The day started out drizzly and misty, so much for “rain south of Seattle and clearing” (although it did clear – at 12:30 when we got off the water, LOL).
My wife and I had the boat in the water and lines down at 5:40, and our first bite at 5:45am, 25 ft feet down on a silver dodger and pink hoochie. “Not a bad start” thought I. Well, I should have known better. The next bite didn’t come until 6:30, as we had a LDR of a small kokanee, hooked at 35 ft, green splatter dodger and bubble gum hoochie.
OK, so we were running four rods at 10 foot spacers, and variety trolling speed from 1.0 to 1.5, doing the figure S and varying things up. Used flavored corn and fake maggots. It was still a tough morning.

Here’s the run down:
7:50 – 30 ft, bite
8:10 – 35 ft, bite
9:55 – 35 ft – BAMM, FINALLY, a 12.5" fish in the cooler. Caught on a silver dodger and bubble gum hoochie.
10:05 – 35 ft – BAMM, another, thsi one 15"! Same rod, same gear.
10:49 – 34 ft, bite
11:35 – 35 ft, bite

Here’s something crazy – except for one bite, every fish came off the same rod with the same gear. I even set up virtually duplicate rigs 5 ft above and below, nothing, just that one rod all morning. Very weird. I’ve seen the same thing fishing for coho in the salt. Sometimes one rod just seems to be golden.
Anyway, we did see others catch fish, but not a lot. All and all, a slow day of fishing beats work (which I have to return to tomorrow). Can’t believe my wife is OK with getting up at 4am to go fishing!

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