HB2

I agree somewhat with Legacy . Set the release at home and grab the line and pull on it like you think a fish would till it releases hard . Bounce it a little . The strike will set the hook .

With my trailerable boat my son and I got in and went to Wilson , like, seemingly ,everyone else . Opening day we got out early to see an Armada . We started in 60 ft. Nets were flying everywhere . Ours started to also . We wound up that day with 11 salmon , for about 16 hits . Biggest was maybe 16# no skippers Best was a Stinger Stingray NBK parked at 52 ft . 11 o'clock it shut down . Went back Sun and did 4 salmon for about 6 hits . It was a tough bite . Never saw a net fly in another boat . East wind /rain finally drove us in . No one spoon did it . Following Fri went back .Did 12 salmon I think for about 15 hits . Stingray glo green alwive off rigger was hot till a nice king wrapped the line around the hook and broke off , glo frog mag and 28 were best . Slide divers were the man after Sun came up . Sat we decided to try our old stomping grounds in front of Johnsons Creek from the Oak .We drove right up there to see one other boat . Then I thought I was back at Wilson with the traffic . We did 15 I think for about 18 hits , Salmon and some hog Lakers . That green alwive I replaced at rt 18 tackle and black Lazer glo were best . Around 1130 they turned on and the slide divers took most of the hits . In 4 days fishing we did about 4O fish which I am satisfied with . If you are hitting your target species , it's just a matter of getting a big one . My down speed crapped the bed the first day so I only had surface speed the entire derby . I made it work . Love my slide divers . Congratulations to the winners . Here are the spoons that did it .

X2

Looks like water level has gone up 3" in 3 days

I have been watching the level come up drastically the last month . I think it came up 6 " in 2 weeks .

Zero sense of humor

The crew that makes sure the launch is clear must be the same crew that makes sure the toilets are clean down there

Man , that brings back memories I can still smell the stylus burning the paper .

They are more worried about being WOKE .

10 k steelhead today at Sandy The restart of something great I hope . Maybe Kings next year if enough of us get together and raise hell . I'm ready for the conversation and action

The way I see it , we can't change what happened in the past . So my goal is to help out where I can to make future fishing both lake AND trib as good as possible . Which was my intent from the begining of my involvement . But I soon learned others intent was different from mine .

Since I bought our cottage and got involved at Sandy about 8 years ago, I was surprised at the enthusiastic volunteer base . I was at a meeting where we learned about the pending creel and size limit change a few years back . Of course there was some pushback from some of the volunteers . Sandy only has 4 pens which would be just enough for the Sandy allotment of Kings . We were going to borrow one from another port ( which will remain nameless ) but when the head of that port found out steelhead were going into it , they said no way . Kind of like taking your bar and ball and going home . I also heard that some Captains said they would kill every steelhead they caught out of spite . I lost a lot of respect for some people that day . Anyway , We put our steelhead pens in Sat and are getting them sometime this week.There was a Great turnout of volunteers . Next year we will take as many steelhead as we can handle . And maybe a few kings as well 😉 And on a side note , a lot of lake angler MF the trib guys , so why would they show up .

I have 2 older like 1988 cannon mag 10 parts riggers . Where are you ? I have to dig them out .

All my info is stored in my mind . I tried to log stuff in but I have enough paperwork . In my case , is see no reason for it .

Back at the beginning of Feb , I was afraid this might happen .