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starcrafttom

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The fishing gods have answered my calls. I was not able to fish the sock eye three day opener or the two day extention. I have been really bummed about the whole thing. I launched the boat last night and tied up at sarks house. I am planning to hit the lake for the blue angles this weekend. today I get a call from sark and the lake will be opened back up for 6, count them 6, more days of fishing. Starting tuesday till sunday. Two fish limits. I will be going every night after work and both days on the weekend.
 
Tom,

I went out Thursday morning and it had definitely slowed down. However we still got 4 of 7 fish to the boat by 10:00am so it wasn't a total skunk! We got the first one at 55ft and the other 3 at 69-70ft on the cable (it was basically straight down). We were fishing dead slow on the first one and then picked it up to about 1.0 mph on the last 3.

We fished the South West bank of the lake in about 110ft of water. Nets were very sporadic all morning.

If you have an extra seat let me know ;)
 
I would sure like to fish on Lake Washington but don't know where to launch or where or what to fish with. I read where just a flat black hook will work. Please help, I live in Centralia, WA and would like to try it.
 
Your typical setup for Sockeye is a Les Davis 0 Dodger in Chrome with 2 size 1 red hooks 12"-20" behind the dodger. Start fishing in the 50' level and go down as it gets lighter. I've been getting most of my fish around 70' down on the downrigger. We fish DEAD SLOW at .5mph to 1mph.

IMHO the most productive area to fish is the south west end of the lake in about 110' of water. The closest ramp (and most crouded) is Coulon Beach in Renton.

I found a couple of Hammered Chrome dodgers that seem to really work well. The ones with the fishscale tape on them also work. A 50/50 Chrome/Brass is also supposed to be good. I've had good luck with all of them but I seemed to have better luck with the hammered one. With the dodgers the idea is to go slow enough that they don't rotate all the way around. You just want them wobbling back and forth. If they start spinning you are going too fast. If you can't slow down enough to get the wobble try switching to a hotspot flasher instead of the dodger. It just might work. :)
 
Deel,

Gary is right the largest amount of fish are in the south end of the lake, but also the most boats.I heard it was slow thursday too,but have no doubt that a couple days out of the 6 will be good. I fished every day so far except last thursday, and did good each day. Here's what I found. Red or Blue hooks were the best producers and a really short leader(8-12 inches) seemed to produce the most fish. As far as trolling speeds I got quite a few speeding up trying to keep the nose of E~FISHIN~C into the wind. Speeds that worked for me were between .5 and 2 mph with most fish between 1 and 1.4 on the gps, in 100-200 feet of water. I fished the south part of the lake two days and the northern part the rest. I did equally well in both but the fish caught up north were much nicer. Very bright, chrome and less slimey than the ones from the southern end. So I ended up fishing the northern part just for the quality of the fish. Some great size sockeye this year we landed some dandies that were about 8 lbs, and I lost one that was much bigger. Lost it right at the boat and I almost thought I had a king on the line when it first came up. It was the biggest sockeye I have seen, and was quite bummed when the hooks pulled out right at the boat. Oh well. Any way if you get out ,give me a shout on the VHF channel #10, If we're doing any good I'll be glad to tell you where we are getting them at. Good Luck!!

Sark
 
Thanks for the tips. Just to get this straight, you're trailing a plain hook (no bait) behind a flasher or dodger. Think we might go up and try it Tuesday at Coulon Beach. Is this a good place to launch, coming from the South?
 
I imagine that Coulon will be a madhouse again on Tuesday. But yes it is a good launch and can work well for you. Just expect to wait in line to put in and take out.
 
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