FISHINMAN

Nice job on the boat Ray. Cleanest I've seen it

Good looking eyes too!

SC go put the computer away and take a vacation

Remember I hold the secret

UT OH should have spent the on the race cars

Sounds right Tom. Shawn's was doing the exact same thing today, when we made a turn it would go crazy then come back. We even changed out the probe and it did the same thing.

Let's give our guy Chad "Blue Eyes" Lapa a big hand for topping the brown trout charts in the LOC

Had fun even though it got slow after we weighed in. That's a beauty (the fish that is!) and not the only big guy we saw this morning, got to meet Mark aka Skipper at the docks this morning. Man he's a big guy too . Anytime you need a hand lifting a trailer that's taking up 2 spots so that you can get yours in there let me know Glad to help ya out

Ditto what tank said

Nice job Mark

Pete now that's one of the best posts ever

Nick great fish and we all commend you for a great job of landing that fish with all the tangles and a broken reel. I know it's not the for winning but your a winner in my book

Hey it's only $7,500 before taxes anyways what could you have done with that "little" money maybe buy a few new reels

Crap!! How come no one told me you could pull down on the scale while weighing the fish

By the way nice story how long did it take to think that one up

Maybe that Andy fella could

Thanks Bob. I would have to agree about the picture that would be funny but certainly can't agree with you on the tangles being Brian's fault. Just had one of them days

Congrats to Shawn for placing a 27.15 oz king on the LOC board (tied for 2nd or is in 4th not sure how that works ) today . Well sort of.... I guess his GF Cathy actually landed the fish.

The story goes (at least this one )he wanted the rod but she said she had heard of his fish fighting technique and that this was not a fish she wanted to take a chance on being "ethically released" by him so she pushed him out of the way and she told to just to steer the boat and get the rods out of the way while she took control of landing the fish. Either way that's a great fish

Wondering what my cut will be for the white on white tip yesterday

Congrats Bud

Vince, very sorry for your loss . My thought and prayers are with you and your family

While packing up we forgot to bring one of the riggers up .If you find an 8 pound stingray pancake with 200 feet of wire on it give me a call.

Cornelis.

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Boy where have heard abut that happening before

Cornelis just be thankful it it wasn't a rigger with a probe attached to it too

Thanks guys

Tim I have a 12lber that's not quite round the black coated one from Gander and the 15lber is a homemade one from TROUTMAN87 here on the site, iy is a "round" on and I am wondering if it's an issue from that one since I didn't have the problem until I swapped it out a couple of trips ago

I have always let the riggers out relatively quick.

Gill-T, I have my rod holders pitched off towards the corners and usually as far apart as I an get them.

Keith I noticed the same thing abut the rpms and actually mentioned it to Brian while we were fishing. I had some massive blow back at times today with the speed i was having to run to get 2.7- 3.0 down speed.

The nice new fiberglass ride isn't gonna happen unfortunately. Never really thought about the boat pushing sideways I am gonna try running different setups next time out to see what happens.

You know Tank I almost got on the radio and asked if any guys from here were out there

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Well I got out with Brian Ward who is responsible for raising some of our fish's at the Caledonia Hatchery on my boat. We trolled out to 330 and had only gotten 1 steelie in the boat and had lost 2 other fish when the wire out 290 with a white spin Dr and a No See Um fly starts to take off. Well Brian managed top get the big fella into the boat after about a 40 minute fight and we weighed it on my scale which showed it to be 25LB (I wasn't really sure of how accurate it was ) so we took off to get to the weigh station and see how close the scale was and what we ended up with was a 24lb 5 oz gorgeous king. Perfect looking specimen . Not enough to get us on the board (neither us nor the guy at East Fork marina new what the bottom fish weight was) . We left some nice water that had calmed to a mere 1 foot chop and when we came back out it was a little bumpier . Fished for about another hour or hour and a half and only managed 1 more fish that we dropped. I had some serious issues keeping the rods in the water with dipseys triggering and down rigger ball problems again.

I have had my riggers cross 3 times in the last 2 trips out I just put on a 15lb weight on my probe side and have a 12lber on the other and the riggers are both out to the side at 90 degrees and the arms are extended all the way out too. Today they were both set deep in the 100-110 foot range. Any suggestions? I have heard maybe I am dropping the Scottys to fast? It not been one side going over the other all the time it's been the 15 crossing over the 12 and visa versa.

Anybody have any fishing info on Silver Lake near Plattsburg area?

Talk to our own L&M (Hank) on here. He is on Port Bay. He's the best

Nice Stan

Contact Captain Carl Bish of Salmo Charters. He's on the pro staff for them www.salmocharters.com. He's the man to talk to about where to get them

Scott that's a great picture and sounds like a great time with the family

Nice job Keith

Great job bud!

Ray check with Musky on the Barbie pole, I think he took it with him after the last Pro Am (he said that's what you guys were using for rods since they were strong enough to handle the fish you were catching ). He told me he could pair it up with his "Ken Pole" and run them down off the riggers on the same side to attract fish to that side of the boat

I lost one spoon this past weekend (my last Get Ur Done which has been replaced after hitting CC yesterday ) but could have done even more damage. I had the riggers cross and had to do some serious maneuvering in the back of the boat to get back my probe, 15 and 12 lb weights with only the help of a newbie . Lucky for me I only have to cut back a few feet of coated cable that got frayed in the mess and I will be good to go!