I fished Baker Sat & Sun. It was very different than the reports from Friday, the opener. As you have all probably experienced, sockeye can be moody biters. An "off" mood is what we encountered. Sat morning about 2am we were awakened by thunder right over head, this continued off and on until around 6am. We had two periods of maybe an hour and half each of a pretty good rain. Whether this affected the bite I don't know, but there were very few limits on Sat and very few who even caught a fish. We managed to catch one, that got the skunk off, and into the "consider yourself lucky, we never even had a bite" category. Sunday was even worse, we never had a bump!

Here's what we did hear: Sat, one boat, 2 guys, found a school of fish and worked it over for 7 caught, 3 lost. Another fellow had 6 fish for 3 people, he gave me the "magic lure." A "glow in the dark" white hook which was to be tied as the trailing hook with a red in front and a 11/2in pink hoochie over tinsel, attached to the dodger with a surgeon's knot using a 9in 40# leader. But, he added, "might not work tomorrow." He was right: it didn't!

At the dock Sunday, the young couple pulling out as we did had 7 fish. Up in the parking lot he explained that they worked the drop off that was once the original Baker lake and caught fish around 50' all the way down to 100'. He also showed me the lure they used: he had two red hooks, and a small (maybe an inch to inch and a half) red flannel cape secured in his top hook leader tie. It looked like the Superman Sockeye Lure! As we were finishing on Sun we ran into the same boat and guys from Sat. On Sun, instead of targeting a school, they trolled up and down in the "middle of the lake" and had 6 fish; chrome dodger pink hoochie. We trolled the same pattern with the same gear and had no strikes. Go figure.

I hesitate to call it sockeye magic, whether it was the weather or the fact that lake is nearly 74 degrees, but our experience this weekend: it was "tough fishing." Before you go up there scour the internet for all the information you can find, adjust you sights and goals, you might need it.

One final "story." Coming home we stopped at the McD at the Holiday Sports exit. A guy was sitting in the lot with a flat tire on his boat trailer waiting for AAA to come fix it. We got to talking Baker lake sockeye and he told of a guy last summer who was able to "at will" catch fish. He made a concoction of Coon shrimp in some kind of solution which he let "rest" for 2 or 3 days building smell and then froze. Check the internet, your sources, and voodoo adviser, go prepared. Let us all know if you find some magic.

Attached are a few ideas found on this site.

http://www.northwestfishingreports.com/WatchVideoHD.aspx?id=121
http://www.northwestfishingreports.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=15859
http://www.northwestfishingreports.com/TopoMaps/97_BakerLkWALakes_WEB.jpg

DjButler

7/14/2015 6:04:00 PM

Thanks for the report and tips. I'll be up there tomorrow morning and Thusday as well.

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