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I agree with your analysis of the ninja diver. They do work well, but a little more care and concern is required on setting them up and deploying them.

The lake finally laid down, actually flat and was thinking about a dusk run but with the storm coming in, settled on pushing off just after 3:00pm and fishing till the front moved in at 7:00pm. Set up in 130 FOW strait out of the harbor and headed south to SW. Two Ninja 3-set slide divers and one rigger. Just after getting lines in the water and before adjusting the depths, the SB diver down 41' with a mag Green Hulk RV spoon took a 6-7lb king in 136 FOW. I released it expecting better things to come but I could not stir up another bite. Chased some impressive marks with the SWR on a rigger trailing a mag DW Soda spoon but no takers. Moved the slide divers between 40-55' down with no luck. The Blue Hulk RV spoon on the Port slide diver did not get touched. Ample marks between 130-140 FOW so I stayed in that water for the evening trying to make it work. First time running the DW Ninja slide divers. My slide diver reels are set up with 30lb Power Pro tipped with 8' of 25lb fluoro by way of a small Spro swivel with the diver running on the Power Pro. What I like about the Ninja slide divers is it holds the braid without sliding down the line once deployed. The UC slide divers would not hold the braid line so the reels had to be configured with mono and the mono was prone to breaking - ALOT. The Ninja release is very easy to set and holds tighter than the UC product so it requires some fine adjusting to get it to pop open which simple to do with the screw setting in the back. Last, the weight dial adjustment clicks nicely into place and can be tightened with the screw so it will not move out of the chosen setting. I could see myself moving away from running conventional dipsey divers other than I have a bunch of them and they are quicker to get in the water.

Ed, hope the meds get you back on the water soon. I also checked my Log and I have not been out since 6/7 for the most part due to the high seas.

Tough stuff Littleboat. Glad to hear your on the repair!

glad your healing up. sounds like you will be ready when the fishing improves.

I hadn't been out for awhile because of the weather that we had also. So, to entertain myself I started clearing some bushes and miscellaneous weeds to get something done during this terrible weather cycle. I woke up the next morning with my right wrist swollen up 4 sizes and tremendous pain. Evidently, something punctured my glove and it wasn't a FISH HOOK! I couldn't even move my wrist, so off to the doctor I went. I've been out of commission for over a week. I feel like a one arm bandit. It will be at least another week before I can probably launch my boat by myself. The antibiotics are finally start to improve my situation, now if the fish would do the same thing. No good deed goes unpunished.

Yeah. Seems like I haven’t been out in forever. I was running old school this morning just using the buoy for water depth temperature. My first mate (me) forgot to charge my probe.

Always nice to get a Father's day fish! This crazy weather really pushed the thermocline down. Sent from my SM-A156U1 using Great Lakes Fisherman mobile app

Lake was flat and temperature pleasant. Lines in a little after daybreak. 6:45 am: 5 lb king, rigger down 100 ft, 130 fow, meat rig. 8:15 am: small lake trout(released), same rigger down 105 ft, meat rig, 131 fow. Fished 120-150 fow. Marked the most fish, by far in 130 fow. Pulled lines early at 9 am due to Father’s Day plans. What didn’t work: 300 copper with various size and color spoons. No hits on flasher flys.

The Coho pattern from the IL state line to Racine has been exactly the same for the past 3 weeks. 40 - 55 fow, 15-25 down, 2.3 - 2.6 gps sog and your favorite Dodgers and green flies. This yr the Coho are about as easy to catch as I've seen in the past 32 years. Monday we had our 2 man limit in 2 hrs.

4 for 4 tonight. 3 kings and one laker. Flies were crazy bad. It was calm and hazy earlier and then the fog came in big time at last light. All fish came late in the evening. We started in 140fow and didn't mark much. Pushed out to 160 and still not much. Angle in towards shore on a north northeast troll. Then turned and went south to end the evening. Finally found fish and bait inside 100fow. High dipsey out 210 and 260 on setting 3 took to small kings. Alien breath mag and parrot something green and blue. Laker rig bouncing the bottom took the laker. An earlier bite on a 5 color with fireball with dingles started our evening's catch. 2.7-3.0 at the ball was what worked for us.

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It’s June. A few weeks of suck until things set up for the summer. If you’re bored we had an absolute riot working the piers for sheep between the salmon boats, few that there were, heading out and the hangover crowd showing up. Could only run four lines don’t think we went ten minutes without a fish and a couple times had no lines in the water…

It’s been tough so far. The hook ups seemed to be light when they come too. I don’t remember June being stellar last year either. Let’s hope July is better! Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman