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07/26/2012
Top Fishing From Shore
Sockeye Salmon
Other
Purple
Bobber
Morning
07/26/2012
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Set out at about 7:30 this morning to go fish for sockeye above wells dam and had no luck at all! There were tons of fish rolling right in front of me but I was still getting no bites. At first I was using red coon shrimp and I was about to leave when another guy showed up that I chatted with for a while. He told me he had some purple coon shrimp that had worked very well for him so I walked back down to the water with him and we fished for about another hour. Still no luck at all, I need some suggestions on other methods or baits I could use because I had literally no action all day!


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stryker17
7/26/2012 5:23:00 PM
don't feel bad, we hit the water at 5;30 am, fished till 1;30 pm and not one hit, we used everything we could find, and believe me I have a lot........... started with dodger and pink hochie on one rig and white dodger and orange hochie on the other, this went on all morning, ended up with silver dodger ( used 3 different sizes) and pink yarn on bare hooks , and everthing inbetween....... not one hit, speeds from .5 to 1.6. I have fished here for years and never had such a dry spell.... that being said I saw many boats with doubles and lots inbetween. however many boats like me had not one hit............ oh wellllllll always the next day................................
mwdehaan
7/26/2012 5:44:00 PM
Thanks for the report. Sure seems hit or miss out there.
Slammin8er
7/26/2012 6:19:00 PM
Fished it this morning. Most I saw were using a pink glow mini squid that I heard STS did an article on. we were using a double red hook setup with a little flash tied to the top hook and a small chunk of shrimp only on the top hook. Trolled 17' to 20' down about 2.5 to 3 mph. We limited with 18 in just over 2.5 hrs.
Good luck.
Slammin8er
7/26/2012 6:23:00 PM
I forgot to include the single O silver dodger with about 20" of leader.
Jeremy_Lerv
7/26/2012 7:18:00 PM
Im thinking about heading up there tomorrow morning to try at it again. Should I use shrimp again or switch it up?
Ganno
7/27/2012 2:19:00 PM
You want to be fishing by 5:30 the bite can be over by 7 and if you see fish cough t work that are fish against the flow and very slowly at 15 to 20 feet deep
stryker17
7/28/2012 7:46:00 AM
much better luck on friday, hit the water at 5;00 am , no bite till about 10;00 than got 3 lost that many, had to move the motorhome so came in and went back out, at 12;00 , slow till 2;30 than real good bite got 3 more with several doubles that didnt pan out, using silver dodger, pink hochie , short leader, 10 inches back, at 1.0 mph down 20 ft............. will be back after the derby for a week, will try for the kings than.......................
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