Sk8man

Well Hop and I went out this AM after Hop got his beauty sleep. Never depend on your cat as an alarm clock....highly unreliable We started in about 40- ft on west side and trolled south. Just south of the country club in 106 ft we nailed a landlock on flutter spoon set at 40 ft on main nothing on cheater He was about 3 lbs. and hooked real bad so we boxed him for Hop's supper. A little while later we connected a double on wire dipseys running about 60 -70 ft respectively and Hop landed a laker about 3 lbs or so on a wonderbread Spin Doc with a white home made fly. My fish (I presume laker) got off on the way in. Lost a couple more as day went on possibly also lakers but we were trolling pretty fast and they didn't quite get hooked real good...they were also on the flies behind the deeper divers. Hop then nailed another landlock on the downrigger set at 41 ft with a spoon and cheater and again hit the main spoon. Along the way when we started out toward the middle from the west side we encountered a large amount of floating grass and had to clear lines way too many times. Went east then north not much happening so we called it a day at about 11:30 AM. Oh and did I forget to mention that north of Roy's where the beginning of the shelf is we were busily BS'ing about past "messes etc. and not watching what we were doing and we came from 100 ft into 22 ft of water and hung up both downriggers, both wire dipseys, a lead core and a TX 44 with braid on the bottom. My downrigger wire was about half way gone on the spool . Luckily we salvaged everything without losing any stuff....Here's two guys with about 90 years of experience between them making a rookie look good Moral of the story: Have one guy BS while the other maintains "lookout" and pretends to be listening For most of the morning the lake was like glass and we had a lot of fun.

Moldman you have a PM

The 5 hp extra is probably not a major problem but all the things Lund SSS said are the real concerns..... I agree not a good move.

Sorry to hear about the boat problem but congrats on the marriage Nick

Holy crap! Is it engine stuff again Nick?

Gator make s a great point....we tend to think in terms of unlimited supplies of fish in the lakes sometimes but not so...fishing pressure sure can change things around pretty quickly.

Good report Jim and the puzzle lives on...what the heck is happening out there....just about everyone is saying the same thing marking but not biting. I'm wondering if they are possibly feeding primarily at night .... I think you'll be happier with the new Sea Flee line from Fishy's ....I'm loving my new roller rod from there last week.

No matter who you are or what you have we are all only renting....you can't take any of it with you....it's only money....I'm practicing for next time my wife and I discuss the UPS package that comes addressed to me

Nice work Rick It is also a very good example for all of us that it is important to "change gears" when things just aren't happening with the kings whether charter or sportie. It's all about creating or following the action and is something to keep in the forefront of our minds instead of getting caught up in the "same old same old" when things are slow. Great pics and report.

They work in shallow (less than 50 ft) in the Spring with the medium and magnum sized divers but only the smaller sets of cowbells and you usually have to crank down the tension on the diver to avoid false releases because of the drag on the dipsey trigger. I've caught lakers (peanuts), a brown (spoon) and also a rainbow with a worm harness trailing behind the cowbells on Seneca Lake. I think of it as one of my "desperation" tools rather than a "go to" setup

same ole Hop