I met Mark McCutchen and Ted McDaniel at 0430 to go fishing on the Pole Dancer. We headed up towards Craven Rock and stopped short at Nodule in 100' of water to fish for a few minutes to see if we could find any bait or fish on the sounder. After 15-20 minutes we moved North near the blue house and started trolling North. We didn't get anything on our first run and decided to head back near the blue house again to start trolling North. About 0645 I saw my downrigger was hitting bottom and moved it up a couple of feet, as I was watching to see it was no longer bouncing it bounced again....the fish took it off the clip. The fish didn't feel large when I was reeling it in as it ran towards the boat. Ted had just got the other downrigger and line out and saw the fish and said it was legal. Then the fish started fighting a little more as it neared the boat and Ted was able to do a quick net job. It was a nice 18 pound hatchery fish caught in 115 feet of water on the bottom using a Yellowtail Coho killer.

We ran back down below the blue house and started trolling North again in the 115 foot line, a short while later and Ted's rod went off and after clearing all the gear we netted the fish and had a 12 pound hatchery fish. This one was also caught right on the bottom but he was using a White Lightning Coho killer.

We decided to turn around and run back below the blue housed and started trolling North again in the 115 foot line, a short while later and Mark's rod went off and after clearing all the gear we netted the fish and had a 10 pound hatchery fish. This one was also caught right on the bottom using the original Yellowtail Coho killer.

I added a couple of photos. Awhile back Greg Reimann sent me a text showing how you can make your fish look bigger by taking pictures using action figures.....I found it also works to use a mini flasher instead of the 11" to make your fish look bigger!

It was a great day to enjoy time on the water!

Dave Werner