zgrinder on Fin Warrior Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 What a beautiful Monday night - calm seas, minimal flies and biting fish. Planed straight out to 110 FOW then set up on a NW troll. With warmer water pushed in, ran two deep riggers with a spoon and a fly and 300Cu with a meat rig down the chute. Lines were down about 10 min when the SWR with mag PK Blue Fishnet spoon got bit in 143FOW. Boated a 9lb fish. Struggled to ID it last night and this morning but will peg it as a SH. It has many of the markings of a brown trout and is slimy like a brown but the spots are not continuous. Plus it would be unusual to hook one that deep. It is a plant without the adipose fin. Switched the troll to NE to move back into 145FOW and had a stout hit on the 300Cu meat rig. Fish ran for 8-10 passes but after making a little of the ground back, it came off. To my surprise, I put the teaser set up down without a flasher. Set it back down with a flasher and it didn't get bit the rest of the night. Just got that rig back in the water and the SB downrigger down 72' with a blue SD/blue silver fly took off on the same NE troll. Great fight resulting in a 17lb king. After about 30min of no action, change the troll to SW & SE. Trolling speed bumped up from 2.2/2.4 to 2.7/2.8. I got nothing but a shaker with the faster troll going south and could not dial in a 2.2mph speed with the trolling values. Got back on a northernly troll about 8:30pm and noticed the speed was much higher so the currents must have shifted. Caught and released a small 4lb king that bit a clean blue silver meat head on a SWR down 76' in 149FOW. The blue SD/fly, down 72' in 142FOW got bit a little while later trolling NE at 2.8mph. Kept that one as it was hooked very deep. Did not get any action at dusk again but had a great night overall. # Time Fish Weight FOW Latitude Troll Wind Dir. Speed @ Ball Rod Bait Depth Bait Temp Bait 1 6:03pm Steelhead 9 143 42o 48.100 NW S 2.4 SWR 78 52 Magnum PK Blue Fishnet Foil spoon 2 6:49pm Miss 0 145 42o 49.400 NE S 2.2 Weighted Steel 300 45 Meat Rig - Blue head, blue teaser, 11" silver blue paddle 3 7:02pm King 17 143 42o 50.200 NE S 2.4 DR 20# 72 49 Chrome Blue SD/Blue silver fly 4 7:49pm King Shaker 130 SW S 2.5 DR 20# 72 49 Chrome Blue SD/Blue silver fly 5 8:40pm King 4 149 42o 49.600 NE S 2.7 SWR 76 49 Silver Blue Meat Head - no teaser/paddle 6 8:51pm King 8.5 142 NE S 2.8 DR 20# 72 49 Chrome Blue SD/Blue silver fly My project 13 2024-06-25_09-43-45.mp4 Clip of the Catch (2).mp4 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonguy9 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 What a beautiful Monday night - calm seas, minimal flies and biting fish. Planed straight out to 110 FOW then set up on a NW troll. With warmer water pushed in, ran two deep riggers with a spoon and a fly and 300Cu with a meat rig down the chute. Lines were down about 10 min when the SWR with mag PK Blue Fishnet spoon got bit in 143FOW. Boated a 9lb fish. Struggled to ID it last night and this morning but will peg it as a SH. It has many of the markings of a brown trout and is slimy like a brown but the spots are not continuous. Plus it would be unusual to hook one that deep. It is a plant without the adipose fin. Switched the troll to NE to move back into 145FOW and had a stout hit on the 300Cu meat rig. Fish ran for 8-10 passes but after making a little of the ground back, it came off. To my surprise, I put the teaser set up down without a flasher. Set it back down with a flasher and it didn't get bit the rest of the night. Just got that rig back in the water and the SB downrigger down 72' with a blue SD/blue silver fly took off on the same NE troll. Great fight resulting in a 17lb king. After about 30min of no action, change the troll to SW & SE. Trolling speed bumped up from 2.2/2.4 to 2.7/2.8. I got nothing but a shaker with the faster troll going south and could not dial in a 2.2mph speed with the trolling values. Got back on a northernly troll about 8:30pm and noticed the speed was much higher so the currents must have shifted. Caught and released a small 4lb king that bit a clean blue silver meat head on a SWR down 76' in 149FOW. The blue SD/fly, down 72' in 142FOW got bit a little while later trolling NE at 2.8mph. Kept that one as it was hooked very deep. Did not get any action at dusk again but had a great night overall. # Time Fish Weight FOW Latitude Troll Wind Dir. Speed @ Ball Rod Bait Depth Bait Temp Bait 1 6:03pm Steelhead 9 143 42o 48.100 NW S 2.4 SWR 78 52 Magnum PK Blue Fishnet Foil spoon 2 6:49pm Miss 0 145 42o 49.400 NE S 2.2 Weighted Steel 300 45 Meat Rig - Blue head, blue teaser, 11" silver blue paddle 3 7:02pm King 17 143 42o 50.200 NE S 2.4 DR 20# 72 49 Chrome Blue SD/Blue silver fly 4 7:49pm King Shaker 130 SW S 2.5 DR 20# 72 49 Chrome Blue SD/Blue silver fly 5 8:40pm King 4 149 42o 49.600 NE S 2.7 SWR 76 49 Silver Blue Meat Head - no teaser/paddle 6 8:51pm King 8.5 142 NE S 2.8 DR 20# 72 49 Chrome Blue SD/Blue silver fly My project 13 2024-06-25_09-43-45.mp4 Clip of the Catch (2).mp4Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonguy9 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile AppSent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonguy9 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Great report, ty! Tight lines…Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdh Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleboat Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Great solo fishing catch! Sent from my Z5156CC using Great Lakes Fisherman mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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