off rochester 5-28

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Fished this am with my friend Jeff Tallon. Got set up off the river in 120fow about 7:30. Just setting the fourth rod and the first goes off. Jeff grabs it and starts it coming in. Center rod fires and I grab that. Both fish, small kings, at the back of the boat and the wire dipsy (out 60@ 2.5) white dodger and fly starts singing. Told Jeff to grab it as it was next to him and I released the to salmon. Jeff brought in 12-8 steelie. The next 2.5 hours were very steady with a few kings and many steelhead. Ticket was 25-30 back and down with free sliders taking 3/4 of the fish. Left at 10:30 as Jeff had to go haul firewood. It was hard not to go back out but ended up taking the kayaks down to Hemlock for a spin. Spoons were Nolife mag, glowfrog NK28, and orange Stingers.

Ended up losing no fish - 5 kings and 9 or ten steelies. Did release a steel just shy of 12# as stupid me thought they needed to be 12# minimum. Oh well someone else may enjoy catching him!

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