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Looks like I am in as planned. I am moving to a home just a few miles from Yale so after the get together I can leave the boat at the new place and say I was "moving it". I haven't had my boat out this year so I hope my batteries and such won't let me down. If my boat has any issues I will at least be there to meet everyone at lunch time. I will bring cookies and try to get there nice and early. I fly in the evening before after working away all week so not much time to prep.

See you there!

Russ
 
Got an early start

Seeing as how I had never fished Yale I thought I would give it a try today. We didnt get an early start today, my kids wanted to make me fathers day pancakes with their special Grist Mill flower so we didnt end up getting on the water untill about 9:30. The wind was kind of nasty but for once it actually helped me learn something. Faster was better than slower! With my current set up I dont have throttle control at the helm I just have the kicker tied to the jet out drive for steering. Rather than give up I fired up the big motor for a little extra push, in neutral I still travel at about 3mph. As soon as I gaind some speed the fish started hitting. I ran the big motor along with the little motor into the wind and cut back to the small motor going with the wind. Worked great! Then the wind died down for a while so I went back to the small motor and we stopped getting bites. Long story short if we were in the fish and traveling 2-3 mph (on the fish finder) we didnt have time to even eat a snack it was signfishin . We had 3 doubles landed 17 lost at least 10 and threw a couple of small ones back. So the secret for the day was GO FAST! Cant wait for next week end to see how you guys that actually know what you are doing do it.
 

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Mudinchev said:
Long story short if we were in the fish and traveling 2-3 mph (on the fish finder) we didnt have time to even eat a snack it was signfishin . We had 3 doubles landed 17 lost at least 10 and threw a couple of small ones back. So the secret for the day was GO FAST! Cant wait for next week end to see how you guys that actually know what you are doing do it.
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Interesting... What type of lure and terminal gear were you running?
 
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Great........Wind is my worst enemy right now, my current set up is virtually impossible to deal with more than a nice breeze. Oh well....it still beats a good day at work!
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I saw an earlier post about an open seat. Guess I'll See if I can find it for you. Beats sitting on shore because of wind.
 
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Interesting... What type of lure and terminal gear were you running?
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Back to the basics on this one, a small set of 4 blade lake trolls worked the best along with a red wedding ring tipped with a worm. I was fishing 1 dodger and 1 lake troll and both were producing and then the dodger quit producing so I switched it over to a 4 blade troll and it started getting hits again. I was running leaded line with only 3 colors out so my best guess is about 15 feet deep at that speed. I re-tied all of my wedding rings with a double hook and used both hooks to keep the worm spread out. It seemed if the worm was gone so was the fish, I was going to try corn and gulp maggots but with action like that I couldn't bring my self mess with a good thing.
 
I've got plenty of paper plates and napkins.

Weather forecast is low around 50, high around 67, light winds of 5mph.
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So for us "new guys" I assume most will be showing up sometime early in the morning and heading out on the water. Just wondering how we will know who is who, is there a secret hand shake, funny hats or some way to recognize people? Especially on the water, just want to make sure I use all five fingers to wave when I see ya. golucky
 
Mudinchev - just for you I'll wear a blaze orange hat on the water in case we don't see each other before hitting the lake. 101ok101

I'll be at the launch between 5-5:30 and will hang some KFF signs at the covered area. My green Armada aka "The Tank" is flagged with a KFF sticker and I'll be bummin a boat ride with Matt on his white North River with "Get'n Jiggy" on the side.

Kokonuts has a white Hewes with a mile long antena named "She's so fine." (not sure if King Koke will be with him or in his lime green v-hull)

Koke-n-a-smile has a boat similar to Yimee. (I think his is a 17 ft. Lowe)

Lowe1648mt has an olive green Lowe 1648. nananana

We'll wave with all five fingers... as you troll by at 3 mph.
 
MackPrince said:
Mudinchev - just for you I'll wear a blaze orange hat on the water in case we don't see each other before hitting the lake. 101ok101

I'll be at the launch between 5-5:30 and will hang some KFF signs at the covered area. My green Armada aka "The Tank" is flagged with a KFF sticker and I'll be bummin a boat ride with Matt on his white North River with "Get'n Jiggy" on the side.

Kokonuts has a white Hewes with a mile long antena named "She's so fine." (not sure if King Koke will be with him or in his lime green v-hull)

Koke-n-a-smile has a boat similar to Yimee. (I think his is a 17 ft. Lowe)

Lowe1648mt has an olive green Lowe 1648. nananana

We'll wave with all five fingers... as you troll by at 3 mph.
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Cool I like Hi-vis targets.......I figure going that fast I will just lap every one enough times to see how it is really suppose to be done. Then I will slow down, I wouldn't want any one to get dizzy. Hopefully I will have my speed control issue dealt with by then, new toy is suppose to be in tomorrow and I will get it installed Friday night. I know what Kokonuts boat looks like I met him at Merwin (that's how I found this place). Here is my floating money pit.
 

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Yale Lake Family Day---Empty Seats

I have room for 2 on Sat June 25th at Yale!

I will try to be at the "Starting Gate" by 5:00 on Sat.

Send PM if you can make it!!

Kokonuts signfishin
 
MackPrince said:
Mudinchev - just for you I'll wear a blaze orange hat on the water in case we don't see each other before hitting the lake. 101ok101

I'll be at the launch between 5-5:30 and will hang some KFF signs at the covered area. My green Armada aka "The Tank" is flagged with a KFF sticker and I'll be bummin a boat ride with Matt on his white North River with "Get'n Jiggy" on the side.

Kokonuts has a white Hewes with a mile long antena named "She's so fine." (not sure if King Koke will be with him or in his lime green v-hull)

Koke-n-a-smile has a boat similar to Yimee. (I think his is a 17 ft. Lowe)

Lowe1648mt has an olive green Lowe 1648. nananana

We'll wave with all five fingers... as you troll by at 3 mph.
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I have upgraded to 1962 14ft with a 1964 evinrude 9.9 tooexcited
 
Mine is a 17' tan and blue Smokercraft. Yimmie will be the one catching all of the fish, he is slaying them up thereworthy12 I will be looking to follow him around and pick up the ones he missesthumbsup I had to get a new battery, so I am just hoping everything works, otherwise I will have to start eating earlythumbsup
 
Kokonuts said:
I have room for 2 on Sat June 25th at Yale!

I will try to be at the "Starting Gate" by 5:00 on Sat.

Send PM if you can make it!!

Kokonuts signfishin
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Looks like Shawn and I are going to catch a ride with Kokonuts! thumbsup


Dang now no one can make fun of my high speed driving...nananana
 
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Can't Wait

It will be my first time on Yale and can't wait to meet everyone and FISH, I plan on following everyone around the lake and I'll act like I'm fishing, but I'll be spying out on what everyone is using.

I'll give a wave and say HI
 
See you at Yale

I will be joining in on TrollNFisher's Boat 101chromefish101so I will help him learn the area, yet will have the bino's out!!! Looking forward to meeting everyone and share some kok stories!!!!
 

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