9-17-12 Fishing Report

The fishing is about the same as it was on last Friday’s report. We set up in the 00’s in 120 fow. It was 52 degrees down 110 feet. We only had one bite in the dark and there was no morning flurry. The action was never hot, but we didn’t go too long without a bite. Four of the eight fish we landed came on a 11″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We had one on the chute rigger between 110 & 120 ft. and one on an out down set at 100. We tried several set-ups on the other out down, but it never went. We took a nice Brown Trout on a 300 copper with a Yellow Splatter Back Captain’s Choice Cut Plug and we had two other bites on it. We took a King on a 250 copper with a 10″ Dark Green Spin Doctor Blue Bubble Slick/Green Mile Big Water Meat Rig on a 250 copper. We had the same Spin Doctor/Meat Rig on a low wire out 200 and it went four times. Our other low wire out 215 was a 10″ Show Time Spin Doctor/Blue Moo Big Water Rig and it went four times also. No bites on our high wires. We fished between 130 & 180 fow. On our first pass north we marked lots of bait and fish on the bottom 30 to 40 feet in 130 to 150 fow. It was hard to get a good upwind troll. The wind picked up significantly about a third of the way through the trip and the waves were approaching four feet. If the Lake would not have gotten so rough I think we could have had a few more fish. My next scheduled trip is on the 26th of this month. We use Erie Dearie Premium Strips on all our meat rigs.