FISHIN AGAIN?

Hey Wolfman if it makes ya feel any better we caught the 11th place fish that was tied with yours but we caught it on the last day. When we go out we never keep any so we just fish with no cooler. We got our fish and ran straight in but it was close to an hour b4 we got it weighed. I stopped and grabbed a bag of ice but I wonder how much it lost while sitting in the bottom of the boat with no cooler. This was my first derby money fish also. Congrats on making the board. Maybe next year there will be a lil more money and we will have a cooler with lots of ice.

Summit climber in like new shape. Hardly used at all. Mostly use platform stands. It climbs fast and is easy to set up. I just don't use it so I might as well sell it. It includes the summit safty harness, instruction booklet, and instructional video. I would like 150.00 or best offer. Thanx

Thanx for the report. There hasn't been too much chat lately. I may try it tommorrow but will probably stay under 100,at Sandy or Rochester area.That's good ya got into some out deep.

Just wanted to say thanx to LT Troller for posting the picture of Mondays fish. One picture didn't show up. See ya Tomorrow.

LTT and I headed out first thing this morning and tried in front of the river for about an hour with no hook ups, marked some fish and bait. Pulled up and set Divers and a 10 core out in about 60 feet. We got two Kings 24 and 14 Lbs and had a hard hit on a silver prism echip with Mirage fly that bent the swivel and went byby. Have to get some better swivels. The 2 Kings we got were caught on 42 Spin Doctor, 120 #2 on the wire. Pulled em at 10:00. Great morning to be out, other boats that were fishing were mostly out deep. Won't be out again for a few days. Brian

Well, after having my boat in the shop for a week and having some other things to do on the weekend, we finally made it out for the last day of the Derby. I decided to go out of Braddocks cause I figured there would be less boat traffic than Sandy. We started a lil west of the point in about 70 feet of water and fished toward 100 ft. I just put on a new depthfinder and what a difference from my old one. We were marking good bait and some fish mostly 70 ft and down. About 8:00 Keith was letting out the lead core when the Dipsey rod fired. I tried to hand him the rod of course but he said take it. The fish took a couple short runs and then was hanging on the surface acting like a smaller fish. When we got it to the net and on to the boat it was a lot bigger. I said were running in. I weighed it on my scale and it was between 32 and 33 pounds. We were all by ourselves out there, there wasn't a boat within 2 miles. We got to Mitchells a little after nine and it weighed 31 pounds 14 ozs.At the time it was tied for 11th. It is now tied for Tenth. The bummer is that there is no fish of the day on the last day, but it was great to make the board. We then went back out to the same area and got into another one that put up a great fight and I thought we had another one for the board. Keith was pretty tired out when he got it to net and it was a lil under 20 pounds. We then called it a day cause it was a lil after 12:00. The first fish took a echip flasher that was blue with white glow with a siver black Attomic Fly. The second fish was on the homemade spindoctor 42nd flasher. Both were on Dipseys. Thanx to Keith, LT Trollers son for coming out with me. His Dad had to work. Keith won't let him forget about that. Will try to get out again later this week.

Don't you retired guys have anything better to do? Hows it going Steelheader. We'll have to get out for Perch this fall.

Thanx for the Coffee and Doughnuts, but next time I would rather have a fish in the "Money". We had a good time. We had enuff action to keep it interesting. Next time I want a big Laker. Thanx to LT for getting me out, my boat picked a great time to end up in the shop. Hopefully it will be done in a few days. It was a great morning to be out, especially for those of us without the big boats. See ya Brian

I haven't been around there in years at Harborfest time, but if it is like years ago I would not go anywhere near there with a trailer, its too much of a Zoo. Just go hang out and have a few cold ones or launch in lil mexico. Have fun whatever ya do.

I know the feeling of no down temp or speed. Its nice when ya get a few rips anyways. Good going.

When running cowbells how far off the ball do you run them? We had them back a few feet from the ball. We noticed on the graph that fish would come up and look but not hit. Thanx

Anybody been fishing for smallies out here? Might give it a try this weekend and maybe troll for the bigguns out deep. Thanx

Thanx for the tips guys but they did not help us much. We are pretty much just running dipsey/flashers and we did not get any Salmon yesterday. We were off the State Park out to about 200 and back and put the lures down deep and shallow. We also ran lead core with no hits. We went in a little and got a couple lakers on cowbells. I need a bigger boat then maybe I'll get downtemp and speed. It was good to get out, only 2 other boats out there. The fleas were bad and there seemed to be a wicked current. It beats working.

Guys, Just wondering where we should start tommorrow out of Sandy. Water temps are down a little so is it worth it still fishin in the 100-200 range or do you think way out deep? If we go out I was thinking of starting about 70 then troll out and change up the depth of lures as we go. If anybody has any ideas that would be great. If we get into any I will let you. Thanx

YT. Thanx for the advice on the depth yesterday. My depth finder isn't showing much at all and I don't have down temp. The finder works ok for depth but thats about it. After I talked to ya I got a small king. Might get out tommorrow with another guy on his boat and give it a try. Congrats on a great weekend of fishing. Brian

Thanx for the report. If you see a 16 ft Sylvan out there that will be me. I usually will stay in around 100-150 but if the lake isn't too bad we may try it out a little deeper. Either that or fish for Smallmouths somewhere. Good luck to all this weekend.

Hey Guys. I was out for the first time this year in my 16 footer Sat. morning and fished 70 to 135 feet of water and managed 1 small Coho on a flasher/fly. I figured it might be a little better out deeper but it was a little too choppy for us to go out farther. The guy that went with me has never been out b4 so we were happy to get one. Hopefully these winds will switch around and the fish will come back in some. It was nice to finally get back out.

I have not fished there in a few years but may try in a week or 2. If you can get the kayak in near the pump house on the west side that can be good this time of year and a good spot before that is a nice dropoff that goes down pretty quick,you would have to check on a map. Good luck

Thanx for the report. I'm glad you are getting into some fish. I think I saw ya off of Braddocks a couple of weeks ago. I fish in a 16 ft Sylvan. I have not been out since, too much going on but hope to get out soon, but probably not in the derby. I have 2 new wire setups that I can't wait to get out and try.

Guys thanx for the advice on spooling wire. I had two old 47h's set up with wire but I just spooled 2 new accudepths. One I put on 1000 feet of malin 30 which fit just fine, I used a little backing first so the wire wasn't directly on the spool, and the other one I used 500 feet of steel wire that I had on my old reel and put on backing behind that so the spool was full. I didn't quite use a new spool of dacron backing. I connected the wire and backing together with a number 8 Sproo barrel swivel. It went through the line guide on the reel with no problem. The swivel is 50 lb test so hopefully it will work fine,time will tell.

Thanx a lot guys. I'm gonna play around with them this weekend and hope to get out soon to try them.

Ray are the cups also white and do you run em off the boards? Usually I just run sticks off the boards but I'll try spoons if I can keep em out of the sand. Thanx

Morning Guys. Happy Easter. I was going thru my lures the other day and I have a bunch of double sided painted lures mostly NK'S, along with some yecks.Most are black and white,yellow and white,white on white with tape ect. Now back in the 80's when I used to fish more we used these lures a lot. But now with the clear water I don't think they will work all that great except maybe down deep? Should I keep them in my box or make room for some new ones? The past couple years of being on LOU I have not heard much about them. Any opinions? Thanx

Well, made my last boat trip out for salmon in front of the creek this morning. Boy was the fog thick. Got two kings and missed a third on glow J's. Only one guy at the dock fishing this morning so I didn't have any problems like some other guys have. Fish were jumping in the creek. Won't have a chance to get out for a couple weeks and that will be for some Smallies and Perch. I want to thank everyone who uses this forum and gives out advice. I learned a lot this year and caught more salmon than I have in years. Maybe someday I'll have a bigger boat and will be able to head offshore for some of that action. Brian

Went out this morning first light. Trolled in front 10 to 20 feet for a half hour and managed one nice Sheephead on a glow green Jplug on lead core out 4 colors. Boy what a tussle!!! After that fun I trolled out to the 60 feet range and managed 4 Kings and one Coho. Nothing real big, most were males. Got them all on the lead core. Never got the dipsey and spinners to go once. Had a good time, just out myself today then off to work at 9:45. I love overcast mornings. Saw a couple kings swim by as I was pulling my boat. I'm glad to say I didn't hit my prop. Till next time. Brian