No pictures for this report, yep, we were that busy. ;-)

Launched from Seven Bays and had lines in the water at 9:20. We were fishing the Sterling Point "area". First fish in the cooler at 9:30am, a nice 16.5" native bow and my buddy did not beat me to the first fish yesterday. I followed that one with a 17.5" 'bow caught on a black pearl Rip'n Minnow. Another hook up and in the cooler went my 3rd for the day.

My buddy finally hooked up and brought one to the boat, he says, "Aw, tis a shaker" after he sees the 15" 'bow in the net. Nay, nay, say I, he's a counter (we were both fishing with bait on our flies) put it in the cooler or you only get to keep 4. :-)

By this time I had 4 in the cooler to my buddy's one, a rare event for sure, but the Kekeda orange was hot, and that finally convinced my buddy he needed to change out his muddler. He had a Frisky Jenny Trick r Treat in his box, so he put that on and finally started getting bit as fast as I was.

I hooked up with a dandy on the Rip'n Minnow only to watch it swim away after a bonk on the head with the net. I need to find a way to keep my buddy from running the net out 8', he just can't manage the net at full extension.

Ah well, it was still a good day. We ended the day at 11:30am with 3 nice ones, 17.5", 18.5", and 19.5". The balance were 5 more between 15.5" and 16.5" with two at 15".

Trolling speed was 2.8 - 3.0mph which varied depending on direction of troll. We found them near shore to over the main channel and in between. There was a healthy wind chop all morning which, IMO, really makes fishing better. We fished two leaded line rigs, my buddy out 3 colors and mine out 150'. He started with the muddler, but I think the color was wrong for yesterday's overcast conditions and rough water. They wanted a brighter presentation. I fished the Kekeda solid orange the whole trip in addition to long lining the Rip'n Minnow at 195'.

I had quite a bit of activity on the plug, plus the nice one that got to swim away for another day. We both lost a limit or more apiece, conservatively, with long releases and some spitting the plug 10' - 15' behind the boat.