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lol yea really, hope my luck stays with me for this weekend. in the ontario salmon hunt, need to win me a toyota matrix lol

yea im thinking making the fish is just cutting the line with their teeth. thanks guys I'll take this advice for the future flies.

lesson learned, don't use your finger to slow down the spool when you think the line has been snagged on something. We thought the line was caught on something because we were a second away from snagging it off the release lol

I took everyones advice that I was given on these forums, played around with some things and managed to have the best fishing night of my life tonight. I caught a 10LB salmon on the attomik green/yellow fly, the hooks managed to break off so I rigger on a treble hook so I could throw it back out there. I was trolling at 2.5mph instead of 3-3.5 like everyone told me and we managed to pull in 5 fish in under 3 hours. The last fish I got was a 30+lb salmon off the same fly I used earlier and had to throw a new hook on. It was the biggest fish I've got in my life. Thanks again guys and I hope to show you more pics throughout the summer. FYI we managed to hit this fish in 100fow just outside of whitby harbor. The line was down to around 45 feet at 8:30pm. Got hooked in the side somehow:s sorry for the bad picture, I didn't want to lift the fish up and hurt it's gills I wanted to get him back into the water.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: H0WITZER ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): July 4th, 2011 Time on Water: 6:30pm Weather/Temp: n/a Wind Speed/Direction: NW 8km Waves: calm Surface Temp: n/a Location: 2 miles out of Whitby Harbor, 100FOW LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 5 Total Boated: 5 Species Breakdown: salmon Hot Lure: green/yellow attomik fly with green/blue spin doctor Trolling Speed: 2.5 Down Speed: n/a Boat Depth: 100 Lure Depth: 40 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS Just wow........I followed everyone's advice here about speed and lures.......got 5 fish in total. Funny thing, as soon as my dad's like alright bring the lines up, last rod hits and I pull in a nice 38 lb salmon. ====================

Hey guys, well tonight I've been using a couple attomik flies. Both have taken in a couple nice 10 lb salmons. Problem is, the line that comes with the fly keeps snapping, I get the fly back, but the hooks are gone. Anyway around this problem? Should I switch the mono line with a steel like? [ Post made via BlackBerry ]

thanks for the report, heading there right now to get what's left:P

We have 4 lines out all the time. I've never had a fish tangle any lines up or touch the prob, maybe it's just luck. However when I get the fish in close, I have a general idea on where the line is and I just go to the very side of the boat and real him in that way. We don't change the speed but everyone has their own way of doing things.

We have some good days and bad days. I caught a 6 lbs trout today screwing around on my dingy in about 60 feet of water just outside whitby lol [ Post made via BlackBerry ]

yea i just threw on a couple green glowing beads. turned the rubber part inside out to and looks a lot better

awesome thanks for the tip, see how see works this weekend.

Thanks for the advice, I do run pretty large spoons that could be another problem. I'll try using my small ones this weekend and see what comes up, ill post pictures if I get anything.

Yea were doing them on the lake, I can get you the exact date/time/location by tomorrow, they have a sign out front I just keep forgetting to read what it sais.

i have the same fly, newb question but should i insert the fishing line starting from the left side of that pic, or should i run it up coming from the right side. I inserted the line on a different fly starting at the head, and when i dragged it through the water it just looked a mess.

if your in the GTA area I would also say whitby. We have marina derby going on this weekend so if you plan on fishing and your out on the lake tune to channel 69 and I'm sure you'll hear where all the fishies are that morning/afternoon.

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went to the store today and after staring at a fly for 5 minutes i now know why you guys run them the opposite way I did . Makes more sense I guess and the hooks would be hidden more if the fly was bigger

yea hopefully the weather is some-what decent. It's going to be the first time I've been out fishing that early in the morning to so maybe my luck will change.

I'm going to try it this weekend on a dipsy and see what happens, I'd try it on a cheater but I dont think it has enough drag to make a bow in the main line.

I would say 6-8 feet. I'm going down to my boat today to re-do them all and make a couple flies following the video by fishdoctor charters. I just need to pick up a couple hooks, I noticed that the hooks for flies have a little bend by the eye and the one that I attached did not. Also I need to use the proper knot this time I understand how that can make a huge difference on how the hook/fly behaves.

thats how it came in the box I dont know what you mean by it's on backwards. but thanks for all the tips, im going to follow that guys video tomorrow and make a couple of my own flies. something to do and best way to learn.

can someone please tell me what a chute is? i keep seeing the word everywhere but i cant find out what it is. i even tried google

so are you saying i should scrap the whole copper wire idea?, or can it still work if I put it deep enough. I don't have any of those boards or anything and don't know what you mean by chute. All I have are 2 big john down riggers.

I don't even know what it is my dad put it on. Do I just replace it with an 3-5 foot line, and should it be a wire line or is 30lbs ok