Yankee Troller

You'd be hard pressed to find a better weight than an A-TOM-MIK torpedo in the 13 or 15 pound size. I have run 15# sharks, and at half the cost these run a lot better too. The only sharks on my ride are 20#'ers for when I have to go below 125'. http://www.atommiktrollingflies.com/ttw.htm

We've heard many a horror story about this stuff! Its a shame because its a nice wire to work with. however, i dont need those headaches.

We use American Fishing Wire on our boat. This wire is the thinnest of all wires i have ever looked at, and it comes in a nice camo color. All of the other brands will work just fine too, but we prefer the thinner diameter. My only gripe about the AFW is that it will coil very easily if you are careless. Wire should always be kept taught, or else you enter in the risk of kinks. We put 1500' of AFW 30lb test onto out Daiwa Saltist 30 reels and call it a day. One thing to remember is if both reels are spooled with the exact amount of line then their counters will be as close to accurate as possible. If you have to strip a 100 or 200' off because you wadded it up dont expect that wire reel out 250' to be at the same depth as the other reel set at 250' out.

I wouldn't leave home without my speed and temp unit. Of all the things you mentioned that would help you the most. These units will help you eliminate water, which means your baits will be in the strike zone for much longer periods. If you have a ton of friends and they can get this info over to you then it might not be as crucial, but being new and having a very limited network tells me you NEED this information. Water is always moving on Lake Ontario. So much that many guys are going to dual probes to watch the higher and lower temperatures. Fish out of temperature can many times be negative fish. So, just by looking at a fish finder and seeing them doesn't mean those are the fish are going to chew down your offerings. Auto-pilot - you mentioned there is 2 or 3 of you guys. So you have a driver Electric riggers - Nice, but wont increase your catch rate Kicker - that boat should have no problem trolling down, and i cant see it being terrible on gas Every direction you troll can give your lures a different trolling speed. Yes, there are ways to monitor this, and watching your dipseys was mentioned already, but nothing is as good as actual data.

It may be a setting issue. First off make sure your using the latest software. If you need help with this let me know. Secondly, do a factory reset on the settings. When you have restored the settings back to the original settings turn your settings to these: Switchfire ON Surface clutter 3 Dual 83/200 Water type Saltwater Deep The setting that may be giving you the blank screen is the bottom ducer setting. Switch those up and see if that helps your issue.

I'd love to say that more pics will be coming, but the boat is all done for 2010! We ran our last trip on Sunday. We will spend the next few weeks boat shopping! As fun as it may sound.....it's not! BUT, it will be nice to have a larger ride in 2011! Thanks for the views and comments over the 20101 season guys! I enjoyed writing these posts as I am sure you enjoyed reading them. March can't come soon enough!

Darkies can be so much fun! Your welcome!

9/11 – The Lake blew all week long, so we didn’t know what to expect when we got down to the boat on Friday night. A few chats with some of the local guys revealed some decent off-shore fishing, but to be honest with my followers……we had enough of that! We wanted some big fat dark Kings! My buddy Scott Clemens and his gang joined us for a half day trip. Half days make it tough because there is that half the amount of time to put fish in the boat, so your decisions better be solid. We left the dock a tad after 6am and set lines right across from the count y launch. Still waiting to hook up in the mouth of Oak Orchard creek! We spent about an hour, or maybe an hour and a half, working the plume out front without even a drive by. The nice things about combat trolling is that you use a minimum amount of lines, so when it’s time to move it doesn’t take 30 minutes to clear rods. We shot out to the 26.6N line straight out front and down went a spoon program. I didn’t get the wires in the water when I hear my brother yell out fish down 100 on the Hummingbird. I look over to the opposite corner rigger and there it goes. A NK Sea Sick Waddler parked down 100 on our Scotty Downriggers. That fish would be it for a while. With a little over an hour to go we pointed the boat back South on the 29N line and started our troll of shame back to port. Well, we also found out that this was the magical troll direction for us. We did 5 more fish in the next hour. Every fish was a cookie cutter Chinook Salmon in the 5-8lb range. Riggers down 100 and wires out to 300 took our fish. The only spoon to go more than once was the NK Sea Sick Waddler. Others that took fish were the Moonshine Bad Toad off a high wire, and a Dreamweaver Midnight Special SS. We ended the day with a half dozen fish and batted 1000! All fish were released to fight another day, and the guys on the boat had a great time. Evening – We went out to make a few passes at the wall just for fun with about an hour of light left. We again, set lines in the creek and trolled out the East side of the wall. Right at eh public Launch our Lyman #136 takes a shot. It didn’t feel like a Salmon, and when we got it to the boat it wasn’t a Salmon. It was a 24†Northern Pike. We set the Lyman back out and on our first pass at the wall the same plug takes a shot. Again, it didn’t fight like a Salmon. Once we got it close to the boat we discovered it was a nice healthy 8lb Brown Trout. That would finish our trip at the wall, and we would head back to the dock wondering if the morning would bring some Salmon in for a little combat trolling the following day. 9/12 – We had another short trip this morning, and we found out real fast that Mother Nature did us a favor for once. The East wind that blew late in the day and early Saturday night pushed some ice water into the region. That pushed a good group of fish right into the Oak Orchard river plume for the morning bite. We set lines in the Creek again, and made a left out of the break walls. We made a pass down West and turned to hit the wall up. On our way back through the Lyman #136 takes a shot. This was another one of those fish that didn’t act like a King. We get the fish to the net and it’s an immature Salmon all colored up, and ready to run the river. We set lines again, and within minutes the same Lyman takes a shot. Off to the races it goes! Now that’s what we were looking for! This fish didn’t want to come in. We finally boated that fish and we had our first mature Chinook in the box. We set lines again, and I made an attempt to get a few more lines in the water. I had 3 Lymans flat lining 100 and 125ft back on the sides and 75’ back down the middle. I took 2 Moonshine mags, Carbon 14 and a Bad Toad, and set them back 50’ and down 3-5’ on our riggers. The Carbon 14 didn’t last long and I look up to see a Salmon rocketing out of the water. I got to the rod before it came loose from the release and it was game on again! Another mature in the box and we have only been fishing for an hour. Without fail we set lines and quickly hook up with another Mature. This one would be the largest of the day, and it would take that same Lyman #136 that has been so hot for us! We put this beast in the net and it was a beautiful copper colored 25lb male. With about 2 hours into the trip we had 4 fish in the box and it was looking like we may finish early. Well, that’s when it shut down for us. We made a half dozen more passes, and it accounted for nothing. The water dropped 5 degrees from the beginning of our trip and the fish shut down to a slow pick for everyone. With a few hours left to fish we trolled out to the 60-80’ range and made our way down to the flats. Screen was pretty much blank and the water was 39 degrees down 30’. Ice water! We pulled our deep lines and set up for 40’ of water and that’s when our 5 color core took a shot pulling a #158 Lyman plug. That fish was a little immature Chinook that went back to fight another day, but we quickly noticed that the cold water had pushed a ton of bait and fish into the skinny water. However, our trip was done and we had to get back to take some pictures and clean some fish.

I think the 29lb'r back in May jinx'd us!

That fish is a true "BRUTE," however I want to break that 30lb mark. We have had 2 -29's and 2 - 27's this year, but nothing over 30. Call me greedy, but we are used to at least one over 30 every year :-(

Thanks guys! Sorry about the blood! I tried to wash it away, but it was pouring out. Not a fan of blood shots, but it's all I had. About one more weekend of trolling for us. Sad to see it go away.

We were finally able to get out on the water after watching the wind blow for 2 days straight. I knew there were some fish on the wall at the Oak especially since the rain on Saturday night was COLD. I told my brother to have the customers on the boat by 5:30. Well, they show up close to 6am and off we went. I doubted a few passes at the wall because I watched a ton of boats give it a shot, but we were there, and we were rigged for it, so we said what the heck. We ran a simple 3 rod spread. Loaded up with a #136 back 100’, a #158 back 125’, and a #149 down the chute back 75’. All size 4’s by the way. We trolled out of the river with lines set and took a turn left out of the West side of the mouth. We trolled a ¼ mile West and turned to shoot down the front wall. As we were ending our first pass of the wall heading East I went over to the #158 and slid it back to 125’ from 100’. As I was closing the clicker I hear the splash of a fish and the zing from our Daiwa Salist on the opposite side of the boat. I look over to see a fish splashing and our rod doubled over. I run over and grab it and we are into our first fish of the day. I quickly cleared the other lines and we put the boat into neutral. This fish didn’t take much line, but he just wouldn’t come in. Finally we got him close to the back of the boat, and I saw the size of it. I jacked the guys up about it, and we spent the next minute trying to position him into the net. Finally the fish hit the deck of the boat and we all jumped and hollered as this beast lay there flopping around. Both hooks in our #136 Lyman were torn to shreds. The boney mouths on these Fall stagers are brutal to hooks! I go to put it on the scale, and it’s broke! At the end of the day we would weigh the fish at the dock to be a tad less than 29lbs. We made a few more passes and then decided that fish might have been a gift, so we picked rods and headed for the staging grounds. We set down in 100’ and the fish finder loaded up with fish just lying in the mud. Out came the 20lb weights and some paddle/fly combos. We were surprised to see 65 degree water all the way down to 130’. Our first rip would come over 130’ on a wire set on a 1 out 350’. That fish took a few good runs, but eventually found its way back to the mud. When our metallic purple Deeper Diver pulling a White Smart Fish/A-TOM-MIK UV Dolphin got back to the boat I could see where the fish turned the two hooks against each other to get back to freedom. At this point we were 1 for 2, and in talking with many boats that was GOOD! It was just a tough day out there for EVERYONE! We trolled around for a little bit and finally slid into 100’ of water for the last few hours of the trip. AS I adjusted everything for this depth the screen just kept showing us the Salmon stuck in the mud. Not long into our 100’ track the wire on the other side of the boat starts to throb. This fish was hooked for the same amount of time as the previous one, and we were back to wondering just how big it could have been. This one took a Froggy glow Deep Diver pulling a Wonderbread Smart Fish/A-TOM-MIK Shredded Hammer fly back 300’ on a 1 setting. That would be the last fish of the day for us. We pulled rods at 2pm, and headed back to the wall for a couple of passes. We didn’t hook up with anything, but we saw a few splashes around. The fish are there, but Mother Nature really messed the water up this weekend. If we can get any stable weather the fishing should get real good in the next few weeks.

I guess your right! They do look like that. We run a Depth Raider and keep the speed between 2.1 and 2.5 most of the time. Those are Dawia Heartland Diver rods with Walker Deeper Divers in a 107 size. Could have been a turn or my brother not paying attention to his speed.

8/28 – Evening trip We completely tuned up the boat in the morning, and tackled some odd jobs we wanted to get done. Little things like fixing the navigational light that blew, organizing some tackle, and tying new leaders. Jobs still waiting to be completed are measuring some coppers that have been cut short, and spooling up another 10 color! Anyway, I was kept up to speed about the fishing by my friend Eric who runs the Maniac boat throughout the day, and the idea of a short evening trip was on the table. 5 O’Clock rolled around and Eric and his son were standing on my boat waiting to head out for some evening fishing. We fished from about 5:30/6 O’Clock till about 8/8:30, and had a great time. It’s always fun to fish with different people, and when they have their own ride and crew it makes it tough. Anyway, we set down on the 27N line and trolled it north to the 29/30N line, and about 9W. We ran a very simple spread consisting of 3 riggers and 2 wires. We were out there to have fun! Especially when I found out that neither of them had DERBY TICKETS!!!!!! Throughout the night on the riggers were some DW Gators, Midnight Specials, NK Copper NBK’s, and Sea Sick Waddlers. Behind our Walker Deeper Divers we had DW/A-TOM-MIK combos in the 42nd and Gator patterns. Our DW Gator SS’s really had the spotlight on them for our evening trip. They took the first fish, which was about a 9-10lb Steelhead, and they would take 3 out of the 5 or 6 fish we would hook up with. On the way in we trolled into the 26N/25N line and saw a GREAT picture down below 100’ on our Humminbird. I threw a few things down there that Kings like to eat, but it was getting late so that program lasted about 15 minutes. However it gave us something to look forward to in the morning. By the way, our tune up which consisted of plugs, wires, and a cap and rotor really made a HUGE improvement in the performance of our ride. She really woke right up! Anyone who knows us knows that my father was the one who took care of this, but since his accident he just can’t do it. I guess we should have learned this stuff from him over the years! 8/29 – Charter We got a very early start because we were so anxious to see if we could get those deep kings going. We set down over 150 fow and trolled NE. The marks were there, and they were still deep. I put out a simple 6 rod spread consisting of 3 riggers, 2 wires, and a 600 copper. EVERY rod had a paddle/fly combo of some color combination attached to it. We marked fish from 150 out to 300 anywhere from 100-200’ down. We never moved a rod, but it gave us peace of mind that the Kings are there. My guess? They are probably sick of Mother Nature pushing water back and forth every few days so they are hanging out in more stable water. Once we figured out those fish didn’t want to play we pointed the boat due north and went in search of Steelhead. Out to the 32N line we trolled with no real WOW factor. Small Chinooks made up the catch the whole way out there. So small they wouldn’t keep, but our customers were very happy to see the time we put into making sure a 20†King gets revived! By about noon we were headed back in on a southerly troll with only 3 or 4 fish in the box. We just couldn’t get on a pod of Steelhead like we hoped. Lots of action, but lacking size. At this point we were down to 3 riggers, one copper, and 4 wires. On the riggers were DW gators, NK Copper NBKs, and a mix of other things that just wouldn’t get the job done on the third rigger. Maybe I should have thrown down one of the previous two color combos that were working! Anyway, on our deep wires we ran a DW/A-TOM-MIK Gator combo and chrome green dot paddle with an A-TOM-MIK Pro Am Glow fly. Both of which would go on to take the two biggest fish of the day. One being a 15lb Chinook Salmon and the other being a 15lb Coho Salmon. Our high wires pulled mag sized spoons, and took one shot on a Moonshine Bad Toad. We ran our low deeper divers on 1.5’s and out 225 and 250, and our high deeper divers were set on 3’s and set out 50’ more than the low wire. By the end of the day our box looked much nicer. We found a pod on the 26/27N line a tad East. First troll gave us 4 fish and the next two gave up 1 each.

Penguin, NBK, Nuclear Green, Glow Green Alewife, Mixed Veggies, Wonderbread, Yellow Tail, Gin and Tonic, Coyote, Carmel Dolphin

They typically don't happen on the west end.

Friday 8/20 (Big Fish Friday) – Headed out around 6am and worked West all day. We like the West 9 mile area when we are in O town! Well, it would end up being a very disappointing day. On the way down to West 9 mile point we would take 2 shots, and 1 on the way back for 8 hours of fishing! There was only 3 of us on the boat, so we ran a simple 3 rigger, 2 wire, 1 copper set-up. When we are in O town it is hard to even think about putting down a spoon! So, every rod had a Dreamweaver Spin Doctor, an E-Chip, or a Legendary Smart Fish on it trailed by an A-TOM-MIK fly. At one point we threw down a big 11†paddle with an MC Rocket, and I even put down a Tuna filled Super Cut Plug, but neither of those resulted in any hook ups. Our first shot didn’t take much more than 30 minutes or so, and I think that was because we were still in the Oswego River water. Our 600 copper fired with a Green E-Chip/Green Crinkle A-TOM-MIK fly. During that battle our corner rigger down 80’ would take a shot on a Marv’s Fatty Spin Doctor (Green Spin Doctor/Double Crush Glow/Green Dots) pulling an A-TOM-MIK UV Dolphin. We would land a 22lb Chinook on the copper, but drop the King from the rigger. Our last shot would come very late in the day while we were off our game. It was the 600 copper that took off again. This was one of those fish that rips about 50’ of line out and drops it like there wasn’t a hook attached to our lure. Oh well, we knew that there was a decent bite East of the Harbor, and we decided that we would head that way on Saturday. Saturday 8/21 (Day 1) – I was pumped to be in O town. I knew that we didn’t have to worry about guys going out and beating us with Trout! It was strictly a Chinook (king) Salmon tourney! Our forte! We ran a mile or two to the East and set up in 100fow. Screen was OK at best, but we set lines anyway. We worked the five stacks area East to the Alcan plant the whole day. Our best water was 140-160 down 60-90’. We ran a 3 rigger, 3 copper, 2 wire program. One of two King programs we like to run. We started off with Spinny/A-TOM-MIK combos on our corner riggers, a Lyman plug on our middle rigger set back 60’ and ran 10’ above the corner riggers. I like to call it a tail gunner. On our Walker Deeper Divers we ran Smart Fish trailed by A-TOM-MIKs out anywhere from 180-300 on a 2 setting. Lastly, our coppers were a 300 and a 400 fished off our Otter Boats, and a 500 run down the chute. On the 300 we had another Lyman plug, but the 400 and 500 both had E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK combos. Well, everything we put down in the morning rotted for us besides the Lyman fished as a tail gunner on our middle rigger. That broke the ice with a 3lb Chinook. Big enough for the cooler, but not what we were looking for! Little by little we started to change over paddle/fly combos. We saw the fish, but they just weren’t taking our rigs. Lots of streaking told me they were interested, but they just wouldn’t take them. As we were going through combos I put down a Chrome/Green dot Spin Doctor with an A-TOM-MIK Pro Am Glow fly on a corner rigger and stretched it back 30’. I literally turned my back after slamming it down to 80’ and our teammate Justin starts running for the rod. We put a teenager in the box, and got set back up. Well, not 10 minutes later that rig fires again. Another King! OK, so now we have something they LIKE!!! We scramble to find another combo and luckily we buy everything in even numbers. So we slam another one down to 80 on the other corner rigger. Those combos would take two more matures for us by the end of the day. The only other rig to take a Salmon would be a Green E-Chip pulling an A-TOM-MIK Misery fly, which would cull our first 3lb Salmon with a 4lb Salmon. With 20 minutes to go Our HOT combo would fire again with a King only to have him take 50’ of line and crack off our 50lb fly leader. That fish would have really given us a good cull! Even if it was a 20lb fish we had a 4lb fish we NEEDED to get rid of. We would end our day with 5 Salmon in the box, and from what we heard it was a tough day for a lot of the heavy hitters we are used to fishing against. About three times during the day we would go to pull the Lyman from our spread and find a 6-8lb Brown Trout on it. Any other tournament I guess it wouldn’t be a bad thing, but not in a Salmon only event. Anyway, these Lymans have some great action in the water, and if you are a troller you know that these type lures really start to shine this time of year. After all the boxes hit the weigh in stage we were sitting in 14th place. There were only 12 teams to bring a 5 fish box to the scales on day one. After we weighed in our fish we were in a mad dash to find more Chrome/Green dot Spin Doctors, but we would only end up finding one! During this tackle shopping adventure my brother would find Sunday’s HOT ticket! Sunday 8/22 (Day 2) – Why change anything when we were so close to a top ten, and we thought with the right bites that a top 5 was well within reach. When we set down in 90fow the screen just lit up! When I got done setting 2 riggers I realized we were pointed North and not in 90’ of water anymore. Not to mention our screen went blank. I had to let my uncle have an ear full! LOL We couldn’t get back in there with the traffic, so we went into search mode and started to head over to our trail from the previous day. Same program went down from the previous day, but as you can imagine there were a lot of green dot combos that saw time in the water. We didn’t move a rod for a while! We went through more paddle/fly combos than ever before. We saw the fish, but they were just not interested in our gear. At one point my brother takes a fly he bought at Fat Nancy’s Tackle shop on Saturday afternoon and sets it out on his wire. It didn’t take long and that Daiwa Saltist was singing! Of course he was screaming that his new fly took a shot at the same time. The combo was a Marv’s Fatty Spin Doctor pulling an A-TOM-MIK LBB Live. I must admit my brother made everyone in the boat see how cool this fly looked in the water before he sent it out to 200’, and we all were amazed at how different it looked. Well, at 10am we had one major in the box, and we had released a 12lb Lake Trout. Word had it there were some fish off Fairhaven, so we made the run. When we got to West 9 mile point we set lines and quickly the same combo that took our first King was back in action. This time it was a 10lb Coho Salmon that fell victim to the combo. That would be our last Salmon of the day. That same combo would go on to take two Lake Trout down off Fairhaven. Saturday was tough, but Sunday was even tougher. Even less 5 fish boxes were weighed in, and when it was all said and done we dropped 3 places to finish in the middle of the field. (17th Place) Congrats to the Popeye boat who won the tourney with an all women team!

Very cool!

LOL....There are some pigs out there! That's for sure. One captain had a 19lb Salmon he caught checked out by the Department of Conservation and it turned out to be 2yrs old. Would have been a nice fish next year!

Wish I had more open dates, but I'm booked solid. If you could get your boat up here this would be the year!

8/15 - Charters Morning - Was told Friday night that the Lake had flipped. Thats all we needed to know. When we broke the pier heads the water was chilly! It stayed that was all the way out to the 28N line. Even out there we had 55 degrees down 40'. We ran a simple 3 rigger, 4 wire, 1 copper program. On our riggers we started off with Norther King Sea Sick Waddlers, Dreamweaver Gators, and Dreamweaver Raspberry Dolphins. During the day we would pull the Raspberry Dolphins and the Gators for some Dreamweaver Green Eye Ghost and Midnight Specials. We parked our riggers anywhere from 50-100' down. These fish were in the ICE water! On the wires we ran mag spoons on the high divers set on a 3 out 275 and 300. One was a Sea Sick Waddler the other was a 42nd. Low divers pulled paddle fly combos like the 42nd combo, and the Gator spinny/A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist. Our copper rod was a 300 copper with a Dreamweaver magnum Gator. Fishing was fast and furious from the 29N line to the 32N line. LOTS of Steelhead and a few small kings mixed in. We did a good job of landing our first 6 or 7 Steelhead this morning. Just like last week our Saturday morning trip didn't give up even just one screamer. Evening - We had the owner from Michelina's Italian Restaurant out with his boy and his cousin. We wanted to get Anthony some fish, so we headed back out to the Steelhead rich waters offshore. We ran the exact same program that we finished with on our morning trip, but we would go on to drop our first 5 or 6 fish. It was very frustrating considering this was just a four hour evening trip, but the meatball and chicken parm sandwiches really took our minds off the dropped fish. Eventually everyone would get to reel in a few fish, and we even had our first screamer of the day. He took the 42 combo on our low wire out 225. The fish gave up a great fight, and they were able to see how tough a mature Salmon really is. We would not go hungry on this trip, and Anthony had a blast reeling in fish along with watching his dad battle about a 17lb Lake Ontario King Salmon. This fish made multiple hard runs, and turned those meatball making arms into mush. 8/16 - Charter We had some guys from ROWE video out with us. I love when these guys come out because I know that I will be getting some GREAT pictures! The downfall is.....your going to have to wait until I get them to see them. Well, when we broke the pier heads you could feel the cold water still pushed into the shallows, so off to the depths we went. We dropped in at the 29N line, and for once I was able to get all 8 rods in the water without a single fish. However, that didn't last long! We ran the same program as the day before with the exception of switching out a 300 copper for a 400 copper. We would continue the droppsy theme this morning. One of which was definitely a King that took the 400 copper pulling a green Smart Fish/A-TOM-MIK sherbet fly. Our Dreamweaver midnight specials were great until we had a beautiful Steelhead go under a wire and then rocket out of the water. So down went some Northern King 42nd's and they continued to rock. Our Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers took a back seat today, and pair of Stinger Nukes really started to shine. The highlight of the day happened around noon when a high wire pulling a Moonshine Bad Toad started to sing. We knew it was a King, but had no clue how big. He made multiple long and strong runs. After what seemed to be forever a hog hit the deck and tipped our scale at 29lbs. Here is a picture of my brother holding it until we get some photos from the Rowe guys.

Wish we had more than just two of them this weekend, but it's fishing. There is always next year.

8/7: Morning Trip - Took a ride out to the 29N Line straight out front of the Oak and got into fish immediately. I couldn't get 8 rods in the water until about 9:30am. Tons of fun, but a lot of work for such small fish. We were catching mostly Steelhead with a few Chinooks mixed in. Our program consisted of 3 riggers, 4 wires, and 1 copper. On the riggers we had Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers on the deep rigger, Dreamweaver SS Shiznits on the middle rigger, and Dreamweaver SS Gators on the high rigger. The 300 copper pulled a Dreamweaver Magnum Gator, and we ran it down the chute with all the copper in the water. We ran flasher fly combos on our low wires (42nd combo, and Albino Gator Spinny/A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist), and on our high wires we ran Mag Spoons (Northern King 42nd and Northern King Sea Sick Waddler). We cut our trip short with a nice box, and some tired arms! Justin reeled in most of the fish on this trip as his father and his friend Phil watched. Justin broke his big fish record multiple times today! He left with one heck of a smile. Evening Trip - Headed back out to that 29N-31N water right off the Oak and had a slow pick for most of the night. Same mix of fish, but a tad bit on the smaller side. Same program as the morning too. By the end of the trip our best picture would be found at the 28N line a tad bit East of the Oak. We had a beautiful Steelhead, about 9lbs, give us an Ariel show until he met our net. That was our highlight until about an hour left in the trip. I moved the high rigger up into 60 degree water looking for some Steelhead, and within 10 minutes that rod pops and its off to the races. At one point my guy says "we are running out of line!" I look down at the reel and snatched it from him while yelling for my brother to turn on this fish. I put the thumb down on him and showed him that there is a higher power! After I got some line back on the reel I handed it back off, and when it hit the net I knew why it came so close to spooling us. On the scale it weighed 27lb's and change. This groups biggest to date by about 2 pounds. This is when the smack talking began, and it wouldn't let up until Sunday morning. 8/8: We started at the 27N line and rode the waves out to the mid 28N line. This ride yielded 1 fish! We had some decent bait, so I turned on it and went through it at a different direction. Straight into the waves, and some added lure action, was all it took to get the rods firing. Almost instantly rods began to pop, but sighting the same story from yesterday size was an issue. Most fish were under the legal size limit. Our program today was a very simple 6 rod spread. 3 riggers, 2 wires, and a 300 copper. The riggers pulled the same lures we pulled on Saturday, but the Dreamweaver Shiznits would never take a hit. We exchanged them out for some Dreamweaver Raspberry Dolphins, which put their share of fish in the boat. Our wires pulled many combos during the day, but the ones we would end up with was a Dreamweaver Green blade double crush gow with green dots pulling an A-TOM-MIK L225 UV Dolphin, and a Green Smartfish with an A-TOM-MIK Sherbert fly. Our 300 copper continued to pull that dreamweaver Mag Gator. We worked West for a while, and got into some gin clear water with nothing on the screen. We finally pointed the boat NE and rode the waves out to the 29N line where the water turned green again and the fishfinder lit up with bait and fish. Rods began to fire again! With about an hour to go our wire diver starts singing! It was our Froggy Deeper Diver that had the Dreamweaver Green blade double crush glow with green dots pulling an A-TOM-MIK L225 UV Dolphin out 240 on a 2 setting. This fish took us out to 800', but the guy on the rod handled it well. Before we knew it another SLOB hit our deck! When we put him on the scale it was 27lbs and change. That makes TWO 27lb fish for us in ONE weekend. We would end the day with a decent box of fish. Today most of the fish in the box were Salmon.

I mis-typed. I dont leave them on in the water. I meant when I am fishing for the weekend i will roll up the leader and keep the lures on while in the dok.

Look me up! You know I will be there!