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Kevin, you’re blessed. Your grandkids are blessed as well. Great stuff.

Boats that went out did well. Was a little nautical out there but fish were biting. We were out of Eagle Creek and triples on Kings twice but nothing over 20.

Guess that makes you Gill-T

Alewifes

I love Otisco. I’ve struggled there a bunch of times but that lake holds monsters of every species. Special place.

For a while in the fall derby if your King wasn’t 40 plus you weren’t top ten. In 2004 I caught a 34.5 early in the derby and almost just tossed it back. It ended up coming in third. Todays twenty pounders are yesterday’s thirties.

I’ve been saying that for 15 years plus.

Doesn’t get much better than that!

Guessing the red Tracker guy probably learned a good lesson. Probably just a bad decision and feels terrible. Hope if he’s new he’ll learn from it.

Sometimes I don’t think people know better although ignorance isn’t absolution. Braddocks channel is less than 2.5 feet in two spots between the markers. I don’t go out on plane. Had a guy the other morning pass me heading out on full plane heading out ten yards to my port side. Name of his Thompson in bold letters on his transom lol. Pretty narrow channel. Sucks when people do dumb things. Wish I had a dollar for every time someone set up a few hundred yards behind me. It’s a big lake. Give folks some room.

Something wrong with your setup. If you are running mono as your mainline, that’s your first problem.

Temp was fine from 80 to 250 but screen was pretty barren. Decent screen for us in 100 to 130.

Scott and Matt drove out from Ohio this morning to fish a couple days. Scott reached out on LOU a few times with questions so we figured they might as well just come out and fish. It wasn’t fast and furious and water was mixed up but we settled into 100 ish after not seeing much out to 250. Thankful to put them on decent Kings and an 11.5 Brown that got them on the board. Back out with them in the morning. Fun day for all.

And a very common one. My last one went a couple months out of warranty so the replacement was $200.

That’s what I’m doing. They are violently fast, wish you could slow them down a little.

That’s a great trip, awesome.

Is that reel left or right hand retrieve?

Fish was only 33 inches long. Wish I measured it’s girth.

Summer Derby 2011 20lbs 11 ounces

75 to 80

We fished fro 6:30 to 11:00 between Lighthouse and Wautoma. 14 for 18 with 11 Browns. Couldn’t find any bigger than 8 lbs.

You know you’ve had an open invitation for quite a while now Les