Paid a visit to Gills Rock/Rowley’s Bay Wednesday afternoon through Friday morning last week. Fishing AND catching were terrific! First night in Gills Rock was a bit slow for us, so we opted to run out into the lake from Rowleys Bay…pretty much had the lake to ourselves. Virtually every fish came from 50-55 feet down over 90-100 feet of water. 50/50 split between downriggers and dipseys run at trolling speeds of 2.3-2.5 knots. All fish taken on spoons that had some green in them (coupled with orange, purple or black were best for us). Nice mix regarding size with about a 60/40 split of kings to rainbows. Biggest kings in the 21-22 pound range and one beauty of a rainbow at 31″. Great maiden voyage for my buddie’s new boat. Good luck and be safe when venturing onto the big pond! Never posted pics before…I’ll see if I can get some up.
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The Kings were hitting everything for us all week. Didn’t work the reef to hard. 150FOW morn and evening was the ticket and down DEEP during the day. The charters weren’t having to work very hard at all either. Lots were filling up by 7-8 in the mornings.