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Headed West out of Sandy and worked 15 FOW.  Lots of browns, one decent.  One mature king in the boat off the planer and one cracked off downrigger.  Would  have done much better if we were setting the downrigger releases lighter.  Used to setting up for deep water with heavier line and salmon rods versus lighter line and shallow.  Every time the bite shut down sure enough we were dragging a small brown off the rigger and we were taking too long to check.  You would think you would not be making rookie moves like that after so many years.....

These are the baits that did the kings.  Browns were hitting everything we had out but mainly natural and purple.

Found some Kings 230 FOW line E/W troll 55 to 45 down on the riggers.  Had worked from 100 to 300 FOW.  All spoon bite green silver black white ladder backs.  Most small but one major and another around 10#.  Pretty bumpy at first with the NE wind but got better until we pulled around noon.  

Interesting morning with 5/6 ft NW swells and offshore wind first thing, maybe from a thunder cell that had just passed.  Nice looking up at a wave first thing in the morning when you are prone to sea sickness.  To rough to really get set up but ran two riggers without roamers for first couple of hours and ended up 7 for 12 with 4 in the teens one high teens all kings.  80/170 was the hot depth and NBK NK's, all spoon bite with nothing on meat.  Lake laid down finally around 11 when getting off.  Fun day, lots of action considering barely being able to move around the boat for most of morning..

4 for 10, best FOW was around 330 and 50 feet down,  Steel heads, coho and king, nothing big but all nice fish.  Most hits on NK NBK.  Lost a major that slammed the bait and broke the wire after a quick smoking run on the wire rod 160 out number 3 setting green spin doctor pulling meat.  Would have loved to seen that fish.

Thanks for the report!

Thanks for the report!

Set up due North in 70 FOW around 4PM and immediately did a small king 60 feet down on the rigger with ladder back green, white, black gold spoon.  Screen was loaded with fish and bait between 70 and 80 FOW, haven't seen anything like it in years and thought we were in for a fun evening.  Outside 80 FOW nothing.  Fish were coming to the balls and we had lures right through large marks all evening without another taker.  Fish were scatter from 20 FOW to bottom.  Bait balls were 50 feet high.  Tried about every lure we had on the boat.  The king we caught had a budda belly and my guess was the fish were so bloated from all the bait fish they were not interested in lures.  Would have been a better morning bite.  

Set up in 80 FOW and worked out to 200 FOW with no marks nor fish, only marking lakers on the bottom in 115.  Surface temp consistent at 64.6 F all morning.  Picked up and set up again at 450 FOW and did a small 8LB king at 460 FOW 40 feet down on black, green, white ladder back with gold back.  Only one small mark all morning up high.  Several boats out but everyone was working depths all of the place.  Beautiful morning and dead calm!

3 for 6 on kings, all of them smaller with a few knock offs.  Shut down for the last 2 hours before knocking off around 11:30AM with wind kicking up and found out was dragging a mess started by a length of yellow plastic rope.  Need to get better at checking lines every half hour or so, especially when having steady action that suddenly stops.  220 FOW was the best depth with riggers set at 110 down although one fish came at 40 down and we were marking fish all over the water column.  Hot bait was a black, green and silver ladder back with a gold back.  Lots of boats out and fish being caught in that water from red can to Wilson. 

Headed to Webster pier first thing for kings and set up in 20 FOW and did loops in front of the pier out to 40 FOW for an hour.  Planer boards with both stick baits and divers, diver in the wake, riggers at various depths with no takers.  Headed West and tried from 15 to 40 FOW with only one small brown with the rigger set at 30 down over 35 FOW and a brown off a stick bait on the surface.  Slow for us but saw a few kings caught both in tight and deeper.  NE wind might have made it tough.  Good luck!!

Oops, that was Friday 7/15

Out with my favorite wife this morning.  She wanted to go and bumped all of my fishing buddies.  Lots of fun when you say go straight while I set the lines and you look at the motor and it is always in a hard right or left hand turn!  Marked lots of big fish and bait at 130 to 150 FOW 60 feet down, but could only get shaker kings to bite.  Good sign for next year.  I would start in that water if going in the morning, maybe try but bait?  Tight lines!

Out with my favorite wife this morning.  She wanted to go and bumped all of my fishing buddies.  Lots of fun when you say go straight while I set the lines and you look at the motor and it is always in a hard right or left hand turn!  Marked lots of big fish and bait at 130 to 150 FOW 60 feet down, but could only get shaker kings to bite.  Good sign for next year.  I would start in that water if going in the morning, maybe try but bait?  Tight lines!

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Tried the 100 to 200 FOW zone from first light.  Never marked a fish.  One ambitious Laker came up to hit a spin doctor over 140 FOW 110 down on the rigger.  A few other boats out, I did not see anyone else netting fish.  Beautiful morning!

Thanks for the report!!

Thanks for the report!

Thanks for the report, they are all helpful.  Was out Friday out of Braddock and was 1 for 2.  Little rough for my taste.  The King was right on the bottom in 103FOW with the rigger set at 100 on a white flasher meat rig.  The other one we did not land was on a wire rod at 300ft with a purple flasher fly at 120FOW.  My son went out Saturday for a bit with no luck and talked to a charter captain near the Genny launch who said you had to look way offshore still for fish.

Set up in 120 FOW around 7AM.  Fished out to about 300 FOW.  Very little marks with the exception of around 220 FOW, with small fish.  Running meat on white flasher, spoons and lead core line off a planer board.  Dipsy at 200.  Washing tackle this morning.  Yanked rods around 10AM.  Found some big pods of bait as we were pulling rods around 90 FOW with fish below.  Talked to some other fisherman at the launch and they said they were doing browns there off the bottom.  One other fisherman at the ramp did a small king in 250 FOW on a dipsey set at 240 feet. Another fisherman said the salmon were out there at 400 to 600 FOW.  Will be trying again on the 21st, hopefully the fish will be starting to move into that 100 FOW and setting up by then.  Tight lines!

Cool, nice fish!

Nice job!  Thanks for the report.  Might try Friday.

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