The fishing always peaks every year during this week prior to the LCI. With Tuesday's report on Dave's boat "Reel Lucky". We fished NY water on the main lake and had a fantastic day registering a 7.66 lb salmon 26" in the Basin Derby for Gerry and a 21" steelhead with Dave since there were no entries yet reported with the June 10th monthly summary on their website. One was on a slide diver Lite Bite the other off a rigger. One other notable fish was 5.5 lbs caught by Gerry.
On Thursday fishing aboard "Shayde Winds" with Don we motored over to the same area and it was a bit slower than Tuesday but we did take a 6 lb plus salmon on a Lite Bite slide diver and returned it to the water with no photo op.
These fish have been coming off a home made lure that has been hot for us for a year now on big salmon which credit goes to Gerry a retired charter captain (Silver hook charters) from the 1980's who use to sell his own line of lures. Best depth was 30 feet down for us and 90 feet of line out on the slide diver lite bite.
It will be wonderful to be fully retired in a few days heading into the long 4th weekend at age 55 and 3 months. Looking forward to this new chapter in my life with the kids still 10 and 12 to enjoy it fully. Weekends will not be fishing . Just 1-2 days during the week days or more.
Can't wait!Some photos from a few weeks ago:
Gerry's 5.5 lb and 7.66 salmon:
Running 4 Lite Bites (Video)
