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LabsRock
05-23-2006, 01:04 PM
Got a later start on Monday morning out of Meinke's Marina. We ended up fishing between A can and West sister island. There was a pack of boats out there and the graph was full of fish. We caught the first fish of the day 15 minutes after setting lines and thought that is bode well for the morning, but no other fish. We pulled mini dipsey divers and spoons most of the morning. Saw a lot of other boats out there as well mostly tossing worms. Did not see a lot of net action anywhere. Ended up pulling lines and heading back to the dock about 2:30 to change the oil on the motors.

The water clarity was terrible until you were out by west sister and there it was about 2 feet or so of visibility. The Saturday wind may have put the fish off for Sunday. Saw the charters bringing in some fish, but they were out for most of the day. At least the boat is ready to go for the summer and the upcoming weekend should be great if the weather holds out.




CMFish51
05-23-2006, 03:43 PM
Thanks for the report!

frozen
05-23-2006, 09:53 PM
I was out there in about the same area on Fri. 5/19 and Sat. 5/20. On Fri. we trolled and ended up with 30 fish. Your right about the big blow on Sat. It was really rough when we first got out. It started to calm down around 11:00 or so. We decided it was to rough to troll so we drifted using bottom bouncers. Ended the day at 1:00 p.m. with 20 fish. Not to bad for how rough it was when we started.

LabsRock
05-23-2006, 11:14 PM
We should have taken some meat along with us, but we knew it was going to be a short fish and more of a complete check on the boat. Water was really muddy in shallower and figured that clearer water was better and wanted to see how the spoon bight was going. Still a tad cold even though we trolled from 1 mph all the way up to two. Fishing all weekend coming up so will keep everyone informed.

CMFish51
05-24-2006, 08:45 AM
We did better last weekend in muddy water and trolling about 2.4MPH with spoons

frozen
05-24-2006, 07:26 PM
Best speed for us while trolling was 2.1 on the g.p.s. Also trolling spoons.