Sandy morning 8/3

[NickR]

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name:

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s): 8/3

Time on Water: 630-830

Weather/Temp:

Wind Speed/Direction: wsw

Waves: 1-3

Surface Temp: 75

Location: West near pump house

LAT/LONG (GPS Cords):

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 5

Total Boated:2

Species Breakdown: King brown

Hot Lure: wonderbread SD/ ultra white a-tom

Trolling Speed: 1.8-3.5

Down Speed: soon

Boat Depth: 100-150

Lure Depth: 30-100

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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My buddy came up from NC for a wedding and he wanted me to take him out so we got out at the ass crack of dawn with calm wind thinking the <1 foot estimate from noaa would be more like glass, however lady O had her own plans in mind- waves were pretty good sized as most of the day were 2 feet with rollers topping 3. By the time I had all of my rods out it was about 630 and the sun was just starting to poke through- Wire dipsy hit at 130 as I was letting it out, by the time I picked the rod up and tightened the drag, fish was gone. After bringing that in and popping the clip back, the opposite wire went flying (out 200)- broke me off. A few minutes later another wire rod took off at 169' and ended up breaking me off. All of these fish hit in 120 fow.

After the frusteration set in, I pulled in my wire rods and only ran 2 riggers with cheaters and 2 planers down 30' as soon as I brought my wire rods in I was going to mess with my rigger depths when the port popped at 65 ft. with the wonderbread sd. We get that in 20# female. stopped marking bait west of the pump house so we turned back where we hit all of the fish and picked up one 6 pound brown on the same lure. We headed in after that as the southern boy couldnt handle the waves anymore

I love learning lessons, but not when they cost you $30 dollars in gear. Time to upgrade my leaders for the wire rods

[Huntin' Trout]

That does suck - 3 wees ago I replaced a 1000' of wire and used the wrong size crimping sleeves - you know the rest of the story - wire rod fires - set the hook and there goes a walker deep dive, SD and my favorite Atomik fly!!!

[Cheers]

Do not set the hook on a wire rod!

[Waynes World]

I CANT TELL YOU MUCH STUFF IVE LOST OVER THE YEARS INCLUDING A DOWNRIGGER, GETS EXPENSIVE SOME TIMES. THE LATEST 2 MONTHS AGO WAS A X4 FISH HAWK PROBE. HAVE TO WAIT NEXT YEAR TO REPLACE THAT. BEEN DOING REALLY WELL WITHOUT IT. OH WELL WHAT THE HELL ELSE WOULD I DO AND WHAT ELSE WOULD I SPEND MY MONEY ON. HMMMM

[143447]

Do not set the hook on a wire rod!

amen let em run

[cliffhanger_724]

Dont use crimps for your wire, tie them. Use the link below to view technic.

http://www.fishdoctorcharters.com/videos/video3F.html

Hope this helps.

[Huntin' Trout]

Thanks for the advice - how simple is that!!

[NickR]

Yeah my leaders from my Dipsy to SD are a little light (I have been running 17lb floro on my mono rods but obviously the no stretch wire needs something a little different). Time to upgrade before the derby!!

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