09-07-2004, 10:00 PM
Salmon fishing was slow this weekend but still productive. Friday morning we started in 65ft of water and marked alot of kings hugging the bottum. They had lock-jaw!! As we moved deeper we manage to get 3 hits around 75-80ft of water, landing 2 large 25+lbers. Saturday morning stared out a little better- the first rig went off before it made it down to 60ft. Within the first hour we hit 4 and landed 3. One fish was 28lbs. Then they turn off, not another bite until 11:30 and we lost that one anyway. At night we fished the Salmon River mouth(just outside the breakerwalls). We had 5 hook-ups, landing only 2. The first king of the night spooled all the line, 150yards, without stopping-goodbye! No trip Sunday on the lake but I did here it was about the same as Fri. & Sat.- OK but not great. At night we again fish the Salmon River mouth. It was very slow with only 3 fish on landing only 1 very large King salmon. Only 2 other boats out and they had pretty much the same results. Monday we took a late day ride down the river, just for fun. We saw plenty of fish in the upper end, mostly in the holes. It looks like we will be recieving another blast of rain from hurricane Francis- this will benefit the river but will not be to good for the lake.
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