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I buy 1" clear tubing and cut it about 1" longer than the fly. Cut slots in each end of the tube. Insert leader through tube and wrap leader end to end on the tube placing leader in the slots you cut. I will post a pic if I can remember tomorrow.

I tie a perfection loop to all my flies and add a heavy duty snap to the back of the flasher. Works great. It is a lot easier to change flies also.

I did not ask him. He was fishing the same area as us.

K Gonefishing,

They looked like they were just digested. They were caught after 10am and were in relly good shape.

Ditch the old style probe and buy the X4 probe. It will work with your old unit. I purchased mine this spring and it is way better than the old style probe. It runs on AA batteries and I just replaced the original set on Saturday (20 or so trips). IT deos not skip around at all. I ran my prober down 200' and it was still reading perfect.

I just rig 2 hooks above a egg sinker. drag the sinker on the bottom and you will find them. A lot of the time, you will get doubles. Some guys have luck with slip bobbers and minnows but I find fishing the bottom is more productive.

While I was fileting fish that were caught over 400' of water Saturday, I found some fish in the stomachs of a king and a steelie that suprised the heck out of me. I found 2 3" largemouth bass in the stomachs (one in the king and one in the steelie). In all of my years on the lake, that was a first. I was thinking that the upwelling sucked them off shore. Trout-N-About went out Sunday and found the same thing.

Line guy,

Over the weekend we did fish in 350+. The best area was 420-480. The temp change started in 250 with lots of bait and hooks but to many dam weeds to keep rods in the water.

If it des go in, don't get too excited. The one in Auburn does not have very much trout and salmon stuff . They are just as bad as Gander Mountian and Dicks.

fateheads dragged on the bottom. worms catch mostly dinks. buy jumbo fatheads if you can.

eturc,

I think he was talking about recently. Back when that fish was caught, they were a little more common.

Very nice Salmon for sure. I would be taking that to the taxidermist if I caught it.

I've always had good luck with the metallic purple also, particularly for steelies, otherwise I always have a kelly green on the starboard side and a clear on the port side, just so I don't mess up and put em out backwards (what a mess )

Kings have always likes a kelly green diver.

Tim

Tim,

Just put a R on the Starboard and a L on the Port dispey with a sharpie.

I run al clear.

The perch don't start coming into the bay full force until October. Some smaller perch and decent perch are there in Septmeber. Gills and seeds are along the weedlines all over the bay. Pike, walleye and bass can be caught along the drop offs and weed lines using traditional methods for each species.

I use the Scotty's. The bigger ones for coppers with flashers and flies and the small regular plainner releases for short coppers (250 and less) without flashers. If you want the big Scotty's, purchase the double pinch pad stackers and cut them off and add a shower curtain hook. Saves a lot of $.

5th place laker - reeled in by my father. Will upload pic later.

Congrats Dave!

Congrats Paul.

Looks more like Durand to me.

Fish Hawk X4. Enough said.

Keith,

It was a little better last night. Lakers and browns. The screen looked wonderful in 120 -140 (bait and big hooks no takers) and in 60 -70 (browns and bait).. Heard some guys doing kings on the radio off the nose/pump house area.

Nice king Jerry.

An 8 weight fly rod is good enough. Streamers in white, brown, olive and purple will take fish. Egg patterns like Glow bugs, estez flies in orange or oregon cheese will also take fish.

Trailering the boat up there tomorrow Tom?

I have found frays in mine but I think it is from pliers. As for the hooks, I use the Owner 2x trebels and have not had a problem yet.