Yankee Troller

You don't need rollers or Twilli's. However, these with greatly reduce the resistance you feel from the wire going through the top guide. Especially, when the fish is at the back of the boat. We've been running roller rods this year, and boy are they sweet when it comes to no resistance due to the wire going through the guides. Cons however, are a heavier action rod, and heavier weighted rod. They also aren't cheap.

Silver backs 80% of the time. The golds work too, but I just don't soak them as much.

July 27th - We fished the Sandy Creek shootout out of Sandy Creek, which is always a great time. We’ve had the same charter clients for this event year after year. They really enjoy the competition. We made a run back to the west, but we just didn’t go far enough. We fished the Glass House/Flats are on the 27-29N lines. The screen was hit and miss, and we realized a little too late we needed to be another six miles West to get into the monster school of Kings off the Oak. Anyway, we picked at fish all day with a lot of hook-ups, but they just weren’t the right class of fish. We didn’t place in the event, but we all had a great time. We ran our typical eight rod spread consisting of our three Cannon downriggers, two wires, and three coppers. The stud of the day was a purple meat rig on the 500 copper which took most of our mature Salmon. The Dreamweaver Sea SIck Waddler, and the Stinger Green Nuclear also took a few nice shots. Sorry for the lack of pics, but our four fish box consisted of three nice Salmon and this really nice Steelie. July 28th - We had the pleasure of taking out some really good clients that have been with us since the beginning. Mike and Loraine come up each year and always bring new people up with them to experience Lake Ontario. We broke the pier heads about 5:45am and headed North to the 26N line. We trolled it out to the 27N line before we got into the fish and bait. The bait string was almost unbelievable, and the mature Salmon were all over it! When the bite started we had doubles and a triple take place. It was incredible! It happened so fast that the deck was sloppy, and the waves were big, so we couldn’t get many good pics. The Dreamweaver Sea Sick Waddler mupped was good on our 70’ Cannon downrigger. A Kelly Green flasher/A-TOM-MIK Hijacker fly was good on our 80’ Cannon downirgger. The 300 coppers were good with Moonshine Carbon 14s, and we had the divers go a few times with Dreamweaver Wonderbread Spin Doctors/A-TOM-MIK Glow Blue Hammers.

The tournament organizers did a great job. I know all too well how much work goes into putting on an event like this. So, a huge thanks goes out to you guys from the Yankee Troller team. We can't wait to get back there next year. More "props" goes out to Jason Franz and his Trout-N-About team for a four-peat! That is just flat out impressive!

Hey Motoman.......at least the rest of the participants in this weekends tourney didn't call me begging to mate for me that last few weekends to obtain our program that we clearly put on here every week!

It went a little like this: Fish hits the out -n- down. I run to the rod grab it and reel down to the fish and set the hook. The fish goes under the diver so I do a quick maneuver to get it untangled. I run to the middle of the boat and surf the fish in at which time I grab the line and boat flip him in. Ending the battle shouting never give up. Mind you this whole thing lasted about 5-10 seconds.

LMAO.....if you can't have fun none of this is worth it!

Paul Czarnecki should be able to get it to you. I'll PM you his #

I phoned it in to the # on the tag. Left my phone # and some pertinent info, but haven't heard anything.

It's a cheater line pinned with a rubberband half hitched around the main line. Set the downrigger down 10' with the main line attached. Then lean over the side of the boat and attach your cheater to a half hitched rubberband and the main line at the water line. Two lures on one rod.

Mupped has been around for a long time. I think it was started at the Oak. When you have warm water up top, and a slider would be a waste of a lure in that warm water, we always MUP.

I didn't get a scale on it, but it was 27" long. Mupped means we pin a Magnum spoon cheated 10' above a regular size. Generally the same flavor. Mup = Mag Up

I apologize for the late reports. July 19th - The boys from Ohio were back again this year for some Salmon action! Of course they brought up some Lake Erie winds with them, but it was nothing the ol’ Yankee couldn’t handle! We got an early start and worked the inside waters for about an hour before giving up on that program and heading NW. When we got to the 25N line our bite started. We would work the 25N to 27N line for the rest of the day. Our Cannon downriggers were dragging all spoons, and we had them parked from 60’ down to 120’. Our wires and coppers pulled flasher/fly combos. No real stud on this day, but the usuals took fish for us. Dreamweaver’s Sea Sick Waddler mupped on a deep rigger was good. A Hammertime Spin Docotor pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly on our wire along with a Wonderbread Smartfish pulling a Glow Blue A-TOM-MIK Hammer. July 20th - Same Ohio boys brought the same wind, but bigger waves! We gave it a go in the morning, but it resulted in 5 bites in three hours with only one big guy. We made the decision to sit it out until later when it was supposed to calm down, and that was a great call! We got back out around 2pm and for most of the afternoon trip it was a steady pick of smaller fish. The last two hours the big guys kicked it into gear and we put the smack down on some Lake Ontario Chinooks! Our 400 and 500 coppers took a few fish, our wires seemed to be dead, but our Cannon downriggers were the workhorses of the night. Earlier in the night we had them parked at 85-125’ down, but some cold water rolled in and by the end of the trip we were fishing 50-75’ down with them. Dreamweaver’s Sea Sick Waddler was great on our deep rigger. Finger Lakes Tackle’s UV Sea Sick Waddler was also good. However, the big guy of the night took a Stinger Nuclear Green. My first ever Credit River tagged Steelbow: July 24th (Evening) - It blew hard North in the morning, but we knew it was supposed to lay down. We waited it out until 2pm and we gave it a go. We sat down on the 26N line because of some bait, but we didn’t mark anything until we got to the 28N line. We had a steady pick of small Steelhead and small Salmon out to the 31N line. Our Cannon downriggers were loaded with Sea Sick Waddlers on the deep rigger, Stinger Green Nukes on the high rigger, and the middle rigger had some Finger Lakes UV Sea Sick Waddlers. All were taking fish regularly, and all were Mupped. We ran a four diver set with flasher/fly combos on the low divers and mag spoons on the high divers. Three out of the four divers took fish, but they were one and done. Our other work horse was a 300 copper pulling a Dreamweaver Green Nuke Spin Doctor/A-TOM-MIK Jerge (150) fly. Gotta love when you put a new combo together and it takes a few fish!

These NY girls just don't know how to work it! Had to bring in the professionals!

They were looking for a Y-Valve and Maceration pump. Also, the oil discharge placard.

It was fun, but honestly it was Chilson and the videos leading up to it that was the most fun. We hooked into a few kings with the 808. One we backed down on like they do in the saltwater. It was pretty hysterical. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STxsyhoKRZs

It went down! Took place two years ago at the Sodus Pro Am on a Thursday afternoon. It was a ton of fun! Maverick took home the trophy.

On the next boat!

LOL....sometimes not far enough! Gotta love those memories fishing with grandpa! I know I do! One of my favorites was when my brother teased a duck into hitting his worm dangling on the end of a rod. My grandpa was so pissed! That duck was flying all over trying to throw the hook. I was laughing inside, but knew my grandpa was pissed, so I had to control it. My brother was always the sh*t starter....lol Looking forward to seeing ya! Stop by the boat! Will do Carl! It's a great spoon I forget about all too often!

Hell of a fish! Congrats!

Hahahaha....wasn't us! I'd be afraid to enter Port Bay if the Channel is still as wide as I remember it. Although, the Lake level is a little higher now.