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That is an awesome looking King. Great colors. Encouraging report too.

Haven't fished since the SCS so we finally got out again last night. It was a little choppy so we dropped the lines in 75 fow looking for some brownie and steelie action. About 10 minutes in we picked up a decent brown on a diver with a green and black Moonshine down near the bottom. Kept working out to about 120 as our deepest. Picked up a small brown on a 42nd spoon on a rigger down about 85. I was given the honor of the day's only mud chicken. Ended up with a nice steelie to finish 4 for 4. Not a bad night for a quick two hour run. The waves started picking up enough to make things too much work to stay out. On a good note, except for the wire lines we had next to no fleas. Looking forward to a weekend of fishing east winds or not.

OK, that's what I thought would only make sense. Thanks Rich. Hopefully we'll see ya there.

I noticed rule #14 states that "each participant, by paying the entry fee....". Is the $50 entry per boat or per person? Probably a dumb question, I know.

Yeah, I got bucket. Would you like the picture of your fish expander? That's a nice 24 pounder your holding there.

Oh yeah, I just re-read your post. I read it last night also. Nice fishing out there. You guys seem to consistently do well.

Thanks. Did you guys find a deeper bite at 9am?

We got the lines in at around 5:30 again. Started in 150 fow and worked out to 380 fow. Picked up a small king on a Finger Lakes Tackle SSW 90 down over 340 fow. A while later it was a 5lb coho on an NK DWB 100 down over 240 fow. What action there was stopped so we moved into 130 to 160 fow and put down the cow bells. We did 4 lakers, the biggest going about 10 lbs, and called it a day. Seems like we should have stuck closer to the pack today. Everything was on riggers. We're off to the Sandy Creek Shootout next weekend to try and not come in last again.

Nice day of fishing! We got lucky, our guy who partied too much last night emailed me at 2am with a "you won't see me today" message. It took all the guess work out of it.

Nice fishing. Is it me or has the evening bite been better this year than previous years?

No problem, we'll get back out again. What's the word on your boat? When will they have you back in the water?

Nice fish. That is a beautiful Atlantic. It looks like you got a little bit of everything in there.

7/12 Went out at 5 and caught a great sunrise. Straight out to 170 and set up 2 riggers, two wires and two lead cores. Slowly worked out to 250. By 7:30 we were three for three on skippys. One was so small I thought it was an alewive at first. Finally picked up a 7# king on an NK dirty white boy. Two of the skippys came on a green, silver and orange Silver Horde. Lost one on the DWB. We were fishing the riggers at anywhere between 80 and 120. Just tried to keep them in the temp around 44 or 45 deg. Missed a couple of hits on the lead core and had a lead core and wire diver go simultaneously at one point but no one home on either one. They weren't tangled when they came in. Who knows? Called it a day at 11 when the fuel gauge started making me nervous.. 7/13 Headed out at 5 again and set up a little shallower to start around 120. Only ran 2 riggers and two wire divers all day. Around 140 fow right on the bottom we picked up a 13# laker on a black and fire tiger Poonie. Kept heading out and at 215 fow about 85 down we did a 15.6 # king on DWB. Circled back around slowly and did a 17.5 # king on a Williams HQ spoon, red, silver and blue, almost on top of our last GPS mark on the wire diver. Diver was a #5 Chinook diver set at four 190' back. Managed another laker, about 6 or 7 lbs by 7:45 or so. Spent an hour and a half moving between 200 and 250. Marks but no takers. Weather started to really pick up we and headed in at 9:15. That was a fun ride in. Got back into I-Bay at around 10 or 10:15 and set up for some warm water fishing. I lost what fought like a big Sheepie. Larry picked up a 20" Walleye and Gina a nice largemouth. We then really took it to the Silver Bass, taking five or six 4 ouncers on riggers and stick baits. Having a hard time getting pictures off of my phone. Here's a few including our Silver Bass double.

Started out at 5:30 with Pike Freak and couple of other usual suspects. Set up in 175 straight out and kept heading north. Temps all over the place and crazy currents at times. Found 46 deg down about 125 for a while. At 225 fow 100 down and 2.2 on the subtroll on a black and white NK with green tape Pike Freak got a nice king 17 lbs. I dropped something on a silver, orange and yellow DW on 6 colors of lead. Finished up with a 5lb king on the same NK at the same depth and called it a night. Lots of marks in the 225 area. Lots of streakers too. Changed up the speed in both directions but they wouldn't take it. It was a garbage dump out there at times. Caught some plastic, some deflated balloons and some sticks and weeds as well. Pike Freak already posted his picture and it was a pleasure fishing with him. Congrats on your first king.