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My son and I took out the Adorah Jane today on a beautiful sunny Saturday on Lake Washington and this time our luck was far better! We started about mid-morning and fished the south side of Mercer Island to begin our day. I used a herring cut plug and my son used a whole herring. I put my cut plug about four feet behind a sling blade flasher and he put his whole herring behind some pop gear. We had fished the south side of the island for a couple hours with no luck when I brought my downrigger up to 18 feet to see if running a little shallower would change our luck. That's when I got a takedown, but when I picked up the rod the fish was gone and so was all of my herring! Nothing for a while after that so we shot over to Coulon to meet my wife for some burgers. Mmmmmm.... burgers.

We took the wife out fishing and she brought us luck! We went back fishing the south side of Mercer Island and I fished my cut plug herring and sling blade at about 22 feet down and whamo... fish on! Turned out to be a hefty 19 incher and now I'm grinning like a rock ape! We trolled around the corner of the island and started to head north toward the East Channel and then my rod went off again! I told my son to grab it and he played the fish right up to the side of the boat before it spat the hook and was gone! I felt pretty sorry for him so I pulled that big one I caught out of the cooler to remind him what they look like when you actually get them in the boat! He said a lot of stuff I can't put down here...

Well, it wasn't long after that and he got a take down on his rod and pulled in a nice 17 inch cutt! That was it for us, but we went home sunburnt and happy! Tight lines everybody!

salmonbarry

6/22/2013 10:06:00 PM

Way to go! Nice fish~ I ended up fishing American lake this morning but will be hitting the 'big lake' tomorrow at 5am before my trip to CA next week!

sleepyferret

6/22/2013 10:08:00 PM

Good luck salmonbarry! Glad you're getting out there early ... less boat traffic! Looking forward to your pictures!

bryanpeck

6/23/2013 11:23:00 AM

Glad to see you kick the skunk out of the Adorah Jane! Nice fish and thanks for the report!!

KIDKOKANEE

6/23/2013 11:28:00 AM

Nice to see you got some!! We were out there in a smaller smokercraft first of light fish jumpin and a dead deer near coulon launch floating fished a few hours got a couple nibbles but no hook ups!! Big fish jumping resembled dolfins just breaking the water rolling fish nice very calm water !! Headed in and headed to Sammamish got three nice CutThroat just in time water all over skiers and drag boats !! FISH ON!! PS meaning to try that burger barMMM sounds good turkey or chicken or fish bugers sometimes a buffalo burger me no beef diet!!

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