Ruff Rider 4th of July out of Sodus

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Gonna try to keep up with live reports but with the new autopilot the wife sleeps more than fishes lol. Hit a small king over 180fow 80' rigger on a firetiger and a 12lb king on 500' copper over 280fow. Temps are way down... 58' down 85 over 300 fow. 53' down 85 over 450 fow.

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Strange... I turned around to head back and with the same downspeed my probe reads 45' down 85 over 450fow... Must be less blowback this direction.

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Just had my dacron backer on the 500' copper snap, no fish on or anything... Luckily the rubber band held the line to the planer release and I saved it all... Time to buy new backing!

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Green water is 230fow in...

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[BAZOOKAJOE]

As i sit here at work today...i'm extremely jealous!

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Yea its beautiful out here today, fish arent real cooperative, but there are kings around.

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[BAZOOKAJOE]

You know what they say: "a bad day fishin is better than a good day workin"!

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10lb laker down 120' over 210fow.

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250 dipsey firetiger over 220fow.

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[BAZOOKAJOE]

Firetiger is hot in Sodus! I caught a lot of browns on that color this past spring.

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85 down over 140fow. Blue spoon.

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[Big Dave]

Green water is 230fow in...

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Looks like red water to me!!!!

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Stopped in at the local tackle shop.... Warrens. The people there are great and they have a huge selection.

That pic probably only shows 1/4 of the store. They also are a loc weigh station.

The shop is family run (Dawn and Casey above).

They bent over backwards tonight to help me get my copper fixed up, even stayed open late.

I also bought a new dipsey rod tonight

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[jennings]

Thanks for the sodus report. Got a 20 pd king last weekend and am headed there now. Warrens are great. Good luck everyone.

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Another beautiful day on Lady O!

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Hooked up! 120' rigger.

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10lb laker.... Also missed shots on 85' and 120' rigger. Over 160 fow.

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The wifes first threesome... Two fish one line!

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New copper backing broke rubber band saved copper again.... Must have a nick in an eye or something.

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Small steely 120' dip with orange spoon.

Lost a nice one 90' rigger kevorkian.

Lost small guy 320' dipsy wonderbread white fly. All within 5 mins.... Mayhem!

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Ruff Rider's life lesson... taking a leak and a rod pops next to you... Which rod do you grab? The one with the fish of course! Then fight it the best you can with your shorts around your ankles, while your wife laughs her ass off at ya.

90' rigger kevorkian, bent swivel open and gone.

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Gettin pretty rough pointing her towards port.

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Double on chicas... 95' rigger and 320' dipsey over 235 fow.

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Another double on chicks. 350 dips and 95' rigger.

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Arneys Marina, our home away from home. A great little marina run by some great folks. There are two gas stations, one up the side creek and one out on the bay. They also have a two lane launch that I find much easier than the public launch.

Most importantly, they approve of fisherman. Myself and the other fisherman chipped in last year and put together a real nice cleaning station. If you're ever in town feel free to use it, but please clean thoroughly after and absolutely no gut dumping in the marina bay area or dumpsters.

The marina plans to block off our fishing area and add a couple more picnic tables and a walkway sometime soon.

We were hoping to watch the fireworks from the bay tonight, but there are a crazy amount of people out there for the weekend (normally sodus is a pretty quiet bay, a ghostown so far this year).

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