Yankee Troller

Doc and Kurt has a great day!

Lake fish are actively feeding in wide open water, and CHOOSE to bite. Trib Salmon are not actively feeding and are whipped, lined, and snagged out of their environment where they are funneled into tight runs, or sight fished out of shallow water. One is clearly more disrespectful. As far as your theory about 10k of the biggest fish that's so far from the truth. 75% of the teams fishing these events struggle, which means they're weighing in small fish. Look at the spread in the standings.

But it is. The disrespect the Salmon get from the trib fishery is disgusting, and law enforcement can't control it. I find it funny how trib anglers can put restrictions on lake anglers, but lake fisherman can't put restrictions on trib anglers.

The numbers taken during tourneys is a drop in the bucket when you look at what is stocked and naturally reproduced each year. Trolling open water hoping for big fish is vastly different than sight fishing a ditch or having to run a gauntlet on both sides of the river to make it to a hatchery. These big ones are half out of the water when running rapids and easily spotted by the crowds. These are pretty liberal numbers but lets say there are 50 tourneys on the lake in a season. Each one consisting of 20 teams, and each team takes 10 fish a day. That's 10,000 fish a year. For Chinook only they stock about 1,000,000 a year and due to a 50% natural reproduction rate (on average) that means 2,000,000 enter our system. I'd bet more than 10,000 leave our tribs in a months time.

You need to dig a little deeper. Their board get zeroed every week for about 8 weeks and each week their board will beat our Summer long (about a month) derby leaderboard.

Canadian tribs are closed down to Salmon fishing. Year in, and year out, they absolutely obliterate us when it comes to big fish. I'd say it's more than speculation. Also, the SR is the main natural reproducing trib on the South Shore and come Summer (July/Aug) when the Salmon are inhabiting the whole lake the East end tends to get a larger sized fish. I've watched this for years.. Are those SR naturals?

I want great fishing and bigger fish. BOTH of which can be achieved by closing down the Salmon River during "Salmon" season. Open it up Nov 1st and have at it with the steelhead. The rest of the south shore can be the wild west for all I care. The Salmon River is the only conducive stream for natural reproduction year in and year out. It is also the stream our eggs/sperm get taken from so the hatchery can do its thing, and I want the best genes being used instead of them being dragged out of the river by their tails.

Ya, we should turn a blind eye to the dirt bags that come here every year becasue they "spend money." I say dirt bags becasue they break regulations and limits up there with a lack of respect for the Salmon fishery. ONE piece of this lake benefits from this Fall Salmon run, but the WHOLE lake suffers from the best genes getting dragged out before they get to the hatchery. Canadian North Shore is your perfect example. They get big fish in the Summer. Their streams are closed during the Fall run, and the big dogs breed the big dogs. Enough about Pulaski businesses needing this. The rest of the small towns around the lake survive.

Weird, a fly guy mentioned an Atlantic. I agree these Salmon are no good this time of year hence why we need the Salmon River closed, like the Canadian tribs, so the Salmon (fish managed for the Lake) can do their thing and our best genes aren't yanked out in a ditch. As for your over-priced comment. Please go out and purchase a nice boat, equipment to be successful day in and day out, and report back to us if it was smarter to book a few charters each season. Especially, since most of the clientele live more than a few hours away. Lastly, may God help you with your grammar in future posts, or you cold just fix the words with the squiggly red lines while your hammering away on the keyboard.

Thanks, I'm really liking this boat for my style of fishing. There is a piece that slides closed to block the bow off under the walk through window. It's great to keep the wind/cold out of the cockpit. Right in front of that (in the bow area) is a drain that runs the width of the consoles.