Post by greybeard on Jul 9, 2018 17:42:55 GMT -5
Fishing had improved at Milwaukee so went there instead of back to Kenosha. Set up in the dark 140 feet of water with a king spread of six extended glow spoons and flashers and flies on riggers and wire Dipsys with a ENE heading. We didn’t have a bite until we got to 200 feet of water. We took more of the north troll and started getting bit fairly consistently. The bites were almost all down Riggers and dipsys early and finally took a bite on a 6 color mag Blue Tail.
Before 6 AM I started pulling off five of the six lead core line lures replacing them with various Brad’s and Big Al’s Fish Flash because tuna on dipsys and rigger had fired. Then the boards started to produce. The hot set up early was a wire Dipsy with white spin doctor glo and green tape and Brad’s spotted cow 80 on the line counter. But most were drive bys and Wire eventually went two for 4 with 4 drive bys. UGG.
I had out two, three, four and five colors and none of them took a hit. Shallowest board line that took a bite was a six color. I replaced the two and the three colors with an 8color and a 150 copper and both took fish. We we’re catching more lake trout than desired so started returning some to the lake waiting for more silver fish. Things slowed for a while and then we hit a quad taking three of the four, 2 Coho and one Laker.
The surface temperature in 200 feet of water was 66.7 and down temperature 35 feet down range from 49 to 57. We tried to keep the probe at 2.4-2.6 on the DRx-10. We ended up 23 for 27 with seven drive-bys. 13 Coho and seven Lakers made it to the cleaning station. Hope to be back on Wednesday. Maybe I can catch the elusive King?
Grey Beard
I will limit the post to what worked at the end, not list all the stuff that didn’t early.
6 color Mag Blue Tail 1-1 then Brad’s Rotten Banana and Fish Flash Chart/grn 2-2
7 color Brad’s Black Jack/ Glow Fish Flash 1-1
8 Color Brad’s Holovorkian/Fish Flash Silver 3-3
10 color Brad’s Wonderbread/Fish Flash glow 0-0
150 copper Brad’s Spotted Cow/Fish Flash silver 2-2
Dipsy 3 set 30-50loc Brad’s Dusky#1 Fish Flash Red Silver 3-3
Dipsy 3 set 30-50loc Brad’s Dusky#1 Fish Flash Red Silver 3-3
Dipsy 1.5 wire 80loc Brad’s Purple Frog/white spin doctor 1-2
Dipsy 1.5 wire 60-90 UV Spin Doctor/grn glo fly 0-0 then Spotted Cow 1-2
Rigger 35 White Coyote/grn Glow Fly 2-3 then Mt. Dew/orange tape light grn fly baby Spin n glo 2-2
Rigger 45 White Flasher Grn/Glow fly 2-2 then Mt. Dew/orange tape light grn fly
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Rigger 55’ Brad’s Spotted Cow /white spin doctor 1-1
Grey Beard