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Well fellas its the nature of the beast, combat fishing at its best. But its where you get your biggest fish of the year. Beats going up to the dams and fighting all the snaggers. As a courtesy keep your planer boards in the boat keep the leads short 6' is plenty off the riggers, and be judicious with the dipseys , you don't need to dredge to catch fish and I personally don't like losing dipseys to the bottom.

Nice Job on the Ho's.

Rich Great Pics and like always the Lake O fishing is making me jealous.

Nice!

That's where I am at. The 300 copper needs a little stretch and the 30# Big Game gets it done. I normally run about 40' of leader. Remember to keep your drag loose too.

I guess a little bumpy, nice job for 1 hour. The post was really good for a first time. Keep up the good work.

I have been running spoons about the same as my dodgers, 4 to 6 feet back, just think about how many hits you get on sliders that are only 4 to 6 feet back. Also how long is your leader on your dipseys? We tend to over think things a bit. You have to have the bait in the zone that the active fish are in and speed should be any where from 2 to 3.5 mph depending on how many and what type of other baits you are running. Plugs don't like much over 2.5 mph, Dodgers like slower yet, Spin docs can run up to 3.5. Spoons I run as high as 4 mph when fishing for Steel in the summer on top.

The deeper Presentation is always the Flasher( paddle, spinnie or dodger) It has been my experience that that is the best way to go, I guess it depends on how many deep riggers you run. In the early days we ran 5 to 8 down riggers, maybe a Pink Lady diver. All of our high lines were off of outriggers. When we ran that many riggers our ball to bait was only about 5 to 8 feet, Paddles were real close to the ball to prevent tangles. It worked before the days of Zebra mussels and clean water. I still have my flasher and fly or meat combos as my deepest presentation. However when I run meat I usually have meat on all of my rigger and dipsey presentations. I have recently started running flasher and fly combos on my coppers too. They all catch fish.

Sounds like once again the NWS was a little off on the forecast, the 2 to 4's were supposed to come in later in the day. Good job on the Ho''s .

Now that's a PIG

Nicely done Kevin> Tell your Dad I said hi and maybe come down and take a trip out on the SilverKing. We have had a great summer but haven't fished as much as I would like.

Welcome to the Silver FEVER. It will get you every time.

Rocky Gap is north of Jean Klok park, if you go past the beaches you will see a concrete wall that was put in there for Whirlpool (I think). Hard to miss it. I will be fishing Sunday and Monday, not sure if going for big fish or yellow bellies but maybe both.

Yeah not many reports, I have been a member of this site for a long time and hope to get a St.Joe group going and maybe get the Steelheaders who are very active in St.Joe to start a summer tournament series like they have in Holland WMFL St. Joe.

We left the slip at 6:05 and ran out to 75 FOW set lines an headed SW into a stiff breeze. Rigger at 78 ripped and we landed the nice 21# King on a PK KEVORKIAN MAG GLOW SPOON, NEXT FISH WAS ON A MT DEW PK 8"PADDLE WITH A PICKLED SUNSHINE HOME TIED FLY, NICE 12#2oz.(official scale) Coho, next was a nice Lake Trout 83 down on a Green paddle with a green frog meat rig. Finished with a small 2 year old king on the same mtn dew paddle and home tied fly. Fished 75 to 115 FOW. Only 4 hits, boated all 4 and they were eating the baits all the way down. My its great fishing if you get into them, a couple of my friends had catches of 9 and 11 fish respectively. Give St Joe a try if you want some good mixed bag catches. Oh BTW perch are on fire in 35 to 45 FOW north of Rocky Gap in front of the concrete wall. Limit catches of 10 to 12 inch perch.

My Brother Fishes the Columbia Bar and the Pacific Ocean in Oregon a lot and he swears by the Brads Cut Plug. Use the Bead Chain Swivel and a single #1 treble hook for the presentation. The run a 6. leader off of a dipsy diver and load them with any oily type of fish they have available usually they use sardines packed in oil, fill the cavity with it and troll. They don't use downriggers on the coast as they are limited to 1 rod per fisherman and they have some serious limits. 1 King per day, and only 2 Silvers(coho) in possession. Barbless hooks too. But I got a couple of cutplugs and have only used them once. BTW I was on the West coast in July and they were catching a lot of mature 40# plus Kings.

Nice work Son!

Short morning for the Silverking, got to the boat at 5:45 and went to fire up all the electronics and my GRAPH GPS, FISHAWK AND RADIO WERE ALL DEAD. Decided to give it a try and Doug Wiggins (charter captain) gave me the ok to follow him and gave me a hint on what was working. We fished for 3 hours completely blind, and managed a nice fat 12# King on a 300 45# copper with a Mtn Dew 8" pro troll and pickled sunshine (home tied fly). 1 other hit 90 down on the rigger, 11" Pro Troll with a home tied green tinsel fly. After being blind for a long period we pulled up and headed in. Beautiful day on the water and we kept the Skunk off the boat. (Brians marina found the problem Monday morning and fixed it free, they were the ones that broke the wire while re working my blower motors.) Lets all hope the Full moon syndrome is all over by Tomorrow, I am going fishing.

I priced the Yeti Cooler and I can surely say I will never spend more for a cooler than I will for a Downrigger. Or a refrigerator for the boat.

There u have it 180 quart Igloo 68 bucks at Sams Club.

Nice job Bob.

I will be back out of St Joe Sunday, last weekends blow will make it interesting.

My fishawk has become an integral part of my fishing. The speed temp at depth are often quite different than what u r seeing on your GPS SOG reading. Temp is critical. If you find water that is 44 to 48 degrees you will find bait fish and salmon with the bait.

I second that!

My Boat is 12 feet wide, I run 5 riggers and 4 dipseys when we are fishing summer patterns we add full 10 color lead core and 300, copper set ups, I do add dive bombs to the lead core and coppers if I feel I need more depth. I would really hate to run 6 dipsey presentations, unless I ran small ones off my outriggers. Then it would only be in the dirty water pattern in fall. I have a big boat and usually have 6 to 8 on board, and any more than 18 rods can get to be a real chore.