Getaway
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- Oct 13, 2010
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- Boat Info
- 1998 290DA Sundancer
Lowrance electronics, Fishhawk, Scotty Downriggers
BoatWheels Tri-Axle Trailer
- Engines
- Single big block 454 MPI Mercruiser engine and Bravo III outdrive.
We won a big salmon tournament in Harbor Beach this past weekend! Whoo Hoo! What a great feeling. Here's the report:
Friday prefish, we headed north from harbor to Port Hope stopping about 2 miles shy and setting up in 30 fow. We worked a zig-zag north troll from 30fow out to 60 and back until we reached the north border of the tournament which is the can in front of Lighthouse Park. Water temps were 46 everywhere we marked lots of fish but only took 2 kings that day. It was foggy and tough fishing for us. No trout, which we needed for a good tournament box. After gathering that information, we eliminated the north as those fish were just not cooperating. The 2 kings came on 3 and 5 color leadcore lines with spoons. Nothing on deep rigs.
Here's one of those kings:
Saturday the tournament was posponed due to high n-e winds and small craft advisory. It laid down slightly around 2:30pm, so my buddy brought his boat to the harbor and we jumped on and went out in the slop to try and gather some info. Water temp cooled to 44 degrees. We set up straight out of the harbor to 40 fow, set up and did a straight south troll to the south border. We took a couple trout and 3 kings which was better production of 1 fish/hour to the south versus 1 fish per 2.5 hours to the north.
So, Sunday comes and we are greeted with sunny skies and dead calm seas. Great!!! Water temp was back up to 46 degrees and climbing.
We started the day in front of the wall at the harbor in 30fow and took a decent 10lb king and smaller 7lb trout right away both on spoons at the south gap on high 3 and 5 color cores. It was too crowded and the bite shut off after the first hour so we worked our way straight out and a little south.
East west troll from 60 to 50 fow took fish until about 10:30 on Chrome-Gold JK flasher, gold fly on the bottom (king and nice trout). Then we worked from 60fow out to 124 with silver bullet bti/meat for the rest of the day took kings and big trout. The biggest king took a 300 copper rig with Gold Bullet 12" flasher and gold meat rig. Always e/w troll, n/s produced nothing. Riggers close to bottom, wire dipseys back 250 to 300 and 300 copper all loaded with meat took some great fish. It was nice to get good kings and trout on flashers/meat in Lake Huron again.
Took 91.41lbs of fish for 1st place baby! Lost 2 fish and had 2 or 3 other thumps with nobody home.
Scoreboards:
Friday prefish, we headed north from harbor to Port Hope stopping about 2 miles shy and setting up in 30 fow. We worked a zig-zag north troll from 30fow out to 60 and back until we reached the north border of the tournament which is the can in front of Lighthouse Park. Water temps were 46 everywhere we marked lots of fish but only took 2 kings that day. It was foggy and tough fishing for us. No trout, which we needed for a good tournament box. After gathering that information, we eliminated the north as those fish were just not cooperating. The 2 kings came on 3 and 5 color leadcore lines with spoons. Nothing on deep rigs.
Here's one of those kings:
Saturday the tournament was posponed due to high n-e winds and small craft advisory. It laid down slightly around 2:30pm, so my buddy brought his boat to the harbor and we jumped on and went out in the slop to try and gather some info. Water temp cooled to 44 degrees. We set up straight out of the harbor to 40 fow, set up and did a straight south troll to the south border. We took a couple trout and 3 kings which was better production of 1 fish/hour to the south versus 1 fish per 2.5 hours to the north.
So, Sunday comes and we are greeted with sunny skies and dead calm seas. Great!!! Water temp was back up to 46 degrees and climbing.
We started the day in front of the wall at the harbor in 30fow and took a decent 10lb king and smaller 7lb trout right away both on spoons at the south gap on high 3 and 5 color cores. It was too crowded and the bite shut off after the first hour so we worked our way straight out and a little south.
East west troll from 60 to 50 fow took fish until about 10:30 on Chrome-Gold JK flasher, gold fly on the bottom (king and nice trout). Then we worked from 60fow out to 124 with silver bullet bti/meat for the rest of the day took kings and big trout. The biggest king took a 300 copper rig with Gold Bullet 12" flasher and gold meat rig. Always e/w troll, n/s produced nothing. Riggers close to bottom, wire dipseys back 250 to 300 and 300 copper all loaded with meat took some great fish. It was nice to get good kings and trout on flashers/meat in Lake Huron again.
Took 91.41lbs of fish for 1st place baby! Lost 2 fish and had 2 or 3 other thumps with nobody home.
Scoreboards:
