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Left the dock around 5:45 with plans to troll in tight for steelhead. Pulling out of the marina in to the channel a guy on the wall hooked up right as we went past his float. Had to weave in between a bunch of boats inside the break water that were float fishing. Headed west and started setting rods before we even got out of the breakwall. Second rod in 50 copper with a SS Bumble Bee spoon got absolutely smashed by a large steelhead that proceeded to jump several times and run like hell. I don't think I've ever seen a planer board pull back that fast. Lost him about 20 feet from the boat, managed to bend the hook slightly and spit it.

Trolled down the dunes zig zagging between 30 and 40 FOW without another bite and very little activity on the graph. Circled back east to make a pass in front of the harbor through the boat traffic, no hits but watched other boats hook up next to us. Good amount of marks on the graph in front of the lighthouse. On the turn back west we doubled up, orange crush on 2 color landed a decent steelhead. Lost the other one as the 40# braid backer severed and the fish took the spoon and 100' copper with it...

Made another pass around and hooked up on a couple more but lost them. Hooked a very feisty drum on the 2 color / organge crush on an east bound troll. Managed to find quite a pile of fish by accident east of the harbor and out to the state line when we were forced to make a wider turn out due to some sailboat traffic. We worked this area the rest of the day as the graph was lit up constantly. Unfortunately these fish had lockjaw for the most part, very few takers. Probably marked 1000 fish and had 10 bites. I have a feeling if we would have found these fish earlier in the morning we probably would have had a quick limit...

200 copper with a standard green dolphin took the largest coho of the day. Had a steelhead hit a slider on our lower rigger. When we reeled that in we found a 14 inch coho on a dodger / fly that had probably been dragging for a while. Ended up with 4 coho and 3 steelhead in the box, lost just as many if not more. Fish were spitting up alewives as they went in the net, so I'm not surprised we didn't get a ton of hits really. There's a lot of bait out there, marked schools all over throughout the day. Even managed snag an alewife on a 6 color which we discovered when we pulled rods.

If anyone is going out of MC it might be worth taking a quick peak to see if those fish are still in that area before running out deep or committing to trolling in tight to the harbor. Could be action packed time if they are hungry.

Thanks for the report! Nice job!

Thanks for the report, those Skams can be hard to keep on the line sometimes.