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I'll split this report into 3 sections, because we did a few things. Section 1 - Trolling - Trying to Find Fish Wanted to try something different, so brought my whole cured alewives and herring for a mooching trip. But first we needed to find some fish to work.We started trolling around 7 pm and trolled until 8:30 going 1/2 with a nice king on a meat rig in 93 fow, and another nice fish on a flasher fly that spit the hook in 105 fow. We were marking fish and bait at 8:30 so we stopped to try mooching. Section 2 - Mooching The two of us rigged up with a 3 and 4 oz weight and 6 foot leads, one with an alewife and another with a herring. Got the bait spinning nicely and started dropping and reeling the bait back up. We were in 90 fow. Between 8:30 pm and 9 pm we had about a dozen follows, but no hits. Right at 9 pm, the bait and fish seemed to disappear. So we ran in quickly to 55 fow to see if the fish had moved in. Worked back out to 70 fow slowly and didn't see a single big fish swim through, so we gave up on that mooching for the night. Section 3 - Glow Spoon - Moon Program At 1030 or so we switched over to a mag moonshine glow spoon program. Trolled out to 140 fow and hit 1 fish in 120 fow on a carbon 14 around midnight (diver back 55 feet). On our way back on a NNE troll, we too two more fish around 100 fow. Carbon 14 on the same diver, and a Double Trouble on a 150 copper took a fish. Right at 1 am, the moon got covered up by a cloud bank so we pulled lines and called it a night. All kings were 10-16 lbs, and very lively at the boat. Going to try mooching again, but this time will try to start earlier in the evening.

Love the schools of coho. Make a great day when the kings aren't interested.

Thought that was you a little north and inside of us.

Went out this afternoon lines in the water around 5:30 pm. Started looking for fish around the sliders in 100-130 fow. And pretty much stayed in the all night trolling SSE, SSW - with SSE and S trolls picking up the most bites. What worked? Well pretty much everything. Ended the night at 10 pm. Went 12/18. Earlier on it was 350-400 coppers, and mag divers back 165. Then switched to 300-350 coppers, and mag divers back 135. Then downriggers 55-75 started hitting. Only thing that didn't get hit was the plug we put out on the 200 copper. I'd say we had 4 hits on meat rigs, 6 hits on flasher flies, and 8 hits on spoons (moonshines). Speed 2.0 to 3.0 mph at the ball.

They may have been shallow, or they may have been spread out. I marked bait everywhere, but not heavy schools of bait like a week ago.

I know there are fish around. We just didn't set up on them last night. Talked to a few other boats that were in the 5-10 bites range.