Hughes 7/12 - Bridget

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Left the driveway a little after 5 with some indecision on whether to hit the big lake or Seneca. With a the prospect of calm seas decided go to Hughes. Heard the weeds in Seneca were an issue.

 

Based on reports we motored out 180, pointed her north and set rods. Some bait pods from 60 to 120, but not many fish or anything to get excited about. Radio traffic was sparse, which is never a good sign. By the time we hit 250 things were not looking good, so we decided to head in to maybe 100 and see if the screen looked a little better. Things looked a little better at 170 and at 160 the 250 dipsey took off. Just about the time that fish slowed down the 95 DR started screaming and we thought we were into a mess with crossing lines.

 

Decided to put both rods in the holders and clear the other 4 rods.Good decision. Once the other rods were cleared we put it in neutral and each played a salmon. First to come to the net was a 15 - 20 Kings. A moment after getting that one on the deck the other was ready, and a nice one about 25. We thought we had things figured out and couldn't wait to get the rods back out and go back over the honey hole. Saw another boat net one about where we got ours and we figured it was going to be a productive day?

 

Wrong. Ran into some larger bait pods from 130 to 150, but never had another hit or saw another boat hook up. Packed it in about 11.

 

Cleaning the fish, couldn't tell what was in the smaller king. The larger one had what could be identified as two smelt.

 

Did see a fair amount of bait, but not many hooks.At least it was a beautiful day to be out and we came back with two nice fish, the only two hits we had. 

 

We didn't notice much current to deal with. A few fleas did show up on the wire dipseys.