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By the time we came in it was very bumpy, but we just had a down wind troll and cross wind run back in. It was very wet on the way in but we stayed dry in the cabin and the boat got washed.

Excellent day off Rochester! Looking at the weather report I knew we had to get out early. Left the dock at 0530 and motored about 10miles west passed Bradocks bay. Slowed down in 80ft and did some searching. Found a good screen 170’-180’and set up. First king was on before we finished. Worked the 42 line until then waves picked up then trolled back to I-Bay. Had 10 kings before a 0830. There was a strong westerly current and speed control was was tough so we ran 5 rods. 3 riggers and 2 dipsey, spoons on everything minus a flasher fly on the port dipsy. Rriggers set at: 94’, 106’, 80’ Dipsy 3 settings 260’ and 225’ Carbon 14, bad toad half moon, wonderbread,UV mongoose and two faced spin doctor with stub glow. Due to the current most fish came on a westerly troll. 3.6 surface speed and 3.2 at the ball. That was as slow as I could get with both bags. The salmon were feisty, even trying pass the boat. Went 15 for 17 Trolled back in front of the bay and road the waves in. 3’-5’ waves and occasionally 7’ er by the time we quit.

Was able to get out and fish 5 days during the LOC out of Rochester. The goal was to catch a big brown but the inside water cleared up and made it very difficult to target them. I tried multiple techniques and locations and only boated 1. So take what the lake gives you, the salmon fishing out of Rochester was good to decent most days but we were not getting the size needed to place in the LOC. We changed gears and targeted lake trout during the late mornings. On Sunday I brought my kids and we fishing Lakers from 7:30-12:00 and boated 41 trying for that LOC fish kids division. We came up short by a pound with the biggest around 17LBs and a handful around 16lbs. Hammerhead cowbells, NK cowbells with gambler rigs behind them on the riggers. The Lakers were anywhere from 180'-100' close to the bottom. Colors did not matter these fish were hungry. I did notice when I was bringing the downrigger balls up the lakers would chase it. So when I would see fish on the graph I would bring the down rigger up 10 feet and 9 out of ten times it would trigger a strike. The kids had a blast, I was tired but it was fun to constantly have fish on. All but 2 were released and burped! Boated over 90 lakers all week just could not get a big one. Eric

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On the corner with a 9’ rod with power pro. 3 setting on the diver 12’ out. Twice this year as I was setting it I watch a brown swipe at the spoon just below the surface.

Decided on a afternoon trip Sunday, left the dock around 2 after assessing some damage to gel coat and rub rail from the storm the day prior. Was going to head over west of the river but ran into a small boat that had a good day on browns by shipbuilders. I had 2 ten year old's with me and they wanted to catch browns. Set up a 9 rod spread: 3 x 1 colors, 3 x flat lines, 2 x chinook divers and a DR. Chinook divers and 1 colors took the majority of fish. Non stop brown action for a couple hours from 8-20' of water. Boated the first Steelhead of the year as well. Before we reeled up I pointed the boat north to see if we could find a king and bam the Chinook diver 12' out starts streaming out to 280'. The boys did great finessing that fish in with 12lb test. Hot Spoons: Stinger Blueberry muffin cup (See pic) orange stingers Plugs: Orange bay rat and j-11 orange jointed rapala It was fun to sit back and let the boys reel and net the fish IMG_6643.MOV .... IMG_6643.MOV

Glad to see your boat in the river today! I have been the only one for the past couple weeks.

Was tough to go to work yesterday morning seeing how calm the lake was and I had that fishing itch all day. Hit the water after work at 4:30 motored down to shipbuilders only to find clear water moved in. Searched around but no luck on finding good water inside and picked away at a few. Turned out and worked that 20'-30' and it was game on even had a quad at one point. 9 rod spread, 2 x chinook divers, 2 x 1 colors, 5 flat lines. Both natural and bright colors worked despite the clear water. Chartreuse Bay rat and Smithwick, Mongoose Stinger, Chicken wing Stingers with gold back. Got one close to 10lbs biggest so far. Should be back out Saturday weather permitting.... Eric

Kept an eye on the wind all day and around 2:00 the lake laid down so we took our shot at the afternoon window. Set down just west of Shipbuilders point, at first the water was a bit to muddy but as we past Shipbuilders to the east the color was perfect and the bites started. We worked a 1/2 mile stretch of water and put 25-30 browns in 2 and half hours of fishing. Bigger class of fish then last week, bigger ones came on spoons with mongoose stingers taking majority of the fish. 1 Colors and Chinook divers were the hot set ups in 8'-12' of water This was a first for me, we had to shovel snow off the boat before we left the dock. I have never been in the this early and needed a bilge heater to get through last weeks temps. Eric