Bonneville Report

[Lo-Pro16]

Fished Bonneville both Sat. and Sun. from sunrise to sunset with my buddie Chico, his brother and nephew, and a friend from work. Saturday, one fished hooked at first daylight and lost, on #4 orange spin-glo, no action till 2pm then 8 bell-ringers with two hatchery fish landed, 16# and 19#. We fished the Washington side above the powerlines. Only saw about six fish netted on Bradford island all day. Sunday, action started at 10:30am with Chico and myself both having fish on, Chico's a 17# hatchery and mine a 20# native. Slow to about 2:30pm when all hell broke loose, 9 bell-ringers with eight fish hooked, of which four prematurely released, three natives all around 15 to 20 lbs. released and a nice 19# hatchery netted. We were all using #4 spin-glos, with no bait, orange, lime green and the batman were the colors. From what we could see, the fisherman on Bradford island netted at least 20 springers. It has definitely been better fishing in the afternoon.

Hope this helps. I love this site. Ifish rules!

[Fish Hunter]

Sounds like a good day. Thanks for the report. Welcome to the board.

[choppers]

man, my buddy talked me out of going their due to the crowed but now in hind sight i should of done it anyway. since i know 90% of them. hooked one downriver but never got a good hookset. got teeth marks on my spin glo though does that count. hehehehe

[Get Bent]

Originally posted by choppers:
man, my buddy talked me out of going their due to the crowed but now in hind sight i should of done it anyway. since i know 90% of them. hooked one downriver but never got a good hookset. got teeth marks on my spin glo though does that count. hehehehe

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Only if you can find a good recipe for Spin n Glows. :smile:

[Rubber Robin]

Fished Bonneville on Sunday. We put in at the Fishery at first light and went on up. Anchor fished for the first half of the day. Real slow. Saw only a couple of fish caught. One from the bank and one from a boat.

When the afternoon arrived the weather got nice! The bite turned on. We watched a parade of guides backtrolling down to us with fish on after fish on. We decided to get in on the action. [img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img] We pulled anchor and joined in the parade.

One guide that we saw had a double and probably caught 7 to 8 fish! The other guides were picking fish up here and there. Everybody was backtrolling Kwikfish w/divers or back bouncing eggs. There was probably a flurry of 20 to 30 fish. We finally lucked into one native after a hard day of fishing. :grin: The bankers were doing pretty good also.

It is getting better!!!!!!