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Thinking the same thing

We had 4 good fisherman on the boat. We worked our butts off, had 16 bites, and landed 15 fish. Not one double, just one fish every 15- 20 minutes. Monday night we didn't even try that hard and had 17 in one hour, with up to 5 on a once. Our typical coho fishing is awesome in Wisconsin where if you don't get your limit your doing something wrong. The fishing has gotten tougher each day this week, that's all I was saying.

i think the mother load left Racine three-four weeks ago and you caught the tail end of them by you this weekend. They were very scattered out of Racine today.

I disagree. That would mean this is going to be the worst year for coho ever. According to the stocking quotas it is supposed to be one of the best.

Just to get an idea of where the schools of cohos are. how bout sharing where your doing good. How far north are they? Trying to get an idea of when the mother load will show up.

Very healthy looking fish Captain Russ.

Milwaukee of Kenosha?

Milwaukee, sorry forgot that in the title

Nice!!

Well after the big blow yesterday the fishing has gotten tougher again. The fish are even more scattered and the ones that are their have dropped to the bottom. For the second day in a row 00 dodgers never took a hit for us. Fished 35-45 feet again. Best coho baits were orange spin doctors with aqua flies on divers out 65 and 80 feet behind boards with 3/4oz keel sinkers. White flashers and aqua flies on riggers and 5 color down 25-35 took the kings. Depth raider speed 1.6-1.8. Hopefully with some west winds this week it will clear up the water and school the fish and bait back up again.

Nice king Jim, that thing looks huge compared to when I saw it in your cooler. Their have been a few big ones caught so far that's awesome.

Nice job on the kings. sounds like a fun day.

Went out for a quick run this morning before it got to crazy rough out there. Fished 35-45 outside the harbor. Water was dirty compared to monday, scattering the cohos. Still got a few though. Spin doctors in yellow with orange tape with purple flies took the cohos and stinger nbks took a few kings on riggers off the bottom. 1.6-1.8 on the depth raider. Tommarrow looks alot nicer weather for us west siders, so hopefully we smack em.

42- 43 degrees where the fish were. Mainly flies, but spoons also. They hit everything it didn't matter.

I don't know how set on making your own you are but I got 2 big boards I don't use like new that I'd sell for a reasonable price. Their collapseable Riveira's.

Nice work!

Well fishing is awesome in Milwaukee, the cohos are here in full force. Went out after work at 4:00 and we had 17 cohos in 1 hour. Fished 35 feet outside the harbor, fish were piled up in the warm water. They hit everything we had out. They were even hitting while setting divers and boards. Up to 5 fish on at once. About half had big alewives in their stomaches. Should only get better.

Sounds good I'll be in touch.

Jim was that today? They were predicting 4-6 footers????

Nice Jim, I'm torn between puting the boat in a slip in Racine or just fishing Milwaukee. Racines launch is so shallow right now I can't use it.

I hate the blacks style releases myself. I use the Scotty pinch pad style releases (Powergrips?) you can load the crap out of your rods and get ZERO false releases, yet with the long tethers, if a fish or shaker even sniffs the lure, it is clearly telegraphed to the rod. never drag a shaker, EVER.

Tim

Where do you live?

Sell one rigger and run 3, problem solved. Corners are open to net fish and 3 riggers catch more than 4 anyways.

Yes..... Don't try to smash all your baits in one little band of water.The fish will move up and down at different times of the day, so use it as a starting point, but go up and down. One thing I see is midday big kings will rise up into the warm water to feed at times, and that goes against what the so called "experts" say. Usually once the sun comes up, all the bait that was at the top of the thermocline drops to the bottom anyways, it doesn't just sit their all day waiting to get gobbled up.

Hey thats awsome. Yeah I put em on the gallery but never got back on to put em on. Hey thanks for doing that!! From what I just looked at its saying sunny and 6-12 mph west winds!! perfect for me but who knows what can happen.

Ya they changed it.

coho must be a pretty quick smoke job. Sounds tasty

Alright I am on my home computer for once and downloaded my pictures on here so I will try it from here. I just got the go ahead from my wife to go out Sunday morning with my son and one of his friends so I may head south out of Racine or Just deadhead it from Southshore on the lake past OC. Hopefully I can pass some rods around with some fish on em!!

Hate to bust your bubble, but their calling for 10-14 footers Sunday. Might be a little bumpy:lol:

Cool, looks like you'll be spending a few bucks on gas this year.

Way to be a diehard, I was going to go this morning, but 25- 30 out of the northeast on this side of the lake was just a little to much.