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Launched out of Wellington at 4:30 am in search of salmon. Started working in about 100 FOW. By about 6:30 am things were starting to look bleak. We had one hit, no fish on the finders and the sun was already hot and getting hotter.
Decide to move further out. Well that was the ticket...for the next hour and 15 minutes I could not get more than one line in the water at a time because of fish hitting. In an hour and15 minutes we boat 7 salmon from 6-22lbs, one brown and one bow and then the bite shut's completely down. Mission accomplished, time to get out of the sun.
I was driving away from the launch back to Ottawa at 10am.
Hey Doug, hot lures were RAC spoon-Michael Jackson, NK-Purple thunder and Monkey Puke and green spin doctor with a green fly and dipsy. The spoons were at 75 and 90ft, the dipsy was at setting 3 and 180ft behind the boat. By 9am the fleas were out in full force so I suggest Flea Flicker or 30lb test or greater.
Mike P wrote:Hey Doug, hot lures were RAC spoon-Michael Jackson, NK-Purple thunder and Monkey Puke and green spin doctor with a green fly and dipsy. The spoons were at 75 and 90ft, the dipsy was at setting 3 and 180ft behind the boat. By 9am the fleas were out in full force so I suggest Flea Flicker or 30lb test or greater.
Many thanks!
To give you a perspective on things, the last time I was rigging down there the spiny water flea had yet to make its presence known.............and I routinely ran 12 pound Trilene XL on my reels. One of the larger fish I caught off Netty's Patch came in on a spinning reel on a 12 foot steelhead rod, and six pound test. Times they are a-changin'
I was out there after Canada day. Biggest fish was a 28lbs salmon. We caught 1 bow, 3 salmon and 3 lakers (one was 22lbs). She was a hog, lol. It took us 3 days on the water not your record 6 hrs, lol.
Keep fishing,
Raydar
Keep your line in the water and there will always be a smile on your face.
Great action Mike. Lake Ontario is rockin right now, the best fishing I've seen out there since I've been going. Now to find some time to get back down there!
