I made it back out onto the water for a solo mission to try and beat my wife's monster that she nabbed a couple of weeks ago.
I launched around 6:30am and started trolling in the same area that we landed my wife's fish. I was over 100 feet trolling near a drop off that went from 50 feet of water down to around 100. I had the ball on the downrigger set for 50 feet but after 30 minutes or so I noticed that most of the fish that I were marking were in the 30 foot range. I decided I better bring my ball up some if I were to catch anything and within 10 minutes I have the first fish of the morning on. Not a bad start at a little over 5lbs.
I launched around 6:30am and started trolling in the same area that we landed my wife's fish. I was over 100 feet trolling near a drop off that went from 50 feet of water down to around 100. I had the ball on the downrigger set for 50 feet but after 30 minutes or so I noticed that most of the fish that I were marking were in the 30 foot range. I decided I better bring my ball up some if I were to catch anything and within 10 minutes I have the first fish of the morning on. Not a bad start at a little over 5lbs.
I had caught this one, as was my wife's, on a perch coloured blue fox spoon. I continued to use it for half an hour or so but decided to try and blue and silver williams wobbler. Thankfully I did as not too far from where the first fish was caught I hooked into another, same depth, roughly 30 feet, and trolling in and around 2MPH.
I continued with the blue and silver and had a massive hit, line just screaming out. I pulled the rod but by the time I could get it under control the fish was gone. I decided to change up and try and gold and silver spoon. Good thing I did because about 15 minutes after losing the last fish I crossed over the same area and had a fish on. It only took a couple of minutes to bring it in but it gave a few big runspulling out 60 feet of line out at a time. When she slid into the net I had a new PB with her weighing in over 13 lbs.
A great day on the water, 3 for 4 all in a 3 hour window. Can't go wrong with that!