wishinfishin

nice , way to go chowder!

Thanks for all the kind words from everyone ,Tom got a kick out of seeing the responses. Jeremy, Im with you ,its not worth buying anything cheap. My grandfather used to say "buy the best you can afford , because the best is cheap enough"

Definately will be getting a radio,I would feel a lot better out there.And some better reels. I do have three specifically for salmon and whatever we fish for on lake O,all in due time .I think while my wife is eating salmon for dinner tonight will be a good time to bring up some of the addition things I need , you know ,since she loves eating salmon and I love catching them ,its a win win. I just may take you up on the offer before the season is over,would really like to learn more ,and btw Tommy is really good at cleaning fish and boats,( he is sitting right next to me not laughing).Thanks again c bonaffine jr.

very nice!

muskie magnet, I teach all my kids if your going to do something , do it, I am a little extreme on the diehard thing, but my train of thought is we came here to fish,so fish. Or we could go to the campground and look at each other and not be fishing. The last part I just said as I read it back just doesnt make sense."not fishing" who does that.

Yes 20.5 pounds after it was gutted and weighed about eight hours later. Time for a bigger boat ,yes, someday. Must be the camo boat,fish never saw us coming. The only app I ever put on my phone is a navionics app, and fired that up for where I was and made it out to 340 Fow , althought when I was in closer and the fish finder was working under the 200 FOW, the two didnt match up by about 30'.???????? dont know.

Hello everyone. . A big thanks to the LOU members who texted and called me on Saturday with some intel on where they were catching fish and what they were using. My battery shifted in the boat on the ride up and pulled some of my wiring loose , while trying to get it fixed and get out fishing one of the members had called to tell me of their success and wanted to see how I was making out, I told him I was still in the parking lot playing electrician. Now a guy I never met and only traded a few PM's with offered to pick me and my son up and take us out on his boat. I gotta tell ya, some of the finest people are on this site. I declined but was grateful Tom and I were alone this trip, my other son could not make it this time. But we hit it hard Sat , fishing about 9-10 hours trying to get my fix.Nothing!!!!!!!!!!! I mixed it all up , tried different combos ,colors, speeds , whatever I could , still nothing. Im sure Tom is thinking Dads crazy and I gave up X-box for this. Sun morning lake was in good shape so we went out deeper in my jon boat, only could fish till about noon,before the six hour ride home. My fish finder only reads to 200 FOW ( bought it before I got the Lady O bug) dropped gear and kept going north. Inside an hour we had a shot on 180 dipsey with flasher and spoon, it jumped a couple times and was gone in seconds. OK, Im awake now. A half hour later another shot on 220 dipsey , flasher fly , gone again, now Im awake and grumpy. Another half hour , pow! 250 copper going ,TX-44 looking like it was doing the moon walk, clean spoon , please stay on ,please, got em , steelhead. An hour later after circling back, bang! TX-44 doing an encore on the 250 copper ,I grabbed the rod and new it was a king. I quickly handed the rod to Tom. Unfortunately the reel is an old penn deep sea style ,Im not sure of the ratio on it but I think its 34 cranks per foot of retrieve .LOL So, while Tom was fighting this fish on 250 copper , I ate a sandwich ,took a nap , and organized the boat . I could see it was a good fish as it was in the wash,please stay on please, got her. Wow , a gorilla, high fives and fist bumps all around. We fished a little longer , nothing, and left about one . Of course we gotta show Mom when we get home, so I gutted it , brought it home and it weighed 20.5 lbs Being a Dad is very touchy, one day a zero , next day a hero. Chuck

Chowder, was that fish caught on the carbon 14 in the background????

In reading this posts about temp not being as big a deal as with earlier in the season, my question is for example this weekend is blowing NE which is why Im not coming up to fish,other than if it were to choppy for my small boat, would the wind direction be a factor this time of year??? I know N or NE winds blows the water temp around and changes things and sometimes takes a couple days after of W winds to get back to "normal".

Good seeing your posts again ,sound like a good night

Dont go, want to see more! Im working, so Im living vicariously thru you ,lol I use spinning rods on lake o , and some old deep sea reels, I have them and they work and they are paid for. Working on building my arsenal as money allows. Chuck