Tough morning up north for us today. It started with a boat setting up right on our tail. We only had the probe rigger and the chute down, so we pulled them and went behind the offending boat. The water was 52 degrees down 100 ft. on our Fish Hawk. We had all our lines set before we hit our first fish. It hit on an out down set at 60 ft. with a pair of glow spoons. The young man on the rod did an excellent job and landed the King.  That was it for our early action. We continued trolling north past the Point for a couple miles without another bite. We turned out west heading for deeper, and we hoped, colder water. We just got straightened out from the turn when another King hit mag carbon spoon on a 375 copper. We doubled up when a fish took a Natural Glow Captain’s Choice Cut Plug. The fish on the plug escaped but we landed the other one. It was a long time waiting for our next bite. We trolled west out to 350 feet of water then turned back east. The temp out there 100 ft. down was 47 degrees. We had a couple cores up high trying for a Steelhead but everything else was deep. We broke out our 500 and 550 coppers and put them out with Spin Doctors and meat rigs. We hit a fish on the 500 with a 10″ Chrome Two Face Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline DW Meat Rig. After a long fight it popped off. Shortly after that our 550 took off. It had an 8″ Green Dragon Slayer Spin Doctor/Mystery Meat Rig. I call it a mystery rig because another captain gave me the set up and wouldn’t appreciate me giving it up. That fish gave us all kinds of problems. It got into both high wire divers and two boards. On top of that we still trolling east with our deep stuff out coming up on the Bank. We couldn’t turn hard because the King would have got into our last two port side boards. What a mess. The good news was that the man on the rod hung in there and boated a nice King. We took a Lake Trout pulling lines on a 325 copper with a uv glow spoon. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire.
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