Humpy Hollow 8/22

I'm going out tomorrow in my tandem sink with a friend who is in town for a few days.  Any recommendations or warnings.  Best to launch at Mukitelo and go south or Picnic Pt and go north?  I have been told to fish about 60 ft deep in 150 ft of water.  I have a radio now I will be on 69 if anyone is around.

Aaron

Been years since I've fished either of those areas- I went to Jr/Sr HS in Edmonds. I do know that the PBers on the PP (Piscatorial Pursuits) board complain about the Mukilteo launch- it's exposed and gets darn crowded.

Anywhere between Edmonds (or RB!) that you can launch from, should be good for Pinks and Coho.

 Went out this morning got 2 in the boat 2lb and 3lb.  I wasted too much time in the middle of channel where it is deep should have stuck to the 120-150 ft depth line prob down about 60 ft, hard to tell with the deep six.  Used those pink squid things.  The pole with the white flasher and smaller squid caugth both fish.
  My fish finder kept giving me weird readings at times it would go 0ft -8ft 120ft - 600ft.  Any idea why this might be happing?  It didn't do it all the time just sometimes and hasn't don't it anyother time I used it.  It works though both times I caught fish I had seen them marked on my screen first.


Aaron

Right on Gilla. Salmon in the yak!!!

Is it just me, or do the pinks seem small this year?  Not that I've fished for them.  But I see a lot of reports of 2  pounders.  Also, I'm guessing the run is not near as big as they are predicting.  They should be in a lot thicker.  That sucks if it's true.

Regarding the FF, I hope it's not true, but that sort of fritzy behavior always seems to lead to bad things.  However, sometimes it's as simple as connections starting to corrode, which is easily remedied.

-Allen

  This is really my first year of catching Salmon with in regularity so I wouldn't know about the sizes; to me they are all big and get bigger after I catch them .
 My salmon experience has mainly consisted of going up toe the banks of the Snohomish with my spinning reel and trying to get  non-eating salmon to bite my lure.  Most of the people I saw catching fish where just snagging them.  The kayak has really opened up a whole new world to me.
  Gosh I hope the fish finder isn't corroding I've only had it for a few weeks, this is my first one though so once again user error is always a possibility. 
  It sure was a great morning though, probably could have caught more fish but head to really in we ended up down by picnic point and the current was real hard to paddle back against, I really need to remember about the currents so many times I paddle with it thinking how easy it is only to have to slog back.  Besides the fish saw eagles, sea lion, wow what a wake that was, seals, heron what a wonderful place we live in.
  I have a busy social weekend but I hope to hit it again this weekend, this stuff is addicting. I hope to see some yakkers out there next time, I'm getting tired of the funny looks I get from the power boaters.

Aaron

Glad to hear some salmon caught from the yak.

Regarding the odd fish finder readings. 

Where there any power boats in the vicinity fishing?  I have found that my little Cuda 168 often gets overwhelmed anytime someone with a really powerful fish finder gets too close.  The symptoms include odd noise patterns as well very high depth readings. 

Another potential culprit is an air bubble either between your hull and the water it self or between the hull and your transducer.  A remounting of the transducer might fix this.

Brian

I sometimes get funky readings from my FF (Fishing Buddy), but have found that if I re-boot it, it will clean up. It seems to be easily fooled by weeds.

Here's what the various scenarios the guys talk about look like on the Humminbird Matrix 17's I use.  I don't have much experience with other models.

Bubbles in the goop tend to cause constant noise, like a band of marks at a particular level, or possible like a very shallow reading.  Passing boats with interfering FF's tend to look like false readings of big old bait schools or fish marks up and down the whole water column.  The closer you are, the thicker it gets.

What sort of FF do you have?

-Allen

Thanks for the responses guys.  I have the http://www.humminbird.com/products.asp?id=1030.   I have used it about 5 or 6 times but his is the first time the readings got funky.  Rebooting didn't seem to make a difference and the readings weren't bad all the time either. 
  I'm guessing from your ideas two likely culprits 1. there were lots of boats out some ocean liner like, I wonder how these guys even go slow enough to troll for humpies.  2. my mount is a suction cup I stick to the kayak under the waterline, it seems likely that an airbubble could get caught in it.
  Thanks again for the help,

Aaron