Strawberry with the grandkids

[liketrolling]

I don't like fishing on a Saturday.
but I have a hard time getting together with with my grand kids. My wife stayed home so we could have 6 in the boat.

Can you die from too much excitement? (at my age)

I told them to be at my house at 3:30 am, they all made it

we started fishing in the dark

they know how to run the downriggers but they don't fish with me a lot
I did not reel one fish in

what was exciting was how many kokanee they missed and how they missed them
they missed them half way in, at the boat we did not catch a lot of Cuts so about everything we hooked into were kokes.

they would get so Excited they forgot what they should do.
I was hopping we would take 24 home but we did not make it we only got 17 in the boat
biggest was 18 they missed some big ones. we had 5 fishing poles out.
I stayed in a spot that was about 200 X 200 yards.
not a lot of boats by us, maybe we were making so much noise they left.
the kokes stopped biting good about 9:30
the parking lot was full when we left.

if some one did not have a good day I made a post how I was catching them.
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[WesternWalker]

Great to hear that you and the Grand kids had a great time. nothing like a boat full of kids and poles a bouncing, good on you for taking the time.
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[liketrolling]

I was just thinking, for those that tie there own squids are retie the the ones you buy.
when they break.

in the past I have used P line 15 lb fluorocarbon
this year I bought some Seaguar Red Label 100% Fluorocarbon, which cost less.
this one squid that I used the red label on had caught over 50 fish this year and has not broke. the other squids have been holding up good. I put a bead between the hook which may help some to. The fish teeth may hit the bead and not the line.
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[brookie]

I thought that was you I saw with the boat load of kids - looked fun. We had a pretty good day too. I came in with my 4 by 0730. I had lots more bites and fish come off on the way in. Went in to get the wife - back out fishing at 0830. Got one more and it shut down. The last 2 were pretty good ones.
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