dhhurlburt

Holy cow. I started in 130, then got some intel from a friend and slid into 90. Dipseys out 140, riggers dow 65 and 75, 300 copper. Green meat rigs, silver meat rigs, black flasher flies all worked. Rod father mag, flounder punder Man, uv mag alewife. I started fishing at 6 am and it wasn't until 730 that all 7 lines were in tbr water. 7 for 9 kings, 6 for 6 lakers and had 6 other shirt strikes. 3 hours and I was home bound. So awesome

It's was the kind of chaos you want

Took the boy and his buddy out for a couple hours. Made a west troll in 130 feet and the screens were full of bait and marks. Temp was 60f at 90ft. Set SWR rigger at 90 with rv green knight. Setting second rigger and first one pops. Small laker..bummer. get both riggers set. Second rigger had a mag something my son picked out that was black. Set dipseys at 175 to stay above the lakers. Letting out 300 copper and port rigger goes with atomic green gremlin. I fought that one...19lb 3oz laker. But I didn't sign up for LOC. Lesson learned. As it got later there was pod after pod of kings in the 80 foot range. It was weird to me(still a noob) becasue temp was 66f at 80ft. Then the triple happened. Landed two. Reset, 10 minutes later a double. It was insane. At one point in a 30 minute period I only had 1 rod in the water. Everything took fish. 300, 400, dipseys, riggers...it was nuts. Then we realized the ride home was going to be hell with an 18ft aluminum boat and a still east "breeze" and called it a night. Man this is awesome.

130 feet. They ate everything. Riggers 60 down, 10 color, copper, meat, spoons, it didn't matter. Started at 6 and came home with 4 at 9 and we dropped 10. I have no idea why we dropped so many, it got aggravating especially after a king took our 10 color out 700 feet on a never ending run. Oh well, back at it tomorrow.

How deep?

Lines in 6 am 130ft lots of lakers on everything so we pointed NE. First fish 150ft down 100 on raspberry shadow. Nice 10 pounder. Second fish 180ft 80 down hulk RV 29" Atlantic. 180ft dipsey out 190 green meatrig gets a 17 pound king. 200 ft. Carbon 14 on 300 copper little skipper king. Couple really nice runs on meat that didn't stay hooked. All the good action was 180 to 200. Home at 10am.

Fog sucks. Anyway, on the water at 730 and started trolling east in 17ft. Took a while for the first bite, then it was non stop chaos on an 18ft aluminum with 2 16yr old boys and 6 rods. Couldn't keep them all in the water, doubles and tripples on anything purple blue or chartreuse. All baybrats or challengers. No spoon bite for me today. 19 for 20, then we had to call it for obligatory family fun time.

Yeah, all at the same time, but I hadn't thought to check the weights. Thank you

Right. We could watch over about 15 minutes it would creep forward. I'm gonna video it tomorrow.

Ty. Off shore tackle with the tattle flags I use for walleye and the stock clips. I don't think is sliding down the line becasue the braid/flouro knot is within a few inches of the rear clip. It's weird because I didn't have this problem last fall. I'll try and give the front clip a wrap or 2 and see if that solves it.

Thank you. I thought about that, but I didn't pick up anything and the board looked straight. I'll pay more attention to it tomorrow. I have the suspect board marked. Could the wind direction impact only one of 3 boards on a side?

Last weekend I had 3 boards in the water on each side. I had the baits 100ft behind the board, then set the boards another 100, 75 and 50 out. My stbd middle board kept creeping up to the point where it was parallel to my inside board. I was trolling between 2.1 to 2.3 and the other 5 boards stayed in line nicely. What's the cause and correction?

I have a 17.5 with 56 pound 12v terrova and I use Ipilot. I troll with the main engine basically in gear and use the trolling motor as my auto pilot for easily 8 hours on a single 12v battery. I'll use the trolling motor to fine tune my speed. I've done this for rhe last 4 years without any issues at all.

Didn't all this start with the U of R protesting the Squirrel Slam a couple years ago?