@derek9 and myself thought we would do another lengthy trip to Port Dalhousie and out to the US side of the bar. So this morning I with my usual fishing buddy and his two sons met Derek at the launch. This was my first time out this year with my usual suspect fishing buddy so upon arrival I employed his boys (as usual) to help me put the 3 riggers on my boat, get the rod’s unpacked and get it ready to launch. While we were enroute in rough waves to the bar I heard a large crash? My 3 riggers became 2 as my buddies boys forgot to apply the base set screw to attach the rigger (I guess it was too much too remember from the 15/20 times they did it the summer before). So that’s how the day began. Once we arrived to the bar there were other boats but man was it windy and wavy. We set the TWO riggers and 4 dipsey lines and began trolling towards the US side and we were rewarded with a 7lb salmon. It was extremely rough and once we reached our destination we pulled rods and went back to our original start point as we were not making any progress going against the waves. So we set course for the US side but it should be noted that both Derek and I have fishing licenses for the US side. So hide and seek was not on the agenda. I went to bed after the OT goal by Florida and was on the road by 2am for a three hour drive to Port Dalhousie. So I hit up the cuddy for some alone time and when I emerged 90 min lol later the lake was like glass and one of my buddies boys had just landed his first ever salmon. Fast forward to after 6pm when we called it a day due to lack of netted fish (his boys tried unsuccessfully to set the hook on 5/6 salmon with dipseys) and we we’re heading off because of the impending 3 hour drive home that I did not want to make after dark again. 90-150 seemed to be the sweet spot but they hit different spoons so a favourite was never established. So light one rigger as well as a shark Downrigger weight we called it a day after a speedy 13 hours this time Note: the two cannon downriggers not THREE in the photo!
guess who lost the shark downrigger weight???! 
Sorry to hear about the equipment loss which always takes the fun out of a day on the water. 
Water clarity was maybe a foot and back then we never kept fish to eat. 
