Legacy

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The great fishing from Sandy Creek continues. Certainly we are well into a transition period at this point. 58.8 degrees on surface with bottom temps in the high 40s and as much as 14 degrees different at times. Seems like an endless supply of green water too. We may be through our June transition before June even gets here. Some bait even began to show up out there. Friday morning... Weve done well in 100-125 fow water for the past week or two so there was no question of where we would start looking on Friday morning. Great pick of fish all morning long, straight out front in 100-115 fow from the pump house to Cowsucker creek. Our catch was a bit Laker heavy with about 1/3 of the catch Kings. A very similar set to last weekends... 300' Blood Run copper off the big board w/ a Capt Valium Spin Doctor and a "Green Killer" fly 300' Blood Run copper off the big board w/ a Capt Valium Spin Doctor and a "Green Killer" fly 200' Blood run wire diver pulling a "Green Halo" Spin Doctor and a "Green Halo" fly 240' Blood run wire diver pulling a "Green Halo" Spin Doctor and a "Green Halo" fly 70-90' rigger w/ Stinger "glow gator" 90-105' rigger w/ Stinger "glow gator" 55-70' rigger w/ grn dot Spin Doctor and a "Legacy" fly (early am) 55-70' rigger w/ DW SS frog 45-60' rigger w/ mupped Stinger hammers 450' Blood Run copper down the chute w/ a Capt Valium Spin Doctor and a "Green Killer" fly We totaled 36 bites for the day with 28 making it to the net. Big fish for the day were 3 lakers over 15# and 19# King. Only 1 double all day. The opposite of last weekend, we had a larger class of Lakers and a smaller class of Kings (most under 10#). Saturday evening... Took a boat trip Saturday evening on a recon mission for Sunday morning. The only consistent thing I found is what we fished on friday. We quickly boated multiple Lake trout including 1 over 16# on rigger Spoons and Blood Run coppers pulling DW Spinnys. Took a look out to 200 and never saw a screen that i liked so we headed south and the fish showed up again inside of 120 fow with the best screen of the night in 80 fow. Sunday morning... We left the dock and fearing heavy boat traffic we headed west to Devils Nose in 85 fow looking for a screen to fish. Very consistent Laker bite w/ an occasional King mixed in 90-120 fow. Once again we left fish and headed north again looking for a better King bite. Besides a couple of fish in 176', we never really found what we had hoped and 2 hours later we returned to our 110' depth and it was game on. Dbl on Kings followed by a triple on fat Lakers (17#, 15# and 12#), followed by another dbl. A very similar set to fridays... 300' Blood Run copper off the big board w/ a Capt Valium Spin Doctor and a "Green Killer" fly 300' Blood Run copper off the big board w/a Capt Valium Spin Doctor and a "Green Killer" fly 190' Blood run wire diver pulling a "Green Halo" Spin Doctor and a "Green Halo" fly 160' Blood run wire diver pulling an Atommik chrome killer Spin Doctor and a hammer fly 70-90' rigger w/ Stinger "glow gator" (early am) 70-90' rigger w/ Stinger mixed veggie (late am) 90-105' rigger w/ Stinger "glow gator" (early am) 90-105'' rigger w/ Stinger mixed veggie (late am) 55-70' rigger w/ grn dot Spin Doctor and a "Legacy" fly (early am) 55-70' rigger w/ Stinger NBK (late am) 45-60' rigger w/ mupped Stinger confusions 450' Blood Run copper down the chute w/a Capt Valium Spin Doctor and a "Green Killer" fly A stellar bite had us fighting 28 fish for the day with 20 making it to the net. Our catch was 60% Lake Trout and the other 40% was Kings, a coho, and a Steelhead

yes channel 72. I was out on friday also. just no one talking.

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Happy Birthday Chad!

Mothers Day PM With all the reports of incredible fishing on the lake this weekend its tough not to be out there. Once the mother's day festivities were over, we headed to the boat for a quick evening trip. Dead flat calm lake... (Amazing how a lake that big is able to do that). With waypoints from the day before it gave us a start point in 100 fow straight off the creek. Before all the rods would get set... Wire diver would fire with 20# king. A start to a great evening out. Just like the day before flasher/ flies would dominate our set and we would run a strict King set. Our set consisted of... 300' Blood Run copper off the big board w/ a Capt Valium Spin Doctor and a "Green Killer" fly 300' Blood Run copper off the big board w/a Green Dot Spin Doctor and a "Green Halo" fly 200' Blood run wire diver pulling a "Green Halo" Spin Doctor and a "Green Halo" fly 240' Blood run wire diver pulling a "Green Halo" Spin Doctor and a "Green Halo" fly 90' rigger w/ Stinger "glow gator" 105' rigger w/ Stinger "glow gator" 70' rigger w/ grn dot Spin Doctor and a "Legacy" fly 45-60' rigger w/ mupped Stinger NBKs 450' Blood Run copper down the chute w/a Green Halo Spin Doctor and a "Green Halo" fly By the time our night was over we would have 26 bites with 21 making it to the net. Multiple doubles. Majority of it was Kings w/ the occasional small Laker mixed in. Once again Kings of all year classes w/ 3 around the 20# mark but the majority 8-14#. May 12 Am A scouting mission on Friday afternoon gave me a starting point off Hamlin Beach on Saturday morning in 100 fow and before the day was over we would see water 90-160' from RT237 all the way to the "can". We took a shot at a strict King set in the water and we were rewarded with an absolute great early May King bite off the waters of Sandy Creek. Our set consisted of... 300' Blood Run copper off the big board w/ a Capt Valium Spin Doctor and a "Green Killer" fly 300' Blood Run copper off the big board w/a Gator Spin Doctor and a "Green Killer" fly 200' Blood run wire diver pulling a "Green Halo" Spin Doctor and a "Green Halo" fly 175' Blood run wire diver pulling a "Green Halo" Spin Doctor and a "Green Halo" fly 90' rigger w/ Stinger "mixed veggie" 105' rigger w/ Stinger "mixed veggie" 70' rigger w/ grn dot Spin Doctor and a "Legacy" fly 45-60' rigger w/ DW ss "glow frog" note: We also ran a chute rod the entire day and it produced zero hits for us. (450' copper, 5 color core, 10 color core) We started the morning with alot of dropped fish and at one point we had a landing percentage of less then 40% but as the day went on this greatly improved . By days end we had almost 30 bites w/ a catch of mostly Kings. The Lakers were there but only about 20-25% of our catch. Strange to think that there were no other species were boated. Kings of all year classes with the biggest pushing 18-19# but the majority were in that 8-14# range.

good day out there

Scary thing is i actually have more to add to this and i have been too lazy to do it. The never ending sale.

Better late then never? Saturday morning we decided to stay off the beach and try to run a King program. After a couple of unsuccessful hours searching the mid waters (30-65') we decided to seek out 20' of water and fish for browns. As we hit 25 fow a rigger fires w/ 12#10oz Brown attached to the opposite end. One for the LOC board. We continued to pick away at browns over the next couple of hours and ended the day before noon with 11 bites in 20-25 fow. Our 5 rod set consisted of DW ss Caramel dolphins off the high riggers (12' + 15') ,1 Stinger NBK dragging the bottom was our hot riggers set along with two 4 color leadcore off the boards pulling NBKs, and everything loaded with Blood Run fluoro leaders. Sunday with the reports of heavy Laker catches again in the deeper water, we left the dock with the plan to head to yesterdays eastern waypoint and fish it west till we ran out of fish. Great pick all morning of browns w/ 1 teens king and 1 small laker in the mix. DW ss caramel dolphins off the high riggers, DW ss super glows off the deep riggers, NBKs and GHDs off the 4 color leadcores, orange bellied sticks (w/ 2 split shot) off the boards, and everything loaded with Blood Run fluoro leaders.

I need both. I like spoons too much on leadcore to give it up and coppers handle the abuse well with flashers.

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LOL!

the never ending sale that i call my garage...

short leads wont hurt either. Prop wash baits do very well in stained water. (5' down and 25' back). In 10' or less i typically will never run more than 2 riggers.