Mornin everyone. Fished friday after work with Alan K for a few hours up at upper sunrise. Alan hooked a few fish using a sinktip and I hooked and landed one with a floating line. About a ten pound hatchery hen. She put up an excellent fight. Took a good 15 minutes to land her. When I finally got her to shallow water, I grabed her tail and the hook fell right off of her lip. She tore off like there was no tommorrow. She's out there to fight another day. On saturday, Woodsy and I fished both, upper and lower sunrise. Upper was kinda crowded. Woods hooked and landed a pretty bright fish that ran well over ten pounds. I hhoked but didn't land a biggin up there. Then we ventured to the lower sunrise island. Only a couple of baitcasters there. The sorry thing was, one of them was standing on the bluff and was snagging fish. Before we even started to fish, he hooked a real nice chrome fish and landed it. To make it worse, he killed it. I suggested that he release it, no way was his notion. They couldn't wait to bring it home to show everyone. The only good thing that came out of that is, that they left. Now we had the whole spot to ourselves. We sight fished for fish. We hooked a bunch, I landed one and so did Woods. We LDR'd a few, We fouled a couple that we promptly broke off. Actually, when I fouled them, I perfected a tecnique that I wiggled the rod and the hook would come off and the fish didn't even budge. It was like they didn't know they were hooked at all. This method worked well, so we didn't spook the other fish that were stacked up with that particular fish. The fish with a sore or two on them were real easy to see, but the fresh ones are hard. I couldn't see them until it moved or flashed every once in a while. It was a lot of fun. We took turns using my Sage, cause Woods's St Croix wasn't up to the task. Woods was fighting a fair hooked salmon when all of a sudden, SNAP!! That was it for that rod. I may go out for a couple of hours today. Tight lines all.
Steve
