Genny 27 JUL 2026

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Decided the next few days looked ugly so I made a solo mission out of the Genny on a 052 heading to 160 FOW.  Lines in at 0950 and out at 1535.  Fished from 160-220.  Went 14-20 with some nice mature kings, some feisty two year olds, great steelies, and 4 skippers.

My plan was to run two riggers with spoons and a dipsey with a meat rig...

 

Today the current was running ~0.8kts SSW to NNE...but it was changing and it seemed that the fish were very speed sensitive.  Trolling angle was important..

 

I put the deeper rigger down 92' with MUP'd  Route 18 black/white green eye'd ghosts (super mag/mag) and took a rip  in 2 min while putting down the other rigger.  13# king to warm up...Nice.  Other rigger has Hulk 14's MUP'd (mag/std) at 78' and starts bumping within 30 seconds of being down....Double skippers!  Never had that happen before...

 

I didn't get the dipsey in the water until 1130... 10" SD Snowflake with Route 18 matching head.  Deadly lately - I may have 30 kings on this set up in the past 5 trips.  Within 5 min it was smoking and took my best king of the day...20 min later the fish was released with grace and I was smoked...Fishing solo is a lot of work!!!

 

Snowflake rig back out and another ~14# king came around within 10 min.  

 

Then nothing 1200-1300 I didn't see a rod move and I was watching fish fly through my spread (panoptix)...Water was moving...Wind didn't change much...but holy **** my FishHawk couldn't read anything and my spread was moving all over the place...I tried to find the closest thing to straight and could only manage 2.9mph downspeed or higher.  I don't mind going that fast but I didn't have the right spread for that.  Okay - no more meat rig...MUP over - mags down, free sliders....Steelie time.  And it was.  From 1330-1530 it was pretty good with some great steelies and teenage kings...

 

Im going to try to add some videos to this post.  Please be kind - Im still learning and you all have been so helpful to me.