Yankee Troller

Beside Cisco, who makes them? I remember seeing a company that made them in different colors.

If you dont take off your old cable you will throw off your counter. for example. I put on 500' of coated cable instead of 200' My counter is off by 10'.

WE love them on the Yankee! Super smooth drags and a high speed retrieve make these reels a real joy to fish with.

I have not, but I talked to him yesterday so I know he is alive!

8/15 - Charters Morning - Was told Friday night that the Lake had flipped. Thats all we needed to know. When we broke the pier heads the water was chilly! It stayed that was all the way out to the 28N line. Even out there we had 55 degrees down 40'. We ran a simple 3 rigger, 4 wire, 1 copper program. On our riggers we started off with Norther King Sea Sick Waddlers, Dreamweaver Gators, and Dreamweaver Raspberry Dolphins. During the day we would pull the Raspberry Dolphins and the Gators for some Dreamweaver Green Eye Ghost and Midnight Specials. We parked our riggers anywhere from 50-100' down. These fish were in the ICE water! On the wires we ran mag spoons on the high divers set on a 3 out 275 and 300. One was a Sea Sick Waddler the other was a 42nd. Low divers pulled paddle fly combos like the 42nd combo, and the Gator spinny/A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist. Our copper rod was a 300 copper with a Dreamweaver magnum Gator. Fishing was fast and furious from the 29N line to the 32N line. LOTS of Steelhead and a few small kings mixed in. We did a good job of landing our first 6 or 7 Steelhead this morning. Just like last week our Saturday morning trip didn't give up even just one screamer. Evening - We had the owner from Michelina's Italian Restaurant out with his boy and his cousin. We wanted to get Anthony some fish, so we headed back out to the Steelhead rich waters offshore. We ran the exact same program that we finished with on our morning trip, but we would go on to drop our first 5 or 6 fish. It was very frustrating considering this was just a four hour evening trip, but the meatball and chicken parm sandwiches really took our minds off the dropped fish. Eventually everyone would get to reel in a few fish, and we even had our first screamer of the day. He took the 42 combo on our low wire out 225. The fish gave up a great fight, and they were able to see how tough a mature Salmon really is. We would not go hungry on this trip, and Anthony had a blast reeling in fish along with watching his dad battle about a 17lb Lake Ontario King Salmon. This fish made multiple hard runs, and turned those meatball making arms into mush. 8/16 - Charter We had some guys from ROWE video out with us. I love when these guys come out because I know that I will be getting some GREAT pictures! The downfall is.....your going to have to wait until I get them to see them. Well, when we broke the pier heads you could feel the cold water still pushed into the shallows, so off to the depths we went. We dropped in at the 29N line, and for once I was able to get all 8 rods in the water without a single fish. However, that didn't last long! We ran the same program as the day before with the exception of switching out a 300 copper for a 400 copper. We would continue the droppsy theme this morning. One of which was definitely a King that took the 400 copper pulling a green Smart Fish/A-TOM-MIK sherbet fly. Our Dreamweaver midnight specials were great until we had a beautiful Steelhead go under a wire and then rocket out of the water. So down went some Northern King 42nd's and they continued to rock. Our Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers took a back seat today, and pair of Stinger Nukes really started to shine. The highlight of the day happened around noon when a high wire pulling a Moonshine Bad Toad started to sing. We knew it was a King, but had no clue how big. He made multiple long and strong runs. After what seemed to be forever a hog hit the deck and tipped our scale at 29lbs. Here is a picture of my brother holding it until we get some photos from the Rowe guys.

Or keep that rigger low for a big guy and toss a slider or a fixed cheater 10-20' above your main line.

Thanks for the report! Great job as a father too! They will never forget about these trips!

Nice slob!

I never saw one of them waterspouts! Maniac told me about them later on in the day. Guess those Skippys had me too busy to look up. Although afterwards I asked my customers if they saw anything, and they replied with "well, I saw something, but I didn't know what it was." I was like why the heck didnt you tell me!

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Dont they! Thier tails were hard to get a grip on too. Fat right before it fanned out.

He wont see this till next Monday. He is stuck up at Lake O fishing for a week. Must really suck! LOL Happy birthday buddy!

Now thats a pig!

Nice PIG! It's about time some fish showed up down that way.

8/7: Morning Trip - Took a ride out to the 29N Line straight out front of the Oak and got into fish immediately. I couldn't get 8 rods in the water until about 9:30am. Tons of fun, but a lot of work for such small fish. We were catching mostly Steelhead with a few Chinooks mixed in. Our program consisted of 3 riggers, 4 wires, and 1 copper. On the riggers we had Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers on the deep rigger, Dreamweaver SS Shiznits on the middle rigger, and Dreamweaver SS Gators on the high rigger. The 300 copper pulled a Dreamweaver Magnum Gator, and we ran it down the chute with all the copper in the water. We ran flasher fly combos on our low wires (42nd combo, and Albino Gator Spinny/A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist), and on our high wires we ran Mag Spoons (Northern King 42nd and Northern King Sea Sick Waddler). We cut our trip short with a nice box, and some tired arms! Justin reeled in most of the fish on this trip as his father and his friend Phil watched. Justin broke his big fish record multiple times today! He left with one heck of a smile. Evening Trip - Headed back out to that 29N-31N water right off the Oak and had a slow pick for most of the night. Same mix of fish, but a tad bit on the smaller side. Same program as the morning too. By the end of the trip our best picture would be found at the 28N line a tad bit East of the Oak. We had a beautiful Steelhead, about 9lbs, give us an Ariel show until he met our net. That was our highlight until about an hour left in the trip. I moved the high rigger up into 60 degree water looking for some Steelhead, and within 10 minutes that rod pops and its off to the races. At one point my guy says "we are running out of line!" I look down at the reel and snatched it from him while yelling for my brother to turn on this fish. I put the thumb down on him and showed him that there is a higher power! After I got some line back on the reel I handed it back off, and when it hit the net I knew why it came so close to spooling us. On the scale it weighed 27lb's and change. This groups biggest to date by about 2 pounds. This is when the smack talking began, and it wouldn't let up until Sunday morning. 8/8: We started at the 27N line and rode the waves out to the mid 28N line. This ride yielded 1 fish! We had some decent bait, so I turned on it and went through it at a different direction. Straight into the waves, and some added lure action, was all it took to get the rods firing. Almost instantly rods began to pop, but sighting the same story from yesterday size was an issue. Most fish were under the legal size limit. Our program today was a very simple 6 rod spread. 3 riggers, 2 wires, and a 300 copper. The riggers pulled the same lures we pulled on Saturday, but the Dreamweaver Shiznits would never take a hit. We exchanged them out for some Dreamweaver Raspberry Dolphins, which put their share of fish in the boat. Our wires pulled many combos during the day, but the ones we would end up with was a Dreamweaver Green blade double crush gow with green dots pulling an A-TOM-MIK L225 UV Dolphin, and a Green Smartfish with an A-TOM-MIK Sherbert fly. Our 300 copper continued to pull that dreamweaver Mag Gator. We worked West for a while, and got into some gin clear water with nothing on the screen. We finally pointed the boat NE and rode the waves out to the 29N line where the water turned green again and the fishfinder lit up with bait and fish. Rods began to fire again! With about an hour to go our wire diver starts singing! It was our Froggy Deeper Diver that had the Dreamweaver Green blade double crush glow with green dots pulling an A-TOM-MIK L225 UV Dolphin out 240 on a 2 setting. This fish took us out to 800', but the guy on the rod handled it well. Before we knew it another SLOB hit our deck! When we put him on the scale it was 27lbs and change. That makes TWO 27lb fish for us in ONE weekend. We would end the day with a decent box of fish. Today most of the fish in the box were Salmon.

Right now it is all just informative info we need to keep our eyes on.

I have a friend at the DEC. He called me all panic stricken yesterday. He received a memo asking the question: "Of all the Fall egg take programs we participate in, which one(s) can we cut out?" Kind of weird how they just increased fees and they still can't afford to make it happen? I want to stress that this was just a memo sent around to managers within the DEC. Nothing in stone, but they are trying to cut some things in the background. If they can do it to one of these programs it's opening the door to many others. He said he will try to be my guy on the inside, and wants me to get the word out to the people who really care, and the people who will fight this. I don't see any better group of people than the ones right here on this site. He also told me that since the state cut overtime they have not been able to do their jobs and key procedures have been overlooked. This resulted in a pretty good sized fish die off this Spring. He was infuriated! As much as we love these fish for the sport of it. They love these fish like we love our pets. They are their baby's.

GREAT fish John! Did your Furuno tell you it was that big before it hit? LOL You know I had to go there!

LMAO! 4212 isn't touch screen! Good points Ray.

Interesting! Thanks!

I was playing with a 5212 last night at West marine and I was very impressed with the ease and functionality of this unit. Touch screen display was nice. Anyone have any experience with these units? I have had Garmin for my trucks navi, but not much more experience with their products. Would love to hear some feedback on their larger units, radar overlays, and maybe their auto pilots.

SS is what I run. Very good especially on an overcast day. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Congrats! Wish mine fought that way!

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Interesting! Same spoon, but I'm sticking with the shiznit! [ Post made via Mobile Device ]