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5/28---5/30
Fished the good lake with a group of 4 fellow Retired Fishing Partners for 2.5 days on the Gray Ghost and the Yankee Native. Monday afternoon fished the North West Bay and north with a good salmon bite on Flash King Rainbow and Watermelon riggers at 28 and 4 colors on lead , the Yankee Native landed a salmon of 6 lb 14oz on a Rapala at 4 colors of lead, great fish.

Tuesday was a late start and a early retreat due to thunder storms, fished for about 4 hours, made a pass by Kingsland and Manson no takers, then proceeded to North West Bay, again Rainbow and Watermelon lures dominated, fished the Winni Bomber fly behind blades for 2 salmons. Kept a keen eye on the Sirsus Weather chart for incoming and pop-up storms and made hasty retreat when a pop-up storm showed up on the display with a thunder clap that sealed the deal.

Wednesday was a beautiful weather day, made the trip down to North West Bay, could not get anything going with many changes of lures, Watermelon took most of the fish. Fished Basin Harbor to the green can then the NY side several salmon hits. After lunch trolled the Thompson Hump one salmon hits then moved to Thompson Point . A 9# laker came on Blk/Purple at 35’. Talked to Heijac, congratulation on your first Grand Slam with others to come and to Digitroll heading south in search of those elusive salmon.

Took several videos with my new ContourRoam camera mounted on the rocket launcher rail. http://contour.com/products/contour-roam


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVg_pW72PY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrNAPjnArbk

Nice surprise to hear you on the water Wednesday Gus! I liked the videos.

It was a nice day to fish south of the Mason Dixon line with my first time guest Clay from Grand Isle. We were a brown shy of the slam. We fished a 4 hour window that ended at 1:30 pm. at Thompson's all by ourselves all total with a dozen bites to keep us in the game on a very slow day after the big blow the day before. Saw Reggie Hawthorne with his wife on the Black Beauty and Pierre9 with his black Lund. Not bad company in the hot zone.

Great report! Thanks for the company!

Thanks for the report Gus.
In your second video you commented how you like that particular rod. Looked like an Ugly stick, was it?
What was the rod Gus?

I fished with Gus on this and the last two trips. It was a pleasure to meet Pete at the dock & talk shop. Also a pleasure to talk to Ron on the radio & get a first hand account of his great Lake O trip. Paul, sorry we missed you but thanks much for stopping, and. Yes, Raz, those are Ugly Sticks, I believe 6 to 20#'s, 8'-3" long. Great rigger rods for Champ. Used the same rod with a jet diver.
I agree with Gus, that you folks have a great lake with great anglers fishing it.
Wish I could get up more often.
Richard

Nice chattin Richard too.

I thought those rods looked kinda familiar in the video. They are 1101 BWD 8"3" Uglies. We have been using them since the early 80's on both Champlain and Ontario. We recently switched in the last 12 years here to the Intreprid then the Agilities and now the Heartland Kokanee rods. I do miss using the Ugly Sticks here though. They sure work nice on the Big O for 30 years. Great rod!

Thanks for the visit.

Raz wrote:Thanks for the report Gus.
In your second video you commented how you like that particular rod. Looked like an Ugly stick, was it?
What was the rod Gus?

Raz,
Yes, they are Ugly Stiks 8' 3" length with a line spec. of 6 – 20, BWD 1101, like Dodger confirmed. I have been unhappy using Star Fire, SF 407, 8' 0", 4 – 8 line spec. and Cabela’s Fish Eagle ll, 8' 6", 6 – 10 line spec. My displeasure, are the rods are too limber when fighting a fish at the boat. The fish has more control of the situation when the rods bends, folds over in half, resulting the fish goes where it wants. The Ugly Stik provides a limber tip and strong butt section. I’m using 12 lb test as the running line and 10 lb test as leader. In the days when using lighter line weights the other rods were OK.

Gray Ghost wrote:

Raz wrote:Thanks for the report Gus.
In your second video you commented how you like that particular rod. Looked like an Ugly stick, was it?
What was the rod Gus?

Raz,
Yes, they are Ugly Stiks 8' 3" length with a line spec. of 6 – 20, BWD 1101, like Dodger confirmed. I have been unhappy using Star Fire, SF 407, 8' 0", 4 – 8 line spec. and Cabela’s Fish Eagle ll, 8' 6", 6 – 10 line spec. My displeasure, are the rods are too limber when fighting a fish at the boat. The fish has more control of the situation when the rods bends, folds over in half, resulting the fish goes where it wants. The Ugly Stik provides a limber tip and strong butt section. I’m using 12 lb test as the running line and 10 lb test as leader. In the days when using lighter line weights the other rods were OK.

Thanks guys. The only down-rigger Ugly I currently own is a short 7' BWD 1131 that I use to drag lead-core with. I might try those 8' 3's

Gray Ghost wrote:

Raz wrote:Thanks for the report Gus.
In your second video you commented how you like that particular rod. Looked like an Ugly stick, was it?
What was the rod Gus?

Raz,
Yes, they are Ugly Stiks 8' 3" length with a line spec. of 6 – 20, BWD 1101, like Dodger confirmed. I have been unhappy using Star Fire, SF 407, 8' 0", 4 – 8 line spec. and Cabela’s Fish Eagle ll, 8' 6", 6 – 10 line spec. My displeasure, are the rods are too limber when fighting a fish at the boat. The fish has more control of the situation when the rods bends, folds over in half, resulting the fish goes where it wants. The Ugly Stik provides a limber tip and strong butt section. I’m using 12 lb test as the running line and 10 lb test as leader. In the days when using lighter line weights the other rods were OK.

A very good point Gus. I had an Agility rod bust in two pieces with my son trying to get a 8 lb laker into the net 6 weeks ago to release later. It is an issue trying to control a bigger fish in the prop wash with these light rods trolling at 2.7 mph. No problem with the ugly stick.

Nice chatting with you Gus! sounds like you had a pretty good trip, see you next time on the pond..........

Sorry I missed you guys too, but figured you were putting your time inbetween rain to good use...

Hope the lures catch you some bigguns!

Nice talking with you as well! Glad you got into fish. I have used the 8'3 ugly sticks for the last few years. No complaints.