Today my good friend Capt. Rick Hajecki and I took a joint charter out of Oak Orchard.  We were met by Kenny, Larry, and Bob from Southern PA at 5:30 Saturday morning and we loaded the boat up and headed out to try our hand at some steelhead and king fishing.  Kenny is a taxidermist who runs Great Cove Wildlife Studio and was looking for a fish or two to mount.  We definitely accomplished that mission; the guys took home two beautiful steelhead for Kenny to mount.  You can check out Kenny's work at http://www.greatcovestudio.com.
 We primarily worked the 27-29N lines out in front of port and we had steady action all day long.  Several nice steelhead and kings came to the net, and we ended up boxing out a couple of hours early.  So much for the big West wind messing up the fishing!  Here's a few pictures from the day:





Today's best down speed was 2.4-2.5mph and all of our bites came on a North troll.  Our 50' rigger pulling a Northern King Copper NBK and our 300' copper pulling a green dot Smartfish/Hypnotist fly were easily our two best producers.  As always, our Daiwa rods & reels handled the big fish without a hitch, but I couldn't get used to those funky downriggers that Rick uses!  I can't wait to get back to my boat and my Cannon downriggers.  LOL!

I owe Rick a big 'Thank You'  for helping me out this weekend.  His boat is always one to be reckoned with come tournament time, and I really appreciate his offer to let us run our trip with him today.

We'll be out again next weekend, so stay tuned for more fishing reports.

Until Next Time,
Fish On!!

~Capt. Bill