TomAhawk @ Olcott SALMON SLAM & WHI WEEK

[motoman]

Started out Monday at sun up at the oak and fished too olcott with a mixed bag of fish with only two good salmon in-front of the power plant at the end of 

the day.Tuesday to Friday we would fish west of olcott and find fish in three different spots so we worked them all week long catching fish in the 15lb to 18lb range mostly on the finger lakes tackle new spoon blanks, lighter and take the lower speeds necessary for cold water kings and as the week moved on we put a good pattern together of what the fish wanted as we started are morning fish where 40/60 down but as the sun got higher we moved the spread 60 -100 down divers 250 and 300 on 2.5 setting.  As the salmon slam 7 fish tourney finished up we would sit in 5th place with a 17.46 average. and we felt we had a good program and spot for the Invitational. Saturday shot gun start went off and we had a very short run to are first weigh point (less than 2 miles)  on set up as the diver was fishing out it took a shot and we boated are first fish. got set up after that or close to it and tripled up 500 copper 200 diver and 60 rigger boated two of the 3 with one good one and one small one we let go. ended up boating 13 king and up grading 3 of them but the loss of 3 good one in the 15lb up class i did"nt have to high of hopes at weigh in for this year. got to weigh in and i noticed alot of boxes where not full 6 fish boxes alot of 4 and 5 numbers on them from pre check. So as the line moves on an official ask us too go last as where the only one left in line with a full box Good old Bill-V was on the Mic messing with the leaders and they were quietly watching as i weighed in for are big fish mid 18lber  next three were low teens then they cheered as we pulled the last two king out of the box 5/7lb kings as they new they had hung onto the top spots and we would be the first team or first lossers finishing 11th place. one spot out of the money , shoulda coulda woulda. pics of the class of fish for this year all 15/16lb on deck and a stud FLT spoon of the week. 

[Xxx]

Nice job guys, glad to see you finished with a full box!!! Great story also.

[bear]

nice john you did really good.see you at tom's.

[dvdegeorge]

Nice job !

[The Scottsman]

 Nice job Jon!

[Tony G]

Nice job buddy.

[bettieanne]

Nice! That pic is awsome

[SharkHunter]

Nothing like a deck full of salmon. Great job!

[Great Lakes Lure Maker]

Very Nice catch! Add a few Oakie Doakies and some "Ratllin Spoons" to the line up and see what happens! Nice job John!