Day 70 - Oakville - October 14th Hmmmmmmmmmm. I took Sammy and a friend from school, Vito, fishing when they came home today. Still nothing to bring home. However, we did have a massive "hit". Vito had just taken the rod from me after I had set it up. We were in about 80 feet of water and he had around 30 feet of line out. With the diving devices attached to the lines, they could have had the lure down around 20 feet. The diving device we use is called a Pink Lady (see picture of Pink Lady). One end is attached directly to the line and on the other you attach a 3 or 4 foot leader (length of line) onto which you attach a lure (see picture of our lures). As the boat goes along, the Pink Lady sits at 45 degrees in the water and acts like a wing, guiding the line down. This creates quite a bit of tension on the line and thats why the rods are bent over as we hold them. We use line with a 15 pound breaking strain. The fish we can land around here (we used to land around here!) are typically 25 pounds and up to 40 pounds. My biggest being 42 pounds. All of a sudden the rod bucked and the line started zinging out. Almost certainly a Rainbow Trout as they hit a lure and take off away from the boat. A salmon on the other hand, will grab the lure and swim towards you. And then ............... the line snapped. Pooh. I guess the tension on the spool was a little too tight. Anyway we lost the whole kit and kaboodle (well the Pink Lady and the lure). But what the heck at least it was some excitement.