Port Bay 7-10-09 Report...FANTASTIC!!

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Finders Keepers : Fishing Report

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s): 7-10-09

Time on Water: 5:00 AM – 2:30 PM

Temp/Weather: 78°F and sunny

Wind Speed/Direction: S at 12 MPH becoming light/variable)

Waves: 1-2 Footers, Calm

Surface Temp: 69°F

Location: Port Bay to East of Silos

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 14

Total Boated: 9

Species Breakdown: 5 Kings, 3 Steelhead, 1 Atlantic

Hot Lure: White Echip/Little Boy Blue Fly, Die Hard Mag, White Echip/Ultra Violet Fly, Green Echip/42 Second Fly

Trolling Speed: 2.5-2.7 mph

Boat Depth: 120-160 ft

Lure Depth: 80-130 ft

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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Got on the water with Woody a little after 5am and set-up NE of Port Bay over 80 fow. The screen looked fantastic with bait and quite a few fish all hugging the bottom. We worked 80-100 fow for an hour or so without a touch so we decided to slide out a bit deeper to the 100-130 fow range. Soon thereafter we boated a small king over 115 fow on a white echip/ultraviolet fly. We had a couple more releases on the riggers running purple glow spoons with nobody home and our screen began to go blank so we took a swing out to 160 fow (which looked barren) so we turned back around to slide back into the 120-130 fow range again. On the way back one of our wire rods got slammed over 150 fow. This major ran out 150 ft of cable within seconds!! Then a few hard head bobs and it was gone! That one hit a green echip/42 second fly out 500' on a #2 setting. Once we got back into that 120-130 fow range we began a steady pick at them picking up several kings, a couple steelhead, a nice Atlantic, and a 16" lamprey. The lamprey was left on our fly after one of our wire rods got hammered, then dropped:

We ran our riggers with 120-165 ft of cable out, our wires were out 450 to 575 on either a one or a two setting, and our best sfc speed was 2.6 mph. Fish came on the following: white echip with white glow ladderback/little boy blue fly, green echip/42 second fly, diehard mag spoon, purple glow R&R mag, white echip/ultraviolet fly, and white with green glow spots echip/black white glow fly. Things slowed down a bit after 1pm, but just before we were about to call it a day, we doubled up on the riggers with a nice 13lb king and 7lb steelhead with the riggers out 48 and 135 ft over 125 fow. We ended the day 9 for 14 (biggest king was 16 lbs) and wish we could have seen/boated the majors we lost!!

Here are a few pictures from the day:

We're hoping to get back out on Monday...

[oldtimer]

Thanks for the details in your report, Tim - sure haven't had that kind of "luck"!

[everett]

nice day out

[tcon]

Now thats Catchin !

Nice job Tim...

[Grady95]

So, that's what a day of fishing is supposed to look like!

Good for you. Hope to be putting up some pictures to match soon. Best of luck on Monday. Let us know how the day goes.

Grady

[Finders Keepers]

I have to say, that was probably one of the best days we've had in over a year. And the weather couldn't have been better! However, looks like the bigger kings were off of Oswego that day as indicated by the LOC board... or it could have been simply due to the increased number of boats prefishing for the Pro-Am there. Hopefully the fishing will stay hot and we can throw some bigger fish in the mix! We did have two slam our wires that came unbuttoned that may have been 20+, we'll never know, but that's fishing for ya...

[Cheers]

Good catch, bet those arms are feeling good with 500 wires and fleas. Fished Sodus and found steelhead 50 to 60 feet down with one teen king in 60 plus degrees. Worked 170 to 240 with heavy fleas and marks were down 150 to 200 plus. Worked a good temp break down around 80 to 90 feet, but no rogue's

[muskybob]

Excellent post. Congrats on a fine catch.

[Finders Keepers]

Yeah, our arms & backs got a work-out, not only from the long wires, but I have manual riggers with 15lb sharks too! So bringing those up from 100+ ft every time was a lot of work. But I don't mind working out and getting a tan when we're sliming up the back of the boat!!

Also, after about noon or so we started marking a ton of high marks in the 20 to 50 ft range, so that is why we moved one of our riggers up to 48 ft of cable (running about 35 ft down) to see if we could get those to go and we found out soon that they were steelhead. We had to come in soon thereafter, and I am wishing we had moved a rigger up sooner. So if you see high marks, don't be affraid to run some shallow steelhead lines!!

[SMann40]

Looks like you had a great day on the water! Nice catches!

[TOP SECRET]

wow what lake were you fishing on? We were out of Sodus a bit Saturday and it wasn't nearly as calm as your pics make it look! Then again we were out a bit deeper, so maybe that south wind was calmer in shallow.

Nick

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Hey Nick,

Early on Friday it was bumpy if you went out past 160 fow. I think it was even more so on Saturday (we didn't get out on Saturday).

[TOP SECRET]

oh ok I misread your report, I thought that was Saturday!!!! That makes sense now! Fishing was excellent Saturday, but we only fished 2hrs in the morning and 2hrs in the evening due to thunderstorms

Nick

[kbdymond]

Great post. BEAUTIFUL fish.....Loved the pictures!!!

[Jolly II]

Nice box of fish Guys!! Glad to see that there are some kings showing up after a couple of slow weekends out of Hughes.