Yankee Troller

26 and change. It was short and fat! [ Post made via Android ]

Saturday August 13th (Morning) – We left the dock nice and early, and when we shut down on the 26N line the screen was packed! Bait and fish EVERYWHERE, but after about 30 minutes of fishing it diminished considerably. Never the less there were plenty of bait pods and fish to be had for the next eight hours. We worked the 26N-28N line for the morning with a nice family from Rochester. The Kings were on the feed, and we had what they were hungry for! Our program consisted of our three Cannon DT10’s, two wires pulling Walker Deeper Divers, and a copper on each board. A simple, yet effective, 7 rod spread. Spoons were run on the downriggers, while the wires and coppers pulled attractor/fly combos. Our 400 was a hot rig first thing in the morning pulling a Wonderbread SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK Shredded Hammer. Our riggers would take over with Dreamweaver Moon Crickets, Moonshine Carbon 14’s, and Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers. We tried a Lyman on our center rigger on the initial set-up, but no one wanted that erratic action at this point in the game. The wires were quiet for most of the day, but they did manage to produce the second largest fish of the trip, behind a Glow Froggy diver pulling a Dreamweaver green dot Spin doctor/A-TOM-MIK Bobblehead fly combo. Our biggest weighing just over 26lbs came off the 400 combo early in the trip. As the day would progress our 500 copper pulling a meat rig began to take MVP honors, but nothing pushed or exceeded the 20lb mark. Saturday August 13th (Afternoon) – This was a memorable trip for sure! Three of the four were retired professors from Geneseo. One of which was 80yr old Myrtle, and she was no stranger to charter fishing. I had a blast watching her fight fish, and just enjoy being out there with her friends. I can only hope to have her energy, and look as good as she does at that age. She even stepped up to the plate to fight a small King on the 500 copper meat rig, which I truthfully didn’t want to give her. Those long coppers are tough. You don’t want to run them, but they just take big fish! On this trip that 500 copper was our savior! Taking two or three big fish, but as the afternoon progressed our riggers, and even our wires, started to out produce it. The hot wire combo was a green dot Smartfish/A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist combo behind a metallic purple diver back 250’ on a 2 setting. On our Cannon DT10’s a Moonshine Carbon 14 mag, a Dreamweaver Moon Cricket mag, and a Northern King copper NBK took most of the shots. Sunday August 14th – We had a bunch of dairy farmers, and a few guys who sold them their feed. A very good customer of ours brought them out for the day, and this might just be the funniest group of guys we have ever had. I learned that dairy farmers are no dummies! They are very smart people who have a passion for what they do. We went right back out to where we ended on Saturday evening, because the picture we had on our screen was almost as good as it was during the first 30 minutes of our morning trip. However, when we go out there we struggled to find fish. With T-storms threatening in just a few hours the decision to head off shore wasn’t a good one. We stuck it out on the 25N-27N line and took what we could get, which ended up being a very decent day given the lack of fish on the inside. Our program stayed the same for the entire weekend with a 400 and a 500 copper off the boards, two wires pulling Walker Deeper Divers, and spoons on our Cannon DT10’s. The 400 and 500 coppers were our hot rigs. The 400 copper with a Smartfish/A-TOM-MIK combo (Wonderbread/Hammer in the morning, and a green dot/hypnotist in the afternoon), and the 500 copper with a meat rig took their fair share of fish. However, the big guy of the trip wanted a wire diver, and was one of only two fish that would take a ride on the wire on this day. When it hit the floor we knew it was a great fish, but we guessed it at 25-26lbs. Before we sliced it the customer asks “Hey how much that thing weigh?†On the digital scale it went, and I was floored when it read 29 pounds and change. Boat record! On the riggers the normal spoons were cracking fish. Dreamweaver Moon Crickets, Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers, Dreamweaver Dave’s Salmon Slappers, and a Moonshine Carbon 14 were a few of the spoons that pulled fish.

Yes, the date is set. We will be letting that out soon.

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I do wish the scales were a little better, and I wish the size was a little bigger, but it has held up well, and taken some nice fish. I want to mention we have used the Familiar Bite stuff too this Summer, and the first batch or two wasn't great, but Warrens in Sodus had some new stuff around the Pro-Am time that held up pretty good. Either way I think we are finally getting meat that is useable! Thanks to the companies trying their darnedest to get us what we want!

We are tossing a few ideas around, but since this is the "fisherman's tournament" it's up to you guys to decide to change it or keep it how it was in 2011. We are keeping this a one day shootout, but we want to put more emphasis on the Friday event. Here's is what we tossed around: * Up the entry fee from $800 to $1000 - This will increase 1st place to $25K, push another $5k into 2nd through 10th, and lastly add $5k to the Friday event given we obtain our full field of 75 boats. Also, if anyone knows of any potential sponsors please have them call Kevin Jerge @ 716-863-1001 or Rick Hajecki @ 585-704-7996

Definitely would have rather seen your wife holding it.........

I didn't know they made it again, but Captains cove has some Erie Deerie that is vacuum packed and it has been working and holding up real good all summer for us.

You can fill mine too while your at it! LOL Nice report.

This is a heck of a boat guy! My brother and I have fished off it many times. It's too bad Jeremy is getting married and needs money to pay for the wedding, personally I would have found a chick whose parents had more money, because this boat has treated him very good!

Tim - Can you be more specific?

just your north line on your gps. [ Post made via Android ]

The fog is only a mile or two thick. Once your past it everything is clear, but as Tim mentioned when the ice water leaves the shoreline.

Cool....good job....until I read post #2 I was excited, and shocked, that the waters moved back to normal.

8/5 (Friday evening) - We had a group from 5Linx out with us on a two boat trip. We shot out to the 28N line already knowing the Lake had flipped. We found some more stable water out there, but some wicked currents. The screen was OK at best for the first half of the trip. As we pushed North the screen get better. We rotted for the first hour and a half of the trip with not even a sniff from a fish. We ran our typical set up consisting of our three Cannon DT-10s pulling spoons with sliders, two Walker Deeper Divers puling spinny/fly combos, and three junk lines. Eventually we got the rods poppin’ for the guys, but we never got that “big†bite. Mostly small Salmon and a decent class of Steelhead for us, and as we ended the trip we had a steady bite going on the 30N line. Dreamweaver Get R Done, and Lemon Ice were our MVP’s fished off our DT-10’s. 8/6 (Saturday morning) - We had a nice family trip with the Creedon’s from Rochester. We knew the 30N line was the place to be, but we figured we would stop on the 29N line and troll it out. The morning bite was fantastic! Mostly 2 year old Kings, but we did manage to get one nice kicker 3yr old. The same program as the night before was down, but the spoons were a little different. In the morning the Dreamweaver Glow Frog SS’s, Mooncricket Mags, and Get R Done Regulars were our hot baits. Riggers ruled the bite for us, but the 10 color’s held their own too. After the first few hours of steady Salmon action we began to pick away at the Steelhead, but it was a slow pick. 8/6 (Saturday evening) - Took the GF out for a few hours to see if we could get her a wall mounter. We dropped in on the 29N line and trolled North. We ran two riggers, and two divers. The bite wasn’t great, but we did manage a few Steelhead before the center rigger down 35’ with a Dreamweaver Get R Done starts throbbing. I run over and hook into this fish, but I thought it was another Steelbow, and handed the rod off to Mel. About the time I turned around to grab the wheel I heard the sound of a screaming reel, and it wasn’t stopping. As I watched the line on the reel get stripped off I figured I had better start pulling gear and turn on this fish. I kept in constant communication with Mel about how much line was on the reel, and finally she was able to gain mind control over this beast and get it coming towards the boat. After another run or two we had the fish at the back of the boat. I was expecting a short fat 25lb fish or bigger, but I was surprised when an 18-20lb King hit the deck of the boat. The way it fought I thought it would be much larger. 8/7 (Sunday morning) - We had a nice couple from Cleavland join us on this very foggy morning. The fog had been around all weekend on the inside water because of the Lake flip. We were one of the first boats out of the chute, and we figured we would run the same program and game plan as we did on Saturday. We dropped in on the 28N line and began our troll North. The screen was not there, and we rotted for the first hour of the trip. Once we made it out to the 30N line the screen got better, but it wasn’t like the screen we had been fishing over for the past two days. We kept pushing it North and when we crossed into the 31N line the rods began to fire. We were able to get Gary and his father their personal best King Salmon on this trip. We would pick away at smaller Salmon and Steelhead the rest of the day. Again, the Dreamweaver Get R Done was a good spoon, but the spoon that took the two big guys was a tapped up Northern King Green Monkey Puke. Both of those 18-20lb fish came off the corner rigger down 55’. Gary and family went back to Ohio with some good Salmon meat, and memories of their personal best Salmon.

Did you get typing lessons from Bob Buck? What a brute, and to think I was ready to PJ it (cut it off for you) because your customer couldn't budge it! LOL

Great job buddy! Nice to see you into some fish out there!

I have to try this BT fishing after a flip!!! Nice job guys!

Yes......#15lb McCoy Mean Green. [ Post made via Android ]

Get well soon Kevin!

Lol...we have to bust your chops! It's in the rules. [ Post made via Android ]

Very cool!

Jeremy - you could possibly sell him some tackle too! You have about a tackle shops worth of tackle in your house! LOL

We've tried it a little bit with not much success. The screen you'll fish over will drive u crazy. [ Post made via Android ]