Algoma 10/4

[fishoil]

We set up in 300' at 3:30 this afternoon and headed east. We hit our first fish right away and kept getting hits all the way to 400'. We ended up 12 for 13 with everything coming on spoons. The 55' rigger with a Moonshine Half Meal spoon on a SWR took 6 or 7 of our fish tonight. We wrapped up with our first lost fish then a triple before I could reset the rod. That was the best 3 hour trip I had this year. Hopefully I'll get another one or two in yet.

[littlenemo]

Very nice job Fishoil!! We couldn't get it dialed in tonite. Current changed with the wind shift and just couldn't get it rockin like the previous evenings. Did you have a certain trolling direction that seemed to work best?
LN

[fishoil]

Until the flurry at the end I would have said 130 degrees, but the last 4 came on the return run at 310 degrees. We were going both directions the whole time out and I'd guess the hits ended up about even. I kept the speed at about 1.75 or a little better on my SubTroll in both directions and it seemed like there was a pretty good current running southerly.

[scrapper]

Nice afternoon catching fishoil, nothing beats fishing this time of year.

scrapper

[Lynn Marie]

Nice catch. I was out from 4-6 and caught a limit in 350 to 420 feet of water. First fish at 4:30 and fifth at 6. My fish came 65 to 130 feet down. 6 pound bow on a happy meal down 65. Two 5# salmon on flasher fly and a couple of nice 3 year olds also on flasher fly. White with green fly took 3. Chrome and green with an aqua took the biggest fish at 14 pounds down 95 in 390. Last 2 fish down 130 in 380. Bad current, had a couple of tangles. At one point only had one line in water (as other 2 had bad tangle) and got a fish on that line. Plan to be back out Wednesday morning. Hope this nice weather lasts through the weekend.

[scrapper]

Lynn Marie nice job out there. Only one line in the water? You weren't fishing with Gilligan were you? LOL

[iffy]

We squeezed a short trip in last night also. Set up in 300 fow around 5:30 and headed east, a trip and miss on the rigger right away then nothing until sunset. Started pulling lines to switch in glow spoons and a 12 # bow took the port planer board. Proceeded to swap lines and it was a steady pop, pop, pop - boated 4 salmon in short order then it shutoff at dark. 3 on where on riggers down 30 – 60 ft and 1 on a dipsy out 125. 300 fow seem twice as far as 150 fow.

[naz3]

"300 feet of water seems twice as far as 150" one of the best quotes here all-time iffy! ;D

Went 8-for-11 this morning with two bows jumping off, catching five kings, two cohos (one small, one big, mature female with huge eggs almost loose in skeins) and one bow, spoons and flies from 4-color, 10-color, Dipsys out 100-150 and riggers at 40-90. Best for us was 280-350 fow. Definitely slower today as one charter "only" had 10 when we had four 30 minutes into the trip. Some friends did OK working 140-180, so fish seemed to be on the move again. Another got a 10-fish limit, six bows, starting at 8 a.m. yesterday, STEVE-O TIME, fishing 300-400.

Highlight today was 85 rigger (fly) and slider (spoon) right after going down to start the morning at 6:30 getting hammered with a double on two-year-olds. My buddy said "it feels like a big one" but it turned out to be two nice fish.

[littlenemo]

Got a real late start out tonite. Set lines after 6:30pm in 270fow and headed east. Sun was already set beyond the horizon. Didn't seem to matter much as we fished from 270-340 or so and went 7 out of 10 by 8:30pm. Got several hits well atfer dark on LC's and Riggers on Glow Moonshine Spoons. Happy Meal rocked tonite taking 3 fish well after dark. A friend of mine fished a little deeper than us and a little further south and got skunked. Maybe we just got lucky!?? Riggers at 73 & 63 w/ sliders got whacked as did dipsy out 95 feet and 5 & 7 color LC's. Only one fish on a Fly rest on spoons.
LN

[fishoil]

We ran out to where we got them Tuesday night and had lines in by a little after 3. We worked 300'-400' for a couple of hours with only one small salmon. The current from the night before was gone and so were the fish, so we pointed the boat west and trolled. We picked up a big, scrappy 3 year old that made the net-man look like a first-timer at dusk. Then after dark we picked up 2 more around 250'. The 55' rigger took 2, 300' copper took one, and the other came on a dipsy 125' out. All of our fish came on spoons again.

[RedRider]

Way to go Nemo, nice catch and way to hang in there for a late trip..good to see the August king NIGHT bite is finally here

[naz3]

Here's the double on the same rod yesterday, fun net job with a long slider and a wild second fish!

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[naz3]

And here's Tom with a mature female coho that went crazy on top and leaped like a steelhead, time and again. Great fight!

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[NoFishNick]

My friend Henry and I made it out yesterday afternoon started south of Algoma in 220 fow fished to 300 taking two kings (one on Mag moonshine happymeal another on NFN BW meat rig).

Past 300 fow we did not mark much so we headed back in and worked the 200 - 260 water and picked off 7 more and losing 4. Total was 9 for 13 (8 kings and one bow).

Best trolling direction for us was east - north - east. Hottest rig was meat down 99 on rigger

Fun adventure -

Here is the video



NFN

[Lynn Marie]

Got out this morning and took 5 more. Best depth about 250, 90-100 feet down. Four fish on flasher fly and one on a moonshine spoon 65 feet down. The high fish came early. Had problem with Lowrance unit losing bottom signal beyond 180' so had to go by GPS map for approximate depth. ( Maybe that belongs in another post?) Not sure if I'll get out again this year, depends on weather next week. If not, it's been a good way to end the year. Good luck to all and keep posting.