Port Sheldon Day report August 24th

[chandler]

Went out in the morning before dark arous 5 and had a quick triple before the sun came up.. Landed 2 of them one being a small 5 pound king and another 19 pound king.. Big king came on a 200 copper with a lucky charms jplug and the small king on a full core with a green dolphin.. Had 4 more bumps right after the sun came up but that was it. Best depth was 110-140 FOW

After that we decided to get some perch but only came up with 20 or so of them.. Had to throw a lot of dinks back..

We headed back out around 6:30 for some more salmon... Started the night with a 23 pounder about a half hour after setting up.. It came on a blue meat rig with a spinnie.. A little later we hit a small 8 pound king on a diver 130 back with a uv green meat rig.. Right after sunset we hit a triple.. The first to come in was a big fat 12 pound coho that had the hooked jaw and looked ready to spawn. After that the diver 130 back with the uv meat rig got a 16 pound king.. The last to come in was a 22 pound king on a green froggy meat rig on the Downrigger 60 down.. We worked the 180-160 FOW all night.

[Sea Monkey 1St Mate]

Nice report thanks for the info.

[young gun]

Chandler where did you get the perch? by the bubbler?

[chandler]

Chandler where did you get the perch? by the bubbler?

No nobody really fishes the bubbler for perch because its full of sheephead and thats pretty much all you catch. When the perch start biting you usually go about a half mile south of Port Sheldon and theres tons of boats there and we usually get a bunch of big fat perch.

[young gun]

Chandler what depth of water south of P.S, and are you fishing any kind of structure?

[chandler]

Chandler what depth of water south of P.S, and are you fishing any kind of structure?

The only kind of structure youre gonna find is sand and more sand. We catch them about 20 FOW

[young gun]

Do they hold there because there is a drop off, or why do they hold there?

Sorry for the ?s but thanks for your time.

[chandler]

Im really not sure.. I know of some talk of a small like 3 or 4 foot drop down hole by there and that might be it but im not positive

[young gun]

ok, Im having a hard time trying to figure out why the fish would hold in that 20fow as to the miles of 20fow in the vicnity.

[young gun]

Yeah there would have to be a hole.

[chandler]

Yeah there would have to be a hole.

Yeah I don't really know for sure but that's what I hear a lot when I talk to people that I talk to. You'd have to come out with us sometime because it's a small spot that everyone fishes and we have a waypoint on it.

[young gun]

Yeah that would be fun to fish together this summer (when i have a day off from first mating.) My phone # is 7042307693.

[Far Beyond Driven]

Small changes in bottom composition are huge. Same bit for spring browns, there's 50 miles of 5-10' I routinely patrol but it seems the waypoints are all piled on top of each other in certain spots. Some are gravel, and one's a bit of clay that riles up the water after a west wind is money.