Yankee Troller

My McCoy didn't collect an ounce of fleas this weekend. However, my power pro riggers were LOADED. Wires weren't too bad as long as they were firing. Other than that i would check them every 30 minutes.

We ran 2.0-2.6 mainly. Trying to hold it 2.2-2.4 most of the time.

The Lake is on fire right now! Isn't it fun?

Guy, Lost mine this weekend. That's what I paid for a replacement!

This weekend was a "Gator done".........Weekend! As long as the lure was in a gator pattern it was taking fish. Spin Doctors, Stingers Spoons, and Dreamweaver SS's all took numerous fish. Saturday (August 1st) was a two trip day. We had Mike & Mike along with Mike's 2 sons aboard for the morning trip, and Greg Simmers and his gang from PA aboard for the evening trip. Both groups were a blast to fish with, and I'm pretty sure they left with soar arms. Those poor kids were battling teenage size King Salmon like champs! On the morning trip we dropped lines and were set up by 6am and it didn't take long for rods to start flying. The first few were small which gave the two young ones a chance to get used to handling the rods, but as the day went on the fish started to get bigger and bigger. On our afternoon trip it started out slow, but the last two hours of daylight was fast and furious. We fished a total of 10 hours and took a total of 24 shots. All our fish came between the 24N and 26N lines today. We fished a 7-8 rod spread this day consisting of 3 downriggers, 2 wire divers, a 10 color, and a 300 & 400 copper. On our riggers we ran Stinger and Dreamweaver Gator Glows, Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers, Dreamweaver Glow Froggy SS's, and Dreamweaver Area 51 SS's down anywhere from 40'-80'. Our wire divers out 150-175 on a 2 setting pulling Gator Spin Doctors with A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist and Green Crinkle flies were HOT all weekend. On our 10 color we had a Stinger Gator Glow firing, but we never did get one to the boat. The 400 copper took the big guy of the day tipping the scales at 25lbs. He took a Green SmartFish with an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist fly. He hit like a freight train and didn't stop anytime soon. The 300 copper was quiet today. The other fish boated were mainly Salmon, with a couple of Steelhead tossed in. Sunday (August 2nd) was one of those days you live for! We had Greg Simmers and his gang out again and fished from 6am - 12:30pm. We ran the same program as the previous day consisting of 3 downriggers, 2 wire divers, a 10 color, and a 300 & 400 copper. We boated 18 fish tossing back a few of the smaller guys, and we lost 12-13 fish! Nothing they did would have helped, but it was just one of those days. They would make a run give a few head shakes and off they would come. These fish were vicious today! I mean we took 30 shots today! That is an AMAZING day on the lake! On our riggers we ran Stinger and Dreamweaver Gator Glows, Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers, Dreamweaver Glow Froggy SS's down anywhere from 40'-90'. Our wire divers out 150-175 on a 2 setting pulling Gator Spin Doctors with A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist and Green Crinkle flies. The 400 copper pulling a a Green SmartFish with an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist fly, and the 300 copper pulling a Lemon Ice Dreamweaver Spin Doctor trailed by an A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly were consistent all day. At one point we were quad'd up with 4 heavy teenage - 20lb Salmon. It was hectic! We thought a triple earlier that day was exciting, but the Quad topped it easily! We ended the day with 6 Salmon between 18-20lbs, a bunch of other Salmon from 5-15lbs, and two steelhead. This weekend we came REAL close to hooking up with 60 fish in about 16 hours of fishing. The school of fish off Point Breeze right now is ridiculous, and they are hungry! Although it was an action packed weekend this is not the norm.

Nice job Adam! Fishing is SICK on the West side right now. Go out and enjoy it.

I'll be there! Can't wait! Hope its a slaughter fest!

Anthony..your not a nice father! Making your daughter reel in a 600' copper! Shame on you.....LOL.

Nice catch! GREAT story! Next time just push the pleasure cruiser out of the way.

I'd send it back. That's an issue I haven't heard of from this unit. Maybe the shaft on that wheel got bent or something.

GREAT fish! I can only hope to catch it someday! Oh wait....I never target them!

K Gone - That's what fishing is all about. Do what works for you, becasue running someone else program might not work for you. You have to feel the fish out, and the only thing that helps with that is time on the water. Like Scott said you should start off with flasher flies on the wires from here on out. If they start going switch over to all flasher/flies. Spoons should always be in the mix though. Even if you cheat them 10 or 15' above the flasher/fly. Once you get your confidence baits down then those should be the ones to go in the water each day. Some good threads on here about 2 favorite spoons should help.

Funny how they hold their spawning scars longer than the browns. I've seen a lot of them over the past few years since the steelhead fishing has been so good. Here are a couple of the ones I've caught.

The American Fishing Wire in Camo is actually thinner. It is .012 inches in diameter. With the deep kings the thinner the better to achieve a greater depth faster.

Anthony - Remember your first experience with copper? LMAO! We smoked em that day though.

Nice job guys! On our boat you would have gotten your stones busted for letting a fish take you out that far! They get a max of 200' then its time for them to come in! LOL

Done

In all honesty....if it wasn't for the 20# sharks....we wouldn't have caught nearly as many fish this year! In May we were fishing 150-200 down for Kings. The last two weekends it was the same thing. Riggers down to 185 were steady producers. Especially after the morning bite when the Kings went deep nothing else could get to them. We had a 215 box with 9 fish on Saturday and a 290 on Sunday with 12. Most of the time a 15lb weight would be just fine, but 20's have their place! When you can run a rigger cable down 200 and its straight down that means less tangles! Make sure your riggers can handle them. Our scottys were fabulous this weekend even in the 4-6's we fished in pulling the 20's.

Gamma is a really good line. We use it for fly leaders. However, this season I have had the brand new McCoy Floro in the water and its been great! 20lb leaders on all rods including core and copper.

Billy and I run 4 wires a lot too. We generally run our inside wires (deep wires) on .5 settings. Our high wires (outside) are run on 2-2.5 settings. This spring in Wilson a typical set up for me and Bill was 300 and 325 on the deep wires, and 350-400 on the high wires. Just give it a try! Plan on wadding up one at some point, but they work well when there is a wire bite. We run them in 4-6's without an issue too.

Look how dark they are already! I guess sitting in that warm water for the last month has taken its toll on them! Great catch!

Nice Rob! Try the 11:30 setting when your out next time. Its been on fire!

Still for sale! Anyone know someone looking for a Bass Boat? Don't you want to see me in a bigger Salmon boat?!?!?!?!?!?

You mean a second place finish. There's only one winner! Just bustin' on ya!

Unfortunately the camera man didn't snap a picture soon enough on Greg. He made a face at one point with that hat on that would of made you pass out laughing!