tim

[champy1013]

how deep was the water you were in (and how deep were your lures)? temp?

[Tim Bromund]

Water at the 27-29 lines was 300-450 fow. The fish (temp) were fairly deep. Temp was 57-61 deg with 90 ft of cable out. Riggers were at 65 to 90 and the divers (wire and power pro) were 185-225 back on a 2 setting.

Some fish came out of temp on the free sliders off the riggers and the 200' copper also fired 2 times and it's running down 45 feet or so.

Tim

[Diversion]

Good report Tim, I see those old school lures still work. Nice to see a silver King, instead of all the brown ones running this time of year.

You wouldn't have been alone out there if I could have rounded up a crew. After a summer off, my normal crew seems to have found other stuff to do on weekends besides fishing :? :?

[Tim Bromund]

Hey, if you want to get out this weekend and need crew, give me a shout.

Tim

[Diversion]

Tim,

Thinking about trying for Sunday. Probably run out of Olcott as there is hardly any water at the launch at the Fort. I'll be in touch.

[Diversion]

Hey Tim, how far out are the 27 - 29 lines in miles roughly?

[Tim Bromund]

Adam,

It's real easy out of Olcott, the harbor is right at the 20 line (give or take) so that's 7-9 miles offshore. THat's why I set down in 240 fow at the 22 line and trolled out. no need to burn the gas running if you don't have to. Burn a lot less trolling out and we did have a steady pick on the way out.

Tim