2010 KOTL fall Port Dalhousie

[A-TOM-MIK]

It's looking like the Oswego area has no ground on the Wilson and Port ItDalhousie weather gods after the 2010 season.

All in all 10 Tourney KOTL Scotty days and we got only 5 in, 2 of which consisted of Oswego days

Team Vision Quest took second largest King for Dreamweaver Big Fish Friday at 33.29 lbs.

1st place was 33.88 Eddie Squaretail

3rd place was 33.25 Team Free Spirit

We also took 2nd Place over-all KOTL Champions

Congrats to Karl and team, they were the team to chase as the season wound down. Nice finish

Top 3 money spots

1) Two Fish 723.36

2) Vision Quest 653.06

3) Get It Wet 638.27

Saddest part of the whole trip was this

On our way home as weather batted last

There were a few "special" moments that were firsts for our team, getting caught in some extreme conditions and having the most kings on at once

Our program consisted of staying out of the ice with our rigs and staying on the fish. The border area was smokin' inside 150 fow. 175 wire divers were as hot as they could possibly get. 100% Attractor flies did the damage

Pre-fish/Big fish friday, one great day

Tom

[dreamsteelie]

Tom:

Here's a brief recap....

Thursday:

Same crew with high expectations.

Ended up going 13 for 22. Several would rip the divers for a while and let loose... Even dropped two hooked rigger fish. Took 2 Sharks at 29.5# and 30# mark again and several mid twenty Sharks.

Again DW Spin Doctors, DW Paddles and A-TOM-MIK flies did all of the damage except (1) new DW Captains Choice plug fish.

Fish were mostly suspended from 50-65 foot down because the ice water was high. Divers on #3 back 175 was "magic".

Unable to take quality kill shot picture as guys were not able to hold fish racks even with Ray helping. Had 25# avg. with the 10 big fish and the other 3 averaged about 10#.

Great day on Lake O.

Big Fish Friday (Game Day):

Mike (Hinks) and Tom Allen (A-TOM-MIK) joined Ray and I Friday.

Ran west again and set up about 1.3 miles from the River. Went 1 for 3 on the set up.......

Once we had all lines back in (7) of them, then it HAPPENED

First the diver, then rigger, then diver, then rigger, then copper, then diver, then rigger.. HOLY CRAP

It was only seconds after we reloaded and we all were fighting Sharks(4) and had (3) rods with line being stripped in the rod holders.... a legitimate and first ever=7 BANGER......

Never seen that one before !

We systematically landed all (7) fish. No tangles and break-offs (Thanks GAMMA). Wow, one cooler full and its early...

We had no rods in the water so we racked and ran back to the starting point and reset...

What a start. It gets better-kind of...

Fishing slowed down to a normal pace and we got our bites with subtle changes. At one point, our bite quit and we watched some other boats plow a few fish. hmmmmm. Something changed. Our cold water moved up in the water column and we determined they moved as well and maybe turned off our AM offerings. We made a dramatic color change and raised the program a little. Bingo-

We knew we needed a big guy for Dreamweaver Big Fish Friday and felt the 29.8 pounder in the box would not win it..... The storm front was fast approaching and we received a warning from Capt. Paul that she was coming.

We were getting close to quitting and we hit a double and landed both fish just as 40 knot winds hit us. Boys-rack em!

With Tom, Mike and Ray unhooking fish and bringing in lines, we were left with two rods fishing and me driving straight into a 40 knot wind... Then the inside wire set at 115' on 1.5# fires and starts screaming.....

Tom Yells, Oh &%$# not another one.... Captain Mike with cat like quickness pulls the rod out and its screaming to Olcott.. I yell, "fight it like it's "the FISH" we want" Ya never know, we need a big guy. Tom yells, "THE &%$# with that one let's get out of here"...

All the lines and weights get pulled in and Mike's fish is close. I see it and it's a big one. Tom says, NA, its just another small one (25#er' he states). (Tom wants to leave reallly bad at this point)

Ray is on the net and says, Its'a Biggy, nets it and hoisted it aboard amongst waves, white water and a mess on the deck. Wow, I say, that's the one we need.

We proceed to pull the fish out of the spare cooler from the swim platform so they are not lost on the suck ride home and now we have rods, a net and a bunch of salmon laying all over the deck as we take the "white knuckle ride" back home with zero visibility, torrential rain and 5-7 foot waves with white caps as long as the Queen Mary.....

End up 22 for 35 or 36 on Friday. What a great day. Estimated 5 big fish at 142 to 144 pounds...

What an ending.... At the DW Big Fish weigh in there were not a lot of guys weighing in... However, Capt. Lake O. (Paul weighs in one just over 33# and were like wow, thats a good one and knew it was gonna be close).

We weigh ours and just nudge him out... However, the last box to weigh gets us by a few ounces. (Nice work Eddie)

Again, A-TOM-MIK Flies teamed with DW Spin Doctors and DW Paddles did the damage (all the damage).

Team VQ finished 2nd overall in the King of The Lake race against 18 other teams. We also took two second placements and a third place in the Dreamweaver Big Fish awards out of the 5 events overall with a 34#, 33# and 29#.

It was a pretty good year and a year where a few more landed bites would have took us to first.. But we did not get all the ones we needed and that's fishing! "Congrats Team Two Fish"

I had the pleasure of fishing with some really good guys in all of the events who were dedicated and really into it. Thanks to all you guys (Mike-Tom-Ray-Shawn-Mark-Kevin) for a good solid memorable year. I am already looking forward to 2011. Also, a big thanks to Dreamweaver and A-TOM-MIK for supplying us with whatever we needed to compete including some awesome shirts and hats .

Captain Pete

Vision Quest

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[A-TOM-MIK]

Last time I had white knuckles was after one wild ride on my GSXR 1100 quite a few years ago

Good job Capt. Pete getting us safely to port. Great job on one of the best days of our year as well !!!!

Tom

[Fishtails]

Enjoyed the play by play Pete

[scobar]

WOW you guys know how to fish, I'm still learnin'