I know what your talking about brother,been at it on the bay for about six years.What ruined us was luckily tying into a tanker on our very first trip,this fish would have eaten anything we had pulled out of the kawarhas the pervious ten years.We didn't land that fish ,but it was enough to keep us heading back up every chance we got.We've been lucky enough to land alot of respectable fish and a few huge ones.We usually fish the bays and inlets and trolling close to structure seems to work best,if we have a"blow-up" or" knock-off",we try returning to cast those fish on a peak(moon,sun or weather change). Best advice I heard was to slow down for the big ones,this went against alot of things I had read,but has really worked for us.Still slow fishing and we'll go trips between fish but the memories of those giants keeps us plugging away again and again.When it gets too much we make a trip to the kawarhas and have a little fun.