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They were buried for a while. Eventually five or so men jumped in the water and a bunch of people, including the little girls without PFD’s got on the bow. Looked like a very new very expensive boat. No way the operator was familiar with the channel. I wanted to render assistance but it wasn’t life threatening and no way I could tow that boat with all those people through the channel.

And none on little kids. Crazy

Wife wanted to go on the boat for an hour or so this afternoon. Decided to take a ride around the bay, offshore a little sloppy and it was going to be a short ride. Watched a lot of boats blast through the channel, not something I want to do. Saw a boat, 16 or 17 adults and 2 or 3 little girls without life jackets try to go north through the channel trimmed down at enough power to throw a big wake. They buried the prop in the section that’s only a couple feet deep. 4 or 5 guys got out and pushed it back in the channel and last I saw they were drifting north. Took a fly by but no way I could tow them anywhere into a stiff south wind through two feet of water.

That’s the best!

Awesome.

Incredible

Pete is a lake trout guy also. Finger lakes and Ontario. Has done it for many years. Based on the smile on his face, he just may be doing a little more of this.

Could be Rick, wasn’t paying much attention. In and out lol. Maybe was.

Pete Collin from the site a couple days ago and wanted to jig for kings. Pete has jigged for lakers for many years but has caught very few kings while laker fishing. We left the dock at 5:30 and pulled at 10:00. Pete landed four kings and lost a couple. I didn’t catch a king today but did get a bow. Fun morning, great company and exciting fishing. Hard to beat.

We fish the marks. Using 2oz jigs. I do use a light action line counter to drop or raise on marks. In all fairness tomorrow will be my third time doing it.

This whole jigging thing is a blast. The hook sets are unreal. Thanks to you and Manny!!

Back out again this morning. This whole jigging thing may impact how much time I spend trolling.

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One cool thing is how clearly the jig shows up on the fish finder.

Two hours with Tommy this morning. 4 for 6. Pretty cool!

You going to get them wet soon?

Rigged up two rods today. Mono backing, 300 feet of 20 lb braid with 15 lb fluorocarbon leaders. Just need the jigs to show up. How long did you guys have to wait for your deliveries from Mission Tackle? Tournaments Friday through Sunday, hope they show up next week!

Mission lures

You bet. I sent you a PM a week or so ago with my contact info. I’m out of Braddocks often and happy to share info with you.

We didn’t have a ton of marks but there were some. We fished that depth to be out of the pack of boats fishing in 100 ish. Had my hands full crew wise and no autopilot. We didn’t have major current or speed issues and fleas and fly’s were non existent. Had meat and mags out, never ran faster than 2.4 at the ball.