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Matt, these reports are amazing. As someone who only fishes a little and takes a lot of new ladies out. This is fantastic info. They are so hard to track down. The other day we were getting clobbered in 60 feet of water, but no takers. They all looked but never bit. You can watch them on the graph. The fish all looked, but nothing bit.

Hear out to 190 to 200 feet.

I struck out, marked a few fish. I went west to Braddocks fished 70 to 140. Found decent marks down between 60 and 90 . Fished it for several hours with spoons. No takers on two seperate days. I really néed a Fishhawk. Going east and west was a huge difference (550rpm going east gets 1mph, the same RPM going west I got 3.2mph). No idea what was happening down 80 feet at the lure. On a north south troll my starboard rigger cable was sucked right under the boat. That down current had to be pretty strong.

I took today off, I will be out for the next 3 days Ibay to Braddocks. The thermocline was not set up for the past week or more. Marking a few fish the other day in 70 feet to 125 off Braddocks. I have been trying the jigging "thing" for about 3 years now (ever since I watched some older guy on YouTube jigging off of Sodus for lakers) and I may just need bigger jigs. I have some saltwater 1.75oz with white tails and the current really takes them East when you drop them down. I'll be out burning fuel for the next 3 days. Good luck to everyone heading out.

Do you share your jigging techniques. I have seen a few guys on YouTube and the bait end is never discussed. Do you locate fish, then start jigging or do you have "your spot". Yhanks

I forgot to add the flys are insane out here. Like I have never seen. Here is a screen shot of the bait out here.

Your report has put two in the box and I have only been fishing for 30min. I'm out here now in 400 and the screen it litup. I'm solo and it is a fire drill. First fish burried my 25lb scale. Thanks for the tip of going deep

What a great report. By any chance is your boat an Expedition 24? If so I took some nice photos of it back on 7/26 at 7:30pm if you PM me your email address I will forward them to you.

Great report! I would have guessed it was rough. My boat has been sending me motion alarms all day as it is rocking in the marina (Mayer's). I hope it's nice enough to get out Sat morning.

That is way out there. To get to 500 out of IBay it's 10miles and 600 is 12 miles out. I did very well out there 3 weeks ago. Then the wind and waves kicked in and made a mess of everything have not been back out since. Thank for the reply.

Nice, catches for everyone. Being out of IBay myself. How deep were you for that big boy. I did pretty good Sunday 90/150. Between the river and the IBay light.

I went out of Ibay at 6:30 last night. I did not want to run out to 500 or 600. I decided to search and told myself no rods in the water until I mark at least 1 fish. I searched for 2 hours at 4mph from 80 to 350 and back to 50. I did not mark any fish, nothing in the middle, and no lakers on the bottom. I marked one bait ball in 50' over 200. I ended up going to Hedges and jigging the pipeline. No bass, I decided to jig 50' off Shipbuilders, 2 gobies. Ended up going home and getting tacos.

The biting flies this year have been horrible.

That's a nice haul.

I found the fish in 600. I found them as I had to head back to the dock around 6:30 so I did not have time to figure them out. Managed 2, one was awesome and managed to rip the split ring and hook off a new Koyote Ugly spoon. The other was a 5lb fish. The screen was alive with fish and bait for a change. The fish that hit all came off the bottom lines at 100. Lots of fish marked at 65 and down to 100. I covered the spread as good as I could with solo program and 3 rods.

On my way to the 500 mark right now. I am at the 150 mark typing this. Hope they are out there.

See, that's what I am thinking for ROC also.

The past two trips were skunks. The screen is blank, water temp is 77* on top, 65* at 65 down, and 52* at 75 down. Yesterday I started at 100 off of Dewey Ave and headed back home. Trolled out to 200 and back into 100 off Ibay. Marked only a few bait pods at 100. No fish at all. Had one release with nothing there. Lots of grass in the water so it could have been that. I think my next trip out will be 300, 400, 500 looking for fish. They are no longer in close as far as I can tell. Today with the crap weather I have all new downrigger terminal stuff that came in yesterday. I bought the Scottys used a few years back so I am cutting off 3 feet and terminating all new ends with new ball snaps and bumpers and finally the rope to pull the cable to the boat to access the releases without having to always swing the rigger into the boat. All new releases as my Roemer releases are getting retired for the new Scotty ones and some new Chamberlain releases. I have never used ball snubbers, I purchased 2 Scotty #370s and my Cannon balls are 12#ers (any advice on these snubbers I will take, they scare me it's like a mechanical fuse and buffer in one, but a lost ball is $100 at Sportsman's I don't want to lose one of the balls because a snubber broke). Enjoy the rainy Saturday.

Thanks for the info. Last weekend on Sunday between 3pm and 6pm I managed 3 fish in 80 feet of water, down 60 (2 kings and 1 big brown) all on the same NBK (between 80 and 150 fow I was able to see the thermocline on the graph). On Sat, I went out, dropped the gear, and figured I would let the massive storm go between me and shore. That ended up blowing up big so I pulled the gear in less than 1 hour and was back at the dock. When fuel is $5.28 a gallon and you burn 1 gallon a mile knowing how deep you need to be is very good knowledge. Off Ibay and Rochester takes forever to get to 400 - 600 feet of water and when you are fishing solo 10 to 15 miles out and if you don't need to run all the way out that makes for a great day. This weekend is another opportunity for all of us.

I have been fishing out of Ibay for 30 years. Never heard of the cross. Where is the cross?

We went out at 8am and fished till noon. Boated 2 lost 1, 5lb kings. All the fish came on the same lure. It's a homemade one so I don't have a brand for it. It was green/white with black dots and a single red eye. 60 down over 200 off Webster Park. Did not mark hardly any fish today. All the fish hit at 2.9 on GPS.