Tagish Lake Laker Report (from Derek E.)

July 05, 2006 at 5:11 am

Saturday June 24th

A buddy of mine, Jeff O invited me to do a bit of drifting and fishing in his zodiac. We decided that the Tagish Bridge made most sense so headed off from Whitehorse and got there in good time. We used the current of the 6 Mile out of Tagish Lake to push us down in to Marsh Lake then motor back up.

I had borrowed another friend’s fish finder and could not believe the activity below the boat. The fish alarm was sounding continuously; we finally realized it was our lures setting it off. Finally after catching weeds we thought it best to go test other waters so went to the east shoreline. Low and behold a hit on a barbless 2 eyed ruby spoon. My partner thought I had bottom until bottom decided to move ahead of the boat at a very quick pace. After a good fight I pulled in this beauty.

Ok, now the dilemma, do I feed the family or put it back to see another day. We’re in conservation waters so you have to release the spawners between 26” and 39”. Back and forth, back and forth measuring a moving fish in a cradle net with a 12 inch fillet knife (in its case!) I think its 25”; no it’s 26” and a quarter; no wait a minute its 25” and three quarters. The net starts measuring at 36”!

Good thing we let it go as the boys in the green shirts showed up an hour later checking our licenses and our lures. We left with a couple of photos, a few genuine belly laughs and me with a new sunburn on top of the other one!

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