Sandy Ofshore 8/26

[reeltrout]

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

[Benny Roeger]

When you say 27 and 30 line what do you mean ? I can't find anything about that but always here people say it 

[tds840]

They are the North Latitude lines on your GPS.  Below is the approximate water depths at each line that I copied and pasted from an earlier post a few years back.

 

Depth Of Water

23N 50'

24N 100'

25N 250'

26N 300'

27N 400'

28N 450'

29N 500'

30N 550'

31N 575'

32N 600'

33N 610'

34N 605'

35N 600'

36N 590'

37N 560'

If you continue trolling north after this and the numbers keep dropping, it means perhaps you should do a 180, unless you have a Canadian license.

[Benny Roeger]

Cool, I can't figure out how to get that setting on my GPS, I got a Lowrance eliet 9ti . I'll mess around with it later today when I'm out there. Thanks!

[reeltrout]

4 hours ago, Benny Roeger said:

When you say 27 and 30 line what do you mean ? I can't find anything about that but always here people say 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.

[Wargofam]

I appreciate that you're fishing out of Sandy, but when fishing out of the Western basin (e.g., Olcott), you can use the following to correlate minutes of latitude and the depth. This should give you a good idea of how the two work together.  Good luck.