Yankee Troller

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.

Should be a great meeting! I hope people attend. 1. The stream scene needs attention. I've heard the state budget wont allow for more boots on the ground, but I feel these salaries could be paid for with the shenanigans that takes place specifically during Salmon season all along the South shore. I've already been told about Russians utilizing illegal tactics in local tribs for the Salmon. 2. The tagging trailer was a great tool that provided some valuable info. Specifically, that pen raised Chinnys had a survival rate of 2:1. I'd like to see a study done with Canadian Salmon not raised in Salmon River water showing their straying compared to the straying of Salmon River fish. We fish all the Canadian tourneys, and we feel the Salmon we are catching there still act like Salmon of the past. Stagging fish! Not ones that show up one day at the mouth and run the next day. Or fish that disappear at some point in mid August headed to the Salmon River leaving us with next to no Salmon population. What I am getting at is stocking Canadian fry on the South shores West end of Lake O to see if we can extend the Chinny fishing back into September.

Amen to that!

I can't confirm the SM haven, but the ladders are just East of the chute. You will see small bluffs with ladders on them to get down to the lake.

They haven't entered the Estuary in any numbers at the Salmon River. I'd say there is still a few weeks left of good fishing in the lake.