After being on vacation for a couple of weeks, I finally got back on the lake to see what's happening. Though the temps are nice and high, I didn't really find many fish. I worked it hard from Aqualand all the way up to just above Browns Bridge and the most I could muster were a couple of small fish at the mouth of Flat. Doug struggled today too and we're thinking the boat traffic from all the activity over the long weekend could have taken a toll on the fish. Late last week the fish were starting to school up and show themselves in deep water but all that had changed today. All I know is that I couldn't get over any from 9:00 AM all the way through till 3:00 PM. This is the first time I've seen "nothing" this year and usually by July I'm able to troll fish consistently.
Thursday, Bori and Jill hit the ocean for some summertime Coho Trolling. Now I have to say, based on what Bori is wearing, I find it hard to believe it's "summertime" up in Oregon but I guess he is a little north of us here in Georgia…
Rick's Dad Bori spends his falls catching big Salmon up in Oregon. Some years the fish are plentiful and some years they're hard to catch. This year they're just big! Bori landed his biggest Salmon ever tipping the scales to a whopping 49.5 lbs. And just a few days later he boated another giant weighing in at 45 lbs. Suffice to say he'll have a lot of smoked salmon for Jill and him to eat in the next year…..