Fished the 23rd and 24th. Mornings starting at 5:00 quit around 10:00. Tuesday not even one bite. Tried usual sockeye stuff from bare hooks with shrimp to mini ace high fly and squids in various designs. Finally on Wednesday around 7:00 get our first bite. I get the line released from the downrigger clip and the fish rockets to the surface. I reel like crazy but the sockeye jumps out of the water a couple feet and throw the hook. 15 minutes later another good bite and it is fish on. Battle for a minute or so and then loose line lost everything. Fish pulled my main line swivel snap apart. Frustrated I retie and about an another 15 minutes pass and fish on again. This one also feels like a good fish. Fight again for a couple minutes then I again feel a slack line lost doder again but on a different pole. On inspection my mainline was all frayed. Must have got around something. FYI check your gear after every fish. Most guys were not catching anything. Only saw a handful of fish caught each day in the 2 days we were up there. I heard the fish trap was broken so that with the season low numbers and a full moon killed the fishing.

Mike Carey

7/25/2013 10:25:00 AM

ouch, three lost fish, sorry to hear that. I wondered about the full moon. I even started at 4:45am on Wednesday morning hoping to ambush a fish shallow using the light of the moon. No dice. Our experience was the same as yours, minus two bites.

racfish

7/25/2013 1:43:00 PM

Back years ago in Lk Wa the gear to have were U-20 L-9 or M2 sized flatfish. Dosent anyone use flatfish anymore?

kokanee1

7/25/2013 10:07:00 PM

I tried a silver with red dot u20 flatfish for about an hour and half with no bites but my other 2 lines did not have bites either.

Mike Carey

7/26/2013 6:37:00 AM

I have caught sockeye in Baker on a flatfish type lure. When it's no bites hours on end I think it doesn't hurt to show something different.

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