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Started out in 45', 2.8-3.2 mph. 9 lines out. At 7am, #3 dipsey set at 1.5 and back 75' took a 10+ king on Monkey Shine fly. This was on a SW troll at 57'.  Missed a small king shortly after on a 150cu. at the back of the boat.  My fault, poorly coordinated effort on the net job.  Headed to 218' with a laker program on a South West troll.  Picked up a 10# laker in 205' on a green cold fly on a 350 cu.  Went for an hour or so with one hard hit-n-run on a DR on the bottom with pink spin n glo.  Turned to an East troll at 220'.  Doubled up at 218', boated another 10#ish king of a 10 color with Ice Shadow Moonshine Std. spoon and a coho off the DR @ 75' down on a green fly.  It pains me to say our best fish and most exciting retrieve was lost on a poor choice of nets.  Picked the smaller rubber basket over the king sized nylon hook eating bastard of a net.  But we needed the big basket.  Had the king netted twice and he flopped twice.  He raced from corner to corner of the boat and the final effort spoon hooked the net and he flopped again and gone.  A string of expletives aimed at myself streamed forth. That would have been our 6th fish boated.  With an hour left to fish plus transit.  (Weigh 7 @ weigh-in. )  Dejected I put out the order to pull lines and found the 350 and 400cu were tangled.  While dealing with that, time is ticking off the clock and my least experienced guy is pulling in the 300cu. and says I think I've got a fish .  Mind you no drag pulled and he's just steady reeling, albeit some weight evident on the pole. I assure him he's likely in a tangle too and keeps saying no its a big fish.  I'm hand lining copper into the boat and he says get the net.  No sh&t, its a big king!  So they get it in the boat and now we have to get to the weigh in on time.  We're late leaving so a pushed it harder, leaving my first mate green and ready to hurl.  Finally got clear headed enough to do the math on arrival time and we made it with minutes to spare.  Weighed a 42# box but haunted by the -10 points per fish and 15-18 lbs of fish we left in the lake.  19th place of 37.  Dang I love fishing! 

Sounds like a heck of a day. Nice job!