Double D SCS report

[dvdegeorge]

We started out friday fishing Big Fish Friday and trying to get a program ready for Saturdays shoot out.

It was a short crew just 2 of us on Friday and we headed west.We set up in 100fow and had a good screen but couldn't move a rod so we started a north troll. We picked up a few skippy kings once we got over 200fow. Temps down were up high as had been the case all week.When we hit 400fow we took a hit off the rigger down 80' on a white green dot spinny and an MC rocket crazy fish and shortly boated a 13lb coho.We worked betweeen 400-450 fow and boated 4 steelhead between 4 and 7 lbs. We took a good hit on the dipsy with a spinny and fly but the leader broke and we lost the spinny and fly set up as well as the fish.

We decided to troll south east and work back in. Things were dead for quite a while but when we hit 260fow the rigger rod fired 45 down with a DW gator, a nice steelhead that put on a show and weighted in at 10lb 5oz.. We landed another small steelhead and continued to troll in. When we hit 150fow the rigger down 45' with the DW gator fired again the rod bent over and as soon as I grabbed it it started screaming out drag. We pulled in the 300' copper  and dipsey along with the other rigger rod from that side of the boat. After a couple more runs I started getting it to the boat. With about 60' 0f line still out I look to the starboard side and see a sail boat heading right for us. With just the 2 of us on board I tell my net man/driver you have one chance get him in the net and grab the wheel. I get the fish to the wash and he slips the net under the big fish, He then hands me the handle and grabs the wheel and turns hard to port. As I hoist the fish into the boat the sail boat pass by at 30 yds waving and smiling saying "hello". If we hadn't cleared the lines we would have had a mess.

The king was a good one we put it on our digital scale and it was bouncing around at 23lbs.

We pulled evey thing up as it was 1;30 and headed in

The fish weighted in at 22.25lbs at weight in we took 2nd place just shy of 1st which was 22.43lbs

 

Saturday was a diffent story we were done as soon a we left the creek we headed west instead of east and that was a big mistake. We landed 2 small browns and some skippy kings . Warm water started rolling in and we just couldn't put anything good on the deck. We finally went to our laker program landing lots of fish but only one good one and at that point it was late so we didn't even put it in our box.

 

Big congrats to Matt and crew of the Jakey Baby they had a great day and earned the win!!!

 

We are looking forward to next years shoot out

We can't complain it's been a great season so far for the Double D,9th place salmon in spring LOC, Summer LOC 2 salmon on the board (one fell off) both won fish of the day,21.5oz Lake trout 9th place and  won the video contest.

 

Good fishing and good luck to all

DD

Edited July 28, 2014 by dvdegeorge

[Mortigan]

[Pike Hunter]

Great report! You have done very well with placing fish on the board. Congratulations!

[tlombardozzi]

Great report Dan, you guys have been pretty consistent. Nice fish.

[JakeyBaby]

Great report Dan and great fish on Friday! Fishing was tuff for everyone, thats for sure.

[momay4000]

WTG - nice job on all your fish this season!

 

Keep up the good work with the GoPro, too.

 

Chris

[Sanitarium]

congrats on your season so far! I was hoping to place my 11.07 steelhead but it dropped on the second to last weekend with the flurry of big fish that were caught over a 2 day period. had a contender last fall that dropped off the king board also. both fish were a half pound from placing. oh well! reason to keep at it!

wish i would have done big fish friday we would have been 5th and 6th... figures! could not find those fish on Saturday either. we boxed our 16# king in the first 15 minutes and thought we might be on them... well that was the only one we fooled! moved in late and nabbed some 6# browns and already had an 8# steelie. decent box but not nearly enough!

I cant wait till things heat up! They will, right??!! lol