Wife wanted to go on the boat for an hour or so this afternoon. Decided to take a ride around the bay, offshore a little sloppy and it was going to be a short ride. Watched a lot of boats blast through the channel, not something I want to do. Saw a boat, 16 or 17 adults and 2 or 3 little girls without life jackets try to go north through the channel trimmed down at enough power to throw a big wake. They buried the prop in the section that’s only a couple feet deep. 4 or 5 guys got out and pushed it back in the channel and last I saw they were drifting north.
Took a fly by but no way I could tow them anywhere into a stiff south wind through two feet of water.
Pete is a lake trout guy also. Finger lakes and Ontario. Has done it for many years. Based on the smile on his face, he just may be doing a little more of this.
Pete Collin from the site a couple days ago and wanted to jig for kings. Pete has jigged for lakers for many years but has caught very few kings while laker fishing. We left the dock at 5:30 and pulled at 10:00. Pete landed four kings and lost a couple. I didn’t catch a king today but did get a bow. Fun morning, great company and exciting fishing. Hard to beat.
We fish the marks. Using 2oz jigs. I do use a light action line counter to drop or raise on marks. In all fairness tomorrow will be my third time doing it.
Rigged up two rods today. Mono backing, 300 feet of 20 lb braid with 15 lb fluorocarbon leaders. Just need the jigs to show up. How long did you guys have to wait for your deliveries from Mission Tackle? Tournaments Friday through Sunday, hope they show up next week!
We didn’t have a ton of marks but there were some. We fished that depth to be out of the pack of boats fishing in 100 ish. Had my hands full crew wise and no autopilot. We didn’t have major current or speed issues and fleas and fly’s were non existent. Had meat and mags out, never ran faster than 2.4 at the ball.