Reel-Deal Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Started fishing about 1 hour after sunrise - circumstances and meeting up with others prevented us being on the water BEFORE sunrise - and it proved to be a mistake - the early bite was it - we didn't have a bump the entire morning - which we fished from 70' early - out to about 175 by the end of the morning - after sunrise - the fish scattered, as expected - but we were marking some good fish and bait - but couldn't get them to open their mouth - so, we went back to harbor - paid a visit to the Pizza Ranch - and came back out about 5 PM.The late afternoon bite was not there - and I was thinking that the skunk would be in the box today - but we stuck it out until 9:30 PM. We deliberately stayed in the 70-90' depth as sunset approached in order to target some active fish straight out from the harbor. Took a rip on a down-rigger about 7 PM which was great - and we put a 13# king in the boat - came on a white bechold flasher and a custom fly - which is a white fly that turns a purple-blue when it hits the water (I think it's a Howie) and I have 4 dark blue 6mm plastic beads in it....I call it Little Boy Blue....Then - we couldn't by another hit until about 9 PM - as we trolled in the wonderful waves back toward the harbor - came in about 65 FOW - 55' down on the little boy blue again - 15# king - that was it - we were tired of being bounced around most of the day in the 1 foot or less waves as NOAA predicted - so we decided to go in - sounded to me like most guys were stuggling too - some hit it good I think in about 200-300 FOW, down deep...hope we'll see some reports...Won't be out for a couple of weeks - taking the boat to Lake Ontario next week to fish the fall derby - then back to Lake MI for I hope some staging king action.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLF Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Nice job Jim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Bomb Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Nice job Jim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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