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Tough start to the morning. I had some nubes that needed to fish early to be home by 1:00 so despite my reservations about the lake not being settled we headed out at about 6:30 am. LOTS of boats launching today for a non-derby day! Set down in 100’ and went into search mode heading North. Hit tons of weed mats in the 200’s but never marked anything until we hit 400’. We set an East troll from 400’-430’ taking 5 shakers, three female majors (lost two more), a steelhead and a tagged unicorn. The Atlantic was undersized and may have been dragged awhile so I didn’t want to dink around trying to read the tag numbers so I ripped the tag out, released the fish quickly and gave the tag to the DEC survey people to do follow up in port. NOAA wave report was not even close! Got beat up pretty good on ride in. Fish have started to darken a little more noticeably.

You forgot the part that you were texting me that you were into kings while I was stuck at work! Torture.

Zoom into back of spoon

Yes, but Gary D -UV version

Ugh.

Please delete that picture. That is my favorite spoon three years running.

Nooooooooooooo!!!

Many of us started with convectors and quickly realized the money we thought we saved went out the door in lost gear lol.

I noticed an Okuma Convector in the background. I found the drags on the convectors to be too sticky- not smooth enough for no-stretch wire rigs IMO. You may want to consider upgrading to Tekotas with Christmas approaching lol.

YOU DON’T NEED FLUORO going to your flasher. You should be using at least 30lb mono to the flasher. The large swivel ring on flashers are too large to be tying 20 lb onto and expecting the knot to hold.

30 lb 1x7 strand stainless wire. There is plenty of nuance with using wire so it would be beneficial to jump on someone’s boat that is experienced using.

You have worthy rod holders already. Hopefully they are bolted (not scewed) in place with proper backing with stainless plating or large fender washers. You can catch a lot of fish with 1000’ of wire on a Tekota line counter with a 10’ ugly stick dipsy rod.

What is the length of the boat?

Sorry to hear about your health problems. I wish you a speedy recovery. How much are you listing the boat for?

Looks like you spent a lot of time customizing!

Huron was a plankton problem. The overstocking/ too much natural reproduction problem only sped up an inevitable crash.

They are delicious and were quickly consumed. They need to be eaten fresh or spoil. Zip the lateral line out and trim off remaining dark meat. Egg white wash, and coat with a white cornmeal/Panko/salt/ pepper mix then fry. Dip in cocktail sauce.

I had the jetty to myself. Unreal. It looks like there a limited number of camping spots on site also.

Great morning today. Went to Cape May inlet early and was rewarded with a great dolphin show followed by great topwater action for stripers and bluefish. Kept a few blues to fry up.