Couple nice ones from A-Bay

[Steve H.]

Took a buddy of mine out on Alton Bay on Saturday.  Berry's only had dead smelt (charged us the same as live  ).  So we headed out with those.  I don't have much experience rigging dead smelt but with a needle I bought at the shop, I got the job done well enough.  Quickly got two decent lakers (~20") off Black Point with the smelts running off leadcore down 2-3 colors or so.  Noticed a bunch of boats back toward the bay so headed in that direction.  On our way over started to see some occasional surface activity.  Ended up getting two really nice salmon in the 22-23" range, one on leadcore and one on the downrigger, but both on those dead smelt.  I don't typically take fish but my buddy wanted them for the table, so they went into the fish box.

[AquaAssassin]

Congrats!

You’ll never see the day I’d pay for dead Smelt that’s a promise.

[Roccus]

Congrats!

You’ll never see the day I’d pay for dead Smelt that’s a promise.

Me either. I've got too many suttons and mooseloks to even contemplate it.

good job Steve..making chicken soup out of chicken  XXXX

[Steve H.]

Me either. I've got too many suttons and mooseloks to even contemplate it.

good job Steve..making chicken soup out of chicken  XXXX

Oh, I got plenty of hardware.  Suttons, mooselooks and a crapload of other spoons and whatnots.  Flashers, dodgers, single hook streamers, tandem hook streamers...  The list is long.

Not sure if we would done as well with hardware but I'm happy with the results and my buddy, who doesn't fish much, was thrilled.  Worth it to me.

[zwiggles]

Sounds like a good day! And some nice filets for the grill too!