We launched my buddies shiny new two week old Campion @ 7:00 Friday night and spent the night anchored off of Seward Park. No electronics or downriggers no problem as I knew right where to find them first thing in the morning. Me and my big mouth. We fished in my usual spot first thing catching and releasing one 15"er.

Then the fish moved out of the area and deeper. We spent the next several hours calculating the gas consumption of the shiny new kicker as apposed to actually catching anything. The good news is my buddy not only knows exactly where to put the DR's and electronics but also got the Ok from his girlfriend (other peoples busy nets will do that to ya).

We still had a great time and I'm looking forward to another day next week.

budnate, I had two buckets off the side, a sea-anchor off the stern and my trim half-way up and the slowest I could get was 2.1 mph into the wind. I am assuming that mooching with the wind pushing us would have been a better option. Is 2.2 still too fast?

2.2 is to fast, we go dead slow and watch the cable angle real close, wind , waves etc... and roll on the kicker throttle once in awhile to entice the bite, 16" leader length and shorter at times, and watch the rod tip thump ever so slightly to make sure speed is right on, it dont take much to roll the dodger, once it starts rolling around you are no longer fishing..... dont give up heck I have been fishless out there a few time as well, humbles a guy especially when you know your doing it right....

Nothing like the scent of a blue 2/0 gammi

We had 6 people in the boat and had our 12 fish in 15 minutes. We are incredibly smart and know how to fish better than everyone else.....We were fishing in that zipper spot with the secret zipper sauce and the zipper leader length at the secret depth.

my buddy had to work till 2, so we didnt get on the water till about 430... 3 hookups, nothing boated oh well, maybe next week if they open it again.

We launched from I90, headed south of the big island.

Curtis

Predator-less Dawg showed us how to find them, but the crew had some issues getting them in the boat. Took us close to 40 hookups to get eight in the cooler. Had two, count-em two, quad hookups where they all got off. Started the day with a double, finished the day with a triple, all netted in the same scoop. For a bunch of drunken screw-ups, it was a stylish ending.

But I can do without the wait at the ramp.

I worked until 12 and got to thesand point ramp at one only to wait until 230 to hit the water. we started at the 520 then the north east corner of mercer then the south west corner then to the west side away from mercer until 10pm with not one hit. I got the right gear at the right depth at the right speed, really dam slow, but not fish. I only saw about 4 fish caught from 300 boats in the afternoon. next week if it opens i will launch on friday.

I worked until 12 and got to thesand point ramp at one only to wait until 230 to hit the water. we started at the 520 then the north east corner of mercer then the south west corner then to the west side away from mercer until 10pm with not one hit. I got the right gear at the right depth at the right speed, really dam slow, but not fish. I only saw about 4 fish caught from 300 boats in the afternoon. next week if it opens i will launch on friday.

It seems odd to me that either folks limited fairly easily, or got skunked. I saw the same thing at the Magnuson ramp when we pulled out, lots of full coolers and lots of folks scratching their heads.

We did well enough, didn't hit our first fish until 7:30, but got our six limits before noon. It took a little while for the last two since we were having to pull rods out of the water for those with limits. We missed/lost probably another dozen or so. My 4 & 6 year old girls caught their first fish and are still blabbering about it to everyone they see.

We hit fish on every color hook I'd tied up, from red to blue to black to hot pink, all on 14 leaders, and most in 55-70 ft of water. The last two we got at 90 ft. We were going very slow, under 1 mph the whole time. The downrigger lines were almost vertical, and we could see the slow thumping of the dodgers on the rod tips. Interstingly, similar to comments on the other post, we only had one hit on the fifth rod, rigged with 10# powerpro, a 5 oz lead, and 00 dodger run down the middle. It was running deep, clustered with the other gear (could see it on the ff), and just barely behind, but zilch.

We had to work to get our 6 fish. Started at dawn and finished around 2pm. Man, was I glad to see those clouds roll in. I know that tan fat looks better than white fat, but nonetheless!

I think that will probably be enough Sockeye Fishing on LW for me to last until next year or 2008.

I found a great way to avoid the launch line! We put in Friday night at Mercer Island and tied up at a friends place in Meydenbauer Bay. When we finished, it was through the locks, drop the crabtraps and guest moorage at Shilshole. Back at 4 am in Elliot Bay. (0 nada lotta dogfish). Pulled out of there around 2pm Sunday.