So after a so-so day yesterday on American, launched at 6am and fished until 10:30 with a total of 3 trout and no kokanee's, I decided since I had a few hours to kill this morning to hit my home lake Angle. I launched at 7am ( thanks for having the gate open!) and since I know the water temp was up and the sun was already shining, I decided to run my downrigger at 30-35 feet and ran my long line with an ounce and a half weight- I ran the downrigger rod with a sling blade pink splatter back and a pink hootchie tipped with pink gulp maggots and the long line was the pink splatter back dodger and the orange thanig also tipped with maggots. The long line was getting all the fish so decided to move the rgger up to 25 feet and no sooner then I did I got hit with my first koke which came off at the boat. Then it was one after another and ended up with 1 kokanee boated and 4 released, not intentionally! Ended up with my limit by 9am but the interesting thing follows.

If any of you have trolled this lake enough you know that there is something that grabs your line in about 50' of water straight out from the boat launch. I have lost a couple set ups on this so usually steer clear of that area but today forgot and sure enough, my boat stopped and started to turn on it's own and I noticed my downrigger about to rip off the side of my boat so was able to take the trolling motor out of gear. I got directly over where my ball was hung up and decided to try and let the electric motor try and pull up the snag. amazingly it started a slow assent up and stopped just down far enough where I could see a rope wrapped around my downrigger ball. I was able to get it with my crab pot pole and started pulling up and realized it was an anchor! It was a concrete block that had all kinds of gear on it and as a bonus, my watermelon dodger and weight were still on it with my lure!!! It made a mess of my boat with gobs of muck so I took it back to the boat launch and let the other people take what lures they wanted off of it as I only wanted my set up. So now for those of you who troll this lake, that is one less weird snag to worry about!!

PS. I am heading down Saturday to try my luck with the June hogs and sockeye on the Columbia and then hitting Riffe on Sunday so hopefully will have some success stories to share! keep on fishing!!!

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