Bondouley aboard Rigged Sandy shootout

[bondouley]

   met Nick at the dock at 5:15 friday morning and quickly made a plan to try and put a derby brown trout on the board and still fish big fish friday at the same time.  We dropped in at 60' set out 4 riggers all pulling spoons and a 10 color leadcore pulling a spoon.  It was a steady pick of browns for the first hour but nothing over 6lbs.  We pointed the boat north going to look for salmon when one of the riggers fires i grab it reel down and immediatley it started ripping.  After a brief battle Nick slipped the net under a monster brown. We were standing over the brown in amazment when the rigger right behind me fired and immediatley started ripping Nick grabbed it and after a few minutes i slipped the net under another monster brown and the celebrating started.  We weighed the browns and both were saying 13#+ we checked the board and they both should make it.  Into the box they go and we went north looking for kings.  We had a steady pick of lakers and small kings til about 12:45 when the probe rigger fired and started screaming. Nick grabbed it and we knew if we could land the fish that we would be in the $.  The fight lasted about 15 mins and i slipped the net under a really nice king.  Our scales were saying 24# and with only an hour and a half til weigh in we just pulled rods and went in.  The ride back took about 30 mins and the suspense was killing us.  We finally got to weigh in and when it was over we took 3rd place with our king weighing 21.95 lbs.  We then went to captains cove to weigh in our browns and come to find out we both just missed the leader board as other browns were weighed in that morning.  We had a great day of fishing and just hoped it would carry over to the shootout.

   Saturday (the shootout) i met Nick and the boys at the boat at 530 and we were off to our way points from the day before but when we got to our water the screens were not good.  We put down all 4 riggers pulling spoons 2 wire dipseys pulling ff one 300 copper pulling uv meat rig and one 500 copper pulling echip meat rig.  We worked our waters from the day before and after a couple hours we only had one 11# laker in the box.  We decided around 11am to go deep hoping to find a couple kings to fill our box with.  We caught several steelies but no kings.  At the end of the day our box was just 1 laker and 3 steelies all below 7# so we didnt even bother to weigh our box.  all well atleast we were in the $ for friday

 

[bondouley]

met Nick at the dock at 5:15 friday morning and quickly made a plan to try and put a derby brown trout on the board and still fish big fish friday at the same time. We dropped in at 60' set out 4 riggers all pulling spoons and a 10 color leadcore pulling a spoon. It was a steady pick of browns for the first hour but nothing over 6lbs. We pointed the boat north going to look for salmon when one of the riggers fires i grab it reel down and immediatley it started ripping. After a brief battle Nick slipped the net under a monster brown. We were standing over the brown in amazment when the rigger right behind me fired and immediatley started ripping Nick grabbed it and after a few minutes i slipped the net under another monster brown and the celebrating started. We weighed the browns and both were saying 13#+ we checked the board and they both should make it. Into the box they go and we went north looking for kings. We had a steady pick of lakers and small kings til about 12:45 when the probe rigger fired and started screaming. Nick grabbed it and we knew if we could land the fish that we would be in the $. The fight lasted about 15 mins and i slipped the net under a really nice king. Our scales were saying 24# and with only an hour and a half til weigh in we just pulled rods and went in. The ride back took about 30 mins and the suspense was killing us. We finally got to weigh in and when it was over we took 3rd place with our king weighing 21.95 lbs. We then went to captains cove to weigh in our browns and come to find out we both just missed the leader board as other browns were weighed in that morning. We had a great day of fishing and just hoped it would carry over to the shootout.

Saturday (the shootout) i met Nick and the boys at the boat at 530 and we were off to our way points from the day before but when we got to our water the screens were not good. We put down all 4 riggers pulling spoons 2 wire dipseys pulling ff one 300 copper pulling uv meat rig and one 500 copper pulling echip meat rig. We worked our waters from the day before and after a couple hours we only had one 11# laker in the box. We decided around 11am to go deep hoping to find a couple kings to fill our box with. We caught several steelies but no kings. At the end of the day our box was just 1 laker and 3 steelies all below 7# so we didnt even bother to weigh our box. all well atleast we were in the $ for friday

pics from big fish friday

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[Sk8man]

Nice work on the Friday fishing Dave. Thx for the report and nice pics. Isn't it amazing what one day difference makes out there?

[bondouley]

Thanks Les. We should of packed our box with lakers then searched for kings but we made the decision to find kings and stuck to it. Was a good weekend and fun tourney though

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