BentRod
8/10/2010 11:24:00 AMMotoBoat
8/10/2010 12:13:00 PMrseas
8/10/2010 12:21:00 PMAnyway, congratulations on the quick catch…a great end to what was otherwise a difficult day.
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Attempted to have a family trip to Baker Lake on Sunday. Of course, this meant leaving the house at around 11:45 rather than O'dark thirty. We stopped in Burlington to get licenses/punch cards for the kids, but the system wouldn't process them without their social security numbers this year (I thought they didn't need that until 18, but I guess it starts at 15 now). Oh well. Grabbed some lunch. Headed east. Next we had a trailer tire delaminate on Hiway 20. Got to teach the kids how to change a tire. At this point my wife wonders if God is telling us not to fish today. I reply that God is testing us to see how bad we want to fish today...
We launched at Shannon Creek, which is a deeper and easier launch than Horseshoe Creek, but a long gravel road ride further up lake... It is now 4pm and my wife wants to head home at 5pm... she and Tim explore the shore. Megan comes out to "assist" me fishing. We blast to our spot and put two poles down (I have the endorsement). A lite steelhead pole with an open face spinning reel on one side with a dodger and black hooks. A salmon pole with dodger and red hooks on the other side. We troll down lake into the sun and see fish on the scope. We turn back and head back uplake through them. Megan notices the left pole get a hit. I grab it and take it off the clip, reel down and hand her the pole. On the lite pole, the fish takes several good runs, goes airborne 3 or 4 times and under the boat once. She does a good job and I net our first sockeye... Reset stuff and we're up towards the shallower water now so we turn around. Another boat saw us net the fish and is trolling through where we caught our fish. I troll downlake past them and then turn uplake again. The salmon pole goes off. I start to fight the fish and the steelhead pole goes off, too. I hand Megan the salmon pole and try to take the steelhead pole off the clip, but the fish is gone. Megan fights our second fish and I net it. It is 4:45. We head back to Shannon Creek with big smiles.
Put the boat on the trailer and stopped for dinner at Cascade Burgers, then head back to Kirkland. A successful trip.
Available Fishing Guide:
Website: Darrell & Dads Family Guide Service