Bosworth

Air Temp: 56° - 60°
Method: Trolling
Species: Salmon
Conditions: Cloudy
Tackle: Dodger
Time: Morning
Rating: 5
Views: 3607

I arrived at bosworth at 0dark30 (5:30am) blew up my raft, rigged up my rods and on the water by 5:50am, the skies were overcast and it was cool enough to warrant wearing a light jacket. On one rod i trolled 1 oz of split shots above a snubber, then a clown dodger, 14" leader and yellow hoochie bare hooks no scent or bait, my other rod had 3oz banana weight, 4' of line, snubber, pink splatter dodger, 10" leader, pink smile blade wedding ring. I started my troll against the wind going towards the far end of the lake. I didnt make it very far before i started getting hits on the clown set up, i hooked up and caught and released a rainbow, about 3 minutes into trolling. About 2 minutes later i get a tap tap on the clown set up again, set the hook(lightly) and i boat a 10" landlocked coho!! This is the first landlocked salmon ive ever caught while intentionally targetting them! I continue my troll, another little tap tap, and up comes a 8" coho, with 1 hook in its mouth and the other in its eyeball... retained. By this point ive reached the far end of the lake, and its 6:25 am all 3 fish were caught on the clown set up so far, i start back towards the launch, going woth the wind, im barely paddling, just enough to give my dodger action, and slam dunk my rod tip goes down, i bring it in its a nice bright 11 1/2" cutthroat, retained. Next hit comes on my pink set up, huge fight, c&rd a very fat 13 1/2" bow, then i c&rd another 11" bow 3 minutes later, by this point ive completed my 2nd pass, kept 2 coho and a cutt and released 3 bows so far..i start back towards the far end of the lake i c &r 2 more bows on pink and miss a lot of taps on the clown pattern, i make it to the end turn around i c&r another bow on pink then i decide to ad krill cured corn to my pink set up to see if i can get a salmon to hit it. My next hit came on the clown , c&r a bow, then there was a lul in action for about 20 minutes. At 7:45 clown rod burries, reel it up, thinking" darn not another bow" because its fighting pretty hard, but it turned out to be a chunky 12 1/2" coho, then my pink rod goes off as im unhooking that coho, i reel it up, and its another 8" coho, but it was caught on bait and completed my limit so i kept it. I noticed salmon and trout jumping all over the lake, and i could tell the difference by size, i saw alot of 8" chromers jumping as compaired to the 11"-13" trout.. i missed too many hits to count also. I landed at the boatlaunch at 8:00 am with 4 coho and 1 cutthroat for my limit... still have yet not to limit out at bosworth this year... and it kerps getting better and better. I had the whole lake to myself again as usual.


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