NyFallGuy

I pulled out nearly 80 pounds of kings last week off the bar, going solo with just 2 riggers. Finally smoked it all and now have room in the fridge for more! Trying to head out again later today. Last time, I went out to 230 FOW, trolled S, lines down between 75 and 85 feet down. All spoons. The only time I saw something on the scope was when they struck. Plenty of marks in 165' to 120' range, but only got hits out deeper. Great pics.

Went for our first trip to Erie, from the Canadian side. Launched from Turkey point, marked a lot of schools of bait, but no fish. Then, we headed to the drop off and landed one very good size walleye (my first), and lost the other from a line snap. It was and exploratory session, and we had to cal it quits due to waves. Fish n' chips were fabulous! Fish down 35' over 70 fow. Home made worm harnesses with a perch colored spoon/flasher. 2nd fish came with line in water for only 5 minutes.

You're exactly correct about the small fish not surviving the ride along. If I see them out there, I lighten up the tension and/or check my lines much more often. It's almost funny how good you feel about releasing a small survivor.

I keep my clips super tight too. Personally, I've felt that if the clip releases, it doesn't matter how fast I grab the rod, with any slack on the line the fish (salmon) always seems to get off the hook. I like the cannon clips. The "click...click...click" means I'm good. Oh, the only issue I've had is when the dinks are out. You could be driving around for an hour without a hit, because you've got a dink in tow.

Great report!

You could probably do an engine swap pretty easily, yes? (one boat to another)

Still new to identifying these beasts. The last king I caught, I seemed to think it looked to have more fins but didn't give it much more thought, as it was the largest I had ever caught. Niagara bar.

I find it so exciting. No, actually, it's nuts. I go out alone running 2 down riggers. When I get one on I have to look up to see where the traffic is and engage the auto-pilot, a.k.a the bungee cord. It's not so great. Try fighting a fish and steering with your butt through traffic. It gets intense.

The hackers got into the government system by sending out a trojan horse update to the government. Thinking they were simply updating their infrastructure monitoring software, they wound up passing it along from one system to another. This move gave the hackers "back doors" to systems all over the place. Basically, it was a little more sophisticated than simply guessing that some slacker used "Admin" and "Password" on their desktop, not that that doesn't happen far too often, sadly.

There was definitely a crowd out at the bar today. Water was nearly glass. I don't even want to imagine how crowded it will be tomorrow.