9-18-11 Finders Keepers Salmon River Report

[Finders Keepers]

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name: Finders Keepers

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s): 9/18/11

Time on Water: 5am - 2pm

Weather/Temp: Sunny Cool

Wind Speed/Direction: light and variable

Waves: none

Surface Temp: 64

Location: Salmon River

LAT/LONG (GPS Cords):

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 3

Total Boated: 1

Species Breakdown: King

Hot Lure: None

Trolling Speed: 2.2-2.4

Down Speed:

Boat Depth: 15 - 90

Lure Depth: sfc - 65

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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Got on the water today for our last outting of the year. Hit the water early and were greeted by many splashes in the river. We started right at the river mouth trolling J-plugs and spoons. After 2 hours of changing colors and leads with no hits, and once we were almost forced into the pier by another boat, we decided to slide out a bit and leave the combat trolling arena! On our first swing through the 40 foot zone we had a rip on the 85 ft wire pulling a white/green dot spin doc with hypnotist fly, but after a couple whacks it was gone. We worked the area for another couple hours before our next hit, which came on the 75 ft wire pulling a green scale spin doc with a Jawbreaker sushi fly. It ripped out 300' of cable and burned through its steam, as it came right in to the boat after that:

A nice 30 lb female. We then continued to work the area for another hour or so before our 85 ft wire got whaled on, but once again after a couple whacks, it was gone. That one came on a Rrred echip with hypnotist fly. That's all the action we had today. We tried sliding out deeper to see if we could locate anything - baren, only a stray fish here and there. Even the water we were working only had scattered fish, no concentration anywhere. Despite the lack of fish, it was a great day on the water and we did manage one beauty to boot!

This season overall was fantastic and one for the books! This was our first year with sponsors and they came through HUGE for us!! We did have many hurdles to overcome with this being our first year running PRO as a team, but we learned a ton, caught a tramendous number of fish, and are looking forward to bigger and better things for next year! Stay tuned through the winter months for our announcement of our seminar series dates at both Bass Pro and the Sodus Point Lodge!

Now it's time to put away the salmon gear and start getting the ice gear ready to go! We'll be doing an Ice Fishing Seminar at Bass Pro in early December on how to ice BIG pike and buckets of slob perch! We'll see ya on the hard water!!

[panfisher]

Good stuff man...Are you guys giving up the open water stuff a little early? Steelies are going strong through november in the big lake (if you can find safe enough conditions to go out in). Yeah, I guess there are other things that can be done....

[Finders Keepers]

Yeah, we've got other ambitions we have to work on this fall, otherwise we'd be out there! We're working with several of our sponsors on some initiatives, have to update our website, work on promotions for our December Bass Pro Ice Fishing Seminar and several of the local ice tournaments, get our ice gear conditioned and ready for the upcoming season, fix some of our gear that got pounded this summer, and hitting the perch when they come in the bays, just to name a few.

[Silver Fox]

You are one busy guy. Your Sponsors must be very proud of you and all the great things you've accomplished.

[Missdemeanor]

[kylew]

Nice Fish Mr. Thomas!!

-Kyle