With 2” of fresh snow and temps around 34, decided to leave the plow on for the extra ballast and if the ramp needed some clearing it would be useful later.
Today’s crew included Dave Foundry and Dreamcatcher (Ken). The bbq line up was hot dogs and bbq’ed venison blackstrap.
The surface temp was 40.5 deg at surface and ran that same temp as far down as we looked, 120ft...
Today’s best spoons were the purple people eater Honey Bee and the always active sausage gravy milk shake as well as a few other Crazy Ivan spoons that always fire.
We ran riggers from 40 to 110 down with cheaters tight about 8 ft up from our main set line. Slide divers were back about 80 and down between 80 and 160 for depths in the 25 to 50 range. The slide divers were very active and probably took double digit fish between the 2 during the day....
Lake had big 3+ foot swells most of day in main section and we enjoyed the heavy foot of salmon chop in top of the swells... we started around split rock running down to the Unicorn back north into Whalons and into the base of the bay..
So many lake trout
it was hard to keep spoons down to attract salmon... any depth fired, seemed 40-60 was hottest area.. On the next sunny day (May?..... May Never???) I am thinking we should run the sunny rocky shoreline shallow program with sticks.... anything to get away from the LAKERS..
When the main lake blew up from the north around noon we tucked behind Thompson’s inside town farm and found silver in 80fow with
A rigger set 48 down... it came on a Phantom from Crazy Ivan! (Thanks for the donation Fathead)
We ran patterns over this area like the RAF over Germany in WWII but only found slime left...
At one point we had a Dilly worm style experience where a slide diver/ dodger and fly set had a hit and line started peeling.... almost spooled on the 1st run Ken started doing circles as I fought that beast for over 15 min... the whole time Dilly’s story from this week is playing in my mind.... sure enough we see a 6ish lb laker hooked by the skin behind the gill coming....
My forearm looked like Popeyes and I was ready to drive
only fish we lifted out of the lake all day for a pic.... 
It was a blizzard when we launched at 1st light but it quickly settled down and most of the day was brisk but enjoyable.
No boats were sighted on the lake from launch time at 7am till we pulled out after 3pm. 8+hrs of trolling with 22 miles covered without running on plane... what a day..
Thanks guys for the great stories and memories. As a wise man once said....” a day fishing adds a day to your life....” We sure added one today
Fish on!
