Slimy Hooks

Probably had the spread in the water by 6:45 quit at 2 and we were 6/10 with mature kings...Weighed one at 28.5 with a scale that shows 1 pound lighter than the LOC station we always go to and I dumped one at the net just as big...The rest were solid 18-20's...We doubled up at one point on our wires and a triple with 1 on the 8 color, 1 rigger and a wire... Best location was right off the river in 40-60' with fish coming on a 8 color core, wires out 35-85' and riggers 20-35' down...Some cold water in their as I believe at 35' I had 50-52 degrees and down 45' I had 41-43...No fish were caught by us in the colder water... Lures of choice in the spoon category were the pearl and black yeck, a NK 28 green/glow with lazer ladder and the hot set-ups were 8 inch white e-chips with atomik white halo and Triple K fly...Spin docs were slow yesterday but the 2 spinny fish hit the white/green edge with the silver back with a atomik mirage fly and the other the 42nd combo from atomik... 50' foot leads off the riggers were best and our best down-speed was 2.4-2.7...We did take the first of the triple going 3.0 at the ball, but we slowed it down a touch to 2.6-2.7 then doubled, slowed it down some more 2.3.-2.4 and tripled so thats the range we tried to fish... Good luck to those who make it out over the week, lots of nice fish waiting to be tempted just hang in their and keep changing until things start to fit together...

Iceman, Finally somebody besides me that thinks counter's on riggers are GARBAGE!!! The boat I normally fish on has 4 cannon's only 1 of them has a accurate counter and it always matches up with the line on the graph, other's I can put all 3 at the same count and they are all at different depths...I only use the graph to match my spread up to where I see fish coming through if i'm not seeing fish I use the fishhawk to find the top and bottom of temp, watch where my ball was making the line's and set my spread in that zone... That shallow alarm is a good idea, I will bounce probes and chrome sharks off the bottom willingly but my 1 buddy gets scared when his probe is 10 feet off the bottom so i'll have to remember that shallow alarm for him next time...

My suggestions would be to start at O'dark:30 right at the mouth of the Genny with glo J's and spoons...Spoons are mostly for browns/steelies...Work that hard and for as long as you can stand the traffic or conditions allow...Even if the sun pops out, if you have colored water and some of the traffic is gone keep at it a little longer as the fish will calm back down without the boat traffic... Than either pull and run out to 475-550 or troll out their to see what you can find on the way...Last week we found some nice kings in 15-20 FOW combat trolling then the screen was disgusting with hooks from 300 out to past 500 just they were not active and we only pulled a half dozen immature kings and steelies... Good luck to those who make it out...

His balls were highly unlikely to hit the bottom... I've done lots of laker fishing and sometimes I fish browns or kings just like lakers, pounding the balls on the bottom and i've noticed at a "normal" salmon speed its going to take at least 20 more feet of cable to touch bottom than what your depthfinder says... So if in 100' you probably wont touch bottom with 120' of cable out...Somedays i've had 160-180' of cable out to get me on bottom in 130-140 going at lake trout speeds...These are things to take into account when your marking fish belly down to the bottom and want to make sure your lures are going by them...

Go for it... Go across the pier heads down the side of one pier turn out (obviously) and go back out across the pier heads and down the opposite pier side and repeat...J-plugs and a spoon or two and by my findings it seems on a 50 foot lead that J dives another 4-5 feet deeper than the rigger so take that into account when you set up...Look for colored water and the action of your lures at the surface to get a proper speed... They are around and you have a very good chance at catching some kings...

Fish are their, just need to be fished for a period of time to catch one...Had one solid bite yesterday morning casting glow cleo's, than the same night my friend caught a 18 pound hen on Summerville with eggs...Will only get better...

Looks like an atlantic to me...Caught both species in that river of equal size and have had them side-by side and i'd say your buddies fish is an atlantic but i'm not positive without that tail close-up as rustyrat mentioned...

Without the flasher or dodger giving the fly the proper action as well as attracting qualitites, i'm not to sure that it would be very effective... I've put flashers/dodgers on 12 pound Ande and have'nt had any issues but you just have to remember you are using light line and ease up on the drag and dont muscle'em to much...

Took one the first Saturday in May at the Niagara Bar...Been trolling the lake since the early 90's and it was the first one I have ever caught and the 3rd i've seen brought aboard...Was only a 2 pounder but was my first and enabled us to get our first "grand slam" considering we already caught kings, cohos, lakers a brown then finally the elusive Atlantic...

The one I booted right behind the boat did eat the dreamweaver 4DW blue whale on the 51' rigger...Awesome steelhead lure that blue whale...