Finders Keepers Kingfest @ Sodus - 6/28/12

[Finders Keepers]

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name: Finders Keepers

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s): 6/28/12

Time on Water: 5am - 3pm

Weather/Temp: Overcast and hot

Wind Speed/Direction: light and variable

Waves: 1-2's going to glass/ripple

Surface Temp: 67

Location: Sodus

LAT/LONG (GPS Cords):

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 35

Total Boated: 30

Species Breakdown: Kings, Steelhead, Lakers

Hot Lure: Black Green Glow NK Mags, Green with white tape/green dots spin doc w/ ultra green glow fly

Trolling Speed: 2.2 - 2.8

Down Speed: 2.4 - 2.8

Boat Depth: 130 - 220 fow

Lure Depth: 90 - 165

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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Today I was joined by Kyle (aka Apple Boy) and we said our goal was to get a LOC fish. So we headed out of port at 4:30am and pointed the boat towards our honey hole that has produced time and time again this year. With the blow we had over the last several days, I was anticipating the temp to be deep and the fish to be scattered in nature. Well, we started setting up over 90 fow and when we sent the probe down we had 63 degrees at 85 ft. We continued heading north and just as I was about to let out the second wire, the first wire got hammered and starting ripping line!! Gotta love a good screamer to start the day off!! Kyle was on the rod and fought a beautiful 18 pound king to the net:

We had slid out to 140 fow at this time so we checked for temp: 50 degrees down 130. So that was our target and we started hitting fish one after another! At 7am we were 5 for 8, by 9am 11 for 15, by 10am 14 for 18 with many kings in the 14-18 lb range. The last two fish that hour were both 16 lb'ers and by the time we had the second in the net, we had slid out to 240 fow and were a good mile and a half off our waypoints. So it took a bit to get back on the fish, but they were still there waiting for us! As soon as we hit our honey hole, this beautiful steelhead nailed the 125' rigger:

It's currently sitting at 7th place in the LOC. We boated a couple more steelhead and a couple lakers over the next hour, and it seemed the kings had moved out. So we took a little peek out deeper but found no kings, so turned back into our honey hole area to keep the steelhead and lakers going and WHAM!! The port side high wire rod gets whaled and starts singing out over 700'!! Once again Kyle was on the rod and this time brought a new personal best to the net:

A sweet 22 lb king! We continued to work the same area and continued to pick up fish every 15-20 minutes or so. At one point, the port side rigger got whaled, but the fish didn't hook up (luckily), as we noticed the rod had a funny bend behind the reel - it had broken!! Swapped it out and we were good to go! Then a little later the circuit board in the port side rigger fried, luckily when it was topside and not down 175 ft!! Swapped out the fried electric with a manual and we were back in business, except now we were going to get a workout when that fired!! With tired arms, we decided to call it a day at 3pm. Just then the 145' rigger pops and Kyle's on it. 12 lb king. Then as we are pulling lines, the starboard wire gets hammered! 10 lb king. Almost a double to end the day!

We finished with a grand total of 30 for 35. The ones we lost were mainly free-slider hits, which with the riggers so deep is to be expected. I have to say, Kyle did a great job fighting fish, keeping the boat straight, moving rods, and netting fish today!! Today we were running the riggers from 90-175 ft of cable out, low wires out 400-465 ft, and the high wires out 450-525 ft. The following took shots today: Black green glow NK mag, Stinger Black UV Tuxedos in Stingray and Mag sizes, green with white tape and green dots spin doc with ultra green glow fly, white with green dots spin doc with ultra green glow fly, wonderbread spin doc with glow hammer fly, blue dolphin spin doc with Chasin' Tail fly, and Carmel Dolphon spin doc with mirage fly. We had the spoons on the riggers with free sliders, and the spinnies/flies on the wires all day long.

The fishing right now is by far the best fishing I can remember. If you can, get out there and have a blast!! Here are some more pics from today:

[reelintense]

WOW....absolutely awesome job. Thanks for the report....so glad to know the depths......figured with the west winds, temps were gonna be down there. Hopefully they will still be around Sat/Sun.... LOL!

[xstreamguideservice]

Nice

[kchamp]

great job

[143447]

:DAmazing Tim

Way to run the numbers up out there!!

[ray koziatek]

im headin up for a few days how about a pm with some numbers ,,well i tried ,,,nice job with such a calm day.how were the 3 "F"'s

fleas

flys

friggin currents

???????????

[Fish Hunter]

WOW!!!!

[rdebadts]

Did you go left or right?

Unbelievable fishing man. Good report. Can't wait to get out Saturday!

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[33canuck]

Absolutely awesome!

[Indecisive]

Thanks for ruining my first mate.... now he will never want to fish with me again! Awesome job! I hope Kyle stored those waypoints in his phone for me to use!

Chaz

[Tackle Buster]

Now thats a good day of fishing, Sodus is the place, Now if i can just remember where that spot was !!!!!!!!!!! I know i marked it.

[Gill-T]

Great report.

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[Finders Keepers]

There's no real secret on "the spot", pretty much straight out the front door. Fleas are getting real bad! The FF worked awesome with virtually no fleas, but the wires were getting loaded (2-3+ ft) every 30 minutes or so. Flies weren't too bad until the wind died, then they started showing in numbers. The currents were interesting: east to west inside 180 fow, west to east deeper than 180 with a significant sfc slick in between. I'm not sure, but it looked like we passed someone's filet board off their boat or top to their cooler!!

Ray - There really wasn't too much to figure out, same program that has been working all along. The screen was the best I have seen though, with lots of bait pods and lots of fish. Marked quite a few at 25 ft (likely steelies and coho's, although we didn't target those), with larger marks everywhere from 75 down to the bottom. One point to consider: we had significant blowback ont he riggers due to the currents, targeting 2.6 on the down speed, and fishing super deep. Just to give you guys without a probe an idea of what that translates to, we use 15 lb sharks and had our probe rigger out 165 ft at times but it was really only tracking at 115 ft!! We can get the true depth with the Cannon Intelli-probe.

Chaz - Yeah, sorry about that!

[ray koziatek]

Thanks im heading that way around noon.....

[Tackle Buster]

I knew I had that spot marked I think it's number 017 or 008 or something. Ohhhh BTW we should have a bunch of strips within the next couple of days.

[blueghost1]

[Finders Keepers]

Hey Troy,

If they are Walter's, save me 4 packs of the strips please!!

[Tackle Buster]

Yes they are Tim, two case's on the way.

[pleasure unit]

Great job!!

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[Skippers Trophy 01]

Great day! Nice Chromer, saw it on the board at 11 lbs.

Gorgeous color on that Laker.

[TOP SECRET]

You're killing me Tim, you know I can't come up this weekend! Oh well, put a rod out, name it Ruff, and maybe I'll bring you some good luck

[dubblec]

Great report and pics Tim. Looks like lots of action and probably sore fishermen today

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[Finders Keepers]

Well, I'm gonna be landbound for a bit - landed this 7.3 pounder this morning at 6:38am:

[Tackle Buster]

Congrats Tim

[Just Fishin']

How cool...Best catch of your life!