Today, we had our limit in an hour. We did not even make half way across the lake before we were
done. I switched my hooks to florescent pink Gammi's 18 inches off the dodger at 75 feet down
and those sockeye would just hammer them. The pink hooks worked alot better than the plain red hooks.

Biggest fish today was 8 lbs.

Very well done.

I come back from vacation and sockeye is open!!! How long is it open till? Details please.

Today is the last day. There are rumors of a fishery next weekend. We shall see.

Easy,

Where did you hear that nasty rumor? I might have to swing Sunday if it is open. Saturday is the Tacoma Outboard Association Derby- big bucks.

Wish I could have made up to LW.... I am bummed- believe me. I had a buddy that fished with a fly rod of a downrigger. He ran a dodger off the ball and put his fly (Euphausid) two feet above that. Straight 8# mono off the reel. Limited and had a blast... Sounds like it!

Downriggin'

We had some great fishing also. Using the red hooks but we tried hot spot flashers instead. We were 60 feet down on the using down riggers. tho most of the fish showed at about 40 - 45 feet but werent the biters we were looking for. 14 sockeye in the boat for three days fishing from 6am to 10;30am. Anyone hear if we will get a extra day or two.

DR, I heard that "talk" at the boat launch talking to other fisherman.

Boy, it seemed like you either limited out really fast or you did not catch any fish at all on Sunday. There were a couple of guys who had not caught any fish at all. I know what that is like.

The Everett Herald ran a small story on Sat.,that said the WDFW was considering a another couple of days this coming weekend.

Hmmm.... sockeye season... hydroplane races... could get real interesting down there at the south end of the lake.

Ya, you ain't kiddin'! If they allow more fishing they will probably put geographical restrictions on the lake. Say, fishing only north of I-90 and south of Seward Park. Who knows. I don't think another fishery will happen just because of the hydros going on next weekend.

Was on the phone today with them and was told they are checking the numbers right now with a lot of things to take into fact. But was told they should open a few more days. If not that many fish to be cought they will open it during the week if there is more fish it will have the weekend in there also. I ran two to three trips a day with limits each trip. My bigest one was 29 inches and 8 pounds. Over all it was a blast.

nice fish. just out of curiosity how much did it weigh? i didn't have an ounce of luck though i didn't get out until midday friday and sunday. i can't stop thinking of those kings.

The fish in the picture was 8 lbs. We also boated one at 6 lbs. Most were 5 lbs.

We did pretty well on saturday and sunday. Like Easy said, some had it good, some got nothing. Saturday we lost atleast 20 fish before we cut the bottom hook off and went barbless. After that i was 8 for 8 and my buddy was 5 for 5. We even added a 2" pink grub. It was like candy to them. Sunday we fished for 3 hours with nothing then hooked 8 and landed 4 in about 2 hours.The evening bite was much slower. We also changed the dodger size from a 00 to a 5". This really cut down on the drag on the fish and let you actually play the fish and let it do some arials for ya. What a blast is all i can say. Hope it reopens. And out of all those fish, only 1 was a male. Anyone else have that same ratio?

Ya know, the state record for Sockeye is only 10lbs 10oz, something to shoot for. Maybe we'll see it broken this year.

FFF,
We only hooked males. Found them 75 feet and deeper. Seems like that was the same in previous Openings. Very few females that we caught deep. The males run bigger by 1-2 pounds.

I was wondering wheir everyone fished. I have for the past 25 years or so allways fished the south end off of mercer island below I-90. This year I have a new boat and moore it in lake union and fished between the two bridges. In the past fishing the south end we went deep 70 - 90 feet. this year deepest I fished was 60 feet but marked allmost all of the fish on my fish finder at 40 -60 feet with most of those being at 40-43. I was trying to figure this out . Only thing I could come up with is they are either following a thermal layer or haven't yet made the trek to deeper water as they have just made the right turn out of mount lake in shallow water and headed to the south and just havent headed down yet.

3 of 4 fish for us on Sunday were hens including the 8 lb'er.

Troller, we fished right outside the Atlantic City launch and trolled straight across to Poverty Rock, 'riggers set at 75 feet, we could not keep the fish off our lines.

Easy we had great luck also. Trolling downriggers set at 60 feet between I-90 and 520 bridges. friday we lost way to many and ended up with 4 fish and lost I would say 8 or 10. saturday had 7 hits and caught 7 fish. sunday three hits and 3 fish. we fished between 6 am and 11am each day.