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The green/gold is the holo monkey puke...Likely a Dreamweaver with the split ring on the line end... The alewife looking one is the Gator Glow from Michigan Stinger...

Well said Grady95! Where were you fishing a hot bite inside 135FOW?

Thanks Jimmy P! Coming our of the Genny I consider offshore once I get past the 27N line...I consider anything less than 200' the inside...the 200-400' range the middle water...and then 26-27N line+ offshore. Im not necessarily looking for depth...Im trying to get away...I think it takes a while to get out of the Rochester basin and into the main lake waters. Im trying to punch out into the stable water - I usually find that more often West of the river this time of year. Finding bait is key once you get our there... I use the hooks that come with the spoons - all trebles...If I break a hook I'll steal one off another same sized spoon that hasnt working for me. I believe the spoon manufactures tune their spoons for the hooks they come with and I don't want to mess with it...I will sharpen my hooks from time to time but I think we get in our heads about hooks when it's the fish that just won't commit. When I fish offshore I seem to get much better hook ups...The fish are committed and the hooks are buried deep in their mouths. Inshore I seem to get less solid hook sets...lose more fish. Inshore I get way more of those quick dipsey rips that pull hard 3-5 times and then nothing. I don't get that as often offshore. (I believe this is the fish getting caught in the teasers/line between the head and flasher when the fish bails at the last second) Just my opinions...Im sure other anglers do very well fishing a different set-up. Ive only been fishing for a few years but I think it's really important to RUN YOUR PROGRAM and take info from other anglers to tune and develop your game...

Headed out in hopes of catching a steelie for the board... We knew it was going to be nice so I made a plan to head offshore and see what we could find. Lines in at 0930 and out at 1630. What a gorgeous day!!! We hit our normal spot and cruised around for bait...We didn't have to look for more than 2 min. Go time! We were 21 for ~30...We were so tired at the end we lost a few we would normally land... One of my favorite parts of being offshore is the "clean" water...There aren't logs, duckweed, other boats....there was barely a down current...There are fleas...but nothing like inside...id get a 3" bugger above my wire dispy in about an hour. Surface was 74F(!) and the break was ~55' deep...It went from 62F to 47F in ~8'....Fish were on it... We ran two riggers with mags low and matching standard sized sliders...Most of the time we had our riggers at 55 and 65 but later in the day we decided to drop one to ~150. Sometimes the deep rigger was MUP'd. The riggers took half of our fish and the sliders were preferred. Biggest king (19.03) came on a slider that was around 35'... (we pulled two skippies from the 150 rigger ice water - how does that work?) For long lines we go with two weighted steel lines switching between 200's and 300's with spoons on them depending on what the fish were telling us. We did well with the long lines.... (I recently got a new Ninja board with the release button - amazing - I will be getting more) Spoons that worked - UV black flounder pounder, electric funeral with silver cup, snowflake with silver cup, fat nancy's, caddy shack, get r done, double green bowtie, cobalt carbon, shelly snack, happy meal Spoons that I can't catch fish with - NBK, Sea Sick Waddler of various flavors, Wonderbread We also ran two meat rigs on divers...Mag diver w/ring on 2 setting out 222 was hot on both sides for 6 kings all 15-18#....Two face chrome and chrome green dot 10" SD's with matching heads took 6 fish today. We only caught fish on meat between 230pm and 330pm but tried all day between 150-250 out. It was a busy hour and I burned up an entire package of blue label rigged cut bait. Flasher/meat rigs that didn't work today - Dragon slayer, Kevorkian, froggy, 42nd, anything white.... I can't catch fish on flasher fly's...but ladies, did I try it all. colors, sizers, types, leader lengths. Ive caught three fish on a FF this year! I caught some beautiful steelhead...6-7 9# steelhead...I'll be back soon. (ETA - This is the 19.03 king)

HB Deuce - This is correlation without causation....You blame today and forget about the past... The southern shore in the 80's was booming with industry and execs. Kodak was still king...B&L, Xerox, etc...Tons of money in town. Just Rochester... Niagara Falls was classy... Youngstown, Wilson, Oldcot, are built off that old money... Who has money now? Where do these people come from when the normal guy can't afford to troll and the rich guys can't be bothered with the hassle because they worry too much about taxes and policy? Go have fun and stop with the challenges...youre too old to tell people where the answers are...Im tired of your ****.

Great fishing out there! Solo mission today. Lines in the water at 11:30 about 0.25 miles West of the river between 20-40 FOW. There were three of four other boats in the area...I set up in 25' and pointed West...Within one minute of getting set a king hit a DW Martel spoon on a 100' steel and started ripping line. Got it to the boat and it weighed in at 12#2oz on the Bubba digital scale. I was excited! I spent the next two hours running back and forth in front of Greece in 25 FOW picking kings...Great screens...All three rods had fish on them at one time...chaos! Riggers at 14 and 22 down...Back 40-60 feet. 100' weighted steel back probably 300' total. All spoon program - picture below. Switched over to a little more glow around 12:30 with the lower light conditions and rain showers and it seemed to help. Best fish was just over 15#....tons of 8-12# fish. Of the 13 kings I got to the boat today only two were in the 5-6# range. I landed one ~3# brown as well. I had one screamer that took line for 30 seconds before there was nothing...It gave the biggest tug of the day for sure... ***Disclaimer - I am not a derby/tournament participant***

This was in the belly of one of the fish we had to harvest that wasn’t going to make it…7/23 around noon. That fish gorging all night/morning with that 7/22 full moon.

Hello Mr leadhead, I will take these from you for $80. I’m local and can pick up… lmk…