Holland 7/20 pm

[Gnarf]

Fished 5 - 10pm

Ended up 7 for 9.

Started a few miles north and ran a south troll thru 75-90 FOW.

Took 2 skams and a small king. Then plowed back north as the fish dried up and tried 90 - 120 south again.

Tons of huge bait balls and fish marks in 110-120 and stayed there the rest of the nite.

Was only 3 for 4 until the last hour when they turned on big time. Less then 5 minutes after i put flounder pounder on the diver it went, put another one on the rigger and it went twice in 15 minutes.

Was pulling lines and had the board of the 200' copper halfway to the boat when a fish ripped it!

Rigger set 65 - moonshine RV green flounder pounder took 2 hits, 6lb king and 17lb king.

Dipsy set 1.5 back 135 - moonshine green flounder pounder. 8 pound king.

Rigger set 50 - 10in blue/uv spin doctor w/ siggs riggs powder hypnotist. 7 pound king.

Dipsy set 1.5 back 165 - 8 in pro troll green dots w/ rapture frosted fern. large skam, and lost a screamer that broke the fly leader.

Full core - stinger steelie stomper. 1 skam.

200' 32lb copper - dreamweaver 4d green w/ orange ladderback. 8 lb king.

Rigger set 65 - mag silver streak blue chilly willy. Miss

Rough but worth it! 75-90 held mostly skams, 120 held kings.

Skams were full of bait, kings mostly empty stomachs.

[destined2fish]

Thanks

[Just Hook'n]

Skams are in....yes.

[littleboat]

What is a Skams? I'm not familiar with that term.

[Far Beyond Driven]

A strain of steelhead. Pretty much impossible to tell definitively from any other steelie without fin clips. They tend to run early and hang in warmer water than other steel, which is why the dnr stocks them. Name comes from the skamania river they came from in washington.

[Gnarf]

What is a Skams? I'm not familiar with that term.

the skams have "tubes" in their tails that normal steelies dont. hard to tell unless someone shows you, but its just about the only way to tell besides body shape on bigger ones.