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Yeah, I got bucket. Would you like the picture of your fish expander? That's a nice 24 pounder your holding there.

Oh yeah, I just re-read your post. I read it last night also. Nice fishing out there. You guys seem to consistently do well.

Thanks. Did you guys find a deeper bite at 9am?

We got the lines in at around 5:30 again. Started in 150 fow and worked out to 380 fow. Picked up a small king on a Finger Lakes Tackle SSW 90 down over 340 fow. A while later it was a 5lb coho on an NK DWB 100 down over 240 fow. What action there was stopped so we moved into 130 to 160 fow and put down the cow bells. We did 4 lakers, the biggest going about 10 lbs, and called it a day. Seems like we should have stuck closer to the pack today. Everything was on riggers. We're off to the Sandy Creek Shootout next weekend to try and not come in last again.

Nice day of fishing! We got lucky, our guy who partied too much last night emailed me at 2am with a "you won't see me today" message. It took all the guess work out of it.

Nice fishing. Is it me or has the evening bite been better this year than previous years?

No problem, we'll get back out again. What's the word on your boat? When will they have you back in the water?

Nice fish. That is a beautiful Atlantic. It looks like you got a little bit of everything in there.

7/12 Went out at 5 and caught a great sunrise. Straight out to 170 and set up 2 riggers, two wires and two lead cores. Slowly worked out to 250. By 7:30 we were three for three on skippys. One was so small I thought it was an alewive at first. Finally picked up a 7# king on an NK dirty white boy. Two of the skippys came on a green, silver and orange Silver Horde. Lost one on the DWB. We were fishing the riggers at anywhere between 80 and 120. Just tried to keep them in the temp around 44 or 45 deg. Missed a couple of hits on the lead core and had a lead core and wire diver go simultaneously at one point but no one home on either one. They weren't tangled when they came in. Who knows? Called it a day at 11 when the fuel gauge started making me nervous.. 7/13 Headed out at 5 again and set up a little shallower to start around 120. Only ran 2 riggers and two wire divers all day. Around 140 fow right on the bottom we picked up a 13# laker on a black and fire tiger Poonie. Kept heading out and at 215 fow about 85 down we did a 15.6 # king on DWB. Circled back around slowly and did a 17.5 # king on a Williams HQ spoon, red, silver and blue, almost on top of our last GPS mark on the wire diver. Diver was a #5 Chinook diver set at four 190' back. Managed another laker, about 6 or 7 lbs by 7:45 or so. Spent an hour and a half moving between 200 and 250. Marks but no takers. Weather started to really pick up we and headed in at 9:15. That was a fun ride in. Got back into I-Bay at around 10 or 10:15 and set up for some warm water fishing. I lost what fought like a big Sheepie. Larry picked up a 20" Walleye and Gina a nice largemouth. We then really took it to the Silver Bass, taking five or six 4 ouncers on riggers and stick baits. Having a hard time getting pictures off of my phone. Here's a few including our Silver Bass double.

Started out at 5:30 with Pike Freak and couple of other usual suspects. Set up in 175 straight out and kept heading north. Temps all over the place and crazy currents at times. Found 46 deg down about 125 for a while. At 225 fow 100 down and 2.2 on the subtroll on a black and white NK with green tape Pike Freak got a nice king 17 lbs. I dropped something on a silver, orange and yellow DW on 6 colors of lead. Finished up with a 5lb king on the same NK at the same depth and called it a night. Lots of marks in the 225 area. Lots of streakers too. Changed up the speed in both directions but they wouldn't take it. It was a garbage dump out there at times. Caught some plastic, some deflated balloons and some sticks and weeds as well. Pike Freak already posted his picture and it was a pleasure fishing with him. Congrats on your first king.

We were laughing on the boat about the fact that anything besides a sunfish would actually hit something that equates to half of a circus peanut. I wonder who thew first person to run one of those cowbell/peanut rigs was.

Fished east of I-Bay on Saturday evening. Started in about 150 and worked out to 225. Fairly slow with one steelie and one coho. Both came on a Silver Horde spoon on 7 colors of lead. Don't know the name, just green and orange with silver in the middle. Had 3 or 4 releases with nobody home on the same spoon. Sunday we went straight north from the bay and dropped the lines around 240 fow at about 5:45am. Screen was pretty barren. Moved out deeper and hit a 13lb and change king in 390 fow 57 down on a rigger with some spoon I have never seen before. A Larry special from the 80's. Black on the back with a fire tiger type pattern on the front. Everything was slow for awhile so we moved west towards Braddocks. We took a good hit on carbon 14 on 300' of copper in 250 fow but no one home. Eventually made our way back toward shallower water. Found a nice pocket of lakers in 135 fow on the bottom and ran a laker program for the remainder. Did 5 lakers between 5 and 10 lbs on chartreuse cowbells and peanuts. 6 for 8 on the day with lakers saving our butts. Once again I do not have the pictures but I'm sure I will soon. The flies were many and merciless. Jack

OK got some of the pictures emailed to me. I may have to adjust my weight estimates on a few of the fish......... They were all actually 17-20 lbs. Whatever, still a good time.

Absolutely. Maybe we can set up an evening trip sometime. I'll be ironing out a few problems this coming week that I developed this past week but I should be 100% again soon.

It must have been a good party. We finished cleaning out the boat and went for a beer around 3:30 and you guys still weren't back at the dock yet. Nice pike.

Fished Saturday in shallow to looking for some brownies out near Hedges, not much happening though. Moved toward 200 fow still east of the bay and picked up 2 small kings and a steelie. One king and the steelie came in together on a rigger with a cheater. Watermelon was the spoon producing. All in all a pretty slow day for us. Sunday we fished in front of the bay and out east a little bit. Picked up a decent brown on a rigger to start, maybe 6 or 7 pounds. I honestly forgot the depth. Spent the rest of the day between 120 and 250 fow. I think 190 was productive and 135 as well. Pretty much just stayed on our GPS points Plenty of marks. Good bite on a little bit of everything, divers, riggers, lead, spoons mostly with a little bit of fly action. We were dragging a spinny and fly behind a diver, or thought we were. Brought in the diver and the rest had broken off. Don't know how long we dragged that for. Watermelon was hot on the riggers 25-40 feet down with some action on the 42nd spoon and fly as well. Divers were probably running about 70-8- feet down. Mixed bag with the lakers being the majority. Four or five 7-10 pound lakers. Dropped a nice steelie at the boat and boated a couple of small kings. Dropped 3 or 4 fish as well. Better day than Saturday was for sure. Someone else has all the pictures. A likely story I know.