We set gear in the trench between the hump and appletree bay, and trolled the edge of the drop where the bay goes from 70fow to 100+. First 15 minutes we had a release and landed a decent laker, then 2 more releases in the 10 minutes that followed. One laker, and one miss. We continued north along the drop with plans to troll to mallets. The wind was picking up a bit, but it was still a nice ride. We had 3 riggers and a slide diver set between 60-70ft with cheaters on 2 riggers. We had a strike on one of the cheaters but missed that, and then it went dead. At around 9 I decided that I wasn't going to chase what wasnt there, and headed back to where we had gotten the bites. As soon as we got back to the area we started getting hits. We kept on steady to busy action from 10-1:30 including a nice laker that was in the 11lb class, and one surprise laker caught on a cheater on our shallow rigger (must have been in 25-30ft at 73 degrees).
At around 12:30 we looked north and the weather looked sketchy. Checked the wunderground radar, and it all looked like it was going to hit north of us. Over the following hour we watched it close, and it started to creep south. the other boat out in the area pulled their gear and headed in as the storm started to cross the lake towards us. I really wanted to get to the magic 20 fish number, but decided that it wasn't a great idea to stay out with thunder storms coming. We pulled gear and scooted in. As we were loading up we could see the storm coming in, and then the wind hit, the whole lake became white caps in a matter of minutes. Glad we got out when we did. On shore we met forum member Cas and chatted with him for a couple of minutes, and then I watched a guy with a nice 2075 tyee trying to load his boat solo with the 20mph winds. I ran over to help him out. He seemed quite happy. Always nice to be able to help a fellow angler!
In all we landed 18 lakers, and had at least 25 hits, no salmon unfortunately. Best lure of the day by miles was the UV Tuxedo black Michigan stinger that has become a nearly full time presentation, it had 60% or more of our strikes. The spin n glo dodger setup put in work as well but was not as on fire as usual. All in all a great day on the water. Wish the weather had held off a bit, as in the hour prior to leaving we had landed 6 fish.
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