Yankee Troller

Trolled the mouth last night for about an hour and a half. Dropped two Chinny's on Yellow Glow Lymans fished off an in-line. Also took a Sheepy on that same Lyman at the mouth on the way out. Water temps - 64 on top, 63 10' down, and 65 coming down the river. Marked a bunch of fish, and saw a bunch of fish.

May 12th, 2012 Put it in your calendars guys! Also, stay tuned for more announcements, and make sure if you are on Twitter and Facebook to follow us!

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It's amazing that one could even reach that size with the amount of farming that goes on around there! LMAO Great fish though!

NK is not done. They moved out of their shop off of Ling Rd. to save money. The company is being operated out a basement now. I did not hear the rumor about spoons being dumped in the garbage either. They haven't carried a huge inventory the last few years, so I know there wasn't excess inventory just hanging around. Trust me.....I couldn't even get them to paint up Sea Sick Waddler mags for me because they didn't have blanks to paint.

Good stuff! That CRAA does one heck of a job!

Nice report! It's also great to hear about the different year classes out there.

Sweet!

Couldn't be more happy with our Humminbird 1157 (now the 1158). We purchased this through Krenzer Marine in the Spring of 2010. We are on our second season with it, and no issues. A few minor bugs have been addressed with software updates which is super simple to do. Split screen FF/GPS (with no chip in this screen shot) Just the FF

Frank - I know your an East sider, but Slippery Sinker sells the probe by itself. Just an FYI...

Thanks guys....I am still in awe of that 33lb'r....and to think a 41+ was taken in the same waters only a day prior.

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9/3 (Morning) – We left the dock around 6am with hopes of staging Kings on the brain. We shut down in 50’ of water and headed E/NE where we would work the 60-90’ range. The picture in the morning was great, as it’s been the last few weeks, but that 6-7am period is pretty dead for the staggers. We fished a simple program. A meat rig fished on our deepest rigger which we tracked bottom with keeping it no more than 5’ off the bottom. On the other two downriggers, and our two wires, we ran flasher/fly type baits. Lastly, we put a 10 color and a 300 copper out on our Otter boats with either a plug or a flasher/fly combo. About 7am, like clockwork, we make the turn to go back through that great screen we just trolled through, and as the boat pointed north we doubled on majors. A meat rig went on the deep rigger, and a black/dew Spin Doctor with an A-TOM-MIK Live TG fly went on the rigger 10’ above the meat. We would go onto pick fish from 7-11am pretty regularly. However, our batting average would be right around .500 for the morning trip, which can be expected this time of year given the hard mouths of these staging fish as they transform. We also took a fish on a #5 Lyman plug out on the 10 color, which never made it down the planer tow line before a King rocked it. You would think with that type of reaction, and such a little soak time, that it might go on to be the MVP of the day. However, that would be the only shot it would take. 9/3 (Afternoon) – We left the dock around 3:30 with the intentions of heading offshore for some Steelbow and immature Salmon action. After the stroke-fest we witnessed from 11-2pm we wanted to put our clients on some fish, and not just look at them on the fish finder. On the way out of the harbor a phone call changed our plans, and we found out that the bite was on in the 45-55’ range. We set up in that water a touch west of the chute, and had a slow pick of fish the rest of the afternoon. We worked the pump house to the park area, and we ran a similar program to the morning minus the copper rod. Our best presentations were a meat rig, and a green glow sushi fly fished behind SmartFish. Our batting average for the afternoon trip was worse than the one we experienced in the morning. We could hookup with them, but they would either break off or just come un-glued. 9/4 – We had the same group of clients from the night before. They had entered in the derby, and we had entered in the Johnny V tournament at the Oak. We went back to the same water from the night before and set-up, but we just weren’t seeing the fish. We quickly realized it got warm in there, and pointed the boat NW. When we hit 75’ feet of water the screen started to get better. We would go on to work the 75-85’ a majority of the morning. We felt we had a very good morning program so we didn’t change up anything, and kept it the same as the morning before. We would pick fish for a good portion of the morning, but about 10:30 that bite would die. We knew we weren’t going to rot in that water like we did the day before, so we picked up the coppers and worked into 50’ to see if the active fish slid in there like they did the day before. That screen was drier than it was in the morning, so the only other option was to point it north. When we got to 105’ the screen started to show off some suspended fish, and that’s when rods started to fly again. We finally got our divers to go on this morning. They were put on a 3 setting out 150-225’ pulling a green dot SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK Blue Glow shredded Hammer, or a green dot SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist. We were pleasantly surprised when the A-TOM-MIK Glow Blue Hammer Shred took off around 1:30pm and about 20 minutes later the largest Salmon caught on one of our charters hit the deck. I could see this fish had a heck of a tail, but it never hit me until I had to pick this beast out of the water in the net. We would go on to fish until 3pm, and pick away at fish. We knew that we had a LOC derby fish in the cooler and one of the top five spots in the Johnny V tournament. Other baits that took fish were a green got green Spin Doctor pulling a Bobblehead fly, and a meat rig on our 400 copper. When we got to the scales we figured we had 73 pounds with our three biggest fish, and we were right on the money. However, we also found out we were in second to Warf Rat by about four pounds. We quickly put the fish back in the cooler and headed to Narby’s to weigh it for the Fall LOC. On the derby scale it read 33lbs 3ozs, which was good enough for 8th place. Me with the 33lb BRUTE! I had to picture hog it! A nice Coho! A very colored up Rainbow caught in the lake! 9/5 - We were still very much pumped about that huge King Salmon from the day before, and we knew right where we wanted to fish. We set-up in the same water as Sunday, and worked it from the pump house to the park. The fish were still there and they were cooperating. We did 5 fish between 7-8am, and then sat for about an hour and a half before we got back on them. The meat on the deep rigger along with our diver pulling that same green dot SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK Blue Glow shredded Hammer would go on to be the hot baits of the morning. However, as the bite died we started to change up the spread. It seems like when we would put something down it would fire once and that was it. We put down a black spin doctor/A-TOM-MIK Live TG combo, and it went right away. We put a brand new Moonshine plug out on the 300 copper, and it took a ride almost immediately, but would never take another sniff. The lake got to be nasty by about 11am, and we knew we were done at 12pm, so we rode it out and picked a fish or two in that timeframe before calling it a day.

Good thing you got that out of the lake! I'd hate to see them take over lake o!

We have 2 years with 75+ days a season on our Saltist. Cinelli Sportfishing has two boats loaded with Saltist and prolly puts 100-125 days on his. Other than a weak clicker on the 30 size none of us have had one ounce of trouble. There are plenty more people out there with Saltist who absolutely love them. Pros on this reel is the high speed, smooth drags, and durability. Cons for the reel would be the line counter placement for some, and a weak clicker on the 30 size. I haven't heard of anyone needing to get these reels repaired yet, so my guess is if someone did it was a blem or they abused the heck out of it. The Tekota is a great reel also, and very proven on the Great Lakes. Okuma is coming around, and they have some nice high end stuff now. I got a bad taste in my mouth when they first got into the game using some of their reels, and I haven't ever really looked back at them.

Never set the hook on a wire diver rod, but on our riggers and coppers this time of year we like to give them a little whack! They have hard tough mouths, so you will lose a few each day, and it's normal. On our wires we keep the drag a little tighter than normal to help sink the hook on the initial strike.

It can happen just about anywhere, at any marina, but it's no shocker that it happened in Olcott. That port has been known for that type of stuff for many years! It sucks. Trust me I know all too well as we were ripped off in the Genny years ago.

Great job! What did it hit?

I PM'd you Kevin Jerge's phone number. He runs the Wilson Boat House Marina.

Gottta love Dave and his videos! I know I get a kick out of them!

We have never fished the Wilderness series from Dawia, so I apologize for not having any reviews about them for you. However, we have used the 7'6" ML Heartlands, and more recently the 8'0" ML Accudepth rods. Both were great rods for BT fishing.

I do too Anthony!

Thanks Mike! Quick story behind that website on the step. My uncle did it for us without our knowledge this Spring. I love it! ANd your right we do enjoy putting people on these great fish Lake O has to offer.

August 27th - We left the dock about 6:15ish and figured we’d give the inside water a try. We set down in 70’ of water and headed E/NE. Screen was bleak with the occasional hook or pod of bait. We gave it about two hours and finally said enough is enough with just a jack, and a steelbow to show for. Not to mention we didn’t talk to anybody who was moving rods in there consistently. The jack took a meat rig on the 400 copper, and the steelbow took a Dreamweaver Moon Cricket off the wire back 225’. When we slid out we stopped on the 27N line and set lines heading North. The picture was pretty good with plenty of bait and fish out there. Three downriggers, 2 wires, a 300 copper, and a 10 color got deployed. The 300 copper quickly became our MVP pulling a Stinger Stingray Copper glow green alewife. We ended up pulling the 10 color and putting out the other 300 copper with the same spoon and our junk lines just kept firing. We lost a brute of a steelbow on the 300 copper early into the offshore gig. A phone call early afternoon from Olcott gave us a tip on an A-TOM-MIK T190 behind a black Spin Doctor combo. We put it out on the wire and it quickly became another hot set-up for us. Once we saw the wires were going we figured it had been way too long since we ran a four diver set-up, and after seeing pics of Vinny running them in Olcott earlier in the week we felt we needed to make sure we still knew how to run them. Out went another pair of wires with Stinger Stingray Wonderbreads, and with just a quick soak they started to take fish. We now had everything going consistently except the downriggers. With an hour or two to go in the trip we got another phone call that helped us dial in our downriggers. A Northern King green Monkey Puke went down to 80’, and fired almost instantly. By 1pm we were cleaning fish, mostly steelbows, and looking for our last fish. Well, as always, when your cleaning fish and the deck is slippery fish are going to hit. Three quick fish came, and we landed our last fish for the limit catch. There was a great class of Steelbows out between the 27-30N lines. One of the last three steelbows we hooked up with was no doubt close to 15lbs, and he found his way back to the depths within about 20yards of the net. He hit a Dreamweaver Shiznit SS, a spoon that has been quiet this year, on an 80 rigger. Always heartbreaking when you lose such a nice fish, but that’s fishing!

Head to God's country! 30N+