Olcot 5/20

[rolmops]

First trip of the year and we wanted it to be good so we drove west to Olcot. We left port around 06.30 and headed north. The water temperature was around 43 on the surface and at fifty foot down it was around 39 and a bit below. Every once in a while there were patches of forty degree water down below, but no large areas of steady 40 degrees. We headed north to about 280 feet and apart from from some fish at 130 down (lakers?) it was an empty screen. We had 2 downriggers at around 50 foot down, 2 dipsies on 3 settings 100 feet out, 1 leadcore with 5 colors out and a surface line. We used spoons only. mostly dreamweaver super slims in varieties of orange and lemon colors with one chicken wing further down . Going back south we started catching and ended up with 4 nice kings and one very nice steelhead. Later on ,back at the dock we heard from the folks who stayed close to shore that they mostly got skunked and one guy told us that he went out to 350 feet and ended up with 3 out of 8. I think that the wind changing from east to west over night broke up some patterns and made it harder to fish.

On the way back home to Rochester, we blew a trailer tire on the 531. We were lucky to carry a spare and all the tools needed to fix it. Special thanks to a very friendly state trooper who pulled up behind us and gave us safety cover from behind while were fixing the tire.

 

[Gill-T]

Sorry about the tire.  When you were trolling out you were so close to the mother load.  You needed to be in the 360'-400+ range west of port.