Another afternoon enjoying the Baker Lake sockeye fishery, OK it had been scheduled to be an early morning fishing trip and in fact my alarm went off at 3:30 early but things happen (who’s idea was it to have kids anyway?). So breakfast down the hatch and finally on the road it is about 12:30-1:00 before we are making the turn off of 20 to head up to the lake. The boat was already dirty so I decided to launch at Shannon Creek. Boat in the water and truck and trailer in the bushes and we are motoring down the lake. We were the only boat on the lake, not a good sign. We started offshore of the second point down the lake from Noisy Creek. This had been a good spot when the flotilla was working off Noisy Creek. But after metering around for awhile and found that nobody was home we made the move up to Noisy Creek.

The move to Noisy Creek was a good one and we had the first fish in the bag with in a few minutes. We worked the usual gear, a 0 chrome or 0 fish scale dodgers followed by a single red 3/0 hook with pink smiley blade tipped with shrimp. We ran various depths from about 37’ to 90’ but a bulk of the fish were holding at 42-50’. As a side note all of our fish on Sunday were caught while running the gear below the school of fish. Although we had many opportunities to put a fish in the box we only put two in the net. The fish were not as aggressive as they had been. I wonder if the dropping lake level or the warm surface temperature has something to do with it. If you look at the snap shot of my FF screen each blue ball represents a fish on and we are still finding schools of fish but just had to work harder for them.

We fished for a few hours and then beached the boat by noisy Creek and then swan for a couple hours. It was way cool, there were a million little tiny frogs hopping all over the gravel spit. After our cool down break we headed back out on the lake for a couple more hours and then called it a day. I apologize for no fish pictures but I thought the attached pictures are more interesting than a picture of two more sockeye.

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