Non-Fly Dirtbag Baker lake sockeye 2024

On 1 of my rods I had a Macks Sling Blad on and it kept tangling on itself, this was on a dropper rod.

Has anyone experienced this before?
 
With a dropper regardless of the type of flasher dangles are possible if the line is let out too fast. Slow metering the line out (I usually let out the line by stripping) tends to reduce the tangles.
 
Paige said:
On 1 of my rods I had a Macks Sling Blad on and it kept tangling on itself, this was on a dropper rod.

Has anyone experienced this before?
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Smalma said:
With a dropper regardless of the type of flasher dangles are possible if the line is let out too fast. Slow metering the line out (I usually let out the line by stripping) tends to reduce the tangles.
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We fish those for walleye with bottom bouncer "droppers", and yes, letting them out slowly to keep it all in line is important. Patience.
Issue one, my son found out why I run the pretied rigs through the leader straightener (we keep pretied rigs on the old yellow holders we use for spin-n-glo rigs).. The coils can make quite a mess on any slack. Also, if the worm isn't lined up well, the leader seems to twist up a bit before the swivel starts to load enough to work, then tangles on a momentary slack line.
 
Smalma said:
With a dropper regardless of the type of flasher dangles are possible if the line is let out too fast. Slow metering the line out (I usually let out the line by stripping) tends to reduce the tangles.
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All three times I was very slow on the drop, with each time slower than the previous.

I didn't have any issues with the Double D flashers on the same rod and the other 3 I was running.
 
Baker lake could be a lot more of an enjoyable experience with more parking and camping available. With the facilities currently available it's pretty much a giant cluster fuck trying to get on the water for the morning bite.
 
I've done it a few times. When it's good it's really good. It's difficult for me to have a productive day after getting up that early though. I have to wake up at like 2:30 to get tot he lake at he correct time to fish. I do miss it a little, especially grilling the sockeye. However, those early mornings are just tough.
 
charles sullivan said:
I've done it a few times. When it's good it's really good. It's difficult for me to have a productive day after getting up that early though. I have to wake up at like 2:30 to get tot he lake at he correct time to fish. I do miss it a little, especially grilling the sockeye. However, those early mornings are just tough.
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I left my house at 12:30am, yeah too early!
 
Three days ago someone clipped my boat trailer while I was out fishing. Somehow they managed to bend the metal light bracket half-way around without busting the plastic light. Of course when I got back there was no one in the slot next to me.

I leave my house at 2:30 and am on station by 4.

Chucker said:
I went there once. It was beautiful, the fishery was an absolute shitshow and nobody caught anything. Did not really make me want to go back.
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Yup. You should probably stay away...
 
speedbird said:
Anyone have any theories why sockeye are so voracious in lakes but so lockjawed in rivers and the salt?
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They are no more snappy in lakes than they are anywhere else. There are just a lot of them in one place and they like to follow stuff around, so they can be effectively trolled for. At times you can have a decent sized school of fish just follow your gear, but not be interested in actually biting anything.

It looks like this: Enough fish following that the sounder thinks it’s the bottom.

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Chucker said:
They are no more snappy in lakes than they are anywhere else. There are just a lot of them in one place and they like to follow stuff around, so they can be effectively trolled for. At times you can have a decent sized school of fish just follow your gear, but not be interested in actually biting anything.

It looks like this: Enough fish following that the sounder thinks it’s the bottom.

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Can’t think of a reason people in Alaska and BC floss for them then, I bet the Fraser would have a great plunking fishery if they gave it a chance
 
It seems like they are more grabby when the water is moving slower. Fish caught in the salt tend to bite when the current has stopped moving.
 
That's an old sonar I bought used from someone on the forum or at WFF. It seems to confuse my downrigger ball for the bottom on a regular basis and has no charting. Probably time to upgrade when they go on sale.
 
_WW_ said:
That's an old sonar I bought used from someone on the forum or at WFF. It seems to confuse my downrigger ball for the bottom on a regular basis and has no charting. Probably time to upgrade when they go on sale.
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My Garmin does the same thing.
I'll be in 100+ feet of water and it's telling me 45 or 36 or what ever.
I've never figured out why. I've not considered the downrigger ball might be the cause. It makes sense though as the readings are usually in the ballpark of the depth of my gear.
 
Wanative said:
My Garmin does the same thing.
I'll be in 100+ feet of water and it's telling me 45 or 36 or what ever.
I've never figured out why. I've not considered the downrigger ball might be the cause. It makes sense though as the readings are usually in the ballpark of the depth of my gear.
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The software is programmed to just look for the strongest sonar return which it interprets as the bottom. The reflection off a downrigger ball close to the transducer produces that, as does a dense school of fish, or sometimes a sharp thermocline. You can turn the sensitivity down, which can help, but then you don’t get very good signals from the fish - in my picture above, the sensitivity is turned right down, so that it won’t show the gear as the bottom, so the fish signals are not very strong. WW’s pic shows fish in the gear much better!
 
Wanative said:
My Garmin does the same thing.
I'll be in 100+ feet of water and it's telling me 45 or 36 or what ever.
I've never figured out why. I've not considered the downrigger ball might be the cause. It makes sense though as the readings are usually in the ballpark of the depth of my gear.
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My dad’s new boat has a top of the line raymarine Axios system that does this same thing occasionally. Very high quality transducer too. I think most sounders have this issue. I fix it by manually increasing the depth
 
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