Port Sheldon 8/18

[Creekerman]

8/18/15

Ended the day 4 for 5. We lost one on a father-son double. We waited out the morning with touch-and-go weather…left at 2:30PM and launched at about 6:00 PM. Three licenses on board…my b-in-law, nephew, and I.

Tally was; 14 lb King, 13 lb King, a 12.5 lb King, and a 4lb King.

One on Live wire SD with John King green meat rig on 300 cu

One on Mtn Dew SD with John King yellow meat rig on other 300 cu

One on Rigger @ 91 ft. down with John King Super Black Mamba rotator w/ black/white meat rig.

One on other rigger @ 80 ft down w/ moonshine "Green jeans" spoon

Lost one near boat on slide diver w/ blue splatter back glow SH plug.

Very few other fools on the Lake...most of the time saw no other boats. Beat the storm coming out of Chicago by getting off the Lake and in time to button down the boat. Ran ahead of it all the way home and got the boat sheltered before the storm arrived. Our timing for the day was about as perfect as possible fitting in the fishing amidst bad weather on both ends.

[littleboat]

You have great timing. What size is you boat and what were the wave conditions? Rollers or chop? Nice catch.

[Creekerman]

We had hoped to get out for the early morning bite on the 18th, but the conditions looked horrible from the data we looked at. We watched the data on the weather bouys, on the NOAA site, on the Weather sites, and on the lakeside video cameras and the conditions changed by the hour…worse, better, worse, better. We finally decided it looked good enough for about 5 hours for a possible night bite. We crossed our fingers not knowing if we would find adequate conditions or not. We got lucky (or blessed...depending on how you look at it). It was a little rough the first hour….but settled down nicely before we watched the red cells coming across from the southwest.

Boat size = 18 feet, 135 I/O w/ 9.9 kicker.