Yankee Troller

They are fast, and they can be jerky. However, I ran 1 for over a month with a 15lb A-TOM-MIK Torpedo, and never had any issues cracking off a weight, and I bottom bounced the heck out of it fishing Lake Trout all September.

Or maybe it's their way of offering the average fisherman the same body everyone else buying at a low price given you have all the other accessories. To the OP everything will fit nicely. Enjoy the new riggers, and wait until you see how fast they are!

http://www.mlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2011/04/the_salmon_experiment_the_inve.html Sent from my XT1080 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

So, I heard about this topic over the weekend. I can only hope it gets shot down in. It's not enough to keep the out of staters from coming into NY and guiding/chartering, and it puts one more thing on the guys from NY to have to follow and pay for. I'm not a fan of out of state captains and guides who come up and under cut, but there are some legit ones that I've made friends with over the years who charge the same rates as everyone else. I sense more jealousy from these guys complaining, and creating these regulations, that they aren't getting as many trips as they want and they are pointing fingers.

This the Pro or the Wild model?

Didn't know Jim very long, but he was a nice guy. Had breakfast a few times with him at the 4C's cafe a couple of times. RIP Captain, and my thoughts and prayers are with your family.

I'm a member of your forum and I watch them the minute they come out! Love the show!

I wish i lived closer!

Some of the guys over at the Erie Charter Boat Association wanted me to let the Lake Ontario trollers know about a "Walleye School" they are putting on this coming Spring. A lot of these guys come up and support the expo LOTSA puts on, and they want to do something similar for the Lake Erie crowd. Here's the info: http://epacba.com/school.htm They are having the Walleye school on Saturday, and they will have their flea market on Sunday.

It's funny you guys mention that, because it's the one thing I took away from the meeting. I saw the chart showing the age maturity at the hatchery, and 2-3yr olds rule the roost, and it looks like it's trending that way over the years. However, according to the chart there weren't the amount of 4yr olds most people think exist in the Lake. I think a new shot of eggs from out West would be a great idea, and a way better use of a tagging trailer to see if those fish mature older.

A-TOM-MIK sells loaded copper reels on his website.

This will be a very important topic at the meeting the Genesee Charter Boat Association will have with the DEC next week on Tuesday October 7th. If you're free come on down around 6pm and join in on the discussion.

A-TOM-MIK makes a great torpedo weight, and it comes in 13 and 15 pound versions. The price is right on them, and you will see significantly less blow back.

We wanted to get these dates out there so people can get them in their calendars. 2015's calendar will allow us to fish an event each month over a four month time frame. This will test each teams ability in different parts of the season, which I think will be pretty neat. It's almost as if we have a "Fishing League" of sorts at our port over the Summer. This is for everyone, and after 4 events a "King of the Oak" will be crowned. Friday, June 12 Saturday, July 18 Saturday, August 15 Sunday, September 6

That's exactly where we are getting them. Sent from my XT1080 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I apologize for the lack of reports lately, but I guess I have gotten a little lazy. Anyway, fishing out of the Port of Rochester has been pretty decent. Every morning you can grab a couple Salmon at the piers and then there are LT to go play with. Had a cool thing happen to us yesterday when we came back from the LT grounds to see if we could scrape up another Salmon or two. We were heading North down the Summerville pier when the Church TX-22 takes off pulling a Lyman plug. We get it in and it's a nice sheepy. We toss it back, and the other Church TX-22 with the same Lyman on the other side starts ripping. While we are battling that fish I see our Cannon out and down start throbbing, so I release it and come up with nothing. We tie a 20" piece of 50lb Flouro to our j-plug harnesses so the plug can ride up it. I notice we lost about 4-5" of leader, the plug, and obviously the harness. We net that fish, and find ourself out in 40' of water easily 1/4 mile or more North of the pier heads. We get turned around, and gear re-set. On our South troll in 35' of water the Wire diver out 25' with a moonshine starts screaming! Great battle with lots of runs, and it finds the bottom of the net. As I'm unhooking it I see a set of #3 j-plug trebles in it's back. They were ours from the fish we lost on the out and down at the piers! We must have hit that fish in the back and he cracked us off. I know this was our hook harness because the hooks had 4-5" of 50lb fluoro on them, and a masking tape residue that s on all of them from being wrapped up since last Fall. Pretty cool story I wanted to share with you guys.