Yankee Troller

Looks like my grammar in this post wasn't as good as it usually is, so sorry for that. Mark - He's a farmer. The lost fish weren't his fault. They weren't biting good for some odd reason. Was just one of those days.

Dang bro! Talk about the sh*t hitting the fan! Hey, at least you got a ton of action. Nice job!

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We left a little late due to some over sleepers, but it didn’t affect our bite one bit. We headed NE out to 150’ of water and began to set up a spread. We could see that a majority of the marks and bait were in the top 80’. We went down with our three Cannon downriggers. Two had spoon programs on them and a third went deep with a large flasher/fly. We deployed our divers as well as a 10 color and 300 copper out on the boards. The best water we found was 175’-250’ down by the glass house. Our stud for the day was our 300’ A-TOM-MIK copper pulling a green flasher trailed by an A-TOM-MIK Bobblehead fly. The 10 color was also going consistently with a Stinger Stingray Black Widow. It was a junk line kind of day for us. Although the riggers did take a few our 200 and 300 A-TOM-MIK copper and our 10 color took a majority. We even tripled on all of those rigs at one time. Our biggest fish of the day would end up falling victim to a downrigger. We had a Mountain Dew flasher trailed by an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Green Glow fly parked at 101’ when it hit. After Lloyd dropped at least two other screamers earlier in the day, but he managed to put this on in our Grizzly cooler! Sunday we stayed dockside and listened to everyone complaining about a tough bite. Breakfast at the 4C’s cafe was good, and we got to do some work on our gear after the great Spring we had. The Lake is slowly transitioning out of the June doldrums. Any day now the West end is going to break open and it will be on!

They are taking Alewife away from the Kings and Gobies away from the Brown Trout.....Kill them all! LOL It's actually getting annoying out there with the amount of Lakers. It started this Spring on the beach, and now they are suspended in the water column munching your F/F combos. Whatever the case may be I hope it comes to an end soon!

Thanks everyone! Looking forward to the June transition is done! See ya out there!

The Monster pods are on the North shore right now. If we had no charters this coming weekend I'd gas the boat up and head over for the weekend. It's Niagara Bar fishing, but the fish are starting to get BIG! FYI...you can weigh in fish caught in Canada. The trip may pay for itself if anyone makes it.

June 22 - We moved our charter this weekend back a few weeks due to a motor that was acting up. Oh, the fishing was less than stellar too! Personally, I wanted to hit the BT up first thing, but we decided to chase the Kings since we heard the bite the previous two days yielded a couple nice ones. We set up in 100’ of water pointed NW and trolled it out to 180’ before turning it back in. All we had to show for our efforts were some Lake Trout. After a few hours we decided to head in to check on the Brown Trout. As we were getting into 40’ of water our Starboard diver fires out 35’ on a 3 pulling a Stigner Sea Sick Waddler. After some flips and a few short runs we put the net under a 13lb Atlantic. This was one of the best fights I’ve ever seen out of an Atlantic. A few minutes later in Brown Trout waters the other diver starts thumping out 25’ on a 3 setting pulling a Stinger Stingray Glow Alewife. A few minutes later and we slid the net under a porker of a Brown Trout weighing close to 15lbs. We put him gently in our new Grizzly cooler, and figured we were going to put a whooping on some fish in these waters after hooking two in 15 minutes. The picture in 15-25’ was great with bait and hooks. The temps were perfect in the lower third of the water column. No one was around, so we were just chomping at the bit looking for some more monster Brown Trout that no one ever bothers with out West. Granted it was 10/11am, but we had a full moon. Well, we fished in there for 2 more hours without a touch. Finally, on a lure change a Brown Trout came up and whacked a new Stinger Stingray UV Chicken Wing right as my brother was going to lock it into the downrigger. That would conclude our day of derby fishing. June 23 - We left the dock around 7am and figured we’d try the Brown Trout thing out first down East. The water East seemed to be a few degrees warmer, so we had to push out a little further, but the bait and hooks were still there. However, the cottonwood on the surface made it impossible to fish those waters. We tried it for an hour but having to clean lines constantly, and the lack of bites, made the decision easy to head out to see if any Kings were around. It took some time to change out leaders, and put a whole other program down, but once we did the Lake Trout were like those little annoying ankle biter black flies. You couldn’t keep them off! We continued NE out past the fleet because we knew all they were catching were Lake Trout. The screen got good again in the 250-300’ range off Eagle Harbor. There was a lot of bait in the top 80’ with a few hooks around it. However, all we could manage was a nice 8lb Steelie on a Dreamweaver UV Lemon Ice down 60’ before we called it quits around 11am.

There are some there, but the bite is still slow due to the June transition period. My brother fished 2 hours yesterday night and did 3 matures. The continuously warm weather/west winds we are in store for over the next few weeks will fire things up.

You may have missed my update, but here it is - http://www.lakeontariounited.com/fishing-hunting/index.php/topic/37329-lake-ontario-tweets-update/