Sept 13th
Hit the water around 7 am and fished until 11 am in some rough waters which made fishing a bit of a PITA, but we still managed a couple fish and lost one. We didn't mark any bait or fish in 50-80 fow like my previous solo trip and surface temps were 15+ degrees cooler than a few days before, but the bigger king hit an orange monkey puke down 40 in 75 fow. The smaller one came on a 3 1/2" NBK cheater line in 190 fow with the ball at 190 ft as we were marking tons of big fish on bottom and were hoping for a laker.
Sept 19th
Hit the water around 1 pm and fished until 630 pm. Tried 60-90 fow out of Bronte for a couple hours where the michigan stinger orange monkey puke took one small king at 45 ft in 70 fow, the other took a chrome/green matrix spoon off a dipsy on a #3 setting 90ft back, and I lost a hard fighting fish that nailed the same dipsy setup about 40 ft back as I was letting line out.
Since it was so nice (websites were calling for 8-9 knot winds...WRONG!) and the action was slow I decided to make my first trip to deep water. Setup in 360 ft where the small bow took a watermelon knockout spoon off the dipsy 180 ft back on #3 setting. Lost another fish on the same setup not long after. I was marking a bunch around the thermocline 120ft down so I lowered the michigan stinger kevorkian (purple) down to 140 ft in 380 fow which I assume put it right around the 120 ft mark with the blowback taken into consideration. 5 minutes later it fires and the reel was just screaming. 5-6 minutes later I had this beauty in the boat.
All fish were released except for the small bow which was bleeding pretty bad.
Any guesses on the weight? I later measured where the fish was laying in the boat and it was 35-36" long.
A couple random shots...
Blue zone
Fisherman's pier / Burlington skyway
Hit the water around 7 am and fished until 11 am in some rough waters which made fishing a bit of a PITA, but we still managed a couple fish and lost one. We didn't mark any bait or fish in 50-80 fow like my previous solo trip and surface temps were 15+ degrees cooler than a few days before, but the bigger king hit an orange monkey puke down 40 in 75 fow. The smaller one came on a 3 1/2" NBK cheater line in 190 fow with the ball at 190 ft as we were marking tons of big fish on bottom and were hoping for a laker.
Sept 19th
Hit the water around 1 pm and fished until 630 pm. Tried 60-90 fow out of Bronte for a couple hours where the michigan stinger orange monkey puke took one small king at 45 ft in 70 fow, the other took a chrome/green matrix spoon off a dipsy on a #3 setting 90ft back, and I lost a hard fighting fish that nailed the same dipsy setup about 40 ft back as I was letting line out.
Since it was so nice (websites were calling for 8-9 knot winds...WRONG!) and the action was slow I decided to make my first trip to deep water. Setup in 360 ft where the small bow took a watermelon knockout spoon off the dipsy 180 ft back on #3 setting. Lost another fish on the same setup not long after. I was marking a bunch around the thermocline 120ft down so I lowered the michigan stinger kevorkian (purple) down to 140 ft in 380 fow which I assume put it right around the 120 ft mark with the blowback taken into consideration. 5 minutes later it fires and the reel was just screaming. 5-6 minutes later I had this beauty in the boat.
All fish were released except for the small bow which was bleeding pretty bad.
Any guesses on the weight? I later measured where the fish was laying in the boat and it was 35-36" long.
A couple random shots...
Blue zone
Fisherman's pier / Burlington skyway