Port Bay 5-25-09 Report

[Finders Keepers]

Got a bit of a late start today and got set-up NE of the Port Bay chute at 7:15am over 150 fow. Trolled all the way out to 280 fow without a mark on the screen or rod moved. It slowly got colder as we headed out and was 45 degrees over 280, so we decided to work back in. On our way back to the shorter water we finally hooked up on the 300' wire set on a #2 pulling a white glow echip/white fly over 170 fow. Landed a nice 14 lb king:

Still had nothing on the screen but looped back through the waypoint without another taker. Soon thereafter the other wire fired over 150 fow. That one was out 325' on a #2 pulling a white glow echip/UV fly. I let my dad bring that one to the net and we boated a nice 12 lb king:

We continued to work the 130 to 180 fow range and boated a real nice 6 lb Atlantic on a Majenta Shad free sliding on the 82' rigger over 160 fow, but the NE winds were really beginning to pick up around 11 and we called it a day. Not a bad day, but it sure is tough when you have a blank screen all morning and no probe to work with!