West End Lift Bridge Report May 28

[merkinbrumsky]

Headed out of the lift bridge solo this morning to get my fix in before the t-storms scatter the fish. Set up off the apartments west of the shell pier with a 2 rod rigger spread. Found a couple huge bait schools in 120 fow so I worked the area and quickly had 2 cookie cutter coho's and 1 steelie in the boat. Most marks on the graph were in the upper 50 ft range and with the down temp being 54+ I figured I'd have to fish deeper if I wanted some chinook action. I dropped my rods deeper with a flasher/fly on the port rigger set at 75' down/10' back and a die hard stingray down 90'/25' back. I could see lot's of streakers coming into the spread and leaving until I got my leads dialed in. After about an hour it started to produce. Banged 2 nice low 20's kings before 10a.m. when those stupid biting flies sent me for the ramp. All fish came on the stingray diehard. Didn't see another boat all morning.

[Louis Bouchard]

Tyeetamer

Good work on your ability to change your set up

For those stupid bitting flies last summer somebody in my boat was using Hawaian tropic coconut taning lotion. Surprise the flies stopped bitting !!!

[merkinbrumsky]

Thanks for the tip Louis, and welcome to the site.