BenLubbs Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I'm going to make it a quick one. Headed out late tonight with two friends. Got on the lake around 7:30 and it was flat calm. The lake turned over in the past day so made a couple passes infront of the the channel looking for cold water and couldn't find it. Started heading out with my eye on the graph watching the temp. Dropped off to about 62 in 60 FOW so I set down and started setting lines on a west-south-west troll. From the radio chatter no one really had any thing going. Ran a mostly spoon spread with a tincan/sng on one diver and a f/f on the other. Drove around most of the night marking fish but not getting any hits. Once it got towards sunset started changing out to glow spoons. By this time we were headed north east back toward Holland. Got lines set and soon after took a hit on the five color lead. I was setting one of the downriggers so grabbed the pole and as soon as i grabbed it the diver on my side started going. On of my friends grabbed the diver. My friend got his fish to the boat first, a 5ish lb laker on a white/scale tincan with a MI sunset spin-n-glo on the wire diver dragin' bottom. That fish gets itself wrapped up in the net and i'm still fighting my fish. I get my fish to the boat and see that it is a HOGGG Brown. My friend finally frees the laker from the net and gets the Brown in the boat. Came on a Stinger Glow Wonderbread (stingray size). We weighed the fish on my scale at the cleaning station and it was 10lb 8oz. I was ecstatic because its only the second brown I've ever caught and the first on the big lake. It was a great fight and that thing was a football We took another laker a little while later on the other wire diver pulling a 10" Mtn. Dew SD and at Big Weenie Cornbread fly. The first two fish came in about 70 FOW and the last came in 65. SOG was 2.7-2.9 MPH. I'll get pics up tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somethin' fishy Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Nice job Ben and congrats on that brown! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathan vk Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Nice job Ben, can't wait to see that brown. We got the skunk out of the box with an 8lb steel, coming on a 7 color, blue and white chilly Willie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish4em Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Great job Ben. Congrats on the Brown, gotta' love them little pigs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Hook'n Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Nice work Ben. We had a trip like that last year , or maybe it was the year before now, I can't remember. Anyway, our 11.5lb ish brown is hanging on the wall. Also one of the only I've caught on my boat and just a unique trip with good friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reel Bucks Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Were the fleas bad on your lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Dekker Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Great job Ben! Thanks for the report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N II Deep Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I was out in the same water last night out of ps. Fleas were still there but nothing like the past two weekendsWere the fleas bad on your lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgaul Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Nice Job Ben!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooked Up Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Nice job! I saw the water temp dropped quite a bit...heading out to GH tonight. It will be nice not having to run out to 200+'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Bait Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Great job Ben! Love to hear of a big brown like that in the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenLubbs Posted July 25, 2011 Author Share Posted July 25, 2011 Remembered that I never added pictures of the trip so here they are Fighting the brown Happy Captain reeling in a fish Got a double Nights Catch Me with the Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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