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Decent shaker to start the morning with and we are still shore bound. Very next cast I hook up again and this time its a keeper.
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Measured out to be another 19 1/2 incher. Good keeper size for me. Cut him to bleed him out.
Sure enough after that Garrett was looking at me and asking what is it your doing that I'm not? I explained to him he had to let it sink down a few feet before reeling it in. This whole time Garrett was ripping it in across the surface. Next cast Garrett let it sink down and sure enough he hooked up.
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The boil stopped after that so I went back to pumping up the toon while Garrett kept trying to get some more fish. Garrett was getting some more taps here and there, but he never stuck anything else. By the time we got everything together with the toon and with the delay of the fish catching we didn't launch until 0540. We took off looking for the boils Matt was on yesterday. We found some small fish surfacing on the west bank of Washington Lake, but they weren't really boils and they wouldn't touch our swim baits. We never found anything special so we headed back into the barge canal to maybe do some trolling or casting to hopefully get the rod bending again.
We trolled from the bridge all the way back to the locks without a bite so we stopped there and decided to cast towards the shore line. I stuck with my swim bait, but Garrett decided to give a jig a try. He had a 1 ounce P-Line jig that he tried jigging with. Not after too long I had a few short taps and so did Garrett. Garrett ended up getting a couple shakers not after too long. Then he hooked into something nice, his fish came up and it looked like a nice sized striper. As I'm looking down at his fish, reeling in my swim bait, I felt my swim bait stop dead in its tracks. I set the hook and we got a double baby!!! My fish felt nice too, I took a look though and as it came flying out of the water I saw a big flash of brown and I realized it was a salmon!!! I've hooked a salmon on a swim bait.
Thinking about this now this is way to backwards. Garrett and I have a double right now, He has a striper on a jigging spoon and I have a salmon on a swim bait. I'm pretty sure its supposed to be the other way around, but hey I'm happy with it! We got our fish in and I'm still baffled I got a salmon to hit my swim bait.
We got the fish in and its time to break out the scale. My salmon weighed in at 14lb and Garrett's striper 5lbs. We went on fishing and not more then a minute later Garrett is hooked up again. I saw a slight flash and I thought I saw brown, no way could it really be a second salmon? Then that beast came flying out of the water and sure enough now Garrett had a salmon of his own.
After all of that action man Garrett and I were happy campers we each had a keeper striper and a salmon. We tried jigging and casting for a bit longer for nothing. We decided to go back on the troll after that to see if we could get a few more bites.
Sure enough we did and we got a few more of these little guys.
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I planned on staying out later, but both of us were tired and we figured with the catch we had for dinner we were pretty satisfied with the day. Ran the toon back in and called it a day. Snapped some pics of the catch at the ramp
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Garrett's Salmon ended up being an 18lb Buck by the way.
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Of course everyone at the ramp had to ask us "where/how you get the salmon? I didn't know they were still around." Most of em didn't believe me when I told them I got mine on a swim bait just tossing for stripers.
I then too realized I didn't bring a cooler big enough to put salmon in. Oh well its cold today into the bed of the truck they go.
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Hey look a "Salmon Bed" hahahahaha sorry had to do that one.
After we got everything packed up we decided to make a few more cast off the bank just cause. I ended up getting one more shaker and Garrett ended up getting a small largemouth throwing a clouser off of the ol' sissy stick.
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That was it for today. As you can see it was foggy as heck and it never lifted. seemed like it got worse as the day went on. Left the water around 1030.
I've never kept a salmon this dark ever before since I'm usually done fishing for salmon at the end of september. The Meat came out a bit whiter then I'm used to seeing it, but it looks good. Can't wait to get it in the smoker.
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I've got lots of roe now too.
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I think I've got another secret weapon now for next time I got out for Mr. Sturgie. Wishful thinking.
Till Next Time Guys
Mark
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