As for the fishing we targetted lakers the first two days. The first day we caught our limit trolling both the eastern and big waters. Since I do not have down riggers yet, we used Dipsey Divers and Fish Seekers. The fish were mainly caught 60 to 70 feet or 100 FOW on williams wablers (Silver, Silver/Copper, and Silver/Blue). Fish were all between 2 and 5lbs. The second day we were skunked, so we focused on Bass the rest of the trip. In the course of the 5 days we could not keep the SM or rockbass off our lines. The totals for the 3 of us was approximately the following:
100 SM (20 were 2.5 lbs and bigger - Largest 5.5lb)
150 Rockbass (Lost so many senkos with them before I remembered I had O-rings
)70 LM (20 were 2 lbs and bigger - Largest was 4.5lb)
Had good luck with White Big-Os, senkos of any color (mulberry swirl Tiki-Sticks Best), and perch x-raps (Caught 2 SM at same time with xrap, thought I had HAWG
).Most of the pictures were taken with disposable cameras (wife read too many stories of digital cameras overboard) so I will need to post them later especially the LARGE SM.
Buddy with Typical Laker (Good Pic of boat rear with bench seat up.)
Son #1 with nice SM
Son #2 with Better SM (Dropped it as pic was being taken
)
Son #1 with nice LM and good pic of boat with rear bench seat folded down. Boat was great even with 4 people casting.
Son #2 with nice SM with a two handed hold this time
That is it for now. Will post pic of large SM. I need to take a measure of my net since fish was nose to tail across the entire net. (I believe it is 24 inches across)
Also the Boga grip marked it a shade over 5.5lb
or through the ice. The real Big fish tend to go deep early and run with the schools of lakers. I've seen a few big fish come off the downrigger and leadcore.