Today we were joined by Mike, John, Jay, and Steve.  Is it really only April 26th?  'Cuz it sure felt like June out there to me today.  Lots of clear water and no significant temp breaks again today, but the small breaks we did find held some fish for us and we worked them hard.   Our best stick bait was the KA-BOOM Goby in gray, but the new Dreamweaver VQ Goby spoon was the star of the day for us.  We did a brown right off the bat in 12 FOW (the brown was all scarred up with lamprey marks) just East of the chute on the KA-BOOM and then we trolled our way down the shoreline for quite a ways before deciding to head out to deeper water.  We put some of our spread down 15-25 feet when we got out to 75 FOW and within minutes we were hooked up.  We stayed out there for most of the rest of the morning and continued to pick away at them.   Every fish we took out there came on that VQ Goby with the exception of a nice steelie that came on that R&R spoon that worked for us last weekend.  Riggers down 15, 20, and 25 all took fish, as did our 2-color core and our flatlines off the boards.  Best part of the day was a double on a brown and another King...check out what spoon the King took!



A nice brown that took our KA-BOOM Goby



The King and the VQ Goby



It's nice to have some king slime on the floor this early in the season!!



What a way to wrap up a day!



Here's a pic of that R&R spoon that's been good for us the past few weeks.

We can definitely use some NW wind and a bunch of rain, and when we get it I expect the fishing to improve a lot.  But if you plan your work and work your plan, you can expect to box fish each time out until Mother Nature finally cooperates with us.

Until Next Time,

Fish On!!

~Capt. Bill