Port Bay Aug 23rd

[Finders Keepers]

On the water at 6am and set-up in 75 fow infront of East Bay. Marked quite a bit of bait and some fish, but only managed a dink king (down 68/75 on white echip/white fly) for the first two hours and we decided to head to deeper waters. Picked up a skip king on the wire out 320 ft over 135 fow on the same white echip/white fly. went back through the waypoint and the same wire fired again with a decent king, but it shook free after a couple minutes. Turned around and went back through our waypoint and the same wire fired yet again, this time with a major king that hit H*A*R*D!! Huge head shakes and a couple good rips, then gone! :evil: Broke the swivel on the echip and stole my hot fly! We stayed in the area for awhile passing through the waypoint a couple more times, but it seemed to have dried up, so we went into search mode. A few hours later we had a double over 235 fow on the 320 ft wire with the same white echip/new white fly and 50 ft rigger free slider with a majenta shad, and landed another skip king and 4 lb steelhead.

That was it for us. We finished 4 for 6 with the big ones getting away. Figures, the day we only land small fish would be the day of the Fair Haven Challenge!! :? But that's fishing for ya! From what was weighed in at the FHC, it looked like Oswego was the most productive for large kings. If the weather holds, we'll be heading there tomorrow...

[Penn yan 88]

I think overall it was a tough day, when we left port bay we started west and set up in 50 fow in front of the bluffs, there was a lot of bait and we were able to go 4 for 4, 3 browns and a steahead. The 1 brown was slightly over 10 lbs and made the board. We decided to go out for kings and had just 1 rip on the wire the rest of the day and we had some technical difficulty and missed the weigh in for the FHC. Will try again next weekend.