Today was a better day for JoAnn and me. Not red-hot, but decent. Definitely did better after making a couple small adjustments. First, I dropped my troll speed from 1.2-1.1 down to 0.8-1.0. Second, I went with smaller presentations, hook-wise and yarn-wise. Even went old school bare red hooks.

We started at 5am and it was another slow morning all around us. At 7ish started seeing fish caught, and we hit a double at 8:10am – at 24 and 33 feet on one rigger. And we lost both our fish. Mine came off at the net, and it was a brute, much bigger than the typical fish, I’d guess more in the 8 pound range. I apologize to all around me for my explicative uttered.

The bite went on around us and actually got better as the morning progressed.

Our second fish came at 10:25 at 24 feet on a red and a black hook with 50/50 dodger. Our final fish came at 11:40 at 27 feet on a red/red hook with shrimp (thanks Nate!). Again, lot’s of people catching nothing, but some boats appeared to be doing quite well. Overall and for most I’d say it was again slow, but better than Monday.
Got to see Nate on the water – he has a very cool set up with his inflatable raft. Also ran into John Thomas of Rotten Chum Guide Service, he agreed Tuesday was better than Monday.

Only one boat altercation (actually my first on Baker lake). A guy came up behind me, trolling faster than myself, and became irritated that I must have been in his way. FYI, if you’re overtaking a boat and either side is wide open, just pick a side and go past, don’t cut behind and then get all upset that the other boat is “in your way”. Just some basic sea-going “rules of the road”.

FYI, I posted the specific Boating Safety Guidelines for overtaking vessels.

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