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Thanks for the report an good luck on the salmon fishing! I'm hoping to get out after browns again this week.

Nice going! After hammering them on Monday we struggled out of Ibay today, only bringing one brown to the boat. Fished 9:00-1:00

No I never tried the divers of a planer board. I wouldnt be surprised if you could get a # 1 chinook of a planer board. We had 12 ft leaders of the divers. Divers out 15 to 25 ft was working for us.

First time out on the big pond this year. Went out of Ibay set up with 2 riggers, 2 chinook divers #2 on a 4 setting that I was using for the first time, and 4 rods of the planers. We ran spoons of the riggers and divers, smithwicks on the one side planers an bayrats onthe other side. Probably caught about equal fish on all setups. The bayrats were slow so we changed them out for spoons with 1 oz sinkers and ended getting 3 or 4 on those. I put 10 lb fluro leaders on my chinnook divers which was a mistake, cracked of 3 till we changed to 15 lb. We found the best in 12 to 20 fow lots of action, I think we finished like 23 for 28. 4 cohos the rest were browns. Picture below of lures that were working for us. Blue hulk was really good but lost them both on the divers, guess i'll have to get more.

Thanks for taking the time to do the reports Rick! Always interesting.

I don't know the condition of the ice, but when I drove past north end yesterday there was 4 tents out there.

The Branchport side locked up the other night. Don't know if it will get thick enough before the warm weather thats coming.

About 12 inch of ice in 20 fow, I Haven't been out deeper but that thick original ice goes out almost a mile.

Wow that is way down. For hemlock we usally walked in from north end which is just a short walk

Thanks. I might try it next week, sounds like faily cool weather in the coming weeks.

Does anyone know if Hemlock or Canadice lake has ice? Would like to go jig for Lakers.

We are getting out from indian pines. Lake was froze a mile out. Last week it gave a pressure crack from a mile out in to indian pines with some open water an week ice, only about 20 ft. wide, you have to be careful and get around that. I'll be out tomorrow. Bass, pickeral, maybe a pike on tipups. Lakers out in 20 fow jigging. I dont do the panfish- perch jigging but there is plenty people at it.

This is the number you will be looking for on the north latitude. I know on my onx app there are different settings for the coordinates so you have to be sure its on the right one or numbers won't hold out. I think DMS is what you want. Google maps would have it to but it does'nt hold out on my phone, my phone settings must be wrong.

Went out of Sandy today with a few buddies. Lake was flat and forecast was good so I pointed the starcraft fishmaster to the north and started out at about the 27 line. Never did ofshore before on my boat. Lines in at 9:45 had a good hit on dipsie with meat before we were done setting up but he come of right away. About the 28 line the other dipsie goes with a big fish after a long fight we got a new best for my boat a 24.8 lb king. Spent the rest of the day around the 30 line with about 6 more kings mostly smaller ones. Also lost a nice steelhead as a net job went bad. Riggers were set 70-95 down. Dipsies out 260-320 on a 2.5 setting. Coppers were quite all spoon bite after the first hit. Lines out at 1:45 A fun day with steady action an finally beat our previous best 23 lbs from few years ago. Good luck an have fun

I havn't been out in a while, but I'll be going tomorrow. By the sounds of it my hopes are'nt to high but we'll see. Might consider running offshore if the lake is flat.

Wow! You keep getting better at this!

Thats awesome! I have jigged many fingerlakes lakers. Never tried kings but one of these days I will.

We were out from Sandy 9:30 to 1:30 A little slower for us today. Fished in 80 to 110 for a while dropping a screamer on artificial meat an picking up a laker. Headed north after a while an got a double when we hit 145 fow both mid teen kings. But then it shut of again went back in to 80 to finish the day with another laker and a shaker.