salmonbarry
12/18/2018 6:04:52 PMSorry to hear that Mike! Yea same story at our house as I got home from work and opened the gate the fence nearly fell over so secured with extra anchor ropes from the garage to nearby trees and just in time as that night it blew like a banshee! Sorry to hear about the shortened trip but hope you can make it out again soon! Merry Christmas!
9TenMan
12/18/2018 7:55:16 PMThanks for the post Mike. I haven't been seeing many reports from Lake Washington lately compared to previous years. I was wondering if you have any tips for how you keep all those lines from getting tangled while you're trolling. I run two down riggers with fully extended arms off both sides and a third rod right off the back over the main motor with a dipsy diver and I can't seem to keep the middle line from tangling with one of the rigger lines. Is your "long line" just a line with a banana weight on it? Wondering if my dipsy diver is not running true. Thanks for the help.
FastActionGS
12/18/2018 9:20:20 PM9TenMan, our longline was a lead core line. that is my go to for fishing long lines over banana weights, but is all just a preference thing. with lead core, I can be a little more accurate with my depth, but you can be just as accurate if you learn banana weights.
sorry to hear about your tangle issues. i run our of a 16 foot boat, and the most we have fished is 4 rods and had no problem. I may recommend slowing down how hard you turn, stagger your depths, and maybe use a diver that doesnt dive as deep. lead core is great because it sinks about 6 feet every 30 feet of line at trout trolling speed, keeping that live further away. the main tangle will be because of sharp turns is my guess.
give me a call at (425)-753-5772 and Id be happy to talk to you about some other reasons or potential fixes to the problem.
tight lines brotha!
sorry to hear about your tangle issues. i run our of a 16 foot boat, and the most we have fished is 4 rods and had no problem. I may recommend slowing down how hard you turn, stagger your depths, and maybe use a diver that doesnt dive as deep. lead core is great because it sinks about 6 feet every 30 feet of line at trout trolling speed, keeping that live further away. the main tangle will be because of sharp turns is my guess.
give me a call at (425)-753-5772 and Id be happy to talk to you about some other reasons or potential fixes to the problem.
tight lines brotha!
rmrauscher
12/18/2018 8:02:26 PMHey Mike, it was short and sweet. Had a good time and it was great fish with you, Robbie and Paul. After you left, Paul and I came back down in my boat. Fishing wasnt smokin hot but we did manage a real nice 18+ incher.
FastActionGS
12/18/2018 9:13:31 PMrandy couldn't have said it better. was an absolute blast, and 2 fish in one hour on Lake Washington is pretty good action all things considered, especially because we were just on our first spot! glad everything is ok, looking forward to getting back out there with you.
FastActionGS
12/18/2018 9:20:32 PMrandy couldn't have said it better. was an absolute blast, and 2 fish in one hour on Lake Washington is pretty good action all things considered, especially because we were just on our first spot! glad everything is ok, looking forward to getting back out there with you.
strikezone
12/20/2018 10:20:35 AMMike--Thanks fort a nice report. I was wondering if you could head me in the right direction to find some gold crush tape to use on my wobbler lure when I am Kokanee fishing. Thank you.
Denny
Denny
Mike Carey
12/21/2018 6:55:13 AMWell the fence held up to Wind Storm Two so we must have done a reasonably good job!
strikezone
12/23/2018 2:14:28 PMThanks for the hint on where to look for tape Mike. I was successfull
strikezone
12/23/2018 6:06:07 PMThanks for the hint on where to look for tape Mike. I was successfull