School Master Report- Sept 3 and 4

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Saturday morning- headed out in the dark to get set up before the sun came up... on the way out, the screen on 60-80 fow looked good so we set up and headed east. Trolled for about 30 minutes in 75 FOW before hitting our first fish- 8 lb brown on a moonshine, down 70. Kept going east towards Watuma, and the dipsy starts screaming out line, landed a 24 lb king. From then on, it was a slow pick of kings- all on dipsy's and spin drs, drowns and lakers on spoons in the riggers. We never went deeper then 115 fow...... ended up with around 10 bites, 3 of which were decent kings in the low 20s.

Sunday- the thunder sent us back to bed to sleep in. Hit the water at 8:30 AM and set up in the same area as the day before. 88 fow proved to be the best for us. We fished for 3 hours in the morning, went in for lunch and then came back out and fished until about 3 pm. Ended the day with 4 kings, all in the 20s. 3 on the divers, one came on a spoon- silverstreak black/purple. 4 lakers and 3 browns........ The water temp was all messed up. We found a pocket of colder water that was holding fish and just kept on working it....... 2.4 mph on the probe was the only speed we had a release at.......... east or west troll did not matter as long as it was 2.4...... At the depth we were fishing, the good temp was within 3 feet of the bottom. The only rigger that fired was literally in the mud.......

For the few hours we fished on Sunday, it was the best day we have had this season for quality of kings. The first king we took was black, literally it looked like it had been in the creek for a week already. It's entire stomach had already turned black it was the darkest king I have ever seen in the lake.

Oh- almost forgot... I also landed a 4" goby that was snagged. Surprisingly, it really did not fight very hard.