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Okay so I am the same guy that can not catch a King at Pt. Defiance to save my life. I am now 3 for 3 at Possesion Bar!
Well it's 0100 hrs Sunday morning but this is too good to wait til after I sleep.
Had a buddy that wanted to go there because of the fish I caught Monday and Tuesday. So we headed out from Bonney Lake at 0330 hrs, were in the water in Mukilteo by 0500 and fishing there about. Fished everything I had especially the gear I used earlier this week. There were a butt load of boats on the water, probably over a hundred boats and there were boats everywhere, not like during the week when there are a few boats and they kinda group together. Did not see anything caught until 1500 hrs or so but had talked to a guy that seen 2 fish netted earlier. I was getting frustrated between the seaweed and no hits, it's about 1745 hrs. Most of the other boats had left the water around noon, empty handed, now there were just a handful of boaters left. Note I said boaters and not fishermen! Not that I am either but I am learning. I am ready to say to my buddy that I am ready to go home, I am tired and frustrated when in about 10 minutes 2 boats near us had fish on? I am like huh, how did they do that, I circled the wagons around them and did not get any results. I finally did what the guide at Cabelas Salmon Days seminar said to do, WATCH!!! I noticed thay had no flasher and it looked like cut plug herring!. What a novel idea!. So we took off the flashers and used my superbait cut plug herring, put a GULP herrring inside lased with krill. We wanted to get into 100' of water but the conditions made it difficult to get back there so I was stuck trolling in 75' of water, yep 75'. Not the 90 to 150' that Salmon University says to stay in that area. When the rod gets hit, bam and the excitement begins. I am pulling up the manual downriggers I have while my buddy fights the fish while we are still trolling to make the fish fight the current and not the pole so much. He gets the monster near the boat and tells me it's here, I look down and think surely this is a native but no it was missing a fin, now I am thinking don't screw this one up. I net the hog and high fives go around but now we know what we needed to do and a few short minutes later we are back to trolling and then I get mine!. Dave nets the fish and we put it in the cooler. I look at him and say " wow my fish sure makes yours look huge! haha" We fished till dark with no other results than watching 1 boat near us take in 2 fish and another boat take in 1.
We get home and weight the hog and it come up at 29 lbs!!!
What a day, sun burnt, beautiful sunset, great company and 2 fish in the boat! Only would have been better if the hog was mine!

Mike Carey

8/15/2010 8:27:00 AM

you were on the water almost 12 hrs before your first fish? wow, that is persistance! Good job and I'm glad it paid off for you.

dave g

8/15/2010 11:23:00 AM

really nice fish! and yeah, persistance does pay off. i'm gonna try to get out there this week sometime. cut plugs, huh? thanks for the tip. i usually go with tipping my hootchies and flies with a herring strip, but i try to keep my bait/lure arsenal full especially when fishing salt .while the info you may get from seminars, being online, etc sure is a good starting place, nothing is etched in stone and i find you gotta be willing to change it up when you're not getting bit using a particular bait, depth and so on...good job

Dave

8/15/2010 1:10:00 PM

Outstanding job!!! Sounds like you ran a Brad's Cut Plug when you caught your two. I've read nothing but good things about them and have 3 myself. I used them once at the bubble with no luck but we all know how the bubble is. Well, great work and beautiful fish. Thanks for your report

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