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Jake
Happy M.D. and I left Crow at 6:30am undecided if we would try the Siuslaw or one of the coast lakes for Salmon. As we were skunked on the Siuslaw during the run last month, we opted for Lake Tahkenitch seeking the RV park near Mapleton was a ghost town and observing a half dozen boats on the Siuslaw on the drive to Florence (more boats were observed when we were heading home at 4:30p (high tide was 2pm, yesterday)). The road was wet, I figured we were in for a marginal day weatherwise. Tahkenitch weather turned out to be overcast and warm (perfectly happy in short sleeves for half the day). A party of 3 putting in at same time as us said they had caught 2 Silvers on Tues on Blue Fox spinners. Lot's of weeds and a few snags on blow downs. We saw salmon in the water, had a Salmon breech nearby in the Western Arm. I had a strike from a Cutthroat on a trolled needlefish (it jumped). I landed a Cutthroat on a blue fox #6. We saw a total of 5 other boats on the lake all day, no hookups witnessed, 1 other Cutthroat catch reported.
Seeing how fish friendly the cover was for Bass, it makes me inclined to want to throw a Carolina Rigged pink plastic worm at the shorelines (supposedly, that is where the fish are in the arms of the lake).
Hightlight of the day (besides the weather) was seeing a Bald Eagle across the arm of the lake from us, hunting a Coot in the water. I'd love to have one trained to take out Cormorants!
Tight lines and screamin' drags,
Jake
Seeing how fish friendly the cover was for Bass, it makes me inclined to want to throw a Carolina Rigged pink plastic worm at the shorelines (supposedly, that is where the fish are in the arms of the lake).
Hightlight of the day (besides the weather) was seeing a Bald Eagle across the arm of the lake from us, hunting a Coot in the water. I'd love to have one trained to take out Cormorants!
Tight lines and screamin' drags,
Jake
