Billy Chinook 3/10

[fish-on-bend]

Nothing like a beautiful day on Billy Chinook. Not very many boats out today, the weather was perfect. I took my chiropractor out today and he continued the streak of people outfishing me. We started out casting swimbaits around the shore and some river channel areas for an hour with no takers. Then we switched to the downriggers. I had a j-plug that sounded like it matched fishty's magic lure from last weekend. After my partner landed 2 fish and lost another on herring it was time for me to swap out plastic for flesh.
We ran different herring combinations and presentations and finished with 10 on, 7 to the boat. I got outfished 4 to 3. Here's a pic of my chiropractor's biggest of the day. It was right at keeper size, 24."
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/IMG_0104.JPG

All fish were released to fight another day. Saw the state marine cops at the dock and finally got a safety check for my 1 year old boat. Turns out the guy was a former taxidermy customer of mine. I mounted 2 browns that he and his brother caught at Simtustis about 6 years ago.

[elklaker]

Looks like you had another great day on the water. Nice to see the fishing is picking up. What was the water temp?

[Jimmy]

Thanks for the report and I hope the weather stays nice for next weekend. "10 on, 7 to the boat" Sounds like a good trip to me. Congrats :applause:

[Super Fluke]

Nice fish.

[FallRiverGuy]

Good Job Joe! Sounds like the fish wanted herring that day. 10 fish on and a beautiful day...can't get any better than that.

[Private-Aye-Fish]

Saw the state marine cops at the dock and finally got a safety check for my 1 year old boat.

I spoke with The Sgt.(Trooper) on the lake Thursday afternoon. He liked my iFish sticker said he thought he recognized the boat from iFish. LOL. :laugh: He was very polite checked our licenses didn't bother to inspect the boat and was very nice. Said he saw one gal with a 31" Bull.

Funny as my wife was flashing the licenses the dog walked by snagged my line and imbedded a nice hook into my finger. Being the nice tropper was there I did not want to engage in animal cruelty :twocents: so I just smiled at the darn dog. We didn't have any luck but we fished Thursday and by Thursday night I was getting ill so we came home early.

Nice fish. I let most of mine go as well.:smash: