tenatureboy

HB2 Agreed great year! In the 40+ years I have fished the lake since a kid I have never seen action like this June and July. I will say I was never that good as some out there but with a freezer full of fillets by early July and throwing 10lb fish back it was an incredible time!! Friends didn’t believe it under they experienced it! But the question I asked a buddy was the same… where are the little guys 1-6 lbs that we were throwing back the last 2-3 years to have this banner year?? Along with gator my boat will be in storage around mid September then a trip the the DSR before the western streams pick up! Only year 3 on the Tribs and it is my new addiction! Take a pic let it go and repeat!

Followed you guys out to the lake. We headed NW as you headed NE similar first bite with only a 300 and dipsey in the water the 300 goes with a 20lb king Not lights out hit numbers but we landed all we had on the hook when the rods got in our hands. Boated 10 only 2 no one home rips on steel and dipsy 8 kings 2 bows. Top kings were 22 and 20 several in the mid teens only 1 under 10lbs. Filleted 4 the rest were given the chance to fight another day Ended the morning with a double at 9am in 95 fow Green white spin dr with meat 2x on rigger green gator magnum 3x on 300 steel and dipsy dirty white boy 2x on rigger black with white glow ladder black 3x on dipsy, rigger and 300 steel

23-12 great day with my best friend! we may get knocked off the board in the weeks to come but we were on it! yes I had a scale and it was just over the 24 lb line on the boat!

Not weighed in yet but guess the weight!

Congrats we were out a little deeper in 140-160 fow fished 6-9am went 10 of 15. Mainly spoons last fish on meat at 9. Fish up to 16lbs. 300 steel with the spoon below was hot along with a black silver green 42 in the riggers down 80-50 Couldn’t break 20 but who cares!!!! 6 of 10 fish over 10lbs today! This is the best I have had in 40 plus years on the lake! yes I caught two 30lbers in the 80-90s as a kid but I will take this fishery now any day! I actually got to reel one in today but my daughter caught the biggest 2! happy 4th of July!

Too much to text now 130-150 otw off hamlin 300 steel taking shots riggers 50-70 down All spoons black and green 42 green gator mag had to fillet a couple to make room in the cooler!

Only socks Fred!!!

Slow pick in the same 180 fow this morning but catching them with my daughter! happy Father’s Day!

Now I feel 50/50 about our lack of success. Fished 630–9pm. Most Marks in 140ish fow with few Empty knock offs. Then again in 90-120 fow tried knocking a laker on the head in 100 fow at last light for the guys with me and found we were dragging a 15” king on a 300 steel. at least is was a nice sunset!

Out of sandy now 430pm trolled 160-300. Zero back into 120 fow searching for something still foggy!!

Long weekend at wilson. Didn’t do as well as some but did well enough to take plenty of fillets home. When your buddies think you are crazy when you tell them you were releasing up to 10lbs kings then they go out with you the next day and do the same they realize it is crazy! Saturday first it was a 200 steel that took the shots then a couple rigger hits then a dipsy kept getting clobbered then it was all riggers. 100-140 fow. Spoon preference change every hour. What took fish at 8am just dragging in the water at 9. Sometime we could t get back rigged up before another rod popped! sunday it was all riggers for us no steel or dipsy hits! Again spoons changed each hr with each flurry of hits largest king was 18lbs smallest fish was below!!! Caught after watching my rods bounce as the lines pulled thru the bait! call out to Tacklemaster Matt for sharing on the water!

Lady O started nice with 2-3’ waves then later in the morning the NE wind started ripping. Lady O is roaring now!! Boated 5 nothing over 12#. Another handful of knockoffs. Best water for us was just west of wilson 120-150 fow. Dirty white boy hit a few. Seasick waddler and white/blue spin dr east Wind pushed us to almost the bar ending in a 45 minute wet and bumpy run back to Wilson a couple of coolers at the weigh in had some 19 # kings but nothing for the board