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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: DoubleJ on May 24, 2014, 05:29:26 PM

Title: His first salmon trip
Post by: DoubleJ on May 24, 2014, 05:29:26 PM: We've dinked around a bit, testing things out but today was his first salmon fishing trip and look what he finds

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28" 9lbs
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: RadSav on May 24, 2014, 06:53:34 PM: Nice! I think I just about ate my first one all by myself. It was the best fish ever!

Did you catch it trolling or jigging? Tell the master angler "Congratulations" from Lorraine and I. We are very happy for him!
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: Mfowl on May 24, 2014, 07:01:27 PM: :tup: There's a happy kid!
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: PolarBear on May 24, 2014, 07:21:11 PM: Awesome!!! Congrats!! Now go get him a ling!
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: DoubleJ on May 24, 2014, 07:28:53 PM: Quote from: RadSav on May 24, 2014, 06:53:34 PM
Nice! I think I just about ate my first one all by myself. It was the best fish ever!

Did you catch it trolling or jigging? Tell the master angler "Congratulations" from Lorraine and I. We are very happy for him!

Trolling. Got the downriggers figured out. I would like to get some 15lb balls in the future though. These 10lb ones ride too high. One downrigger only has 120ft of cable and as high as the balls ride, i'm only getting about 85 feet down
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: DoubleJ on May 24, 2014, 07:31:36 PM: Quote from: PolarBear on May 24, 2014, 07:21:11 PM
Awesome!!! Congrats!! Now go get him a ling!

Have to get the motor fixed (again). I have it in the garage, stored laying on the floor, prop down like always and from the prop, it's leaking oil. I'm not happy
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: Hunterman on May 25, 2014, 10:10:04 AM: Nice job on the black mouth :tup: When I fished the bay I would run a meatline with only a 6 pound weight, and had to learn to slow my troll down. When running a flasher I would watch the meatline until I got a steady throb on it. I would run the line between (now this is a little known secret so don't let it out ) 150' to 180'. I'll PM you my other depths :tup:

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: Angus on May 25, 2014, 02:48:19 PM: If you have manual downriggers and I'm guessing you do if that's your boat in the back of the truck, I wouldn't recommend 15 lbs. cannonballs unless your built like Schwartzenager or want to be. You WILL notice the difference retrieving the 15's over the 10's, might consider 12's but they'll have blowback to and probably wont make a lot of difference over the 10's. :twocents:
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: DoubleJ on May 25, 2014, 05:19:00 PM: Point well taken. I found a pretty accurate blowback calculator that I have on my phone now and will use in the future. Just need more cable now
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: SCRUBS on May 25, 2014, 05:23:25 PM: Congrats! That`s a memory that he won`t soon forget.
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: DoubleJ on May 25, 2014, 10:04:13 PM: Add this from last year

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,131073.msg1744360.html#msg1744360 (http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,131073.msg1744360.html#msg1744360)

And he won't ever NOT fish for the rest of his life. I swear he's always talking about fishing or wanting to go, unless it's hunting season :chuckle:
Title: Re: His first salmon trip
Post by: Smossy on May 26, 2014, 01:14:34 AM: Right on buddy gglad to see you guys be succesfull.