Yankee Troller

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.

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