Yankee Troller

Yeah, it wasn't easy.

1 Pair for sale - $40 pick up in Rochester Troll your lures off to the sides of the boat (where the fish are) and cover more water with these planer boards. Great with braids, fused, lead core and monofilament lines. *Cover more water *Troll lures off to the sides of the boat *Ideal for braids, fused, lead core and monofilament lines http://www.basspro.com/The-Walleye-Boar ... uct/20912/

September 22nd (Oak) - We fished until midnight and had a very good pick on Salmon casting glow spoons, so anticipation for the morning wall bite was high. When we reached the end of the piers the SW winds were NW and we were handed 3-5’ waves. Not what we were expecting! Anyway, we set out a 5 rod spread. #3 J-Plugs 75’ back out 75†on Church TX-22’s, 2 Lyman plugs off our corners 100-125’ back, and a Moonshine spoon on the center rigger 40’ back down 4’. The #3 Glow Green J-plug would take all three shots on this 4 hour morning trip. Fishing was slow for everyone, and out of the three bites we could only capitalize on one. It was a good one though! September 23rd (Genny) - We let the charter guys leave and get first dibs on the pier action. We canceled our trip due to weather concerns, so we figured we'd fun fish for 3 hours and then call it a day. Jim Piano joined my brother and I and we pushed off about 6:30am. We didn't reach the end of the pier heads and the 25' diver with a Dreamweaver Black/Dew Spin Doctor/A-TOM-MIK TG fly takes a vicious rip. By the time we got to the rod it was gone. Most likely a victim of a whipped fly! We did the pier shuffle for the next three hours and would manage just three more bites. A three color pulling a Moonshine Carbon 14 took a short ride, but eventually dropped the fish. Next to go was a Silver Bullet J-Plug down 4 back 50 on our corner Cannon downrigger. We finally got this one to the net, and it was a nice mid twenties Chinook. On our final trip up river to our dock we popped another fish on a Moonshine Shelly Snack back 40 down 10' on our center Cannon downrigger. Jimmy fought it to the boat until the hooks popped loose before we could slide a net under it.

Dave~you said you weren't fishing them anyways!

I heard by next season she'll be your fiance?

If your going Fish Hawk wait b/c there is a new one coming out. The new one is called the XD4 and will add actual depth of the probe to the data that is already provided. It is done through a pressure sensor. We loved this on our Cannon while it worked. Which leads me to my next point. Cannon no longer sells the Intelli-troll. They had too many problems with it and in their own words "want to stick to what they do best, and that's building downriggers." The Depth Raider and Sub-Troll are both solid units. We've run them both, and only because of availability in a time of need do we have the Sub-Troll now. We really like it.

I heard a few were jumping in front of the Cove, but I haven't seen much jump around my boat either. One more weekend their and we are pulling out.

Now that's a good post! The best part!

Here is what my brother just texted me - USA Trail 215/75/14

It was a tough weekend boys! Easily the toughest of our season so far. Lets hope the next few aren't as bad. Although, can we really complain after how AMAZING the fishing was ALL season long? September 15th (Morning) - After not being allowed to showcase Lake Ontario to these guys from Jersey on Friday afternoon, we awoke to much of the same NW winds. The good news is that it made time for a nice breakfast at the 4C’s cafe as a bunch of captains sat around and BS’d. The bad news was we knew warm water was being forced into our fishing grounds. We finally made it out around 8am. Fishing was tough for most, and our bites seemed to come in spurts. We found our best screen down between the flats and the glass house in 105-120’ of water. The fish were pinned to the lake floor, but there were periods throughout the day where they rose up and chased out baits around. We ran a simple six rod spread. Our three Cannons pulled big paddles for the most part. 11†E-Chips, and 10 †Spin Doctors trailed by A-TOM-MIK fly’s worked well as did a Moonshine Carbon 14 and a Dreamweaver Sea Sick Waddler Mag. We ran regular sized flsaher/fly combos on our divers. They were going out 300’ on a 1.5 setting. Lastly, we pulled a 500 copper with a Moonshine Carbon 14. Our HOT baits today were the 11†Stinger E-Chip Hammertime/A-TOM-MIK B-fly, and a Chrome E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly. We also took fish off a Dreamweaver Spin Doctor/A-TOM-MIK Blue Glow Hammer. We started out with a few Brown Trout and a Coho, but by the middle of the trip it was all King Salmon action. We were able to pound out about 12 tough bites, and these guys couldn’t have been happier! September 16th - A few boats took a few fish at the wall the day before, so we wanted to hit that up before going deeper looking for some stagers. We left the dock around 5:30am and were surprised to see about a dozen boats already working the skinny water. Oh well, so we got in line. We sent out four surface lines and put one down on our middle Cannon downrigger. We ran J-Plugs on Church TX-22 boards back 75’ and out 75’. Inside those we ran a # 4 and a #5 Lyman off the corners. The first two rods to fire both came off the East corner of the wall. On the first pass the Salmon ate the #4 Lyman, and on the second pass the #5 Lyman went. Both Lymans were the same color - Chartreuse with a blue ladderback. We would take a few passes with nothing, so we switched out the glow J-Plugs to shinny ones. One was a bloody nose, and the other was a Mongoose. A few passes later and the bloody nose takes a ride. It’s hilarious to watch a Church TX-22 go skipping across the surface! We landed our biggest Salmon of the day tipping the scales around 22lbs. A few more passes led to just one dropped fish on a bloody nose J-Plug, and that would be the end of our wall fishing for the morning. We finally made the decision to put some water under us and target the fish we had going the day before. We made it out there and the screen just wasn’t what it was the day before. We fished it anyway! We went on to take a Brown and a 2yr old Salmon along with missing two other fish over the next 3 hours. We called it quits at 1pm, and headed for the dock. It was a tough weekend out of the Oak, which is rare, and we worked hard for every bite we got. Let’s hope it gets better for the upcoming weekend!

4/0 Octopus and a #2 Treble

Congrats....that will be hard to beat!

Sorry for your loss. I know how you feel.

Nice!

Nitro - There is a plug in it, but the tread is in very good condition. I think it was a spare off the trailer of our Bayliner. My brother found it in his garage. As far as the make.....I don't know off the top of my head. I figured it would be a good spare for someone.

In good shape. 215/75/14 $40 pick up in Rochester or at the Oak. [ Post made via Android ]

It's funny you ask. We have been running it for a while, and when people are complaining about fleas we have little to no issues with the 25lb test McCoy. I have a few friends using it and they see similar results.

Nice!

Nothing wrong with Scottys Bruce. Had them for about five years on the Bayliner and liked them a lot. However, those Cannons mounted on the back of that 10 Meter look sexy! We also love the pre-set depth feature. Hook the rod into the release, push a button, and walk away to start rigging the next rod.

It's always worth it. We'll be out. [ Post made via Android ]

Should everyone get a trophy at the end too?

We run a line that's not common on the Great Lakes, but it is such a great fishing line. We have had numerous opportunities to get discounts on other lines, and some of them for free, but McCoy Fishing Line is such a great line and we have so much confidence in it that we wont stop using it. We run the 25lb Mean Green on all our mono reels. When we are fishing spoons we will leader down to 15lb McCoy Flouro, and when it's paddles we use 20lb McCoy Flouro. The line isn't cheap, but I promise you it wont let you down. Especially, if you are anal about checking your line and leaders for bad spots.

I'm only one person, and wouldn't be able to hit up the East end boys. However, if we laid the ground work in the West someone could borrow or make it theirs in the East. Sure did.

LOL....Paul is the auto-pilot coming in 2013? LOL