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What a great trip! Well once we got fishing. Kinda a ruff start tho. It’s early kids are little crabby. Lost the little connector for the end of the steering arm from the main motor to the kicker on the way down this morning Grrr. But we can troll at 1.5 on idle in neutral with the main motor on so... we just used that. We have a 17 foot wooldridge Jet and don’t need a dock so we can use the dirt launch about a mile up the Okanogan river and avoid the mad house that is the launch in Brewster. This launch has a a little funky gravel launch and you kinda jackknife the trailer at the end but I like this one. It’s a quick run down the river and bam your on the fish right in front of the mouth.

Fishing was steady all morning you see fish going in boats left and right. It’s crowded, I did hook another guys downrigger with one of my poles he was nice enough to toss my stuff back on the next pass by. Seen a guy toss a good handful of shrimp to another boat that was cool to see. lots of smiles even tho you could high five the guys in the boats next to you. We had steady bites about every 15 minutes or so we would get a bite. Pink coon shrimp did the trick 14” leader or so. Caught fish on both Small and large Mack’s DD dodger, les Davis chrome 0 dodger was working too. Mack’s pink /chrome smile blade couple beads and a pink 0 Gamakatsu octopus hook.
These are really nice looking fillets!

afk

7/23/2018 7:22:00 AM

Hey Milo, Good job keepin' those boys on fish! How many boats do you estimate were there? Thanks for the report. Andy

Bent hook pontoon

7/23/2018 4:32:26 PM

Andy, I would say 150- 200. You could catch a fish and high 5 the guys in the boat next to you...

uplandsandpiper

7/23/2018 7:41:57 AM

Oh great now everybody knows about this fishery. It was such a well kept secret too. ;-)

Bent hook pontoon

7/23/2018 4:31:40 PM

right! I need to give a huge shout out to the guys up at north 40. They had the jar of shrimp waiting for me at the register the night before at closing time. The staff in the fishing dept there is by far the most helpful knowledgeable staff I have ever encountered at a tackle shop. These guys are out fishing and perfecting their craft, and are willing to share their local knowledge. Top class customer service, and no this is not a solicited review of North 40 fly shop.

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