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The lake is loaded with nutrients right now. I was surprised how green the spring water was despite the cold water. This year’s weather reminds me of weather in the late 80’s. We were fishing kings up at Burt Dam around September 10th with the leaves already turning color back then. I would definitely plan for early runs on the tribs this year. With the Niagara still in the high 50’s my buddy is still catching tons of steelhead with his centerpin. Maybe we get a Niagara run this year??

The first-in copper and last-out copper, keep your thumb on the spool to keep it from backlashing. If you have to go over a dipsy then let the copper settle a couple of minutes down the middle before sending it wide -to allow for it to rise. Using a mag dipsy will lessen the chances of the two getting together due to steeper dive curve. Use spoons while learning as flashers make a mess.

Happens for two reasons in my estimation and experience. One, letting out dipsy too fast. Two, a small fish hit and spun it or three....a fish hit and ran forward causing the dipsy to roll onto itself. The most logical is the third option as I don't have this happen to slide divers.

https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/compare_years/

If you have not been running a DW glow two-face in mag or super slim you have been missing fish.

Town of Seward has a accessible small tributary on the opposite side of the bay from town. You can wade out into the water and cast vibrax spinners (orange treble dressing) or Cleos for pinks and silvers. Go down in the evening. All along the coast the tribs are loaded with salmon, dolly varden and grayling. Don’t fish the tribs near towns. Park you car and hike upstream to find water to yourself. Gear to bring is a spinning rod for hucking lures, a fly rod, streamers,egg patterns, and dry flies for grayling and white fish. You can catch Sole off the mouths of tribs by fishing skein chunks on bottom rigs. Make sure you check regs. Every stream has individual regs. Some are closed.

If you keep your fish, a fish hawk will pay for itself in two seasons with gas savings.

Fluorocarbon just called ..........and it wants you to use it appropriately.

I have tried trolling with a cat’s asz and the little bugger would hang onto the swim platform for a little while then just give up. I will stick with my discontinued Subtroll.

PM Jerry Felluca on this site. He traditionally has run two probes at the same time (subtroll and Fishhawk) and probably has the differential. I have a subtroll and have noticed that my buddies fishhawk shows a faster speed. When comparing spoon action at the boat, 2.25 mph subtroll seems like 2.7 mph fishhawk. The difference could be calibration testing between units during fabrication or perhaps the units are not measuring the same thing knots-per-hour vs miles-per-hour? In the end you fall back on the speed that works for reproducibility so you need to adjust your view to your new view on speed shown on the fishhawk.

Does the infamous Gary rig use crimps?