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Out west here, are Land Locked Kings are down deep. there 250' to 300' holding in 450' of flow. I have hooked up a few but can't hang on to them from those depths. Friend of mine said run a steel line or copper line down off the riggers. Has anyone tried this move to get down to these depths and land fish ? He was just making a suggestion and has never tried this himself.

GAMBLER

How many cops do you see smile ?

Tom Hicks Hired my good friend and fishing partner Bill who is a Capt for the Rivers in Ocean and a number of rivers in California and the Pacific. They hooked up two Kings on 9-8 one small guy and this pig at 45.3 Lbs. Mr Hicks is a happy camper today. I am headed up to fish with Bill at the end of the month, hope we have some great pictures for you guys back east

Mike

Great video, thanks for sharing it with us. You did an outstanding job on the editing of the still shots into your video.

Rod

Head west old friend, the big salt water guys will not start until November. The water is never to cold for lad while on a boat in the middle of a lake.

We had 37 anglers, on 13 teams. Average boat was 22' smallest was a 15' Klamath with Capt Ron and his wife, Ron is 83 years young and took 4th pace.

Our events are growing slow but steady. Hope you enjoy the video. We had a professional, camera crew there for the whole event and will have it to post at a later date.

Someone said about 300' back will get you 90' down and that is about it. Does that sound right?

Thanks for you imput!

Your friend might be talking about a Slide Diver with added weight

You betcha as well as the Lyman lures

Ray - That's one you cook in a dishwasher

Tom B.

(LongLine).

Now Tom I am sure you have caught at least one fish this year, for the dishwasher

Ray the second one is a Zebra fish, or prison fish, not yet out on parole

Happy birthday Raymond. your catching up with Bob

Mark all the way from the left cost , congratulations on your day on the water.Nice looking salt's there, not bad for an old gear jam-er

Shawn great job putting Cathy on one hell of a nice fish. That is defiantly a west coast salty

Outstanding Matt, all those private lessons I gave you, finally payed off,it looks like

Looks like your clients are very happy and satisfied, great job. Thanks for the pictures

Vic, are prayers are with you and your family.

If you have any family or friends that have moved west and enjoyed the tournaments. Let them know about us out here in California.Our next tournament is at lake Oroville with $20,000.00 in cash and prizes going out the door.http://www.wcftournaments.com/

99% of our sponsors are east coast companies, you & your family member or friend will be familiar with.

Sisco Kid Wrangler, 50' off the ball, surface trolling speed 1.8 to 2.5 mph

Grandson's Catfish caught on a black rooster-tail,Deep fried in beer batter for dinner

sorry on lap top and pictures will not transfer

FISHSTALKER showed up here on Sunday night, we had supper and discussed our plan of attack on a new lake with record size Land Locks for the west coast. After a 7hr drive acting like a couple of tourist, we checked into the All Season's motel. a cross the street was the marina. We walked a cross the street and paid for a slip for 2 days, not knowing how long we would be there.

Through a door way to the back of the marina store there is a deck with chairs and tables you could over look the marina. Only one way down was a stair case that looked like walking off the side of a 3 story building and a elevator for personal items, but not people . This place is vary pictures, the lake was laid out like the Norwegian Fjords. The amount of water coming into the lake from all the rain and snow melt was unreal, one could see the current all the way the length of the lake on the surface. Marking fish from 200' plus feet to the surface we gave it the old college try, with one good take down as Dale watched the dipsy rod pumping, being old and tired by the time I reached the rod, the fish was gone. This trip was one of those trips nothing went right,heavy wind and rain made us pull up stakes and head south on Wednesday to Odell and Crescent lakes 3 hours south of us.

Sisters Mountains west of Bend Oregon, off Hwy 20

Detroit Lake

FISHSTALKERS rainbow trout

My monster 10" rainbow

Stair way to Marina and Facility on the left 1/2 way down

Detroit Lake Harbor

Detroit Lake Harbor Marina Office

Dale at 1/3 of the staircase down

Looking up from dock at the bottom of the Marina Office

The storm, FISHSTALKER trying to see

Crescent Lake Oregon for Lakers

After being blown off of Detroit lake Dale and I decided to hit Odell lake 3 1/2 hrs away. We packed up the truck and made the drive to find more wind and rain. Up at 4am and headed to Odell early and watched 3' foot waves and decided to head to Crescent lake 4 miles behind us. Wind and light rain and we launched, headed to the Boy Scout camp. I have never seen so many Lakers on that lake before, all in the 60' to 40' range. So down went the 2 Wranglers and 2 Abu's, we drug right through the middle of all them and not one take down. About noon the wind , snow and rain started getting with it and to the ramp we headed for safety.We had a great time on our trip but the fishing sucked, thanks Dale.

Kokanee balled up, under attack by Lakers

Lakers

The river is 5' above normal for this time of the year

Trolled from 1.4 to 2.8 mph

Kings stacked up at 270'

Clouds parting

Footing for Pit River Bridge

After reading all this, I know for a fact our California Tournaments could not have happened with out east coast tackle makers and there generous donations of product and money. I am truly sorry to read what has happened, any sport the sponsors names are always there.Good luck to all, and hope this gets straighten out.

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name:

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s):5/19

Time on Water:6;30-1520

Weather/Temp:50s cloudy/rain

Wind Speed/Direction:S-5-10 mph

Waves: 0

Surface Temp: 60.5

Location:Main Body

LAT/LONG (GPS Cords):

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits:14

Total Boated:11-released at side of boat

Species Breakdown:King

Hot Lure:SLT Ladder Back & White Screwball

Trolling Speed: 2.4 -2.6

Down Speed:1.9 to 2.2

Boat Depth:300plus

Lure Depth:60'to 150' to 190'

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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Hit main body looking for structure holding Kings, Ave water depth 325' to 400'. Hooked up 7-13" kings at 60' Hooked up 3 more Kings to 19" at 160', 3 take downs at 190' no hook up, fished solo today

Eric

That has to be the Pacific ocean behind you . Vary nice fish, thanks for sharing your report and picture

Have you ever noticed most down riggers have a counter that goes to 999'.

Now I would love to know which down rigger will carry that much cable ?

Tank

Great looking Brown and thank you for the release