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May 4, 2007
Fished 50170 fow surface temp 4144 degrees, light north wind, sun. What a difference a week makes. Monday the wind blew all the warm water to the east end of the lake, leaving Point Breeze with clear, cold water. This is a clear signal to move to Wilson, and that is what we did.
Today was the first trip out of Wilson, all the reports were of cold water and plenty of lake trout. Well thats OK but we wanted salmon. We headed northwest out of port to 70 fow and began a southwest troll toward the river. We went about 2 miles when the dipsy began to throb and Marty battled a nice 15 Lb. 4 oz. laker to the boat, first fish and we already had one to go on the leaderboard (at least for a while). The next fish hit a purple thunder on the center bottom tracking rigger. We continued west in 5060 fow then got a tip from a friend about a mile north of us who was doing some catching so we headed out. We caught fish for the next two hours including the first king salmon of the year. Around 10: 45 the fish shut right off so we went into search mode.
We headed north once again because I noticed a dropoff on the chart and when we got to 170 fow we noticed many fish between 120 and 150 down. I headed to the cabin for the Salmo Special (A tekota 800 with 600 of copper) and tied on a white echip and Little Boy Blue and sent let er fly. We made a turn, went about one half mile and the thing took off with a blistering run. A thirty min battle ensued and finally we put the Beckman around the second King of the day. We ended up 11 for 12, 2 kings, 3 coho and 6 lakers.
Hot lures Purple thunder gold back 6 off bottom & 47 White spin dr, no-see-um 120, #2 setting Small gold watermelon, 40 slide diver Salmo Hot Perch White echip, LBB 600 Salmo Special
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