Took my buddy Mark along for a koke trip to American.

After a shore side boat inspection by Pierce County's finest we were on the water about 0630 and had lines in the water shortly thereafter. Clipped the first line into the downrigger release and before I could get the second line stacked on, the first line was getting bit. Turned out to be a smallish RBT and it self-released at boatside.

This process repeated a couple of times until we finally got three lines fishing. I was running an Arrow Flash dodger and purple haze squid. Mark had on an FST salmon spoon converted to dodger mode and a smile blade followed by a copule of beads. These were stacked at 15' & 30' on one side and I had a leapin lizard dodger with black/gold spinner on the other. All tipped with various scented corn.

The RBT couldn't resist Mark's offerings.

Saw FB connection Shane & wife on the water and they were killin' it so swung by and Shane shared a tip to drop down to 32'. I switched to a chartreuse hot head flasher with a purple haze with pink tip hoochie and finally picked-up a nice kokanee.

Ended the day with just the one koke for me and a decent 14" cutthroat for Mark. Many RBT long releases and a few C&R at the boat.

Was a bit frustrating to get hung up on what I can only think were derelict buoy cables at least three times and lose some treasured fish catching lures and dodgers.

No pics this trip as the fish were not worthy.

Tight Lines All!

Fish Dawg

JM73

7/2/2014 1:19:00 PM

I can relate to the lost gear. I've donated a downrigger set up and several fishing set ups to the same thing. No where near any obstacales and in plenty of water, I've snagged up twice around the south end of Silcox Island. One of the two times, I was able to bring up what I snagged.......a cinderblock with about 30' of 3/8" yellow poly rope attached. Snagged it with the downrigger and removed it from the lake without donating my setup, thank god. It really sucks when it costs you gear.

Fish Dawg

7/2/2014 9:59:00 PM

Agreed, JM! An enterprising diver could probably open up a tackle shop of your gear and mine alone...

Would sure be nice to see an effort to remove the derelict buoy anchors and lines from the lake!

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