rockin-steelhead
Well-Known Member
Had an invite to go out on a buddies boat today instead of towing mine down. Picked him up at 5am and made it down to Port Weller. I’m so happy we went out in his boat as it was foggy as heck and he has radar. Saw almost two collisions on the radar due to people being stupid by going out full throttle. Now on to the fishing. We started in and around 35 fow and worked our way east to the border working the 35-60 fow depths. We picked up a few small fish and missed a few. We worked our way across the border to the red can and fished 60-80 and again picking up a fish here and there but nothing over say 6lbs. We worked our way out to the ledge and hit the 180 mark. I dropped the rigger down to 101 with meat and paddle and not even three minutes there hooked in to a good fish. After about 10 minutes in to the battle it snapped the line and took everything. Tied a new paddle and meat rig up and sent it back down to 101 on the counter. Less than 5 minutes later hooked up again with a quality fish. After about a 15-20 minute battle boated a nice healthy 18lb male. Long story short, spoons and meat worked well for us today and the bigger fish were out deeper anywhere from 50-100 feet down. We ended the day with over 50 bites, 26 fish in the boat and only 1 laker out of that number. Was great to see different year classes out there. Get out on the South Shore while the fishing is hot.
