[Lucky Dog Charters]

The fishing for North Point and probably Waukegan at times has been slow, there are plenty of marks and bait, but the fish at times haven`t cooperated. I as well as the other captains talk to, don`t see any particular pattern to work with. The hot bait one day is dead the next, as well as the fish now being a couple of miles further away from where they were in the morning. There is a lot of current that is also changing direction as the day goes on, this probably accounts for the movement of the fish. There are still some decent catches coming in, just not consistently by any particular boat. As soon as you think you have the program down, the next day you don`t. One day the Dipseys do all the work, the next day it`s the `riggers, or dodgers versus spoons, and so on. Keep changing your baits until you find something appealing. When I`ve had better catches I was able to determine a particular presentation and put that out on a couple of rods. At times we`ve even gone back to the "00" dodger/fly spring set ups.

As I understand it there are plenty of coho being caught down at the South end, hopefully as the water temps change they`ll find there way up by us. I did have a couple of trips where the majority of my fish were Kings and I`ve also noted more Steelies in the mix.

Here are a couple of shots to show you there are still fish in the Lake and that the sky is not falling.





And here is what it`s all about, three generations spending time together, grandfather, father, and grandson.



The weather has played a major roll in the fishing on the Lake as well as the rest of the country as I`ve heard the same story from many of my patrons. Hopefully we`ll continue to see the big Kings just as we have thru out the spring in the next couple of months.

"Wet Nets"
Captain Jim

[Tom]

Thanks for the info Jim.

[Fish/n/thusiast]

Lucky Dog Charters wrote:

As I understand it there are plenty of coho being caught down at the South end, hopefully as the water temps change they`ll find there way up by us.

As one of the beneficiaries of the "plenty of Coho" down here on the South end, I kind of hope that the water temp. remains the way that it is and the Salmon stay put right where they are! Although we'd be happy to share a few of the fish, it's kind of nice having the big numbers right outside of the City for a change. Especially when you consider how long it takes us to get to the deeper water down here.

Good job getting on the fish Capt. Jim & I've been putting your Salmon 101 tips to good use... In fact, I still have the Scotty releases that you gave me on the yellow birds!!!

[digitalbluecat]

Ditto, Bruce and I have put many of your techniques to work from the 101 course and rely on the setups we put out till the pattern reveals itself changing off baits and depth in increments with some old school trolling techniques.

Any good tips on when, where and what for the big Kings?

We haven't gone out past 110' as yet this week.

Thanks in advance!

DBC

[sauger57]

Thanks for the report Jim! I hope the wind gods make up for the lousy spring weather.

[Lucky Dog Charters]

I haven`t been past 90` in the last week, and as shallow as 14` with the cold water right in front of the harbor. That all changed for my afternoon trip when the same water was 6 degrees warmer an hour later.

I also heard of a couple of white fish being caught, perhaps those are some of the marks we see

Hopefully this North blow they are predicting Thursday will school up the fish along the hills.

"Wet Nets"
Captain Jim