Yankee Troller

I've heard good things about it from people running it. I kinda want to hear how you lost 900 though....

Tighten those releases down. Not sure what kind your running, but we run blacks and tighten them down pretty good. Enough so that you can really load up your rod and it wont false release. Nice job though!

Very nice! Congrats!

Selling a 400 and a 500 copper. These reels are 4-5years old and other than no clicker 3 out of the 4 work great! The 400 needs a new worm gear, and that reel is discounted $25. There is reel rash on both. The copper is not marked throughout the spool. They were checked two weeks ago for length accuracy. Each reel has 150 yards of 50lb backer, the copper, and 25lb McCoy Mean Green leader new as of two weeks ago. The drags on these reels are very good. One of the better drags out there. Penn 345 GTi 400' 45# copper/backing/leader - Will reach 80' to 90' of depth - $75 with a bad worm gear. Penn 345 GTi 500' 45# copper/backing/leader - Will reach 100' to 110' of depth - $100 Pick up at the Oak, or in Rochester. I will be at the Summer Tightline event if you want to pick up there. Otherwise buyer pays shipping.

The rope allows you to get back to fishing, and give the fish enough time to liven back up.

Nice job boys!

You guys were spoiled! Lake O doesn't put out like this for very long.

I love fishing for them! It just so happens that other fish get to my lures before the Lakers. I don't know....one of these days I'll figure them out!

Right now we all have a shot at the win with Trout-N-About not on the list!!!!!!

Ray - your special!

We just tossed it off the back of the boat on a 15' rope.

I don't ever want to go East again and fish those tourneys if July at the Oak is like this! LOL

I kinda want to keep them to myself.......

Love y our reports! Nice job!

Great job! Now your both hooked!

Nicely done!

Great job! Some hogs there!

We had an eager group that was interested in scoring some cash in the Lake Ontario Counties (LOC) derby. I told them I wanted to leave the dock by 5:30am, but these guys barely slept a wink and I found them in the parking lot at 5am! So off we went looking for a few fish for the leaderboard. For most of these guys their biggest fish consisted of something from a dock with the exception of Hung, which I took stream fishing this past Winter. We shot straight out to 80’ of water in front of the Oak and pointed her East. We were going back down to the glass house area that has treated us good for about the last month. Down went our Cannon DT10’s with the following combos: 65’ down was a Dreamweaver Hammertime SD/A-TOM-MIK Hammer, 75’ down was a Michigan Stinger E-Chip in Hammertime/A-TOM-MIK Glow Blue Hammer, and down 50’ was a Legendary SmartFish Green Dot/A-TOM-MIK Ultra Green Glow Shredded. We would end up working 100-130’ of water and the temp dropped into the upper 50’s right around 35’ down. Those big kings loved the colder waters they had to swim around in chasing huge schools of bait. Our Divers were set on a 2 and we had them going consistently out 125’ and 150’ with big Salmon. The biggest of the trip officially weighed on the LOC derby scale was 29.5 which took a Hammertime E-Chip/A-TOM-MIK B-Fly. On the other diver we had a Legendary SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK Glow Blue Hammer Shredded. We also ran a 10 color and a 300 copper off our Otter Boats. The ten Color pulled a Moonshine Carbon 14 in the morning, and took a couple of shots, but it was quiet the remainder of the day. On the 300 copper we ran a Stinger Hawg Wild, and later a few flasher/fly combos, but it just wasn’t a great presentation for us on this day. The big guys came to play today! Our clients took home 13 Salmon, 1 Steelhead, and one Brown Trout. Our biggest five went 29, 27, and three 25 pounders. A huge box! We released a lot of fish, and I would like to share a new technique we tried out that worked flawlessly! We took our boga style Berkley scale and tied a rope to it about 15’ long. We fried the thing holding fish overboard in previous years trying to revive them, so we had no issues with it getting wet. We clipped the fish by the mouth and tossed it overboard as we re-set lines. When we were done re-setting we would look back and the fish would be off swimming to one side or the other. We’d pull in the rope and un-clip the fish and it would take off like a champ. Even in upper 70 degree water! Give it a try next time you want to toss a fish back. It might give it a better chance to survive! I want to thank my buddy Jeremy Sage for the tip. We need a bigger cooler!

Nice report!

I thought it was a good read. We can all learn something from this! http://www.glangler.com/_blog/Great_Lak ... an_Cooler/

Sean - who was the charter? Would you recommend him? LOL

In my opinion we have the best Salmon and Trout fishing of all the Great Lakes. Although we pound on our DEC every year at the state of the lake, they are doing a good job. No need to add a variable into the equation and possibly ruin the great resource we have!

They wouldn't let us dock there last year, and with your bridge you prolly wont make it under the parkway bridge. We were gonna tie up to the dock at the launch until we found someone with a dock just North of the bridge. I'm hoping there is enough water in the creek for me to get back there again this year.

A-TOM-MIK 15lb torpedoes are the way to go. They are priced right, and you will have the least amount blowback.

So true!