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Had fish on the screen in 20 to 100 fow but nobody interested so we cleared the stuff and shot out off shore. Found a real spotty looking screen from 400 to 550' and set up a wide spread: 400/500 copper steely style spoons off the big boards, divers out 350 w/ twinkie-meat behind crazy **** and a big mirage paddle. Riggers were set w/ mag and reg mixed veg spoons down 70 and 90. All the lines took fish. Wound up w/ a nice mixed box of steel, kings, and a coho. If I could go offshore and comfortably do it again I would consider it.

Found a good screen a bit west of port and shallower than last week. Predominantly a dipsy bite first and then we got the last few for the box on 8 and 10 colors. Same colors that have been good: purple, rainbow, hot blue steel, Colorado blades on the harnesses and purple and purple/mirage stix. Fish were down 40' 0ver 60 to 75 fow.

I always figured fishing for walleye in the Fingers was a bit like going to church to hook up. I mean yes it happens but when you can go to Erie and do a 3 man 18 fish box in 3 or 4 hours, well....

Ok, my winter boat is almost done being revamped Greg and then we'll get out on Cayuga and Skan. She's got big boards, down speed and temp and we'll hunt some silver!

Beautiful day on Erie today, calmer than yesterday. Fish were suspended from 40 to 70 down over 100 fow. Boxed out in 2 1/2 hours on stix and harnesses at 1.8 behind dipsys, and 8/10 color board lines

Foggy start that led to us heading offshore oblivious to the bulk of the fleet working the inside. Built an early program based on copper and gold FF. Eventually we looped around into the inside water and finished the box with some nice choho

I always warn folks about the copper menace yet they never seem to understand why I’m backing up and pointing at the rod at the same time

Headed out of the County launch with Mickey from LOU after the first flush of fleet departed. Pretty quick we Discovered in short order that we had no temp/speed at ball or gps or kicker. Mickey turned out to be much like myself and just rolled with our situation as we kind of thrashed around trying this and that until we put together a bit of a program. Captain Ernie said it years and years ago and it’s still true “ when you can get one hot rod to go, you have you have all you need. Yesterday ours was a regular size diver on 1.5 out 250 in 250/300 fow pulling the classic Hammer Time flasher and Hammer Time fly. Just when Mickey began to revel in the thought we’d nearly boxed out on majors and were pulling lines the 400’ copper and the other diver that had been dead both fired. Being the gentleman I am I forced him into bringing in the copper fish while the diver fish made 3 screaming runs while I left it in the rigger rod holder and basically watched as line peeled off. After netting the copper king I handed him the diver rod with 500’ feet out and mumbled something feeble about needing to get fish out of the way and finish getting rods and boards pulled. I hope you had as much fun yesterday as I did Mickey, thanks for a load of laughs