Question: I went out with some friends to shipwreck/mukilteo on monday in the heavy fog. Spent at least five hours trolling with DR's and came up skunked. They always get into fish out there, and I saw we were marking fish pretty much the entire time. So I know that lack of "skill" was not to blame. So did the fog play a role here? (They mentioned that on there last trip, that as soon as the fog cleared they got some hook ups.)

Interesting thought but I've caught lots of fish in the fog.

Don't think the fog had anything to do with it, I've had alot of very good days when I had to run on radar to get to "the spot".

I think the main approach with fog is to try and account for the decrease in light penetration... like an early dawn light or late evening light.

One might fish their gear closer to the surface for example, or use a flasher with more reflective surface to gather available light, things like that.

I noticed that most of the fish were at around 25 to 55 ft. We used all the usual silver slaying tactics, but came up short. The boats we did see in the pea soup all reported the same results. Maybe the fish decided to give us the bird that day

have boated many fish in fog, dark, rain, hi-wind...fish where the fish are....

Boated 4 last Sunday in area you fished, all were deep 70'-120' 1x Chum, 3 x Coho, generally in Sound I fish Coho from 55' to 120'

even managed somebody's lost coho - it was dragging flasher and Army Truck Hootchie around on surface. Nothing like free fish and gear looked like maxima mainline lost in fight w DR cable...

Our hot setup that day was: scrambled egg hootchie 28" behind green glow HotSpot Had a small but released Coho on Green Grandslam bucktail 30" behind same hot spot. Tomic 602 w tow-bar cutoff, single 3/0 siwash w flouro leader has been good of late out there also.

good hunting!!!

JD

Thanks for the info. I guess it was our tactics

Man that sounds like the fish I lost at Sekiu a couple weeks ago. Woudln't that be something?? BTW: How big was it?

fish fed four, pretty small......