Yankee's 6/30-7/1 weekend

[Yankee Troller]

6/30 Charter - We left the dock around 6am, and headed for the Ladders just East of port. We set up under 100’ and trolled it E/NE. The bite between the Flats and Devils Nose has been pretty good the last few weeks, so why not start there? We deployed our three Cannon DT10s, three wires, and two coppers (300/400). We put down flasher/fly combos on everything except for the center downrigger and the 300 copper, which took spoons for some higher fish.

The bite wasn’t fast and furious for us, and we dumped our first few fish. an hour into the day a high diver starts singing, and we were into our first big boy of the trip. It took multiple runs after smashing a Green E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK Green Crinkle. Twenty minutes later we slid the net under a 22lb Chinook Salmon. That would end up being be the big dog of the day. The rest of the trip we would struggle to get a consistent Salmon bite going.

Late morning we decided to slide into 70’ of water and found some Brown Trout hanging in a layer of cold water within 10†of the bottom. It didn’t take long and we began to drill on them. In a little under an hour we took a dozen shots from these Brown Trout. The Stinger Stingray UV Yellow Tuxedo was hot on a diver, a Stinger Stingray Hawg Wild took a few off a 300 copper as did a Stinger Stingray UV Gator. We also got the new Dreamweaver SS Sea Sick Waddler in a gold cup to take a few BTs.

That got to be boring after hearing the drag scream from that 22lb specimen earlier that morning, so we slid out to the 100-150’ range to see if we could grab one or two more. We ended up picking away at a mix of fish the rest of the day, but nothing topped the brute in the cooler.

7/1 Charter - We were able to hit the water about a half an hour earlier than the day before, and it really paid off! When we set down the screen was INSANE! We started to deploy rods, and as we did bites happened. There was a 10 degree break the last two days around 70’ and that’s where the bait and fish were.

Our divers would be the hot presentation today. Low divers set on a 1 and high divers set on a 2.5. One side was out 200 and 250 while the other side of the boat was out 225 and 275. Wonder Dot SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK Glow Blue Hammer, Green E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK Green Crinkle, Green Green Dot E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK Green Hammer, and a Dreamweaver Spin Doctor Captain Valium/A-TOM-MIK Bobblehead were the players on those divers. Our 400 and 500 coppers were hot too! We had a 10†Dreamweaver Captain Valium/A-TOM-MIK Bobblehead on one, and a Dreamweaver Spin Doctor Seneca Special/A-TOM-MIK Ace fly on the other.

Our riggers took shots as well. Northern King Copper NBK’s were good, and so was the new Dreamweaver Sea Sick Waddler gold cup. Both of which took a mix of Brown Trout and Steelies.

We finished early with a five man limit. We had a nice mixed box of fish. Half of which were Salmon, and the other half was a mix of Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout, and lake Trout.