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Team Oakley is in

Trying to round up a crew

yeah but it looks old and abused

Agreed. Been very productive for me this year

Gary at Big Weenie is always willing to talk over the phone and get you dialed in. Honestly he tells everyone to give him a call with questions. I would highly reccomend talking to him.

It works. Good tip is to splice about 200-300 feet onto your regular line. Pretty rare that you'll go more than 300 feet out on a rigger and it will save you some dough. I moved over to 30 lb big game yrs ago and have styed with it. Just don't try to run a slider when the fleas are super bad like now

Launched at 5:30 and pulled lines at 11. 3 for 5 12lb steel blue jackal 40 down 18.5lb king 200 out green 10 inch spinnie meat rig 11lb laker right on the bottom with UV death weenie meat rig sog 2.4. East/West current Fished mostly straight out from 60-150. All hits between 100-115. Surface temps 68-71. Most radio chatter spoke of the 100fow area Fleas were very bad

Same here. Other boat owners I try to keep it simple and figure that trips on each others boats end up working out in the wash.

Yup it was a couple years ago when a lot of people were getting back into 30-32lb copper because Blood Run and others were making the super copper. Hell there were a couple years before that I couldn't find 30lb copper in a store. Guys were saying why not just use shorter sections of 45lb instead of wasting time on 32. The reply was it always seems to catch fish and it's much easier to deal with. Well now we see there is basically a negligable difference between 32 and 45 on depth and still a big difference on ease of use and the options it opens up for smaller reels or more backing. I'm not saying running 45 lb is not a good idea. It just pissed me off that guys were treating others like idiots for even suggesting the use of 32.

Absolutely love the fact that all the guys saying using 32lb was useless are now eating crow:lol:

Jimmy and his big pooper:lol:

Set lines in 180 fow at 5pm. Went out to 230 and then back in to the 160's where we hit a 18 lb laker on a White paddle and mirage fly 150 down. Picked away at a couple coho and a king until 8:30 when the twilight bite kicked in and we took 7 bites until pulling lines at 9:45 Temp was 48 out deep. 50 degrees at 140-120. Our best water was the 160's and 130's. 125 32lb took 4 hits with a super slim orange DW Wire dipsey out 140 took 3 hits with a clear UV paddle and mirage fly Full core with Blue bubble flasher fly took 2 hits 300 32 lb and 300 45lb each took 1 hit (forget the spoons) Hot lobster down 53 took 1 hit Ended 8 for 13 with the pig laker (released), couple of mid teen kings, 2 twin 10lb kings, cookie cutter 7lber, and 2 ho's

Great box Ed!

Nice Kevin!

The sun was in my eyes!

Good stuff Steve. Have fun on the river!

How'd you guys do Steve?

What happened to the cleaning station at snug harbor?

Jay I think you guys are going to have an impossible time explaining any other option than option 4. It wins on science and public opinion. It won't make everyone happy but everyone will understand why it was done.

Used to have the same issues with my islander. I cut down on my drinking and the problem went away:D

It's common Steve. I cut and retie once or twice a season just to keep it ruley.

Great report Terry. Thanks!

Forgot to mention the fleas are here:(

Lines down at 5:45 up at 11 Worked 75-150 fow. "Best" was 90-100 early and 150 later Best direction was SW at 2.8 SOG. No temp gauge. Ended up 6 miles south of the piers Bite was very scattered for us. A couple here, a couple there. Ended 7 for 10 with a small steel and 6 teener kings, No hits on dipseys. 5 on riggers and 5 on lead. Paddle took one hit/ SD's zero. 9 on variety sized/colored spoons One thing of note. Marked LOTS of fish and bait everywhere. Lots of streakers coming for a look and not biting. Fish were absolutely stuffed with 5 inch alewifes. I cannot remember fish stomachs as extended as the ones I have seen my last 2 trips

Boat has been dry since third week of May so it was good to get her out. 5:45-10:45 fishing time 60-140 fow straight out Best water 100-130 Water temp surface 68 degrees 17 for 32. 7 steel, 7 kings, 3 ho's. Went 0 for 9 in a 45 minute stretch:pardon: Hot rigs early were 150 copper, full core with stingray NBK, blue jackal 36 down. After 8 am 150 was still popping. UV death meat rig down 90, Red Mongoose meat 200 on 3, and blueberry muffin down 70 got hot. Haven't had fishing like that in 3 years