Yankee Troller

Nice job bud! You ever use the color green for Kings? It works well, or so I've heard......

I hear the bar is slow, and is loaded with weeds. Most charters have been fishing North of Wilson and to the East. Every day changes, so that could mean nothing by Thursday.

Not many on the radio there to be honest. Turn yours on scan and see if you can pick up a few recs.

Nice job Buddy! Bring some of that luck on the Yank for the West end Pro Ams!

Oh.....so now they are YOUR fish? Huh........

Sh*t....if I knew it was you I would have taken everything! LMAO No worries dude. Everyone needed to yield at some point in that fleet of fisherman.

I'm pretty sure mine were detailed. I could care less about the event this weekend. Things change overnight! We piss pounded them on a Hawg Wild Saturday and it took one fish on Sunday. Your initial post about the internet ruining the east end this year is completely ignorant. The droves of boats fishing down there because of the great fishing is helping out in so many ways. These fish weren't put in the lake to run up stream reproduce and rot. They were put in to control a baitfish problem, and it eventually turned into a sport fishery. The lake is big and fish move around by the minute. It's not a stream with sweet spots. Helping people catch more fish will lead to a greater spotlight on our fishery, because more people will want to come experience it. We have something special here! This does many good things. It drives people to the small communities around the lake, and they benefit through tourism dollars. Why does there have to be secrets in fishing? Why can't everyone help everyone out? These Kings live for a max of four years. They can't get educated to what we do! They die too fast! I never said the internet is ruining the east end fishing. I said it is ruining fishing period. Ice fishing, stream fishing etc... You have 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason. So you can listen twice as much as you talk. Since Im being labeled as ignorant since my opinion differs form the "in crowd" I guess I'll act like it. Given people's limited amount of time due to having to work two jobs to pay the bills, and spend time with family, why not make the four hours a week they get to unwind and fish more productive? If they know they can get out there and put a few fish on the line rather than sitting home what's so wrong with that? In our era the internet teaches us things. Back in the day it was passed down from parents and fellow tribes men. All that changed is the way the message was delivered. To top it off, given some governments deficits, if we can prove to them that stocking these waters leads to buku dollars back into the local economies we have a shot at having this fishery for a long time. That goes for fishing everywhere! Governments wont protect something just to protect it. If they see a financial impact then their eyebrows raise.

Nice pig! My GF lives right down the street from that place, and was telling me about it last night.

I'm pretty sure mine were detailed. I could care less about the event this weekend. Things change overnight! We piss pounded them on a Hawg Wild Saturday and it took one fish on Sunday. Your initial post about the internet ruining the east end this year is completely ignorant. The droves of boats fishing down there because of the great fishing is helping out in so many ways. These fish weren't put in the lake to run up stream reproduce and rot. They were put in to control a baitfish problem, and it eventually turned into a sport fishery. The lake is big and fish move around by the minute. It's not a stream with sweet spots. Helping people catch more fish will lead to a greater spotlight on our fishery, because more people will want to come experience it. We have something special here! This does many good things. It drives people to the small communities around the lake, and they benefit through tourism dollars. Why does there have to be secrets in fishing? Why can't everyone help everyone out? These Kings live for a max of four years. They can't get educated to what we do! They die too fast!

The meeting will be held at 6pm Friday May 11th under the tent. Observers need to be there with the Captain. CORRECTION: Dinner is still being served Saturday evening. The captains meeting will be held under the tent on Friday.

I never said I did this....LOL....I said you can do this! LOL I do know people who do this though.

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It was a pleasure talking with you this weekend. Congrats on the new ride!

Awesome boat! I love that model! Congrats!

There isn't much for coffee in Wilson, so it was a treat to have some.

Saturday Our group from PA met us at the dock at 5:30 with Tim Hortons in hand. Heck of a way to start off the morning! We left the dock with John and his friends promptly after hearing that the bite had not slowed at all since last weekend. In fact it got better, which is hard to believe! We fished in 1-3’s, then 3-5’s, and I think it went to 2-4’s by the end of our trip. To be honest we didn’t even realize it was that bumpy out because the fishing was INSANE! We stopped in 50’ of water, but would work 70-90’ for the entire day. Boat traffic was mediocre at first, but when Lady O kicked up we had much of the Lake to ourselves. The screen was loaded with Chinooks, and we started the day with a triple! We had a spoon program down all day, and we didn’t have to change much up. MVP’s for the day were Stinger Hawg Wild’s fished off our 10 color cores that were drug behind our Big John Otter boats. On our Cannon DT10’s pulled a Northern King Sea Sick Waddler, a Lazer Spook, and a Mulatto from 30’ down to the bottom. We also had those same spoons on our wires behind Walker Deeper Divers. The NE wind pushed the fish down West a little bit as the day went on, but we figured that out quick and followed them. As I stated above we started the day with a triple, and we also ended the day with one. The amount of doubles and a few more triples in between were more than I wanted to keep track of. Our group wanted to take advantage of the LOC derby, and that they did! We put a Chinook on the leaderboard weighing just over 25lbs, which was good enough for 6th at that time. We missed out on making it with another one that was 23lbs and change. Sunday We awoke to calm winds, and not too much later the smell of more Tim Hortons! We pulled out of the dock again about 5:30 and headed for the same water we fished yesterday. The boat traffic was unreal! More boats than I have seen in many years, and they were all fishing the stretch from the power plant to the bar. We didn’t change up our program much from Saturday. However, we did add two more wires to the mix. We ran a paddle fly combo on the low diver, and a spoon on the high diver. We quickly realized the bite was not as fast and furious as it was the day before, but we also knew the full moon may have allowed these beasts to feed through the night. With that being said we understood an afternoon bite may materialize. We would poke a few fish on the inside, but the combat trolling was terrible. We did drop a hog in there, but you can’t land them all! As the morning pressed on we would slide out a touch into the 130’ range and we continued to pick a fish or two every 15-20 minutes. We also realized the size was down from the day before. We went about our day catching and releasing the small ones (when I say small I mean anything under 15lbs). About 11am the bite really turned on, and it lasted until 3pm when we pulled rods. We slid out to the 150-200’ range, and the 600 copper was a constant producer with a green Smartfish pulling an A-TOM-MIK green crinkle. That combo was also going well on one of our low divers out 300’. Our deep riggers were also pulling fish consistently down 120-200’ with Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers, and a Moonshine spoon I don’t know the name of. One of my brothers impulse buys, but boy was it hot! I’m pretty sure he called up Captains Cove and put the rest of those aside. Right until we pulled rods fish were snapping. We ended the day with what we thought was another leaderboard fish that took the green Smartfish pulling an A-TOM-MIK green crinkle combo on our wire. That fish took us for a ride! Best fight of the year so far. On the scales the fished missed out by half a pound. The fishing continues to be unbelievable all along the south shore, and you can tell the word is out! From Olcott to the West small businesses had to have made out well this weekend! Get out there and get in on the action!

The 2nd annual WHI will be held in less than a week! I hope you are as excited as we are! Docks - You are assigned to a dock already. Stop in at the Wilson Gas Shack to find out where it is. Please don't e-mail us. Dinner - Your team will be signed up for 4 dinner tickets unless you e-mail us and state otherwise. Two teams have pulled out of the event. So, if you know a team that may be interested let us know!

Kevin and I just discussed these and the answers your questions are as follows: A) No. B) No. This one is cut and dry because you are going to have to come back through US waters with more than a US limit.

One thing you can do is come off of plane and stay about 5mph to deploy your coppers. Going that fast will get them out fast. When they are out drop your boards in let them out and clip on your copper. After those are set you can deploy the rest of your spread. Don't drop your boards in doing 5mph!

What were those pink ones I saw in your cabin? LOL My favorite is metallic Purple, and my brother loves his Glow Froggy. We also run black and Clear, but good luck finding a clear one that wont break apart on you.

You can use 4 of the same size dipseys, or run mags on your lower divers. We kinda got outta the mag dipsys and went with all the same divers. Rule of thumb is to keep the settings 1.5 apart. We will run one side of the boat on a 1 and a 2.5 while the other is on a .5 and a 2 until we find the hot set-up. Let them out one at a time. We also will keep the low and high divers a minimum of 50' apart on the counters. It doesn't matter which one you let out first. If we are letting out the high diver, and the low diver is already in place sometime we will grab the low diver and run it down the chute while we hold the high diver rod out to the side and let it creep out. If we are letting the low diver out, and the high diver is already out we will let the low diver out on a loose drag or down the chute. Also, keep the boat straight when your deploying these. After they are deployed and settled into place you can make the hardest turn and have no issues with them tangling. Lastly, if you are running copper off boards try not to use high settings on your divers because your diver will travel off to the side enough to get caught into your copper on turns. Low Diver - closest to the back of your boat High Diver - closest to the front of our boat

Not a bad first year!

Well, so far the poll is dead even.

Core has always been known for its smooth up and down water column changes while making turns. However, copper on a turn will sink like a rock. Lately, I have been seeing more people running 200' coppers over a 10 color core. We don't have a 200' copper, but we run a 10 color when we want to achieve that 40-50' depth.

At least until all of mine get taken! Three mags are left in my box, and I have searched high and low for more, but with no luck. Back to this thread.....we run all brands of spoons. We also have many times when more than one brand is down. As one person said in this thread "the fish don't know that rule." The big three spoon manufactures all have speed tolerances that fit the speeds we troll at IMHO.