Didn’t get out first thing in the morning today as hoped, so waited until after lunch to launch out of GM. Headed out to 200-250 FOW to start and had lines in the water around 3:00. Surface temp around 61 and dropped off quickly to 44-47 down 20′ Ran the probe further down just to see and showed 39-40 at 75′. Trolled a deep watermelon spoon off a rigger and shallow F/F on a dipsy for 45 minutes with no action and little to nothing on the plotter.
Trolled in towards shore and worked 80-90 FOW for another 30 minutes or so with a few more fish on the plotter, but no takers. Pulled the rigger line and (largely due to some of the other recent postes here) and ran a spoon at 4 colors off of an inline planer and hooked into a 6# laker withing a matter of minutes. A fiesty 4# chinook hit the same rod 20 minutes later. Was about to pull my other dipsy rod and change over to LC when a laker hit a blue/white Howie Fly behind a silver flasher so left the dipsy out there.
Pulled lines at 7:00 and headed back in. 5 for 6 on the afternoon with 3 lakers and 2 chinook. 4 fish (5 hits) on the 4 color leadcore running a 57 chevy spoon with the one laker on the blue Howie fly. Not too bad an afternoon for only being able to run 2 lines. Most everything came 25-30′ down.
off down here in the Cities.