06-26-2006, 06:25 PM
A friend and I decided to hit FG to try to "mine some silver" as he says. We departed Bear Lake with his boat and my truck on Friday evening. Got to Squaw Hollow at "dark thrity" at 10:00pm. I slept in the bed of my truck and my buddy slept on the floor of his Lund Tyee. Got up at 4:30am and launched the boat. Dropped in the first downrigger line about 15 minutes later (4:45am) and had two kokes in the boat by 5:00am! Both were smaller and we released them. Fished until about 2:00pm. The main bite is over by 10:00am though so we just did some exploring for a few hours. Shaded up from about 2-6pm and ate a shore lunch of kokes and potatoes. Hit the water in a rough chop and landed a couple of keeper kokes. We kept 5 total kokes (minus one for dinner) and 5 lakers on Saturday. Quit fishing about 10:00pm. Pulled the boat the hit the hay again under the stars. Did the same thing on Sunday, but fished a new spot. Caught two more keeper Kokes to hit the 6 fish limit by 7:00am and then tried for lakers. Quit fishing on Sunday at 10:00am. Saw Sockeye Slayer on Sat. and Sun. but didn't get a chance to find out how he did. We fished the Big Bend area about 2 miles south of Buckboard Marina and the Squaw Hollow area. Standard stuff.....small spoons with dodgers about 45 feet down although I caught one koke on a 5" long 30' deep diving crankbait as we were fishing for lakers! Strange! Water depth really didn't seem to matter. We caught fish over the channel and up on the flats. Picked up one nice rainbow too (about 3.5lbs). All kokes we kept were 3lb. category and nice looking fish, but we caught quite a few smaller fish too. The lakers we kept were about 3 pounders and are excellent eating with nice pink/orange meat. Awesome trip!~ Left the digital camera at home and only had a film camera. Sorry but no pics yet.
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