Labor Day - Rochester AM

[momay4000]

Well I've always said - you have to post the bad and the good. My wife and I fished from 6 AM til 8 AM this morning and we posted our first "skunk" of the season. We hooked into a beauty of a king at about 7:30 and fought it for about 15 minutes until it shook. We sure had a nice look at it flicking us the fin and actually it swam at the surface behind the boat for about a minute after it shook. It bent the red single hook on an A-tom-mik Hammer fly, so my guess is that was the only hook that was set.

Certainly things are changing day to day, but we marked some nice fish on the surface to 40 feet down (presumably steelhead) at the temp breaks between 69 and 70.4 degrees heading north out of I-Bay around 150-175 fow. The king hit a White/green dot spinny with a Tournament Hammer fly as mentioned above, on the port rigger 60' down over 175 fow, with a sloooooow troll 1.6 mph at the ball.

Congrats to everyone who finished or was on the board at some point in the LOC.

- Chris