Algoma Thursday 7/29PM

[fishoil]

We got out about 4:30 last night and set up in 80' and stayed between there and 100' all night. We trolled mostly north, with the "calm" waves it just wasn't worth the effort to go south and we ended the night almost to the Sturgeon Bay light. We got 2 fish off a rigger set at 72' in 83' of water within 20 minutes of getting set up and figured we were in for a good night. Of course after that we never got another bite until dusk.

At dusk the copper fired while I was trying to change out a lure on a rigger. We landed the fish and reset the copper. Then just as I started to put the rigger line back out the copper went off again. We landed that one, reset the copper and the rigger, and the wire dipsy fired. We lost that one about half way to the boat, reset it, and moved the riggers up to 22' and 37' since I was finally marking fish up higher. Then the 37' rigger fired off, right after we landed that one the copper went off again for our final fish.

We ended up 6 for 7 with all of them being about 8 to 10 pounds each. The lures and setups were:

2 for 2 on Elmo spoon on rigger at 72' in 83' Water
3 for 3 on Green/Black Glow Ladder PK spoon in 90'-95' water
1 for 1 on Purple/Black Glow Ladder PK spoon on rigger at 37'
0 for 1 on wire dipsy 125' out on 1.5 setting Bloody Nose spoon

[pbkintopf]

Nice Catch!

[flooboy]

Good job.

[iffy]

Sounds like you may have to make this a dual post Algoma/Stugeon Bay

I picked up one nice on 15+ lbs. early out of algoma then just bounced aroung for the rest of the night. No dusk bite for me - except 2 shakers. Contolling speed was a major issue for me in the wind. I stayed inside the pack in 60 to 80 fow as I was solo and didn't want to have to work in traffic with the wind we had last night.

I can say I have no rights to the fish I caught. I was trolling downwind at the time. After a nice battle, I got the fish up to the boat. As I started to reach for it with the net and a wave pushes the fish right into the back of the main motor, to close to even net. I guided the fish away from the kicker. Lined it up for another swipe with the net and just as I'm lowering the net, another wave pushes the fish under the net, catching the hooks in the net. Now what to do! - the fish is handing by the hook on the wrong side of the net. I figure I have to net the fish from above, drop the net over the fish the rotate the net, scooping up the fish. I attempt to execute the maneuver. As I drop the net in another wave pushes the fish to the side of the net, I belive futher rehooking the net. The net is now in the water along side the fish with the bag of the net fully tangled. No clue now what to do, I begin to withdraw the net, thinking this is now over. Pulling the net from the water, it now looks like a double X-large tennis racket with the fish hang of one side. Just then, another wave flips the fish on top of the net (the hook in the fishes mouth and net must have acted as a pivot point). As the water recedes, the fish is laying on top of the tangled net, looking like a trout in a frying pan. I just reacted by lift up and pulling back and catapulted the fish into the back of the boat. What a rush. Part of the fun of solo fishing.

It looked pretty light at the cleaning facilities. A lot of boats left with out stopping.

[KingKong]

sounds like a good night!! congrats fishoil!!

Iffy, nice to hear you on the radio!! lol

PS ill be glad when the KD is over and the traffic slows down some...metropolis out of kewaunee this week!

[titletowntim]

Fishoil,
Nice job on a wavy night. My wife and I were out of Goma last night with our first skunk of the season going 0-2. Nice rip on starboard Dipsy set 1 1/2 out 127 with a "Hammer" PK in 107 FOW about 9:30pm and other hit White Hot Spot with "Don King" fly on rigger down 76 in 89 FOW. Boat control and speed were challenging for us last night...

[fishoil]

Speed was most of the reason I kept going north. I couldn't hardly get the boat going fast enough south to keep the down speed where I wanted. Going north with the engine at idle the downspeed was just above where I wanted it but I figured I'd be OK with it if I ran the right spoons.

There was a wicked current heading south down deep. Up higher it wasn't as bad but I wanted my baits deep in the cooler water. With all that idling I think it might be time for a new set of plugs in the engine. It died once when my partner hit the spreader lights with me reeling a fish almost to the boat. For not having ran the boat before he did a great job of following my shouted directions and got it moving again just in time to run back and net the fish for me.