Sandy Creek - 5/27 AM

[fdny76]

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name: Flash Point

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s): 5/27/10

Time on Water: 0730-1230

Weather/Temp: Partly Cloudy 75'

Wind Speed/Direction: 5mph WSW

Waves: 0-2ft

Surface Temp: 61'

Location: Sandy Creek

LAT/LONG (GPS Cords):

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 4

Total Boated:3

Species Breakdown:1 King (Thanks guys) 13lbs, 2 either coho or Atlantics? and 1 mediocre Rainbow spit the hook at the net

Hot Lure: Bleeding Olive off the Lead Core took 3. Green Splatter Spin Doctor/A-TOM-IK Aqua fly took 1

Trolling Speed: 2.5-3mph

Down Speed: Probe isn't cooperating

Boat Depth: 85-110fow

Lure Depth: 30-50ft

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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The biggest of the bunch put on a spectacular aerial show. Beautiful day to be on the water. Just enough breeze to keep the bugs and the sweat off and make a light chop. We marked a lot of Lakers at the bottom but they wouldn't take ANYTHING i threw at em. A fair amount of fish marked in the 30-50ft range

[Storm Warning II]

That looks an awful lot like a King...

[Mickey Finn]

Yup

[fdny76]

That probably is then.. The heavy scales and the colors had me in doubt as I'm not used to the spring fishing yet.

[momay4000]

Nice job,

Agree it's a chinook. Based on your trolling speed, you might have been a little fast for lakers.....but that's just my 2 pennies....

Thanks for your post,

- Chris

[fdny76]

Atlantic or coho?

(Sorry I've been a shore fisherman most of my life until the last few years)

[momay4000]

For some reason I can't zoom in on your pics (I think it's blocked my my employer) but the top pic looks like a chinook to me. I can't zoom in on the bottom pic to see more detail.....

- Chris

[Mickey Finn]

I believe both of the bottom ones are Coho's. Look at the shape of the anal fins. They don't taper back enough to be a King. I have a great paper on identifying some of the fish on the great lakes. If I can find it tonight, I will try to scan it and put it up here.

[Mickey Finn]

fdny76,

Something that helps in identifying the Atlantics is the shape of the spots. The spots are very irregular shaped. Some of them almost make an "X" shape. Do a search on here for Altantic and look at some of the pictures, especially the ones with close ups of fresh fish. You can see the irregular shaped spots.

[momay4000]

Mickey Finn,

You're probably right, I just can't see anything other than the thumbnail detail and I can't see the tail for spot patterns. For me:

1.) To tell a coho from a chinook, I usually look at the spots on the bottom of the tail and the colors of the gums

2.) To tell a steelhead from anything, I look for all white gums

3.) To tell an Atlantic from a very silver brown, I look at the tail and the pattern of the spots themselves (the x-pattern)

Here's a cheat sheet page I often use (no ID for Atlantics, however MF is exactly correct about the spot patterns)

http://www.great-lakes.org/fishid.html

- Chris

[LongLine]

Not Atlantics. Probably Cohos.

Kings - Black mouth, spots on top & bottom of tail, anal fin almost parallel to body.

Tom B.

(LongLine)

[Silver Fox]

Coho's. They looked to have been scaling. Thanks for the report! Thats looks to be the start of the silvers we've been waiting for. Ca'mon weekend!

[Tank]

I second what Scott said! Thanks fdny76 for the report! Tank