Fished Lochloosa again 9/16.

Better quality fish today than last week. Not as many, but bigger. We caught about 90 total and kept 39.

Last week they would hit anything you put in the water, this week they were a bit harder to please. Of all we pushed (tightline trolling), a plain hook with minnow did the poorest. Jigs with minnows did best and a plain jig (no minnow) I designed did really good pulled by itself way behind the boat.

Best bite was morning. We fished until about 1pm then took our usual mid-day break. We thought the wind was going to be bad but it calmed right down in the afternoon. Our last two hours were the poorest all day. We caught 24 but all but 6 we tossed back in.

Tom