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Great morning out of Sandy. Good temp and pearl green water in 15ft. Action all morning with browns, small kings and a nice bow. Lost a big fish that broke off a j9. Chartreuse Rapalas off the boards and black and silver. 28's off the riggers. The rains made for a great mudline east although west of the creek had great color as well.

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By Memorial Day it should be just like Easter normally is.

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Proof is in the pudding. Probably not many others fishing that water but it makes perfect sense. Nice to see sandy out fish the western end.

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My Mink caught a slob today, congrats! How did the other Sandy boats fair?

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That's awesome! Great fish and great report.

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Using the Heavy Shot.  At $27 for 5 they arent cheap but they will definately buy you some extra distance

Thank you Rob

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Captains also fish for their living and in many cases pay their mates.  Let them know you will work for tips or even split the tip with the captain.  If you are personable, can drive, and are good with people Im sure someone will help you out.  Get your name and number out there and let people know you can work with little or no notice.

My daughter (15) shot a nice longbeard at first light this morning.  My middle son (16) did all the calling.  Great morning, sent a pic to Legacy, hoping he will post it for me.

Can't beat that! Go get em.

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Good luck to all going out with their kids in the morning. Always a fun morning.

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Sure, no reason not to. Depending on the depth your working and your lead lengths adding a little weight will put that lure in a different spot than one without.

Slide divers are the only dipsys I run. Good supply at gander mountain. As far as I'm concerned slide divers are to dipsys what spin drs are to dodgers, the perfect replacement.

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twenty years ago my mom and dad were cod fishing stellwagen bank.  Jigging with 36oz norwegian jigs and my dad caught "bottom".  Bottom started to move.  Ended up with a 136lb Halibut.  Had a hell of a time getting it in the boat.  Used to love the early season fishing growing up in Mass.  Big cod, Wolffish, Mackeral etc.  Fond memories.

is every one ready for turkey season

Cant wait!  Going to be a great season.  Going to throw the last breast from last year in the smoker this weekend. 

Thanks Bill. Dave is trying to promote the salmon more because he thinks he can draw more people to the derby. He also told me there was a push from a COUPLE west end charter captains. Look at his videos on his site and you can figure out who the bug is in his ear. I wish I still had his email from last year. It might be in my posts from last year in the tourney section. Another excuse was the lake trout fishermen are a small group of participants. IMO, they were guaranteed participants.

Overall Im not sure about all the changes, I liked the original format.  Chances of a boat out of Sandy catching a winning spring king are very small.  Find it hard to believe that prize structure affects the amount of entries.  "gee I have never signed up before, but now that lakers and bows dont count Im in!" ????????  Either way Im looking forward to the Derby and hope to take some of his money.  Hope other Sandy boats fair well also.  Going to have to chase the early bight, not having a weigh station for ten miles in either direction kind of ruins the evening trips.

 

Dave Chilson was sick of paying the same people over and over again is one of the reasons he stated in his email to me last year.  Laker natural reproduction is not that great in the lake.  The laker population is getting a 300,000 fish per year boost according to the DEC at the state of the lake meeting. 

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Steve and Ed have had some crazy success with lakers.  To his credit, Brian has as well.

Wonder why no Bows in the spring?

Is it possible that the Laker exclusion is because they live so long and are one of few that naturally reproduce in the lake?  Kings die by year five, end of story.  Lakers can live to a hundred from what I have read.  Killing off too many lakers over the slot limit cant have a positive impact on the fishery.  As far as Chilsons rules, its his derby.  Kind of like a buffet, find something you like.  There are some big carp in the lake also, second cousin to the lake trout just a little harder to catch LOL

Just one for me.

Id troll north south 180 to 300 riggers 70 80 90 100  dipsys @250 and 300 mostly spin Dr's 

Your going to get many different opinions to your question  They will all be right and they will all be wrong.  Although different people will prefer different temps, put me down for 50 degrees.

Great tourney, run really well due to the hard work and time these guys put in. It's a class act and was a Fun day. It was hard to pick the teams success by their faces at the awards ceremony, everyone I saw was smiling and enjoying time with family and good friends. Can't put a price on that Thanks all for a fun time.

Was a nice day, and yes Congrats to jay trish and Andy, you guys make it look easy.

Keep your eyes on the surface temp map (located on the left side of the home page on this site)  periodically the lake "flips" and it puts cold water on shore during the summer months.  When that happens a lot of the fish head for warmer water offshore however some, mostly browns, will congregate in shallow water.  When this happens you can definately catch some off the piers.