Yankee Troller

I would never again participate in a No-Comm calcutta. If the No Comm isn't in the rules I'm not handicapping my team. I say enough is enough with the people who give excuses why we can't have no communication. This is OUR tournament! Not the Counties.

Good fishing bud! It's been nice hanging out with ya the last few weeks.

Nice report Bri! Them guys would be overwhelmed if they came here and did what we do. After all the stories I've heard of big Kings up that way I don't know if I want to try it out. We have a world class fishery right here! The Scotty tour sounds cool too.

Nice job boys! Best to play it safe then end up with a huge mechanic bill.

No reason why you shouldn't! You know how to catch big kings my friend! As for the rest of the comments....thanks guys! We really enjoyed it. As Jerry mentioned in another thread our charter had a blast fishing this event, and already booked us again for it next year.

Another darkie at the Oak from this weekend:

IDK man. Watch attheoak.com and they usually announce it there.

Great event guys! Your hard work and dedication is appreciated.

Nice box guys! Congrats on the finish.

Good job Mr. Ross!

July 29th - We were back to the Oak and looking forward to putting the smack down on some more big kings. We left the dock about 5:30am and headed out to the 26N line. We set down and started to put out the spread. We put down a similar program to the day before with the exception of the long coppers. Instead we ran one 10 color and one 300 copper. A Stinger Hawg Wild on the 10 color and the Dreamweaver Hammertime Spin Doctor/A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly on the 300 copper. Both took fish. The 10 color was taking some nice Steelies, and the 300 copper was taking a mix of steelhead and salmon. On our Cannons we pulled a Stinger UV Frog E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK Mirage fly on the 100’ rigger, Dreamweaver Sea Sick Waddler mupped on the 80’ Rigger, and Moonshine Green Shorts mupped on the 60’ rigger. Our divers pulled a Legendary SmartFish Wonder dot/A-TOM-MIK Blue Glow Hammer, and a Stinger UV Frog/A-TOM-MIK B Fly. Once we hit the 27N line the bite was insane. From the 27-28N line we had a nice mix of Salmon and Steelhead. Our MVPs of the day and maybe even the weekend were definitely the Dreamweaver Sea Sick Waddlers on the 80’ rigger. However, the big girl today took the Legendary Smartfish Wonder Dot/A-TOM-MIK Glow Blue Hammer on the diver. She weighed in at 27lbs! Another great day at the Oak. 27lb'r

This was such a fun event last year that we just had to do it again. We would go on to take second in that event, so this year we wanted to grab the win! I rolled the boat down from the Oak the night before, and after talking with my brother, who fished in the AM out of the Oak, and from what I saw we knew West wasn’t best! We picked our charter up at the Sandy Creek boat launch at 5am, and headed out to a mean Lady O. 4-6’ waves was what we would fish in the whole day. We took a right our of port and headed out to 80’ of water where we would start putting down our spread. Our three Cannon DT10s went down with flasher fly combos. Anywhere from 50’ to the bottom. Out went our wire divers with flasher fly combos, and when that was done we started to let out the coppers. The first King came almost immediately. The 125’ wire started screaming with an Stinger UV Frog E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK Mirage fly. Don’t ask me where that combo came from. It was another one of my brothers concoctions that always seem to catch fish! Anyway, the first teenager hit the deck of the boat, and we were onto a good start. The bite really died for us as we trolled the 100’ area East and the screen dried up. We pointed her NE and started our troll to deeper water. We would pick a fish here and there, but when we hit 400’ between the lighthouse and Braddock’s the screen just lit up! Bait and fish everywhere. That’s when the blood bath began. The new program had spoons mupped on two out of three Cannon DT10s, with a UV Frog E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK B Fly on the deep rigger, Dreamweaver Sea Sick Waddlers on the 80’ rigger, and Moonshine Green Shorts on the 60’ rigger. Our divers were out 200-250’. That same Stinger UV Frog E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK Mirage fly on one side, and a Wonder Dot Legendary SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK Glow Blue Hammer fly on the other. The 300 copper had a Dreamweaver Hammertime Spin Doctor/A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly, the 400 copper had a Stinger Hammertime E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly, and the 500 copper pulled a meat rig. The two big guys would take the 300 copper combo and weigh in at 29 and 27 pounds. Knowing we needed minimum a 25lb average we continued to pound on the fish. We fished over a great screen, and rods were just flying the whole day. Given the conditions Lady O was throwing out our clients did a great job on the rods. Given we met the average we thought we would need we still wanted to get rid of a 22 and a 23 we had sitting in the box. It just never happened. Either way we had big smiles heading into the weigh in. When it was all said and done we took second to the same team we took second to last year. I want to give a huge congrats to team Trout and About and Captain Jason Franz on his three-peat. Even though he is a friend of mine that competitive nature in me gets me really upset that he beat us again. There is always next year! Another thank you goes out to all the people who worked their tails off to get this event to where it is today. Believe me, I know how much time these events take. The 29lb'r The 27lb'r

After seeing what the Oak is like in July I cant think of a better place for Kings on the South shore. I've heard about missing that bite for years while we strolled down to the East to fish tourneys, but I saw first hand what it's like this year. August and September are also killer out of the Oak, but in late August and early September you can't beat the East end of Lake O. Anywhere from the Oswego to Henderson is dynamite for big Salmon.

Might be a little late, but I'm planning on being there.

I'd like to also send my condolences.

I hear ya bud! It did happen last year. They just weren't in the derby.

We've taken a dark one or two. Copper colored. This one just this past weekend.

I'd like to see it go back to two days, 12 fish (two of which can be LT), No Comm, Pro AND Am divisions. Enough with the excuses of why we cant police the No Comm rule. If the counties don't want to enforce it we will as tourney fisherman. Let s be honest here.....we all know how much a cheater will get black balled with the internet now a days. Would you want to take that chance? I have no problems with the committee trying something new, but I think enough of us are speaking out about what we want to see, and what I just wrote is what most want to see. Not to mention have you seen the spreadsheets Turner's wife and I created just to score this new format? They are monsters! No need for that! I understand the work that goes into this, so I don't want to sound like I am ungrateful for the work a lot of people have put in. Thank you to all that help put these on! Now lets give the people what they want!

Your hooked! Congrats!

No doubt there should be talk of 40lb fish in this Lake! It has them! Two that I know of last Summer, and I know they are out there right now. That's definitely something to be excited about. Compare last summer's weights to this summer and on average they are about 2 pounds heavier. This summer LOC almost looks like last years fall LOC leaderboard. It's gonna be a good Fall boys as long as mother nature cooperates!

I like that pronunciation a lot better!

Lol Hey, did you guys fix the mosquito issue? [ Post made via Android ]

Sweet! I have a 6 man charter so I can still run 8 rods!

Agreed! BTW...I changed my mind. I don't care of Jason wins again. I just want to clobber one team now, and that boat is FREEDOM CHARTERS!!!!!!

Nice fish! I hope that's hitting your wall!