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Head west of the nose in 95-120. Lots of kings in that zone. All meat bite for us. Spoons rotted.

Monroe County Offshore Classic Species Challenge and main event recap: Friday morning we left the creek in search of a brown for our box first. We dropped in West of the creek in 30’. We got the second rod down and the first rod fired with a 5lb brown. We decided to try to hang out a little while longer and try to upgrade that fish. A couple minutes later, the center rigger parked at 28’ with a Black UV tuxedo stingray took off with a nice 7-8 lb brown. We turned the boat north and charged the spread over to a king/steelhead spread. We troll North and trolled out to 250 and picked a decent steelhead and some small kings. We trolled back into 120 and headed West. Once we got West of Devils Nose, the screens lit up with fish. We boxed a 10lb king and continued searching. As we plugged West, we were marking some good lakers. Scott and I agreed we should drop a Hammerhead Froggy cowbell with a bullfrog Gambler Rig down and try to pluck a laker while we are trolling for a bigger king. I dropped the rig to the bottom and as it got set, the port rigger fired with an upgrade steelhead. As we caught that steelhead, the center rigger fired with a laker taking drag. After a good battle, we netted a 21.8lb lake trout. We pulled the laker rod out of the spread and went back to searching for a bigger king. Around 11 am, we boated a 16lbs king. We ended up upgrading our second steelhead with one a half pound bigger. Going to weigh in, we felt confident we were sitting in a great position to cash a check. At weigh in, we placed 2nd for the second time in three years. Congrats to Derek Wager with his winning box! Main event: Saturday morning we headed back to our water West of the nose. We set down in 95’ and the screen was blank. We bumped out to 115 and started marking fish. We plucked away at fish all morning but couldn’t keep bigger fish buttoned. At one point we lost 7 good fish in a row. Having a **** box, we decided to not weigh in. Congrats to Tom Allen and his crew on an impressive win. Thanks to Tim and Brandon for all the hard work you put into this event. Here is what worked best for us for two days: -Atommik UV Grinch meat rig - with a matching e-chip I made. -Hawks Tackle snowflake meat rig with the matching paddle. -Hawks Tackle UV green dot meat rig behind a green dot e-chip -Hammerhead Froggy 5/0 cowbell towing a Bullfrog regular Gambler Rig -Stinger Stingray UV black tuxedo -Stinger Stingray Froggy glow

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It's weird that they made it to NY ???

Went out of bald eagle; fished 3-5:30pm; fished 110 to 175 ft of water. 3 Dipsy rods and 2 snap weight:rods; 2 Dipsy out 150 to 190 on 2.5 setting with NBK and seasick waddles spoons; one mag dipsy out 120 with sliver flasher and green fly. One snap 6oz snap weight and one 12oz snap weight orange spoon on 6oz and blue dolphin spoon on 12oz rod; caught 1 steelhead on 6oz snap weight rod; caught nice king on flasher fly and 1 smaller king on NBK diver rod. Also swam by Hamlin park in shallow area before fishing. Water was cold but refreshing.

Thanks for the report

Cool fish. Not cool for the river, but since they are prevalent in the lower parts of the river , seems like it was only a matter of time…

Didn't know we had them. I'll research it.Thanks

Great job!

Went out to get the grandson laker. 100 to 130 FOW Did 6 lakers between 10:30 and 12:30 Everyone got a fish.

Great job.

Went 2/6 today. Couldn’t keep them buttoned. Best was 130-150 fow down 75-95. Dipsies with f/f were dead. 300 copper with mag ghost was best. Electric funeral spoon on rigger took a hit and one meat rig bite.

Slow for me out of Sandy as well today. Only fished from 10 to 11:30 but only had one hit. Worked 80 to 250. Surface temp was 61 and had 47 down 80. Currents weren’t bad and water color looked ok. Will be fishing pretty much every day from tomorrow till weather gets funky.

It was slow for us out of the oak yesterday. 2 lakers 2 salmon lost 2 salmon.

Similar to yesterday but different in and out:

We went out around 8 in the morning and fished from 50 foot to 250. In the area of 80 to 130 feet there was bait and hooks,but no takers. We went out to 250 with the same results. All in all only one rod moved (meat) but it was just a shake and it did not even pop the dipsy diver. We got off the water by noon. It was great weather for a family pontoon boat ride ,but for fishing not so much.

as I stated in the heading of my post, its a Flathead Catfish...

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