Finders Keepers LSRC Report and 3rd Place LOC King

[Finders Keepers]

Going into this past weekend, we had other commitments so pre-fishing the LSRC event was not an option. So it kind of felt liek we were going out blind. Since reports from Oswego were not stellar, we decided to head out of Fair Haven and work our previous waypoints. We headed out a little after 4am and were greeted with a stiff NE wind and a good salmon chop. We got to our first spot over 160 fow and began to sniff around to see what was there - we had 20 minutes before the 5am start time. The screen was blank, so we continued heading northward to deeper water. Soon after passing 200 fow, we started marking fish 60-80 ft down and at 5am it was GAME ON!! We set lines and began to work the fish in the area. Just as the sun started to come up, the rods started to fire and by 7:30am we had 6 fish in the box (5 kings and one brown). So it was time to start upgrading. Only one of the kings was a skip, and the brown was just a little thing, so we knew we had to upgrade those two if we were to do well.

Then the port side wire fires and starts heading for Canada!! My brother was on the rod, and it ripped out 700+ ft of wire! Our GoPro cameras had very little battery left, so we waited until the fish got halfway back before turning it on. As the fish came closer to the boat we saw the large shark tail and knew we had a big fish coming in! When it hit the cooler, it filled it and we knew it could be a LOC fish, not to mention a great kicker fish for the LSRC! We put it on the scale and it was hoovering around 32 lbs!! That took care of the small brown in our box, but now do we run it in or keep fishing and try to upgrade our small skip king? A quick check on the LOC board and that would put us somewhere 4-6th place - so we decided to pull lines and head to weigh-in after a quick pic:

As I went to turn off the GoPro it was already off - the battery had died! But when?? Did we get us fighting the fish AND landing it so we could go for the GoPro prize?? We wuldn't know until later that night when we pulled the files off the SD card and took a look on the computer...YES! The battery died about a minute after landing it!! We left our dad at the dock with the boat as we went to Screwy Louie's to weigh it in and when it hot the scales it came in officially at 32.2 lbs, good enough for 4th place!! We then grabbed some ice and headed back to the boat to head back out to our honey hole!

The NE wind had kicked up some rollers, so it was a bit of a rough go back to our spot and we didn't back to fishing until almost 10:30! There were now several other boats in our area and the fish were gone! We worked east, then north out to 450 fow, then back inside, then west, all without moving a single rod!! At 1:10 we decided to call it a day and play it safe getting to weigh-in as we did have a decent box with our kicker king! Just then the starboard inside wire to a short whack without tripping the dipsy or hooking up. So we left it for a minute and WHAM!! It got whacked hard this time, but didn't hook up! Bummer!! So we pulled lines anyway and headed in. To our surprise, it wasn't too busy at the weigh-in. Come to find out, only a third of the boats caught their 6 fish, and another third never even weighed-in! despite having the 32 lb'er, a 36 lb'er was caught (although they weren't in the LOC), so we missed the big fish (ours was the second biggest), but we did end up taking 11th place out of the 90+ teams!!

The LOC fish came on a Rhys Davis teaser behind a white/green dots board, other hits came on white green dots boards with hypnotist and ultra green glow flies, along with seasick waddler spoons.

As it turns out, the 2nd place king angler did not show up to claim the prize at the LOC awards ceremony today, so we got bumped up to third! Rough Rider (Nick) also got bumped up a spot, so we both have a 3rd place finish in the LOC with videos, so we're not sure how they are going to handle the video contest...

We're off to Tupper Lake for the next three days getting everything set-up there for the first event of the NYS Ice Pro-Am Series this winter and maybe try some walleye fishing there. Then we'll be back to start focusing on the Sodus Bay Salmon Slam. That should be a lot of fun and we're really looking forward to it!!

[kylew]

Awesome report! Nice job on the king and really looking forward to the seminar!

[TOP SECRET]

I think they should just give us both the prize and for the fall make sure to add a "tie breaker"!

That fish was really long, a bit more belly on it and you might have won the whole thing! Btw, you jinxed us today... after you said you were worried about a big king getting in your copper, sure enough our 29lber ran straight into our copper today

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[crumcake1223]

great job guys tight lines up there its a great town and some of the biggest pike i have ever seen.

[GAMBLER]

[TOP SECRET]

Get yourselves one of these... they work better than the battery that comes with the gopro and with three batteries you don't need to worry...

http://www.amazon.com/Wasabi-Power-Battery-AHDBT-001-AHDBT-002/dp/B005NC8BF6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343657594&sr=8-1&keywords=wasabi+gopro

[Finders Keepers]

Thanks for the info! Shipping out tomorrow!