Port Sheldon 8/23 AM

[ZachEno]

Well Saturday morning started out very frustrating and expensive but ended up good (fishing wise at least). Bye 10:30 we were only 1-3 with the one fish coming on a Moonshine Stripetastic on DR 90 down in 160 FOW and one break off on a dipsey 188 back with a Moonshine RV Happymeal (fish broke the line). We kept heading out West and got to 190, when snap there went all on the down rigger cable and the ball to the bottom of the lake. At this moment we were very frustrated and thinking about cutting our losses and heading back in. Instead I suggested we go back to the 165 FOW range and that's when the fun began. We quickly took a double with one on a Moo Moo Dream Weaver meat rig. The dipseys kept firing with one coming on a lemon ice regular size spoon (crazy coho wrapped the line and the spoon completely around its' mouth, bending the spoon (never saw that before). The other dipsey (both were braid dipseys) took 2 on a 11 inch green and white Fishcatcher with a green and blue fly. We ended up just circling back thru that 165 foot range and ended up 5 for 8, with 2 coho both nice size and 3 kings both in the upper teens pushing twenty. It was great to get out again as it had been weeks since I was last out.

[Just Hook'n]

You have not lost much until you drown/lose a fish hawk probe, downrigger ball, a couple dipseys and a few coppers in a trip...Or you could be like Don (fishsniffer) and crack all your rods off at the same time going under a bridge...Those are the most memorable trips.

Great job on the fish...the lost tackle will just build a better story.

[ZachEno]

Funny thing Mark but having less rods in the water after the cable snapped May have improved our fishing as we now had a wider spread.