Yankee Troller

42' Viking Open

We can **** all we want on a chat forum, but what is needed is for us fisherman up and down the lake to band together on this one. I mean if a group of kayakers can lobby for water releases on the Salmon River during Summer why can't us fisherman band together to get something going that actually shows a ROI to the communities? It's been discussed multiple times at the Genesee Charter Boat Association (GCBA) meetings as well as the State of the Lake meetings. The GCBA is trying to get the biologist in for a meeting soon. We don't want it to be an open forum, but rather have questions submitted to the GCBA board and then a few selected questions asked as to not bombard them with questions and comments coming from everyone. So, what I'm saying is....if you can voice your opinion on here it would be nice if we could show some serious support at a meeting where the people who need to hear this will be listening. If they don't/can't do anything about it then we can go above them until we get the answers we need.

They say they can't. [ Post made via Android ]

Caledonia sends BT out to other lakes in NY. If they brought Chinook eggs in from Altmar that could potentially bring in VHS. Caledonia's brood stock for BT is in their raceways. Its to keep VHS out basically.

You'll never see Chinooks in Caledonia under the current DEC Pathologist. Sodus-Niagara groups have been asking about this for years with the convo getting shut down quickly. Thanks for the info Brian.

We've run them for 3 seasons, and we are getting more to replace these. A solid built reel.

Good luck with them! 2 out of the 3 "Pro-Staffers" on Lake O have been through a few sets so far. They look nice, and conceptually they sound nice, but the reality is all new models have issues. Wait until they figure those out. There really is only two options out there. Cannon and Scotty! We've run both. Both are great. Pros and Cons on both. Both are reliable. The new Cannons are super fast, built like tanks, and look good. They have a great rod holder accessory too.

Not a shot! I bought some Tekota's this Summer. Had to put drags in them immediately!

Doesn't matter! Your still from one of those states us NY Sportsman look down upon and label as snaggers. Redneck or city boy.....if your from NJ, PA, MA, VT your a snagger! Oh yeah, and NYC....that definitely another state!

Downrigger Combos (5) Saltist STTLW30LCHA paired with Heartland HLD-DR802M ~ $140/Combo - Spoken for. Waiting to meet up Diver Combos (2) Saltist STTLW30LCHA paired with Heartland HLD-DD962H. Twilli-tips added. ~ $140/Combo - SOLD Copper/Core Combos (2) Saltist STTLW50LCHA paired with Heartland ~ HLD-DD962H. 300' of A-TOM-MIK copper rigged and ready to go. ~ $200/Combo (1) Saltist STTLW50HA paired with Heartland ~ HLD-DD962H. 200' of Blood Run Copper rigged and ready to go. ~ $190 (1) Saltist STTLW50HA paired with Heartland ~ HLD-DD962H. 10 colors of core rigged and ready to go. ~ $175 Salmon/Steelhead Combos (2) Exceler Spinning reel paired with Heartland HLD-SS962LSS ~ $125/Combo or both for $200

I'd love to make it, but that would be a haul for me. Would you mind publishing some egg take data afterwards?

I was on Doug's ride. Pretty sweet! Congrats on the purchase. I wish I had your guys money! Those puppies aren't cheap.

RIP Bob

Congrats!

September 29th - This will be our last trip of the AMAZING 2012 season. We moved the boat to the Genny last weekend in preparation to head to Sodus for winter storage, and to have some work done at Great Lakes. We left the dock around 5:45am and set lines as soon as we cleared the marina. Out went a spread consisting of Moonshine spoons and plugs from Lyman, Moonshine, and LJ. Moonshine Bad toads off the divers on 3’s out 25-30’, Lymans off the corner Cannon downriggers back 40 down 5, Moonshine Flounder Pounder on our center Cannon downrigger back 50 down 10’, two flat-lined plugs back 75’ out 75’ on Church Tackle Walleye boards, and finally a 5 color core out 3 colors pulling a Moonshine Carbon 14. We didn’t make it to the end of the channel and the corner rigger fires, but no ones home. We trolled the mouth for an hour and a half and only had one more rip on a diver, which ended in a bent hook and an 0 for 2 performance. The call was made by the locals to head for Lake Trout water. When in Rome…….. So off we go with the pack. We haven’t LT fished in a very long time. The only blades we dug out that were rigged were Hammerhead Silver/Blue w/ glow blue peanuts behind them. Two of them went down and it was like dropping a minnow to a hungry school of perch. You couldn’t keep two rods down! After that blood bath we pointed it North to see if we could swing a few silvers. We would go on to lose two screamers on a 325 wire on a 1.5 setting pulling a Dreamweaver Spin Doctor Hammertime/A-TOM-MIK Glow Blue Hammer. With an hour left we headed back to the pier heads looking for one Chinook to add to the cooler. We were awarded with one final shot on a corner rigger pulling a Lyman. The best part was we landed this fish on one of our Brown Trout rods! I was kinda jealous our customer got to experience that…… We ended the day and the season with a limit of LT’s and going 1 for 5 on Kings. Now we wait six months until the Yank is back in action!

Don't forget......we ate like champs and drank Pineapple Bombers!

Nothing over twelve pounds. [ Post made via Android ]

Wow......I knew I was gonna catch something from that. Haven't done that in years. I will admit it was very action packed. Couldn't keep two rods down. [ Post made via Android ]

SSW (NK and DW) - best spoon period! Green Shorts (Moonshine) 42nd (NK and DW) Lemon Ice (DW) Hawg Wild (Stinger) Those are the ones that stand out in my mind, but honesty after early may it was mostly a F/F bite unless we went offshore after a blow.

Did Bob Buck steal your sign on Casey?

I'm almost positive we came up with that name on our maiden voyage with YT3. Rob, Casey, and the girls all thought real hard to come up with that one! LOL

BTW....I think that spoon is called the "Dirty Broomstick" and is exclusive to Fat Nancy's.

It's def. called a shiznit. I've seen the mags at the Gander in Rochester.

Bump

Yea, after the night we had I was thinking the morning was gonna be good! That NW wind warmed the water up almost 2 degrees over night. It was nice to see everyone playing nice on the wall this fall.