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    Our annual 7 day trip to the Oak yielded a spoon bite this time for the first time. We normally fish spoons at the Bar during the Spring LOC derby. We were shut out when we tried meat and spinnies and flies at the Oak. We tried deep we tried mid depths. We targeted the small bait balls between 40-60 ft straight out front of the Oak mostly in 400 fow during the week. Lots of giant steelhead and 2 big Domestic rainbows. Plus Kings to 21 lbs. Route 18 tackle custom spoons and the always trustworthy Moonshine Carbon 14 the first 2 hours. It was fun catching these fish on spoons! 52 fish landed on 98 bites over the 7 days. We fished 2 riggers and 4 divers. Riggers parked at 60 ft and divers in that 40-60 ft window. The Kings were in that 55F-57F window with the Rainbows feeding on those bait balls! See less
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    Day 5-6-7 rewind: https://youtu.be/Fz83Bra8IZ0
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    Unicorn Monday in 20-30 mph SW winds day 3 at the Bar fishing the LOC! We had a plan before we left Vermont to bring the Offshore Inline boards and the light gear we use on Landlocks back on Champlain. After 1.5 days the winds from the SW blew hard and our plan was to start at the mouth and troll east 4-6 miles in 25-35 fow to Wilson with the waves. We hit 4 species in the 4 hours till 11:00 am..LT/Atlantic/Brown/King! This Unicorn was very special taping out at 30.5" and a little over 10 lbs. We released it after reviving in the live well for 20 minutes.
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    Something special about catching Landlock salmon!
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    Something special about catching Landlock salmon!
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    Latest video (32 minutes) with the owner doing a deep dive showing all the new features of the App in depth: https://youtu.be/8_bU30oVHb4
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    What a way to start a new year! Sun shining / calm water greeted us at the ramp at 8:15 am. Whenever I get on this boat something special happens and today was no different. 8 salmon made it to the net after 6 hours when we quit at 2:20 pm. Rigger parked at 30 feet did the damage today on a custom made Blue Moon Tube fly behind a Flasher. Perch Speedy was also the hot item! 18"/19"/21"/16"/17"/17"/17"/18" were sampled for the DNA clip study to start off 2026! No one else on the water today on a picture perfect day!
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    Interesting report Richard! Thanks!
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    We never got out today as it was too rough as the wind never really slowed down until 5 pm tonight. We were checking the water out at the ramp at 2:00 pm at the Mexico ramp and had a chance to talk to the DEC fish creel census folks how the day went for the guys that got out with the big boats. They said 1-2 salmon with most of them coho. As our Lake O season is now over looking back we fished 17 out of 20 days this year. Bar / Oak / Mexico areas. Our king catch was 70% less than the last 3 seasons. We have been spoiled by double digit catches nearly every day out of these 3 areas we fish the last 3 years. Mostly a blank sonar screen this year. Steelhead at the Oak was a bonus! Homeward bound tomorrow early! Back to the Bar in 2026 for the Loc derby! R
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    We saw a big group of boats over that way. It's been tough from the plant to the river. Good catch!
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    Double sucks..... Most boats coming in to the cleaning stations are reporting 1 salmon brought in per boat. We have landed 11 matures so far 5 of the last 7 days beginning on Labor Day afternoon. We finish up today going out later after yesterdays violent west winds and the overnight rollers settle down later this am. We did have two outings with 5 and 6 salmon and the other three days a release and a snap that opened Saturday on a screamer. Sonar has been blank mostly and off the power plant there is bait but no marks on Saturday. Lot of boats but no nets waving. Tough.
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    As we try to get out our last day today of our 8 day trip out of Little Salmon River I reflect it wasn't the best of trips with 11 salmon landed going into today with 5 days on the water out of 7 days here but getting out as you know is half the battle with consistent west winds and rough conditions this year. I lost my Go Pro in the drink the first few days of the trip but here is my backup camera for one of the two more successful days we had.
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    Screen Recording 2025-07-05 at 5.14.58 AM.mov
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    I always enjoy testing! Today was no different. I wanted to test my 200 hp Mercury 2020 decibel level from the drivers seat trolling and cruising at 32 mph and 4,200 rpms. Results were amazing! Normal conversation is 75-80 decibels is my comparison. Trolling was 58 decibels. Cruising was 78 decibels. Mercury has done a lot to quiet these engines in the last generation since 2019 when they were released! 175-300 hp engines. I have 2,033 hours on my 200 in the last 5.5 seasons.
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    The weather wasn’t what we were used to this year with the most East winds we have ever experienced on our 18 trips to the Bar in 24 years. But we got out all 6 days. The first practice day before the derby we landed our biggest King at 22 lbs. 1 oz. a day short of a derby money fish! What I noticed this year was a lot more courtesy from 90% of the boats when pulling boards or keeping their diver rods from locking up going by. I counted about 100 boats on Saturday and Tuesday at least 75 boats. We did weigh a nice Laker we landed on the board. For the 6 days Ken and I landed 61 Kings / 10 LT / 1 Coho / 1 Atlantic. Special thanks to Dirty Goose / Crazy Yankee / Reel Excitement / Vision Quest folks for doing fishing reports! We were fighting a fish and the next minute I saw Riding Dirty going by and he was very considerate as we both turned away from each other. Thanks Casey! Mutual help by each boat turning maintains a lot of respect out there! It was another great trip! I have a video link of each day below the photo from my You Tube Channel “Digitroll Fishing”. Thanks everyone!
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