Olcott 9/3/11

[Tim Bromund]

Started East of Port between the microwave and the plant. Only had a couple hits inside in 60-80 fow, both on the 120 diver. First one was a big hit with the rod pounding and then gone, apparently I must have inadvertently overtightened the drag because it straightened the snap and took my only green/glow opti inticer that has been one of my better paddles over the past couple years. Put a green/glow protroll out in its place and that fired a couple minutes later with an 8 or 9 lb domestic rainbow, nice thick chunky fish already pinking up nicely.

After a while with no further action we pointed it north and trolled offshore. hit steady action between the 25 and 27 lines, all coming on a gator spinny and big weenie's version of the hammer fly (blue weenie I think) on the 70' rigger, ended up with 2 teenage kings and 9 or 10 additional cookie cutter 6-8 lb steelies. No other rod took a hit despite having other stuff in the same general area.

I'll be glad when the derby is over and boat traffic will die back to nothing. I hate combat fishing.

Tim

[143447]

Thanks for the report.

Can't wait to hit Golden Hills again after the derby craze dies off

[Storm Warning II]

Heard you talking to Chad out there Tim, almost chimed in to say hello.

We joined the battle troll...

Report for the weekend to follow...