Jordon Harbour to Beamsville, August 13, 2008

John and I had guests Kelly and Colin on the boat for there first time salmon fishing. T-storms had already pushed by us earlier that afternoon and the skies began to break with hopes of a nice evening on the big pond. Light winds from the west south west kept the flies at bay and comfortable temperatures.

We ran down to in front of Vineland and began to set lines in 80 FOW and trolled East out to about 110 FOW. When we reached 100 FOW the Wire Walker Deeper Diver 107 Glow Frog set at 1 ½ and out 140 ft while towing a Green Dolphin SpinDoctor with a Hammered TG Atommik tournament fly took a good strike. This set also had three fish that all came unbuttoned throughout the course of the night.

We angled back in towards Jordon Harbour and worked the shallow trough looking for some staging fish and went in as shallow as 60 FOW and marked only a few all the way in. We turned back out and once we got out to 100 FOW the rigger down 66 ft with a 15 ft lead and a Hogwild SpinDoctor and Crazy Bitch Atommik Tournament Fly takes a 10 lbs rainbow. That was Kelly’s first fish ever!

Slide Diver with a lead of 100 ft behind the diver and out to the diver set at 4 out 150 ft and 160 ft hit a big rainbow at 13 lbs and took one small shaker Chinook and missed one other. Yeck 88 Glow Frog on one side of the boat and Rainbow Matrix regular size on the other. Also took one smaller rainbow on a Fullcore using silverstreak Blue tail.

The Rigger down 66 ft using the Hogwild SpinDoctor and Crazy Bitch Atommik Tournament Fly as it took two Chinooks (no matures).

We then trolled 100-130 FOW towards the west until we finished the night just east of Beamsville’s Ontario St. The lake went flat and the moon came out. We seen baitfish busting the surface and the fishing got better as the sun was setting.

Shane Thombs