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Alouette 2017

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Damien:
The big yellow thing in the sky may have played a role in that.   :P

Anyhoo,i'm hoping to get out onto Alouette this weekend.  Will report back here.  Maybe we should rename this thread Alouette 2017.

flyrod:
Metal Feathers, it was a Lake Trout. Sorry he didn't provide any pics just the story.

typhoon:

--- Quote from: flyrod on April 25, 2017, 08:51:17 PM ---Metal Feathers, it was a Lake Trout. Sorry he didn't provide any pics just the story.

--- End quote ---

Good one.

Damien:
Well it was one of those days. 

Started off sunny and warm loading up the boat around noon in Langley and getting set to head over to Alouette.  Sure enough, the clouds were stacked up against the mountains and it was cold and wet on the lake.

Water temps between 7.2 and 7.8 degrees C.  Lots of boats on the water, from your typical ski boats to lots of tinnies and kayaks.  Including one 10 foot jon boat that had two guys and a huge cooler.  It looked comical.  As did a goose that followed us around for 20 minutes, we couldn't shake him!

Anyoo, on to the fishing.  Well, it was the first shakedown of the boat in the spring and as usual there are some hiccups to overcome.  On the first drop with the downrigger, BANG, the rigger mount explodes off the gunnel.  I barely saved the rigger, rod/reel and pancake weight.  That was nearly a $400 oopsy to start the day.  I only packed one rigger so that was that for getting deep.  I had a jet diver, but was too lazy to tie it up.

My fishing buddy had a lead line that seemed to have pooched itself over the winter, so that was a cluster as well.  I went to using the usual mini-G, wedding bands etc with a bit of weight.  Tons and tons of nibbles and tiny fish, lots of surface activity but only very small fish seen.  Fished from 2-6 without much to report.  Saw one boat net a 8" kokanee...

To make matters worse my fish finder reset itself at some point over the winter so when I went to fire it up on the lake it was operating in some eastern European language so i was messing with it to get it in English so I could tweak the settings to track down the thermocline.

The best part was my mid-80's 2 stroke Mariner/Yamaha ran well, pushed my 14 ft tinny with two of us loaded with gear to 27MPH on the GPS.  It sure feels fast in an open boat with a tiller.  Not sure one would want to go much faster than that safely, even though the boat says it is rated for a  40hp on the transom plate.  That said it is from the 1960's so many 40hp motors of that vintage didn't put out the kind of torque more modern motors do, let alone the weight of someone using a 4 stroke.

It was good to be on the water and the brief moments of sun felt nice.  But oh those first trips of the year can be a challenge.

firstlight:
Thanks for the report.
Close call on the rigger.Whew.

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