Yankee Troller

You see me roll by? I thought I saw a boat fishing near Sandy last night. For god sake will you freakin smile in a picture of your first king of the season!?!?!?!?!!??!

If they are everyone is tight lipped about them. There really is just Spoonpullers to get reports from, and it's been dead so far this year. The Salmon are over there, and the tourney fleet will put a whoopin on them this weekend!

Saturday was a blow of day which allowed us to do some work to the ‘Yank’, so when Sunday rolled around the decision came up again. Do we go to left or right after this big blow? An experienced local captain who runs the ‘Hooked Up’ boat simply said in a text the night before “Go West young man.†We were boat #2 out of the Genny, and West is where we went for the first time this season. We set up at Russel Station in 10-15’ of water and headed West. Water was dirty brown from the beach out to 12/14’. We made the decision to slide out to 15-20’ of water and the action began. We had a slow pick from the ponds to Braddocks. To be honest I was getting a little nervous that the fishing was going to be terrible. I should have known better! The last few hours of the day were very productive, but it took getting into the right water to figure that out. We were running the same spread that we’ve ran the last few weekends. 6 - board lines, our 3 Cannons, and two split shot spoons. Our best stick of the day was a white/chartreuse rogue. Hands down it produced the most fish, but a Rapala J-11 in GFR, and a Rapala J-9 in Chartreuse also took a fair share of fish. On the riggers a Stinger glow cupped frog was consistent. One thing we noticed today was the presence of Coho. We landed three of them, but we also saw our first Chinook and Rainbow of the season. We were an Atlantic Salmon away from the Lake Ontario Grand Slam, which would have been really cool for these guys to accomplish. The best water was West of Braddock point hands down, and it got clean enough that we were able to slide into 12’ of water by the end of the trip. Well, that’s it for Spring Brown Trout trips! This week we head to Canada to start the 2013 tourney season. I’m gonna miss the little speckled guys, but Mr. Chinook is waiting!

Carp.....I don't know if they had those frames. Call and ask for Mike. Like J&J said.....he will answer your questions and he's very knowledgeable. Also, let him know about not getting called back. He might make it right.

Usually you can head out a little deeper than mentioned above and get into some nice sized Lake Trout too.

I ordered the Fisch 580g. I need large frames for my head. The Fisch fit great and offered a lot of protection while netting, which is a huge concern of mine. I went with the silver frames and the silver lens. I also grabbed a pair of Maui Sport sunglasses for driving. Those are really light, and fit great too. Again I want to state that without going and trying on a bunch I would have not known which ones fit the best. A lot of them fit OK, but when I put the Fisch on I knew they were the ones.

I wanted to spread the word out to the LOU community. I was planning on taking a ride to BPS this week to try on some sunglasses. I happen to run into Mike Gustin this weekend at the marina. He owns Webster Eye Care, and he informed me he carried a huge selection of sunglasses. I was under the impression he only sold Maui Jim, but he tells me he also carries Costa, Wiley X, Oakley, Bolla, and a few other brands. Anyway, I went there last night and the selection was pretty impressive. He wanted me to let you guys know that if you are in the market for a pair of sunglasses he will offer us fishermen 30% off in his store. He is a small business owner, and I know we all like to support these places when we get the chance.

We've been trolling 2.5 on the GPS, so your right where you need to be. Key is light leaders, right baits, and location. Some parts of the Lake are better than others for Spring BT.

We don't see many Steelies until Late May usually. Once they start flushing from the Salmon River, Genny, and the Niagara River they will find the temp breaks on the surface out over open water. Split shot rigs, short cores, and flat lines all work well. Brightly colored lures really get their attention. The East end, unfortunately, isn't know for it's Steelie fishery over open water. Not saying you can't get them going, but if you want to have fun with Steelies come West end of May-beginning of June for surface bites. The rest of the Summer you can chase them offshore with ease. Good ones too!

April 14th - We weren’t sure what to expect since the wind has been howling from every direction over the last few days. As we worked on the boat Saturday we could hear the chatter from the few out, and took notice of the two Kings taken down East. Just the thought of a King was all it took for us to choose which direction we were headed. We set out 11 rods total. Six off the boards, two on our Cannon out downs, a pair of split shot spoons, and a chute flat-line. We set-up at the bay and went 1 for 2 on that stretch to Ship Builders. Once we got past that stretch it turned on! Chartreuse was the color of the day, and the Storm UV Thundersticks were great in the colored water. Another great program for us was a Stinger Glow Frog and a Dreamweaver Glow Frog ran 70’ back down 5’. It was a nice steady pick without any real fire drills. The wind got worse as the day progressed and we fished in some sloppy seas. We did notice a lot of skinny fish this weekend, and a good friend of mine reminded me of all the rain we just had. I think we took a lot of fish that were just dropping out of local streams. So enjoy the next pod of fish that are out there looking to bulk up!