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Haha... we'll do a GOPRO training session soon, Brian. Nice job on the fish fellas. Pretty work. Taking this weekend off continuing to work on the big Trophy cuddy transformation and other upgrades and Mx. Sent from my SM-G920V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Tracker has nice big reverse chines like Lund does on their boats... I have never experienced a running instability issue with mine despite off-level loads or ppl moving around. All sounds annoying sorry you're dealing with it all. Sounds like a hull design problem. Which is crazy this day and age with all the computer modeling and fluid dynamic capability. No reason a hull shouldn't be designed well. Trophy was a bad Crankshaft Position Sensor. $60 for a new sensor... didn't bother with warranty - needed it fast and it was cheap and easy enough. put it in and all good. The sensor went bad it ohmed out way out of tolerance. Internal failure. Tearing out the cuddy now and replacing all new bilges forward and aft and the good reinforced rubber hoses, new diaghram pump plumbed into both fish boxes and pumped overboard (no more fishboxes into the hull)... removed the head, all plumbing, sink and counter, gray water tank, black water tank, macerator and all plumbing/electrical, and all hoses to the thru hull fittings in the cabin. There's so much room down there now and probably got rid of 200lbs of junk in the way. Also replaced all 4 Scupper drain hoses and clamps. New Navigation Light on Bow. 3 new Batteries. And removed all thru hull transducers forward and aft (leaked) and am in the process of glassing them all in. She'll be in great shape next season.

No reverse chine on that boat? Full V? That's really odd... that's where a lot of cruise stability, trolling and still stability comes from. Sent from my SM-G920V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

50 pint jars of King Salmon being canned... to be enjoyed all winter long. Definitely our preferred preparation. Stuff is so good. Sent from my SM-G920V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Stick with it Shawn. I've had and still have days that just don't go right. It makes the good days even better and more memorable. Agree with Low Baller... it's not easy and there are endless small details in this style of fishing. I still learn something new every trip I take and when days don't go right I remember that there were things I learned that day and I'll be smarter on the next trip. Godspeed. Sent from my SM-G920V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

The fish were hot this morning. Little Crappie and I took out a fellow LOU member for some action in the trench, left the dock at 5:40AM. Set up at 6:15 and shortly after our probe rigger fires. Hooked up with our first king of the day and Wassup8687 fights it to the net perfectly. 1 in the box. Little while later our starboard dipsey gets nailed and I reeled in a nice female. 2 in the box before 7am. Trolled a while and had a miss on a rigger then got our 3rd hit on the same probe rigger. Little Crappie landed a Fiesty male. 3 in the box by 8am. Missed another one on the rigger a while after then around 9:30am the same dipsey from earlier starts screaming. Wassup8687 jumps on the rod and brought a nice hen to the net for our 4th fish in the box. Trolled till 11am with no more rods firing and headed in as the winds started to pick up at the front of this storm. Great time today and lots of action. 4 for 6. Sent from my SM-G920V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Seat filled. Wassup8687 (Neal) gonna head out with us. See if we can get him on some Screaming King action! Sent from my SM-G920V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Good luck tomorrow Shawn. We'll be on 68. Sent from my SM-G920V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Thanks Brian. We'll see you out there. Still got a seat available... Sent from my SM-G920V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Throwing this out there for anyone solo that wants to fish with us tomorrow. Little Crappie and I are going back out early in the AM to pull up some Kings on my Tracker. Have room for and willing to take 1 person out. Leaving the dock from Bedford at 545 AM. PM me if interested.

I think A-TOM-MIK uses ST41 Owner trebels. I use the same trebels for the rigs I tie and have never had a problem. They're quality hooks. This particular fly was brand new just removed from the packaging last night and tied on. I'd blame the hook typically but since this was the nastiest explosion of a hit I've ever seen, I think the fish had a lot to do with it. Things like this keep you up at night... man I wish I coulda seen that fish.

Beautiful out there today... Little Crappie and I set up at first light on his boat and could barely keep rods in the water from 630-7. All FF today. If only we could have capitalized on all of our takes. We started off doubling up on riggers, the first one that fired got off while the second one chewed thru the 50lb leader. Fly gone. With both rigger rods still not put back down, a dipsey starts ripping and gets off after a short lived battle. 0 for 3. Not a good start, but lots of early action. A little while later the same dipsey starts screaming and we finally land one. 1 for 4. We went on to miss 3 more hits this morning going 1 for 7 including the hardest smash to a dipsey I have ever witnessed. I thought the rod snapped. This fish was so pissed off it hit and screamed so fast and hard after just 15 seconds it came unglued. Felt like a break off. Sure enough, reeled up to see the trebel on a brand new Atomik Fly completely break off. I have never had this happen before. Can't believe it... what a fish that must have been. All fish in 80-90'.

Never have had such poor King catch percentages with respect to hookups. This whole week has been a gut wrencher... so frustrating. Congrats to Rodfather taking home the $ during event #3. Great job guys! Here was our 24lber from today. 450 copper off the lighthouse, meat market paddle with hammer live fly.

A good question was raised about the salmon showdown this weekend so wanted to clarify for everyone entered. All fish "bump" between Saturday and Sunday. Your 2 largest fish combined weight count as your total. i.e. if you weigh in a 21lb and 25lb on Saturday, you can still weigh in a 27lb and 28lb on Sunday. The 27lb and 28lb would be your team total.

Fellow Salmon Fisherman on the East End: Don't forget to sign up for this weekend's 2 day Salmon Showdown. Registration is open until midnight tonight. Only $30 per boat to enter! Largest 2 fish King Salmon box between both days of fishing. Total combined weight, winner take all! Weigh in is at Bedford Creek Marina at 3pm on Saturday (pizza and wings provided) and 2pm on Sunday. Look forward to meeting all those who sign up and show up at the weigh in! LCSALMONSHOWDOWN.COM

I call em "buddy savers". They float the rod should it ever get fumbled overboard. Then you can recover it, and thus save your friendship from whomever was responsible. Haha

I've found that 1 gopro is nice, but to get all the different angles of the action for a sweet video you need 3 or 4 of them. I have 4 and usually have 3 fixed mounted in different locations around the boat and 1 mobile that is usually head mounted. They're all wirelessly controlled with a single remote at the helm. Can turn em all on, off, record, stop, etc... all from one spot. Makes it super easy. The other thing you need is some powerful video editing software. I use Power Director 14. Takes some time to learn all that you can do and i'm just scratching the surface. You get pretty fast at it... all that footage was captured yesterday and I finished the video last night so you can pump em out if you dedicate time to it. Oh and it's a lot of work.... charging gopros every night and bringing them on and off the boat each day. Not to mention downloading all the files each day and sifting through the GBs of video for the "right" scenes and tying them together. It's cool though... I do it to better collect the memories. I have over 1TB of go pro video from this season and will likely be putting together some more comprehensive videos over the winter when I have some more time. Tight Lines guys... and good luck to all that are in the Salmon Showdown this weekend!!

Lake Ontario "Staging" King Salmon Fishing. All footage captured from yesterday, Sept 1st. https://youtu.be/MnnmGVeTCfE Watch in HD. Enjoy!

Lake Ontario "Staging" King Salmon Fishing. All footage captured from yesterday, Sept 1st. https://youtu.be/MnnmGVeTCfE Enjoy!

Unlike Tuesday's disappointing trip Lake O was was kind today. Gave up some nice Kings to the GO EASY throughout the AM. Dipseys and Riggers were all good. Had some misses and some that got off but was able to land a number good matures. Ended 4 for 11 on the morning. Saw quite a few fish caught. Prime time.

It just was not our day today. Took out the GO EASY and set up as it was getting light. Took a nasty rip on port mag dipsey 1.5 setting out 205 with 8" Protroll "Meat Market" paddle and Pro-Am Fly... screaming and then a few minute fight and gone. Dahhhh!!! Hook pulled. 10min later, the starboard mag dipsey 1.5 setting out 175 with 8" UV Gator Spinny and Hammer Live Fly... screamed a few hundred feet and never stopped and then just as fast as it all happened it stopped. Hook pulled again. Come on!!! An hour later the same port dipsey with same settings as above ripped for 15-20 sec and gone. 0 for 3 on dipseys. And they didn't move the rest of the day. Next the port rigger fired, 11" Mt Dew crush paddle with Glow Mag MC Rocket. Came tight and then started spooling line and gone about 5 sec in. Gotta be kidding me. Trolled 2 more hours and had 2 more rigger releases with no one home. 0 for 3 on riggers. 0 for 6 on the day. Back in by noon. Gotta regroup after a day like that... unreal.