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[motoman]

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name: tomahawk

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TRIP OVERVIEW good too great

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Date(s):6/23

Time on Water:8hrs

Weather/Temp:80

Wind Speed/Direction:10 to 15 west

Waves: 2 to 3

Surface Temp: 77 to 80

Location:

LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): off devils nose to trout bay

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 30 plus

Total Boated :25 give or take a few

Species Breakdown :everthing but an atlantic

Hot Lure: very mixed spoons fly's

Trolling Speed: 2.5 2.9

Down Speed: 2.2 2.4

Boat Depth: 100 too 170

Lure Depth: 50 too 110

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS (friday pre fish)

aw man this was a fun weekend and i'm disapointed that i have too wait a whole year for it too come agian todays kinda like the ride home from a good vacation LOL, ok here is how it went down for us (in a blaze or glory) .lol started out friday evening for a little check the water temps and picture out for the morning to come, set down in 80 fow off the pump house set the auto pilot on a north west troll and was suprized to see the temps didn't change much from the wind we had all week! set rigger 55 to 100 down and mag dive's out 140 and 160 on 1.5 settings with spin doc's and flys, outside of them we had the slide diver's with mag spoons out 160 and 180 on 2.5 settings everything was firing, spoons where moonshine carbon 14 and doudle trouble, northern king glow gator, and stinger 42nd for spoons. spin dotor's were the 42nd and a chrome green dot. Everthing would take shots and we boated 15 to 20 fish in 4.5 hrs with 2 kings over 20lb so we where feeling good about working though the smaller one's in the morning to make a nice box of 4 bigger fish in the morning for the shootout! We headed back too port and got eveything ready to throw down in the morning too come.

(saturday morning)

We left the dock at first light ran down past the pump house and set up in about 120 fow set on a north west troll, started hitting fish right away small steelhead and skipper kings with a lake trout dragging here and there going though the lines every 15 mins to make sure no laker's were swimming along with us killing are spread about 2 hrs in and we had 16lb king and a 11lb king out of 10 fishing we would hit another dozen fish over the next few hrs with the best size of 7 or 8 lbs now we had 4 in the box and need to up grade big time so the team made the dicision to move off the pile of bait and fish in the 140 range of water and move out side of it to see if we could find some later in the morning active larger ones! same thing slow pick of small fish with no real upgrade till about noonish the 180 mag wire take's off screamimg and i know this will be an up grade fish! Elliott's got the rod after struggling to get it out of the holder and 15 mins later a 18lb king hit the deck and he fell victom too the 42nd spin doc with a siggs green apple fly! Ok things were looking better with the box, thinking we needed atleast one more up grade to get into the money of a large feild of good fisherman! 1:30pm hits and low and behold the too large kings come on to the sceen I quickly tell are two rods man alex and elliott too watch the rods no sooner I said it the same wirer take's off a secound time with another screemer! After two big runs the fish stopped for about 5 secounds and would turn to make his 3rd run to never be turn (gone)! The line went limp and all of are excitment was lost we pulled lines and headed to weigh in too see where we would stand and would find out that we where just a few pounds short with are 92.25 point box to finish in the money ending are day in 10th place. we would hang out and chat with some good folks , have some food from the vendor and win some tackle with the door prize give away! all in all was a good day and we had are chance's to finish better but hay thats the fun of fishing high's and lows good time's were had on the tomahawk once agian! HATS off the the TROUT-N -ABOUT team for there 2nd sandy creek shoot out win!

captian Jonthan Ross

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