Fair Haven week of Aug 23 - Sept 1

[bout time]

Started the week fishing out deep. Set lines in 200 and worked out. 500-640 was best. All fish were deep. 110-150 riggers, wire divers out 320-390, 500 and 600 coppers all took fish. Usual paddles and flies in white/green combinations, hot setup was UV 2 face Echip w/chrome purple meat rig taking 70% of all fish.

There was a strong NW blow midweek that helped move things in. Thursday I found myself fishing 130-200 range with temps coming up to 80-110 range. Riggers at 88-102, wire divers set at 230-280, coppers of 450 and 500 all taking hits. I ran mostly meat with golden boy cut bait and green double crush Echip whole bait setup being my top 2 producers.

Friday was a transition day as things still moved in closer. Found fish in 100-160 this day same setups the day before.

Saturday was a tough morning with strong SW blows and 2-4s in the 120-160 range. Struggle to get bites and the ones we did we lost.

Sunday started at 9am after the storms rolled through. Worked waters just NE of channel in 120-180 range. Managed 8 bites and 3 of them came together on a 88 and 100 rigger and 600 copper. Landed two of the three All nice matures over 20. Nice steelheads and coho all mixed in. It was an all meat bite with whole bait cut bait and baited flies all working.

Monday I had high hopes of copying Sundays bite. We struggled at first to get bit but finally the 450 copper takes off for canada and after a nice battle we netted a nice 24 lb king. Took another couple quick shots on dipsys but no one one. Worked 100-160 range most of the morning. Decided to head out and get out of boat traffic and when we hit 170-200 screen lit up and rods started to move. Took another nice 20 lb plus on 102 rigger pulling purple death board / fly dressed with meat. As we were picking up the 550 copper fires with a nice 9 lb steelhead on the golden boy meat rig.

Fish are anywhere from 60-200 FOW plus right now. Hoping to get another good week or two in before I pull my boat. Most fish we caught were still silver telling me best is yet to come

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Edited September 3, 2014 by bout time

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Nice job Mike! I sent you a text about fish hooks as well.

[Kevin J Legg]

Nice post.