Area 8-2 Ports Susan and Gardner

Air Temp: 61° - 65°
Method: Downriggers
Species: Coho Salmon
Bait: Herring Strips
Color: Green
Conditions: Sunny
Tackle: Flasher/Lure
Time: Morning
Rating: 4
Views: 1999

Started fishing around 730 with my son maddox and Grandpa Craig. Weather was perfect, like a lake out there. Lots of boats, hundreds. Didn't take long to get the first fish, maybe half an hour. Nice 8-9 pound buck I'd say. Then about 45 minutes in between the next 3 fish, never had any doubles on. Had 4 fish in the boat and one shaker by 930. Then it went dead for us. Maddox had a soccer game at 330 so we had to be home well in advance. Decided to call it quits at 1130 and about 2 minutes before we were going to pull the gear out of the water, bang, on with the biggest fish of the day, Maddox reeled it in like a champ and I netted it, real smooth. We went 5 for 5. We fished in deep water mid channel, not as much crowding/combat fishing. All fish hit around 75 feet. We tried deeper, had plenty of marks deeper, but nothing hit down there. Stacked the lines on the port side and never got a hit on the shallower line. We kept the stacked line out a little deeper due to the blow back from running 2 flashers. The line counter said 100' but the gear was probably running a bit shallower, like 80 feet or so. To keep the flashers from fouling I had to lower the gear slow and keep about 30 feet between them. I thought that I might just run a spoon or a cut plug herring on the stacked line and skip the flasher, but managing the boat, the gear and maddox was enough to think about. I would love to hear other people's thoughts on stacking lines and not just running dead gear, who knows, maybe on another day we would have had a bite on the shallower gear running at 55-60'. Bottom line: absolutely perfect day on the water, everyone appeared to be civilized and in good spirits at the everett launch that morning despite the long line up and we were one fish shy of a three man limit. Life is good.


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