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I had a great day too.......at work:( great job on the kings! With hunting around the corner I fear the PY is gonna get tucked in soon!

Dan

back at ya double D!

kings i boated were between 65-85 ft down over 75-150 fow. r u using riggers? dipseys set so they dont pull drag while trolling just tight enough tho. not sure what and how you were running things.i see a spinning combo in the mix?

pm me if u have specific questions.

Dan

It was a great evening to be out!

mid afternoon bite was better than the evening bite. ff combos on wire and rigger took a majority of our fish!

Great job! thats one heck of a king! You have had an awesome season!

Great job out there! You have spent lots of time at the scales this year! Can't believe it is winding down.

Good luck tomorrow!

After a quick peak inside to a 52 degree surface temp and blank screen off we went to deeper water. ended up following a handful of boats to the northwest and set gear around the 26 line and trolled n/nw. trolled from 6-12 went around 12/16. mix of kings and steelies. couple of kings near 10, some skipps, biggest steelie around 8-9. had a decent fish on but came unbuttoned roughly 100 from boat never saw it. temp break is high. big fish hit the 30' rigger. caught fish on riggers from 25-75 and 300-375 copper, 180-280 wire. warrior nbk, gators, watermelon caught most fish. still experiencing a poor ff bite. They used to be my bread and butter.

good luck out there!

Dan

I launched outta the genny today and took a look in tight but the surface temp was as low as 52 and change to the west of genny towards russell. I saw zippo on the screen! pointed nw and joined the pack. I almost went to sandy to try your skinny water approach but could only fish to 12 so a closer launch seemed a better idea. funny thing is that i was almost to some of my sandy waypoints. lots of motorin.

Nice job! Now I am really uncertain what to do tomorrow! lol

great job and post, nice pix! looks like you got the solo thing workin well!

Dan

500-650. yup it was slow!?

lmao!

Pretty slow for most of 600-230pm trip. Went 10/13. 7 kings biggest 26# and the rest much smaller, 3 steelhead biggest maybe 5#.

Did not mark any bait very few marks. Hope tomorrow is better!

Well done!

Great job! Thanks for the report! I am heading to Fairhaven tomorrow!

Wow its been a long time since i have seen a screen like that! I felt an adrenaline rush just reading your post. I bet you were pretty jacked up!

Thanks for posting.

Dan

Ditto on Hank! Hope he gets you on the water asap!

good luck!

Based on monday i would agree! we were a touch deeper i think. not sure where we first boated kings but we ended up in 650 by the end of the day. we made some loops roughly between 550-650. a long haul to get that deep.

Now ya tell me! lol:) Typically we pick a depth, troll north, NE or NW until we mark or start catching. then work that area, i guess we passed over the 400 mark cuz we weren't catching or marking. It is tough to make decisions on where to go thats for sure. thanks for the tip.

Dan

nice video! a buddy of mine didnt sign up for the summer loc and boated a 13# steelhead. woulda placed top five. figures doesn't!

great job out there!

Dan

Decided for a change of scenery and a shorter drive so headed out of the bay. greeted again by mother natures fury! not as bad as 8/17 but close. set up in 250 or so and trolled into the "chop." another slow start then as the seas calmed things picked up. deep was the ticket again my sonar would not cooperate so i didnt get a depth until it laid down late in the day. roughly between 550-650 fow (12-13 miles out)and fish in small pockets. wire divers out 320 produced our biggest kings that were in the 20-21# range. got into more steelhead as we got into the 600 range. riggers at 70 with cheaters produced the steelies. riggers at 110 produced a few kings. spoons on riggers, ff on wire. UV spoons, bretts one hit wonder (lol), our favorite r and r, mangled stinger mag, alewife, gators all took fish. went 20/24 roughly. fished from 630a-730p. biggest steelie was 11#

ended up deep with the best action between the 30-32 line. mostly steelhead with a few smaller kings. boated one around 21#. mostly spoon bite. some nice steelies out there average size was around 8# our biggest around 10#. ssw, gator, alewife, and a mangled hammered mag stinger with no paint. go figure a stinger spoon with peeling paint:(

kinda stinks motoring 12 miles offshore for fish... Worried the fish will move in and I will be driving over them heading deep!

congrats on your season so far! I was hoping to place my 11.07 steelhead but it dropped on the second to last weekend with the flurry of big fish that were caught over a 2 day period. had a contender last fall that dropped off the king board also. both fish were a half pound from placing. oh well! reason to keep at it!

wish i would have done big fish friday we would have been 5th and 6th... figures! could not find those fish on Saturday either. we boxed our 16# king in the first 15 minutes and thought we might be on them... well that was the only one we fooled! moved in late and nabbed some 6# browns and already had an 8# steelie. decent box but not nearly enough!

I cant wait till things heat up! They will, right??!! lol

congrats on the win! I had some misfortunes also... net over board not sure how the net guy throws it overboard but it happened lol! (we had a fish go nuts by the back riggers and my buddy set the net down to help clear a rod)... shootout morning buddy walks right off the dock at SC launch (double d was there) then later that morning snap dipsey rod off untangling inline planer board from wire, the icing on the cake was sunday morning fishing a mile west of braddocks and seeing how fast lake o can change her tune. flat sea to what my crew considered to be 5-6 footers and the lake looked white from all of the cappers. needless to say that was a long and tenuous 8 mile trip back to port!

in retrospect we should have targeted lakers given the tough king fishing..oh well.

Congrats again! gotta luv fuller spoons!

Wish i could say we hammered the kings but we didn't. we managed a few every day but nothing over 20#,

we caught around 40-45 fish and missed a bunch. we logged around 30 hours of trolling over the 2.5 days out. browns and lakers inside of 120 or so, we poked around 180-280 but there wasnt much happening there so we ended up going deep to find kings... 450-550 fow. kings and steelhead out deep were 35-70 feet down. fish on the inside a bit lower in water column. Still cant get much going on the spinny/fly combos yet. 95% of fish on spoons. frogs, dolphins, alewife, and carbon 14 did most of the damage. When my son wasn't sleeping he was either rigging, picking spoons, or reeling in fish. For a brief time he was on the steelhead board with a 10.11 and was in youth biggest steelhead category but it didnt hold:(

Like to see some more reports out of Sandy! Radio chatter didn't sound too good Saturday morning.