FBD

Sneaked out for a few hours tonight.

Fish look pretty fresh. Enjoyed your reports this year.

That king hit you had right at the pier heads as we dove in front of you and headed up the channel - man we felt that all the way over in our boat…

Rain gonna stop at 2. It didn’t. Wind gonna blow 20-30 out of the NE and build. Dead calm. Fish gonna be in the mud. They were. Fished 3:30-7 yesterday kid had weird hours available due to an orchestra concert tonight, in a miserable pissing drizzle / rain, and kept busy. Mostly deep thundersticks oddly not Firetiger 18’ off yellow birds with a few slide diver mag moonshine hits. Riggers took the night off as did spinnies and paddles and j plugs. Big fish on a moonshine flounder pounder took a two color to over 400’. Ended up 5/7 on hooked fish and many many pull backs on the boards of 5-10’ then gone before we could grab the rod. Mostly smaller males with one big chrome hen.

Bet a bunch ran Monday it was 49 in the Holland Channel. I am hoping for another push later this week as the forecast has nothing but E in it for the next week, and the rain should only help.

We were constantly messing with the lines trying to play chicken with the bottom. And when they bumped we had to trip them and reset. Wasn’t much fun but that’s where the fish were. Last two hits on the riggers were while I was messing with them. Thought I had snugged the rods up too much and popped them off the release both times.

No kidding on the current we had to run like 30 degrees off due N-S and adjust the riggers and divers constantly to play chicken with the bottom.

Probably saw us out there. We had a fun night. Sheep sheep and more sheep enough of that but had to fish within 3’ of the bottom to get salmon. Ended up 9/10 if you include sheep 5/5 if not. Four kings 8-13# and a really nice coho.

Holland 9/4pm lake laid down nicely, I however had a wicked case of the sucks. Marked most fish in 115-120 but had most action in 90-95 if you count multiple short rips on the coppers as action. Ended up with two both on wire divers, a small coho we let go and a 14# hen king…

I don’t eat fish. We released all of them but one that committed suicide by Rapala. It went to my daughter’s boyfriend as he loves fish. Browns smoke really well they are just fatty enough to take a good flavor but not so fatty that they get nasty like lakers.

Went to Lake Ontario to catch browns, and my middle kid gets a 32” pike for her first one. My youngest gets a 37”, to back up the 37” she caught last fall and the 40” she caught the fall before that. I spend a week on Isle Royale and never got one over 29”…

Ever post a fishing report here, or is your trolling on the internet? We went 10/10 on Lake Ontario this spring first time fishing it. Won’t be the last was a wonderful time even if we were plagued with clear cold water and crap weather.

Nope.