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We ran the shoreline from Oklahoma Beach past Hedges under a sunny blue sky and flat conditions. Water temp near the bay was 41 and it slowly decreased to 38 near Hedges. Water color was a nice green and the fish were cooperating. We went 11 for 12 with a nice mixed bag. 2 Atlantics, 3 cohoes, 1 rainbow and the balance brown trout. Biggest fish was a nice clean brownie in the 9 lb range. Some browns had lamprey marks. The rainbow appeared to have recently come out of the stream with high fin wear. 2 fish off the riggers on NK spoons and rest of the otter boats with minnow baits. Chartreuse/green was the color of choice. A few taken on the flour. orange. A mix of Yozuri's and Rapalas. The wind picked up from the ENE and the fishing also picked up on the Westerly troll back. Water was much clearer past Hedges. The deep side boards seemed to be more active. We ran from 8 - 20 fow. A nice start to the season.

The salmon were active off I-Bay in two distinct zones, 70-85 fow and 110-125 fow over the three day period. The first day we fished in the evening 5-9:00 and the other two in the morning 05:00-10:00. The bite was priimariy a rigger bite with fish taken between 35 and 75 ft. down. No real pattern on colors, but fish were taken on NK habeneros, silver/green combos and some purple/black combos. The wire divers fired early on Friday and went silent until late morning on Sunday. We took several fish in the 20# range, on Spin Doctor/Siggs combos and on a spoons. The larger fish seemed to relate more to the bottom. We marked many fish in the 35-40fow range and caught only two year olds there. We took fish from all four year classes and saw too many lampreys attached to fish to be comfortable! Bait was sporadic and noted mainly between 85 and 100 fow. We had several fish in the 10# range dive over 20 feet on the baits. We did finally manage to take a few fish on the 10 color cores off the boards, but they were far a few. We never ventured past 150 fow, as we had plenty of activity closer to home. The NW to SE troll seemed to be the best, but we did take larger fish on a SW troll when it got rougher. 2.2 to 2.7 on the SubTroll. It was only a salmon bite with no trout in sight. We saw very few boats in the three days, so you can't catch them from your living room guys! Catch a big one next time out.

Looking for a new adventure and sick of pounding the beach, we blazed offshore to see if a temp break was established, as it was last week in 90 fow.(42 - 37/green to clear water) The East wind has stacked the ice water on the beach. We had 47 at the mouth of I-Bay and gradually dropped slowly to 39 deg. at 175 fow. No debris line or significant color change. The strong South wind may have blown the warm layer off to Canada. We made a slow troll from 120 to the mouth of the Genny with no action. The water on the beach was 45-47 deg. when we returned. The previous evening we worked the river water break from 45 - 53 deg. with no action. We did manage to catch a 12 ft blow boat from the Rochester Yacht Club that sawed off our planer board line after taking a 90 deg. turn out of the river East. Correct me if I am wrong, the overtaking craft( sail or power) must yield the right of way to a less maneuverable craft, such as a trolling vessel, even if the vessel being overtaken is under power. I think the commodore at the RYC should compensate us for our Yozuri's !!!! Catch a big one guys ! And hey, you in the twin engine Grady, let's be a bit more courteous next time and give way. I know you wanted to have your butt pasted to the color line, but it is a big lake !

We headed straight out offshore and set up in 425 fow. One knock off after setting only one rod. Nobody home. Temp was 42 deg. down 90. We took a dandy rainbow in the 10-12# range 76 down over 450 fow and another skipper king in the same area. NK green w/black & glow ladders. Nothing on the wire divers or the screen. We took another teenager king in about 280 fow on the same set up, but down 90. We saw more screen activity between 200 and 300 fow on the way in with ample bait and fish interspersed. No particular troll direction seemed to be better. Mike attempted to disrupt the magnetic continuum by placing too many E-Chips in the lake at the same time. Once they were back in the boat the fish became more active ! Ben. Where are you? We were biting this evening.....we were biting this evening.............

20 fish boated by 8:00AM. Many doubles. Lost count after that. At the dock by 10:30. Mostly straight stick baits off the boards. Flour. Orange, Chart. Blue. Less than 15 fow. Several nice cohoes and the rest browns. Largest 8 lbs. Water temp 42 deg. and the color was off green. Ben, where are you? It's Saturday and we've been waiting for you since sunrise. He's not coming !! We were biting this morning. We were biting this morning. .......click........buzzzzzzzzzz. :shock: