Offshore IV

I had a meat rig, flasher and mag dipsey all snap off on me last week. There goes $50worth of gear. I felt terrible. If the fish still had the setup hooked to it’s mouth, there’s no way even a brute salmon will be able to feed or even hold up a mag dipsey. Unless it comes unhooked, he couldn’t live long. 

Last sept we hooked a leadcore bundle, along with a flasher fly plug and slide diver. Lol someone was not pleased with that situation. 

Growing up on the river, you’d see fish pass by with hooks and eggs everywhere, mainly the tail. Pretty sad. 

Nice thanks. I have a 18.5’ boat so I like it when it’s “not bad” lol

I thought it would be calm today. How bad was it? I’m going out this afternoon. 

Good luck sir. Do you use those big spoons in the picture this time of year?

 No problem- seems as though they were out in deeper water!

0/0, fish were 100’ from 130’ to 220’. Marked them but no takers. There was a strong population at 100’ too. Hoping for better luck next time!

Nice! I’ll have to invest in a fish hawk. 

Wow that is awesome, nice job! What are you loooking for as far as depth/temp to target browns this time of year?

2 hours ago, Colin said:

Nice! Long run for me to get there lol.

Thats true. I tend to forget how huge the lake is!

Mexico Bay has been on fire for me. Morning and night. 

Nice. That’s what I’m going to do from now on. 

I thought about doing that. When I went to fat nancys (feels like I’m there twice each week) they only had 20#. If they had 600# flouro I woulda bought that

Thanks for the encouragement guys lol

Where do you get 30# flouro? I’ve looked everywhere. I live in Mexico. 

It was a beautiful night; nice fish and quality family time!

Just when you think you’ve got this whole salmon fishing thing down. 

Ive been fortunate to catch 2-3 everytime I’ve gone out since mid June. Not tonight.

We trolled from 90’ to 160’. 130’ was the depth we found to be productive. Went 0/7 with 3 break offs (!) and 4 weak hook sets. I’m running 30lb big game and 20lb seagar flouro. Been doing this for a few years and I’ve never seen anything like what happened to us last night. 

As funny as it is, it’s still sad that there’s some fish out there with my flasher fly setups and a meat rig set. 3 of the fishes surfaced and looked to be around 15-20lb. 

Flasher fly anything green “took” them. Lol. Also white flasher white meat rig has always been my hot producer took one almost immediately and is somewhere in Lake Ontario currently... speed 2.70. I don’t have a fish hawk so idk about at the ball. Hooked fish with a mag dipsey, tadpole/planer 120’ set, rest were riggers. 110’ and 60’ sets. 

good of luck to you guys! It was nice talking to the solo runner we met at the launch last night at 10!

Lol . Funny story. I was fishing the reservoir and thought I saw a trump 2036 banner

Brand new, stickers still on them. Never been on a rim. Selling because I bought the wrong size. $750 for the set. 

Mexico has been tough for me as well since the browns slid out. My stories are very similar to Del’s. Lots of bait pods though 60-130 feet, they’re sometimes stretching 40’ top to bottom. Good luck. If the lake lays down today or tomorrow I’ll be out there! They’ll move in at some point!!!

Have you guys seen the new caddy shack fly? I bought a UV purple/silver flasher with it. Before that purchase, everything I run is green glow or UV. Aside from my white/silver flasher UV with a white meat rig. Which has consistently caught the biggest fish on my boat. 

I’m going out this afternoon; I’ll post what I find!

The state workers told me they are  being told to do whatever it takes to keep this launch open. Of course, it’s likely only a matter of time before it can’t be used. I launched and recovered my 19’ boat no issue. Bring knee high boots or crocks. My Tacoma was in 6” of water in the front. 

You should be fine Monday depending on what happens today and tomorrow. It’s definitely high but the floating dock is still available as of last night. 1000’ no wake though.

Floating dock only at Mexico point guys. 

I’m going to check it tonight to see if they barricade it. State workers yesterday said they’re considering doing so this weekend.