Yankee Troller

Did you mention the LOC somewhere???? LOL

Are you sure about that Mike? Captain Kevin Davis of Catch the Drift pictured below with one from the Oswego River last fall that was over 40lbs. They are out there!

Bro I meant your dates in your post..... You said you were fishing the end of July into August.

Brucey - I wish I could fish in the future! Why are you trying to make the Summer go by faster than it already does?

I meant a few weeks in Sandy since we will be there to fish the tourney. LOL

Always enjoy your reports Tom! Nice job!

We need a color chart for these fly names! LOL Nice job Scotty!

Yeah Matt...not sure of the temps at Sandy, but I am guessing the 3 setting was a little too much. When you have to go deep sometimes we even go to a .5 or a 1 setting. The only thing you have to be careful of is when your corner rigger fires. Half the time the fish will go under the wire diver. Its as simple as keeping an eye on the diver at this crucial time and if the fish did go under it just lift it up and over the fish and stick it back in its holder.

Nice! Lets hope they hang around for a few weeks!

Nice report bud! Glad your getting into them!

Great catch guys!

Great fish!

That's not "new." It's called a pleasure craft operators card. Everyone in Canada is required to have one if operating a boat. Similar to how in PA you need to ave passed their boaters safety exam. From what I am told most Canadians don't even have the card, so if you do opt to get it you look a lot better to whomever is pulling you over. You can take the test online, or I too mine through Sea Tech Marine Training.

Heck of a video! In AFW's defense they do have the thinnest diameter out of all those wires. I have no affiliation with them what so ever, but it was the weakest in his test, and I cant ever remember cracking off a Salmon just because. They might as well call it 20lb test! That Torpedo stuff looks to be pretty strong.

Dude....you have me scared sh*tless to go to Bluffers for the Tightlines Shootout next month. If our entry fee wasn't already paid I'd be passing on crossing over until this whole thing is figured out. One interesting fact I was unaware of is that you had to call in from a certain phone. When we fish the St. Catherine's tourney we have always called customs from our cell phone on the boat the minute we hit the dock. We have never had an agent come down to our boat or tell us we had to call from a special land line. Anyway, great job in pre-fish guys.

No problem Ray! Lol [ Post made via Android ]

6/25 We pushed off from the dock about 6am with absolutely no information. So, we took a slight NW heading out to 100fow and gave it a scan. The picture was bleak, so we pushed it out to about 175fow and shut her down and began trolling when we saw a few marks on our Humminbird fish finder. We put down a simple spread consisting of three riggers, two wire divers, and a few junk lines fished off our otter boats. It didn’t take long and we were into a few fish, and it became a steady pick for most of t he morning. No true giants fell victim to our spread, but some real quality Salmon in the low to mid teens. On our corner riggers we pulled Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers and Dreamweaver Glow Frogs. The middle rigger had a mix of everything throughout the day. A Dreamweaver Green Eyed Ghost, Dreamweaver Bloody Death, Dreamweaver Shiznit, and a few others, but no real MVP’s. The corner riggers did most of our fish on the two spoons listed above. Behind our Walker Deeper Divers we pulled a few paddle fly combos, but only one took a fish, however it was our largest fish of the morning. That combo was the Albino Gator pulling an A-TOM-MIK glow Pro-Am fly. Our ten color seemed to be another good presentation pulling a Stinger Stingray Black Widow. It took a very nice Steelhead late in the morning. We ended the trip around noon with a nice box of fish, and two very happy kids who have never caught more than a few bluegill off the docks. Their grandpa is doing a great job of getting them involved in the outdoors at a young age. 6/26 We left the dock about 6:30am looking to go out and just fun fish. We grabbed our father and a buddy who has never been on Lake Ontario nor has he ever tied into a Salmon. On our way in around noon yesterday it sounded like some guys found a nice pod of fish on the inside with a wicked current, so we figured we would give that a go before heading out deeper. We weren’t able to get all the rods in the water when the 150’ Walker Deeper Diver pulling a Green Smartfish/A-TOM-MIK Misery fly starts to explode. I handed the rod off to the newbie, and we watch him get taken for a ride. Love seeing that! We ended up boating that fish, which was a mid teens fish, and his first fish ever (other than a few small Bluegills). We put that rod back out and a few minutes later it takes off again, and my brothers girlfriend is tied into a screamer. That one hits the deck and we guesstimated it to be just under 20lbs. Put that rod back out, and a few minutes later its throbbing again with a King Salmon shredding line off the reel. We had a seven rod spread out there and one rod was giving us all the action. The morning would slow a bit after 4 or 5 Salmon in the first few hours, so we pointed the boat East and zigged and zagged from 125’ out to 175’ down to the Glass House. The screen got better the further East we went, and right before the Flats we started to light them up. All the big guys would take that Walker Deeper Diver pulling the Green SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK Misery fly, which we had to slide out from 150’ in the morning to 175’ later to entice strikes. We finally got a few rigger bites pulling Dreamweaver Moon Crickets and Salmon Slappers. The afternoon ended as good as the morning started for us, and by 11:00am we were dialing in or new Auto-Pilot, and then headed for some lunch. The current was wicked strong. When we turned the boat to troll back West we had our surface speed at 1.1 and our ball speed at 2.4.-2.6. Later on in the afternoon we jumped on a buddies boat and headed out for a little derby fishing. It seemed the current had settled, and the picture was not as good as it was when we left it. However, that same diver combo would go on to take 3 nice Salmon when everything else we threw down took skippers, and other species.

Good job!

WOW....nice fish!

Great job, and if you think we believe the rain story your out of your mind!

That sucks! We were thinking about fishing the last KOTL tourney, but I think I'm all set now. This is ridiculous!

I think Gump from Yankee One fished there last weekend. His FB status said to save your gas money. However, a lot can change in a week, and I am sure you can get on some great BT action.

I come from the BASS world and we never had constraints on how far we could run other than a lock in some instances, which is an enforceable boundary in my opinion. I competed at the state level in a 17' bass boat for a few years, which was one of the smaller ones, and stayed competitive with the rest of the field in their 18-22' bass boats that could go 20-30MPH faster than me and also had a longer range with more fuel. I personally would not want to monitor my GPS to make sure we weren't outside of county lines the whole day. US/Canadian boarder is bad enough in my opinion, but at least there is a line drawn out on your GPS for that. This argument is not new, and seems to come up every year at the Orleans event because of a few Captains who feel it should be fished inside Orleans County waters. When we won it in 2007 those same Captains tried downplaying our victory at the launch as we were pulling our boat out of the water. They were asking our opinion on county boarders, and how we shouldn't be allowed to go outside of them. The only argument I can see for this is to keep the money spent at a tourney inside that county. For example, the boats that docked elsewhere in practice, which we were one of them who fished down on Thursday. That was one night of dockage spent outside the county of Orleans. However, we made up for it in fuel a few days later! The only rule IMHO that needs to be changed is the NO COMM rule, and maybe letting us use more rods

There are two groups of guys when it comes to planer boards. The ones running Otter Boats, and the others who run Paul's Planners or the traditional planer board. Both will work just fine in most cases. We use the Otters exclusively with the dual keel and they pull out to the side very nicely. When they dive they come right back up and WONT flip in the rough stuff. We have run them in 6+' waves and if your willing to do so they will run for you. If you buy the otter boats two things you can do to elongate their shelf life is to perform some of the modifications above, and secondly keep them out of the sun when not in use.

If you jokers at Sandy are wearing Speedos then I don't want our balls busted for sporting Crocs!