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Loosh, This time of year, the salmon are starting to stage and I think there is lots of warm water on the south shore right now (take a look at the Temp Trasnsects) so theorectically there should be cold water on the Canadian shore. If so, the kings should start to migrate to our shoreline from the Canadian side to start the staging process. This time of year, "down temp" is less important so I would fish your screen on your fishfinder. You will find kings from 42 degrees to 74 degrees You can do one of two things: 1.) head way offshore to find a higher down temp and target the non staging fish and likely some steelhead thrown in. Many, many times while guys are packed in the shore targeting the staging kings, we have been the only boat out in 400 fow pounding steelhead and juvenile kings non stop in late August and September. 2.) Start shallower and fish your graph marks. Many kings will also sit on the bottom in the depth of water where the thermocline intersects with the bottom. Good luck and be safe, Chris

I have an '08 Trophy and the "bow wander" was terrible until I put trim tabs on this year. In fact, it was almost comical when I'd be coming back through the channel. I trim the tabs all the way down now and it works like magic. I have no idea why the tabs eliminate the wander, but they do and it works great. Good luck, Chris

Great report - glad you got into them with Hans. Thanks for the great details - I just rigged up a Glow nuclear paddle with a sweet pea fly that I hope to use this weekend if the waves will let me.. Be safe and good luck! - Chris

Always love the reports Tom. Glad the engine trouble was minimal Be safe and good luck on the water, Chris

Capt. Spike - where is this data from? Is this Smart troll data? Thanks, Chris

Mr. Perry, Listen to Gambler - he knows his stuff when it comes to lakers and cowbells. I fish for them a lot during the June transition and on slow days and 1.0-1.8 speed on my Subtroll has always been best. For me to troll that slow I usually need a trolling bag or two to get me to slow down. Also - I have caught big lakers in NEUTRAL when we have had tackle laying on the bottom when we had a major tangle on the prop. When retrieving lures, there was lake trout on them. Good luck and be safe, - Chris

30' west line - the first small point east of the bay (also referred to as Forest Lawn on occasion)

I always think it's important to post the good days with the bad, in hopes that I can learn something that I may have done wrong or differently than others which affected my bite on a given day. Today's them was "it started and ended with a bang" but in between it was slow, slow, slow...... Nonetheless, I fished with my good buddy Mike today and we focused on the Shipbuilders area east of the bay as we started early with a subtle SE wind and I thought it might be productive. We fished two riggers, two wire divers, a 400' copper and a ten color core. Everything took hits other than the lead core, but the hits were early and than late sandwiched in between by a 2 hour lull of not even a bite. We started in 180 fow and as soon as the first rigger was in the water it was fish on. We managed to land 5 out of six fish by 7 AM, with a brown, 15# king, two nice steelhead and a smaller king. It was constant action with a fish every 10 minutes or so. Four fish were on the riggers, the lost fish on the wire, and the larger king on the copper. Unfortunately, it took us about 20 minutes to land the king on the copper and by that time we were close to 300' fow and the winds were picking up. For the next two hours we couldn't move a rod no matter what we tried - fishing out to 400' and then slowly trolling west and back into 120'. All the bait clouds, fish marks from 50' on up disappeared as if someone turned a switch as soon as the winds picked up. Even when we trolled back through our waypoints in 200', the fish and bait were gone...... It wasn't until we headed back into the 120' fow area just west of the bay that we started marking a few small fish and bait again and we had two more hits right before 10:30 AM when we headed back to port. Those two fish hit a cheated rigger and a shallow wire diver 175'. One fish was a small 5-6 # king and the second a smaller 2-3# brown. The following all took fish today: 400' copper pulling a DW standard SSW 75' rigger cheated - DW SS wonderbread glow (MVP of the day) 175' wire - DW Hammertime SD with a mirage fly 60' rigger BF KOS spoon 60' cheated rigger - DW SS Gator spoon with silver back Down temp - very cold 45-49 degree water down about 60-70 feet most of the morning with a very sharp transition between 45-50 feet. Sounded like guys/gals east of us in Sodus were doing some damage on the big boys - congrats to Nick and his wife on their 30# king! I think we would have caught fire again in the late morning in shallow if we could have fished longer......oh well - tomorrow is another day. Good luck and be safe to all, - Chris

It's been absolutely terrible.....worst ever.......in fact very few fish taken. I'd stick with the western ports for sure........ In all honesty, it's great fishing - take a look at some of the reports and I think you'll see success. Good luck, Chris

Love the video man.....and the audio in the end says it all "holy......., holy.......". Great stuff - thanks for sharing, Chris

Hey guys, Thanks a bunch - I didn't realize the wind was NW and strong on Saturday. I was out last night and it was strong out of the NE, so i would presume that the inside water might be colder this morning rather than last night. Thanks again, Chris

Hello to all, Here's my question: we had another few days of rather strong NE wind and as I would expect there was an abundance of warm water in tight to the south shore and deeper "down temp". However, a few weeks back we had exactly the same scenario with strong NE wind and the result was exactly opposite with an upwelling with very cold water on top. I am addicted to understanding how the wind affects temperature, so could someone help explain why the same wind direction for two days resulted in the exact opposite in water stratification a few weeks ago compared with this past weekend? Thanks very much, Chris