zgrinder on Fin Warrior

Great story FBD. Thanks for sharing. Glad your wife didn't add to her foot injury and happy you were able to land a nice fish after a hard night of fishing.

Great pic and thanks for the report.

The fish look like they get progressively bigger in your pics. Nice steady action makes for a fun night.

There must be a fortune in BN spoons at the bottom of the lake. I know I have contributed my fair share. Hope you get your board back.

Those SH must have been especially fun to bring in on a sunny day. Nice catch!

Steady action throughout the morning with a double thrown in the mix. That makes for a great float. Thanks for all the pics and data and congrats on your catch!

Best catch I have seen reported in some time. The early morning bite is the place to be. Congrats on your back-to-back outings.

I really wanted to get out yesterday morning but just got back from MN the night before and had to cut the yard. Nice box for fishing solo. The SH is a nice fish. Thanks for capturing all the data on your catches - nice system! I see the hook ups were about an hour apart, kings in shallow, coho and SH out deeper. Hope to get out a few times between today through Sunday. Need to dig out a mag Happy Meal for the trip.

Nice fat kings - great work!

Your pics are priceless. So much fun to have non-stop action. Your relatives likely think fishing is always this busy

Regarding the spreadsheet. This is the innovation of MegaByte on this site. Please thank him! I looked at what he was publishing and jumped on board. My spreadsheets may be slightly different but the sole purpose is to share info. How I record: I have a paper copy on a clip board setting on my map compartment. The original owner of my Rampage installed a Depth Raider and a secondary Furuno autopilot display on the back of the Starboard storage compartment right above the bait station. This was so smart and I am the lucky beneficiary of this original install decision. Therefore, when I hook up, I glance at these displays as well as the depth displayed at the helm and hope I can remember all the data after boating the fish. When I fish alone this is frankly a bit easier. When I have guests it depends. If they are boat salts, no worries. If I am educating the entire float, that makes it tough. And when I put a post on the site, I retype the info into my blank Excel file and then do a Snip-It copy in my post. It is a bit more work but my lap top does not smell fishy Cheers!

Set down between Holland and Port Sheldon about 5:30pm in 170 FOW, flipped Fin Warrior around and trolled east with the waves to set up rods. Decided on 2 slide divers with spoons (ran them more like standard dipseys because of the attached Smart Troll probe) and one downrigger with a Kevin's Girl Friend (or something similar) meat rig. Got the two slide divers down and was setting up the meat rig when the slide diver got bit but it was a Lake Trout. Decided not to net it and release it on the swim platform. Bad decision. LT flippin out of control, broke the line and there goes the slide diver bouncing off the platform and into the water. LT still there with a beautiful spoon still in its mouth and I started to reach down to get it as the fish was flipping around and a moment of clarity struck and said to me, don't do that and I watch the LT flip off the swim platform and away it goes with the lure. Had another strike on the other slide diver almost immediately after that but it was gone by the time I readied the rod. Bent treble hook. So now I have nothin in the water. Went down below, got a spare slide diver, replacement PK mag foil blue dolphin and fixed that rig. Replaced the bent treble. Got those lines back down and then the meat rig . . . . 30 minutes later. That was wasted time on the water. However, the repaired slide diver blue dolphin lit up again at 7:10pm in 143FOW and boated an 11lb king on a west troll. Got that back down and headed NE. Nothing on that pass all the way in to 100FOW. Dropped the meat rig with the 11 Pro-Troll flasher (a magnet to any other line in the spread) down to 70' to avoid tangles and made a hard 180 degree turn to a SW troll. Before I could reposition the meat rig down rigger it went off on a nice strong run. Started fighting that for a minute and the slide diver blue dolphin goes off again. Decided to holster the meat rig and large flasher and deal with the slide diver. Had a really good fight going on then pop goes the line and I donate another slide diver and PK mag blue dolphin spoon. The break was above the knot so not sure how that happened but the Smart Troll probe was still there. I pulled the other slide diver, cranked down the trolling valves and reeled in the meat rig. King weighed in at 14lbs. The sun was still just above the horizon but since I had all the lines up and a broken set up, I decided to forgo the dusk bite and call it a night. Finished the evening 3 for 6, minus to set ups.

Great morning and nice that you found a couple of SH along with the king bite.

Those are some big grins to go with those fish. Looks like there was some fun to be had when that king was landed and the lake trout as well. And tell her the shoes are the bomb - must wear them on the next float.

I am fairly certain you and I were passing each other late in the evening in that 200+FOW (Fin Warrior has a blue hull) as there was only the two of us out there. Put down 5 dark lures at 8:20pm and raised the baits a bit ready for the dusk bite but no dice. Only boated two lakers but had several rips with one Mustad large treble that got straitened out on a wire diver after the initial strike. I love those hooks for SH and they are also light weight, good for keeping the action on the lure but they will flatten out if a big king only grabs one of the three barbs. Most importantly, a big congrats on landing a stud king solo. I do a lot of the fishing myself so I know the fun and the challenge it brings. Best of luck on your next float.

I mis-identified the fish in the first pic. That is actually a 8# coho per my cutting table examination.

Fished 5:00pm till past dusk starting in 150FOW out to 240FOW. Spent most of the evening between 200-240FOW running 2 wire divers and 4 riggers. Finished 2 for 6. Had a couple of tangles and a lost diver set up with MS Bloody Nose because we were running everything at 70' down and below until dusk. Caught a 8lb or better king on my Waukegan Special (Luhr Jensen blue holographic tin can with a hand tied dark blue crinkle fly) down about 60' on a rigger in 210 FOW just before dusk. Shortly there after the 12lb light line with a holographic green dolphin type spoon down about 75' on a rigger boated about a 5lb king. Both kings were lake bred. The 4 misses were short lived fights and only one hit and ran hard (the donation). Had two of my best friends out from the other side of the lake and was happy the lake was calm and got to boat a fish each. 200FOW was busy last night. One report of a 20# king caught in the depth but not much else. Looking to try again later in the week.