King Slammin

I like that fish master plecos. Starcrafts are hard to beat

I think I'll be concentrating my efforts on Erie walleye until you two show me some pics of kings. Lol

We decided to head a little west of our home port of olcott this morning, hoping to find warmer water since the last week or so of never ending east winds. We launched at about 5:15 and found some 50 degree water out front but temp started dropping fast after 40 FOW. We setup heading Northwest in 80' and immediately hooked a laker on the port rigger while setting our third rod. We picked up a few more while heading out to deeper water trying to locate some kings. After awhile without any action and a blank screen we turned southwest in 185 FOW. Once we hit 115 FOW we found some more lakers. Still heading southwest, our port rigger fired again but this time she was screaming to Canada. My buddy had on some black and green Big Jon spoon and a feisty king smacked it. He ran out 125' of line on the first run. Almost as soon as we had him turned he came unbuttoned. Damn!! We picked away at the lakers for another hour or so but a breeze kicked up out of the east and seemed to shut things down. I saw a couple fish on the surface today and ran a stickbait for about an hour with no luck until I was pulling lines. As soon as I pulled the board off, I felt a fish grab the stickbait. Ended up being a nice skinny steelhead fresh out of the tribs. Great day on the water but man am I getting sick of the Lakers.

I did something similar. No switch on my boat but I ran 6 ga from pos and neg to a fuse block and ran each rigger off the block. There's a 30 amp inline fuse on pos lead to block as well. Plus I have 8 fused places left to attach other accessories with out cluttering the battery terminals. I also strongly agree on the track. Get as much as you can afford. I'm a multi species guy now with my new boat and I can take the equipment off in less than 5 minutes if needed.

We were fishing "off the cuff" so to speak. My buddy had the spin n glow heads and we just slipped them on to some atomik flies and added a few beads. I had one lake troll/ cowbell that ended up taking a third of the fish on a diver. I fish for kings but we weren't having any luck so we adapted. Speed was 1.8-2.2

Good to hear you got a king bud!!! That's what we were missing. Heading back to Erie for perch on Monday!!!

I had spoons, bay rats and challengers out on boards targeting the same water (45-60 down) and could not get bit. That frustrated me but we were busy enough for two people with the wires and riggers so it was probably a good thing. We were looking for one or two good kings and just didn't happen. Soon enough though

I don't usually fish for them. I had one lake troll on board and my flashers. My buddy had some spin n glows. We modified some atomik flies with the spin n glows to run behind the white green dot flashers and made it work. It's all about adapting and figuring out what works. That goes for any kind of fishing. Couldn't get bit on spoons

It is my new boat. Finally starting to get used to things on it and it's catching fish. Gonna be a great year

The sunrise cruising through the pier heads in the morning never gets old. We headed out to 70 FOW and headed north west. Got our spread in and as soon as we hit 85', wires were on fire pulling glow goby lake troll with spin n glows and white green dot spinnie with spin n glow. We tried spoons on the riggers with fixed and free sliders but couldn't get them to fire so we went with more white green dots and spin n glows. And immediately doubled on a rigger and a wire. The 58' rigger would not stay down for longer than 2 minutes without taking a fish at times. We left spoons and sticks on boards with 2 to 6 oz of drop weights and various leads with no success. No bait and only a few marks today but we finished 40 out of 45 bites. All lakers up to 18 lbs. 6 doubles, 2 triples, and a quad with just my buddy Steelie1975 and I aboard. I have to say, the new boat catches fish and I LOVE the autopilot on my minn kota.