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When you run your core you should let it out down the chute, hook your board on then send it behind the boat until you have enough distance from the boat and then let the board engage and pull out to the side of the boat.

Just make sure that when you are loading up your rigger rods with lite line that you are not damaging your line. I generally fish for salmon but I have one rigger rod with 14# test on it and I have had a couple break-offs because of weakened line. I have now started using rubber bands hooked into the blacks release without anymore problems. I was also fishing down around 100 FOW and had a lot of load on that rod. At walleye depths and speeds it may be less of a problem.

Nice piece of fishing J1, that will fill the freezer in a hurry.

The official standings will not come out until later this week, but I think the two fish that we weighed in just made it into the payout. This year the payout went to the top 200 fish over the 9 day tourney. The winning fish was 28.16 lbs and the bottom was just over 16 lbs. Last year there was over 2700 entries into the tournament, so I am pretty happy with getting one or two fish into the top 200.

That's a nice looking fish Jonas and crew! How much did it weigh?

We made three trips out to the bank this past weekend for an exhausting second weekend of the KD salmon derby. We fished Sat. AM, PM, and Sun. AM going 29 for 38. We had a pretty hot morning bite both of the days starting each of them with a triple. Each morning we had good action from 5:00 to 7:30, then the bite kind of died off untill 9:30. From 9:30 to 12:00 (when we pulled lines) the fish were catch-able but we had to work a lot harder for our fish. Dipsies and riggers were both hot for us this weekend, and just a few hits for us on copper. Most of the fish we took this weekend were 100' to 150' down using FF combos and plugs. Aqua and glow flies paired with white and chrome paddles, and Ace hi double glow plugs were the best for us. We fished 120 to 130 FOW during sunrise and sunset periods and 140 to 160 FOW during mid-day. Most of the fish we caught were between 5# and 10# and a pair of 16+ fish that we weighed in for the derby were our biggest. We didn't find the big fish we were looking for, but it was a fun weekend. We will be out in SB for an extended trip from the 7th to the 14th so feel free to stop in and say hi if your in the area.

That had to be a terrible feeling! Glad to hear your insurance company is coming through for you. Sounds like the new boat is a pretty nice setup, I hope everything works out for you.

Welcome to the site RJ!

Nice work Jim!

I have the same thing rigged up, works great.

Good luck to you guys! We will be out for both of the weekends to do a little combat fishing as well. I wish I had the opportunity to fish during the week, but we will just have to make it work. It certainly does add some excitement to the day though.

Just this past weekend I broke the handle on our net, so now I am in the market for a new one. I was wondering what brand of net you guys like to use, or which brands I should stay away from?

We took two trips to the bank on Sat. with some friends and family on board. We had to work a lot harder for the fish this weekend but we did manage to put some fish in the box. We went 7 for 10 in the morning and 5 for 10 (or something like that) in the evening. We had a lot of drive bys on riggers on our PM trip, it was getting very frustrating. Riggers and dipsies were working the best for us fishing from 50 to 70 dn with FF combos. Chrome pro-troll or hot spot flashers with aqua or glow flies, and 11" white crush glow pro-troll paddles with glow flies worked the best for us. We did take some hits on spoons as well, primarily right at sunset with moonshine spoons. Sarge, half a meal, and turkish pepper all took hits. Most of the fish we caught were between 5 and 11 pounds with a shaker and a small laker thrown in.

My suggestion would be to keep adjusting your lead length until you find out what the fish want. As condition on the water change you may also have to change. I generally use 20' to 60' of lead, but occasionally I will stretch them out over 100.

Nice work Dan glad to see you picked up right where you left off! The bank has defiantly been fun this year.

You should be just fine with 40, I have about 20' of leader on my coppers.

Way to get it done Jim and crew!

Yea NOAA doesn't always get it right, that is why I like to look at the data that comes directly from the mid lake buoys seen here. Nice job on the fish Rick. Are you running in-line boards to pull your 300? Just seems like a lot to pull with the 300 copper and 11" paddle.

Nice job Jim and crew!

Nice job on the fish Katrina! Don't let some other guys numbers get to ya. We are all out there because we love fishing, as long as you had a good time that is all that really matters. Who knows, maybe you will boat more fish than them next time.

Nice job, first timers are always fun to have in the boat!

Steve I think those rods will work just fine for pulling copper, especially when you have a smaller boat. Just make sure the knots are going to slide through the eyes well enough.

We have taken way more fish on mag size spoons than any other size so far this year.

Nice work in the skinny water Killer, sounds like fun.