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If you read the reports it appears the Oak is crankin pretty good. Glen

How about I take my lowly spinning rod with one of those unsightly pieces of painted metal on it and clear out that pool for you so you don't get your artfully and masterfully hand tied, perfectly presented flys, roughed up by those pesky trout. Shouldn't take me long and I'll be out of your way. Don't sweat the report thing you'll get the hang of it. After some practice you will be able to present that report as skillfully as your fly so even us unsportsmen like unskilled spoon draggers can interpret it. Thanks for your service and welcome to the site. Glen

Happy Birthday Hank. Hope it's a good one. Glen

Painfully slow. Went north to the Big River. Fished in front for awhile with nothing to show. Fished from 10 to 150 fow. Blank screen and still rods. Picked up and ran north. Fished from the North Dunes to Lakeview. Marked one Salmon in front of the Dunes in 60 fow. Really wanted him bad but no go. LOL. Heard a report that one boat did 2, 2 year olds in front of the plant for 6 or 7 hours of fishing. Was planning on heading out there this morning but had to fix a leak in the camper. No leak and no fish. Glen

Friggin maggots. If you find um let us know who. Good luck. Glen

That was fall of '07, so those were the 2008 year class of stockers and this years 2 year olds/teenagers. Those will be next years matures. Tim And the Salmon river was supposed to have gotten it's full allotment of fish with the shortages spread out through the west so the impact on the numbers should be minimal in the east next fall. Glen

River water was cooler than the lake water. Alot of silver fish were taken out of the river. Alot of those fish in the estuary will move back out for awhile if the lake conditions improve. Also the longer the warm water keeps the incoming fish out, the less time they spend in front in the lake. Whether or not next weekend is better is dependant on the conditions in the lake. If that warm water is still there from top to bottom it will remain tough. Glen

Theres got to be more fish coming in. How many more? We'll just have to wait and see. Glen

Fishing in the Bay and north sucked. No fish on the screen or the rods. More boats than fish in front of the river. Glen

Welded ring is the front. Glen

What length are you reffering to? Glen

We use the 30 lb Boga grips. Very happy with them and they are accurate in a chop. My digital bounces all over the place unless it's dead calm out. They are pricey but well made and will last a lifetime if oiled now and then. If I remember correctly the 60 lb model is in one lb increments and the 30 is 1/2 lb increments Glen

Very sorry to hear of your loss my friend. Kelly and I send you and Bernie and the rest of the family our deepest sympathy and prayers. Glen

Yup the combat fishing sucks allright. We can usually find our own fish and enjoy the day. Believe me I don't mind looking. That wasn't the case last week and I spent a lot of hours over barren water looking. Up until Friday those fish were very concentrated and there weren't many outside the pack. Glen

Look like fish catchers to me John. Good luck Glen

The wife and I with Chris (Traveling man) started out in the Bay searching for Salmon. Fish were scarce and the few that were in there were concentrated in one area that was just packed with boats. Not looking forward to fishing in that insanity we spent the morning looking for our own fish. We were not succesful in locating Salmon but we did connect with about 5 or 6 Browns and a nice steelhead. The only spoon I had in the water took these fish. An NK Diehard. After chewing up the morning into the pack we went. While in there we went 2 for 3 and after seeing a few acts of inconsiderate ignorance and almost getting my wire rod taken out of the rod holder by a planer board that was a good 150 feet off the side of another boat we called it a day. The pack was running a north south troll and this boat was trolling into the pack on an east troll with the driver sitting sideward looking out at the middle of the lake. Completely oblivious to the 200 boats he was pulling into. Board missed my wire were it entered the water by about 5 ft. 1/2 dozen boats inside me with no where to turn. Sunday we had a full boat load with Chris, Chowder (Andy) and Richard Bullen in back. Still gunshy from Sat in the pack I headed west and covered a hell of alot of water from 40 fow to 400 and we came up with a blank screen and empty box. Sorry guys. Monday the wife and I found a few fish in 45 fow in front of the river while everyone else fished 70-90. We managed 6 Kings but really had to work for them. Biggest was between 30 and 31 lbs. Nice fish and a spectacular battle but not big enough for the board with the monsters that were on there. Tuesday, Wed and Thur. were slow days for us with 2 or 3 fish per morning. Could have done better numbers if I wanted to target Cohos but thats not what we were there for so I stuck with my big fish program and Troll. I heard Thursday that a wave of fish showed up to the west but they were mostly smaller fish with an occasional good one so Friday I opted to go north again.Was a good decision as the fish were there in 100 - 120 fow. They were spread out from Selkirk to the North dunes which spread the boats out nice and they were there in good numbers. We had a pretty good day taking 9 Kings and a Coho. Our best sets for the week were white paddles with Green Crinkle flies. No Salmon taken on spoons or plugs. An interesting observation I made on Friday afternoon. We were on the water when that storm blew in. Went from dead calm to a NASTY 3-4 foot chop in a matter of 5 minutes or so. Within the 1st minute of that wind kicking up we had hooked up, the boat next to us had doubled, the boat outside and in back of them hooked up, a boat in back of us hooked up and Finhooker on the Starboard side of us hooked up. That was 6 hookups that I saw in the 1st minute of that blow. Pretty cool to say the least. If I had a crew on board I would have loved to stay out and hammer on them but with just the wife and myself it was just to dam much in that wind. They are there now so go get um. Remain conscious of other boats in the pack! Good fishing Glen

Nice job and nice fish Cornelis. Got to tighten up on those derby tickets. You never know when the big one is going to hit. Good fishing. Glen

Good decision. Good luck. Glen

Good to hear your keeping that fish population in check Steve. glen

Heres an opinion from the other side of the issue. I got an 8 foot beam with 4 riggers. Two I run 90 deg. out the sides and two off the back corners. I love my 4 riggers. They are the quickest and easiest rods on the boat to set. When a fish hits and releases there is just you, the rod, the line and the fish. No bullsh-t in between. For me that makes the battle of the fish all that much more enjoyable. I fish for fun and as far as I'm concerned I really dislike running any long coppers unless I'm fishing a tournament. Long coppers, while they catch fish just plain aren't much fun. I can run a combination of lures that work well together placed precisely where I want them and quite often that contributes to an increased total at the end of the day. During a good rigger bite I can do fish and actually enjoy smaller fish, and get set back up for another one quickly. With four riggers I can only run two or three if thats what the situation dictates, one of those less is more days but I can't run four if I don't have them. Personally I would never go without the four as long as I have the room. Glen

I am very pleased with my Shimano Tekota 600 LC's. Sweetest drags of any LC I've ever used. Glen

Quite often you can just replace the sleeve in the prop and not have to buy the whole prop. They replaced the old style shear pins and are there to give, if you hit something instead of bending the prop shaft and damaging gears. It's alot cheaper than buying a new prop. Glen

I've fished my 13's (torpedoes) down to 225 ft. Picked up a set of 15's at about a hundered bucks but I haven't fished them that deep yet. They weigh a couple lbs more but also have a bigger profile and so far with only a few trips with them they seem to be more effected by cross currents which I'm not that crazy about. Haven't proved that out yet but soon. After years of use you can't go wrong with the 13's for the money. The Scottys will bring the 15's up just fine. Glen

Yup. Glen

Thats definately either a Brown or an Atlantic. Glen