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MFF US Northeast => Massachusetts => Topic started by: Baitbucket on Jul 29, 2018, 11:32 AM
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Hit the Q this morning for a quick trip. Have family plans this afternoon so i had to be off the water by 11.
Hit the water at 6:10 and was at the dock at 11. I managed 2 salmon but dropped one and a rainbow. The salmon was 4lbs.
(https://s22.postimg.cc/nbpe1d9rx/bow.png) (https://postimg.cc/image/nbpe1d9rx/)
(https://s22.postimg.cc/b9u078899/salmon.png) (https://postimg.cc/image/b9u078899/)
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Very nice 👍🏻
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That salmon is brute, and that’s a nice looking rainbow! sounds like a fun trip!
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Way to go Will....nice fish thanks for sharing.
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Nice going. BB!
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Beautiful fish!
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Sweet nice work.
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Thx guys, its was a fun trip. Had a couple bald eagles circling me when i got the salmon lol. They were waiting for the release.
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How big was the bow?
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How big was the bow?
Didnt measure it, but it was a good size. Probably 16ish in.
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couple of nice fish there
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Did you eat the salmon will or did the eagle eat well?
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Did you eat the salmon will or did the eagle eat well?
I tried to revive it for 15 minutes but she didnt make it. The two boatside runs did her in. Was the first one of the year i took home.
The rainbow swam off slow but made it before the eagles got there.
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Thats alright I enjoy those salmon occasionally.
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I tried to revive it for 15 minutes but she didnt make it. The two boatside runs did her in. Was the first one of the year i took home.
The rainbow swam off slow but made it before the eagles got there.
Tough time of year for any hopes of catch and release on salmonoids. Left three lake trout floaters for the eagles at Wachusett recently - they just can’t be revived in the warm water.
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Nice ones! Thats a fatty bow at 16in. Beauty salmom! mid summer no less. Impressive!
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Nice fish Wil :thumbup_smilie:
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Tough time of year for any hopes of catch and release on salmonoids. Left three lake trout floaters for the eagles at Wachusett recently - they just can’t be revived in the warm water.
Trolling no they cant. Jigging you can release them alive if you dont prolong the fight. Then again I dont think feeding the eagles is a terrible thing either.
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Over here I noticed inline planer boards were even worse for trolling and hoping to release rainbows. Fighting the board is hard on them once they get up into the epiliminon layer.
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Its ALOT of work to get them kicking again. I keep the boat going on the track i set with the trolling motor and hold the fish over the side lightly with a pair of fish grippers. I had a salmon take 15 mins to get kicking again.
Ive been trying to come up with a better way of doing it (ie less me hanging over the edge) but havent come up with anything yet.
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There is something that worked for a guy I knew in Texas that caught large hybrid stripers in his pond in warm water. They would fight so hard in the warm water they could go belly up and he claimed it worked. Not sure it would be practical for you but here goes:
He had a cooler of water with an oxygen diffuser in the bottom, which via an airline was connected to a oxygen flow meter, then regulator and then an oxygen tank. I use the same set up to move small amounts of fish I sell. It doesn't take much oxygen to saturate the water. I don't buy my tanks. I get them from a local welding supply store, and just bring them back when empty to get another one that is full.
Remember this is pure oxygen -- not just air.
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Cecil I think some of the hardcore musky guys have similar setups on their boats.
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No doubt. I do get a several musky a year to mount that can't be revived.