Another quick trip today. Left the dock at 5:30 and dropped gear in at Secretary Island by 5:45 in the fog. I got 2 rods down stacked on one rigger and one of my female guests is not liking the fog and the current slop. She wants to go back. So I bring up the downrigger and pop off the top rod and the rigger starts to bounce. Ends up being a 12 pound spring on the sockeye gear. Land him and head back to the dock. Drop off both ladies and head back out with Harvey. We have gear back in the water by 6:15. By 7:15 we have another spring and 6 sockeye on board, had to release 2 more sox as we finished with a triple and we lost another 5 or 6 to arial acrobatics that threw hooks. Back at the dock by 7:30. Its gong show mayhem but a ton of fun. Rods everywhere, net tangled up, slime and blood on the deck (I'm telling my guests don't wear good cloths!!!!) and fish on again before you are ready for them. Kingspring: reddy/pink squirt hootchies...I only use the ones with the glow white head section and set them up with the barrel swivel pulled through so the front eyelet is exposed to tie to. Lots of gear...I run 5 lines all within 5 feet of each other depth wise. First light...one rigger 15 and 30 feet (stacked) the other side 20 and 35 ft and the centre rigger 40ft. So I cover 15, 20, 30, 35 and 40 feet. The top rods usually produce first and then the lower one after about 15 -30 minutes....I then shift them to 25/40ft, 30/45 and 50 feet. Move them down as the action drops off. The key is the flashers...you want your setup to look like a school of sockeye. Pick a flasher that looks like the colours of fresh ocean bright soxs. I run all 5 of the same flashers. Never pull all the gear out of the water even if you have to leave one down with a fish on it. The school will follow that fish and you can drop gear right bacvk down to them. The last important thing is you will hook up into way more fish with some degree of westerly heading...whether sw or nw...I spend very little time going east if I can help it.
