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bigger is better with cutbait.

Great fishing continues from Sandy Creek. Great picture inside of 100 fow all this week and unreal amount of bait showed up in there yesterday. The cold water inshore almost guarantees a mixed bag as was the case yesterdays trip. 17 bites inshore w/ Kings, Browns, Bows, and Lakers all hitting the deck. Blood Run 300' coppers pulling flasher flies and Blood Run divers pulling flasher flies produced the majority of King and Steelhead action while the riggers pulling a mix of spoons produced the Browns and Lakers. 3 dark matures today over 22# with the biggest just under 27#.

An Okuma Convector 55 will easily fit 300'-450' of Blood Run copper, braid backer, and fluorocarbon leader. Church tx44s work pretty good with smaller sections of copper but big section you will need to run big boards.

and there is never fish there!

Stay tuned... the DEC would like to do a Coho fin clipping study after the chinook study is complete.

The amount of "wild fish" ive boated this year scares me and i have a very tough time believing the numbers we are told. Truth is... more wild fish will eventually = less stocked fish. The DEC has already admitted they had an issue tagging fish with the trailer in year 3 and and their 1-3% number of fish not getting clipped was way off. And because of an issue, none of this years stocked fish were even clipped. I dont put too much faith in the clipping trailer or of the DECs salmon study. I think it should give us some very cool info but certainly not enough information to make future fishery decisions.

Contingency plan? Whats that? When the DEC has been asked about this (at the state of the lake), they have had no answer. Lack of state funds= no contingency.

and dont forget the first mate!

please let me know too!

I always fish my divers with mag rings. With the rings on it makes them dive tighter to the boat and keeps them out of the way better when fighting fish.

Unless your fishing 2 divers per side there is no need to run divers on a 3 1/2 but if you prefer it then run your copper down the chute. I would suggest putting your copper on a board and fishing your divers on a 2 setting though.

why land them? they only make a mess out of the boat!

I thought the same thing...

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Now thats the truth!

you can order direct from them... Captains Cove at the Oak is also a retailer...

The first 50-75 ft coming off the reel of big coppers is always the toughest. keep the clicker on, tight spool tension. Keep in mind that the 32# copper doesnt have the same sink rate as 45# copper. So if your fishing 32#, you can achieve the same depths with 45# copper with less line out. It was designed with walleye fisherman in mind (short segments) not salmon fisherman. Although 32# may be easier a little easier to use but 45# will out perform it and hold up better in the long run.

The answer is yes! Much easier deployment and less back lashing.