Yankee Troller

28 flys for sale with Dreamweaver Fly holders on most. Various colors! Some Howies, some A-TOM-MIKs, some of other brands. $40 shipped!

Very little use on these. 3 piece's per outrigger for easy breakdown and storage. Mounts not included, but the elbow at the end of the outrigger is. Retail at West marine is just under $600. $300 for the pair, and buyer pays shipping if located outside of Rochester.

2 available for sale. Includes power cords and mounts, but not the GPS antennas. You can pick those up for about $100 or cheaper. $100 for each head unit. These are color GPS units!

Daiwa 9'6" Dipsey Diver rods used 1 season. These are the Black Heartlands. $40 for the pair Sold Eagle Claw Water Eagle Rods 8' with cork handles. Used as short core rods for a few seasons with limited use. $25 for the pair.

3 available - would like to sell all at once. Buyer pays shipping. $20/per lock. (Retail on the lock is $32.99/per lock)

FYI.....If you are planning on heading out of the Niagara this weekend, and you will be using the launches nearest the Lake (Youngstown) be careful. The low water makes it difficult to get larger boats in and out of there. We hit bottom this weekend with our lower unit, and we chewed up the prop. It happened going out and then again coming back in. The water at the tie ups is very low too. The Lewiston launch might be a better choice.

I launched at Irondequoit 2 weeks ago and it was fine for my 25' boat.

Blood knot if you have the patients. On knot wars this and the Uni knot were the two best, and actually tied each other in the tests.

27lb Salmon were weighed this weekend in Canada. One for the KOTL and the other in the St. Cathy derby. That's big for this time of year isn't it? Lets hope we get some MONSTERS this year!

I had one last weekend out of the Genny that wouldn't allow me to put my baits back. So i feel your pain. Good job on the fish!

Rod it was good to see you too! Good job on Saturday! I need to give Paul a call and figure out what you guys were doing that I wasn't. I know Paul is a super good spoon fisherman, and lets just say if they dont want copper pulling fly's i need to work on it.

This was one of our favorite tourneys last year! Fishing shallow Spring Kings last year made for a fairly new experience. We had a good day on the second day last year, but struggled on the first day. Putting together two solid days in a tournament is a crucial thing.So, for the last 12 months we looked forward to this tournament, and putting together a top 10 finish. 4/23 - (Practice) Given the warm Spring we have had we launched the boat at the Niagara bar hoping to find some Kings on the Niagara Bar. Well, they were there, but they weren't stacked in there like they will be in a week or two. We caught 7 Kings and as many, or more, Lake Trout without an issue. We found them on top of the Bar in 35-50' of water. Downriggers in the top 30 took half the shots while our 5 color cores took the other half. Maybe a fish or two off a slide diver. On the downriggers the Sea Sick Waddler Norther King was the popular lure. 28 size on the main line cheated with a Mag above it. On the 5 color cores a Dreamweaver Carmel Dolphin in the Super Slim size seemed to be the go to bait. Our largest Salmon was just shy of 18lbs on Friday's practice. Our biggest five on Friday would have looked like this: 17lb, 17lb, 12lb, 10lb, 5lb. Back at the dock it sounded like a tough bite for most, so we felt good about what we had done. 4/24 - (Day 1) With high hopes we took off from the back of the pack and headed East. We saw some warm watter off the Welland Canal on the way in Friday, so we stopped to take a look. That 30 minutes yielded nothing, and the picture was bleak. We pulled rods and ran to our waypoints from Friday! When we got there the water had changed. Down Temp dropped 2 degrees as did the surface, and the green water turned clear. We set lines and started looking. We found some decent marks in our area from Friday, but all we could pull were Lakers. We went into search mode and headed East and North. We had a decent picture most of the time, but getting them to go was almost impossible. About 9:30 the corner rigger fires with a Dreamweaver regular sized Roy's Salmon Seeker. We ended up boating a 7lb Salmon. Thinking we were onto something we changed over some gear and gave it another run through our waypoint. Well, not another rod fired the rest of the day with a Salmon on it. We ended the day with one Salmon in our box. Very disappointed! When we got back to the dock we started talking to other teams and most struggled, but a few got the bites they needed. The top three teams fished the same area we did! Out of 66 teams about 15 teams brought in a limit of Salmon. Plain and simple we got out fished! It happens! We also heard the they were calling for 30+ winds from the North East on Sunday, and we made the decision to get out of Canada Saturday night given the fact we weren't in contention for anything, and we all had jobs to get back to on Monday. I heard they canceled day two when I woke up Sunday morning, so we made a good decision. Congrats to Joe Toomey and Paul Czarnicki for a 1st and 2nd place finish.

LMAO.....Have a good one Rob!

3 or 4 years ago a King jumped out of my cooler almost costing me the win at the Orleans Pro Am. Now I drag them in on 500-700' copper rigs from A-TOM-MIK and when they hit the deck of the boat they dont even think about flopping around on the deck let alone in the cooler! As for the high gear ratio....I used these last season on my 10 color cores and had NO issues with them at the Spring Scotty, during may, and even into Labor day weekend with staging Kings. Bob Cinelli also put them through about 90 days of charter fishing and added that he thought it helped put more fish in the boat because the high gear ratio picked up the slack line that much faster. I totally agree that regardless of the brand....new products that are made SPECIFICALLY for our fishery is a good thing. It shows these larger companies see us as a valuable market.

We will run a flouro leader off our McCoy Mean Green. I use a blood knot to join the two lines and reel it down to within a few inches of the levelwind. Then I take and cut the flouro at the hook keeper giving me about a 10-13' flouro leader. Seems to work quite well and I have never had that blood knot fail.

Sure we do. However, a 10 color is only good to about 50ft. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Dex, We are gonna have to have Chad start a new forum for Team Thrillseaker Stories and roasts! [ Post made via Mobile Device ] [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Holy Shnikees! Look at you Big Boy! Holding it like it is a toy!

Riggers, and put them where the marks are. Typically they will be in the lower 1/3 of the water column.

Can't say I have had 5 on at once. I have cleared 8 rods from fish before we were left with nothing in the water, but it was one after the other. Nice Chinese fire drill!

Thanks guys! Im pumped about this weekend! I will try to Tweet some leaderboard detail on Saturday.

Thats where the Browns are! Mostly Hos in Rochester.

Thanks Matt! I'm super pumped on one hand (Salmon season is upon us), and a little depressed on the other (the ol' man wont be with us). We are still wondering if we will be able to catch fish going straight this year. The ol' man was a zig zagger (not on purpose), and we would always bust on him for that.

Yesterday's weather was miserable! Todays weather was tolerable. However, the 1-3' waves out of the North West put some rock and roll into our lures. Unlike yesterday, todays fish wanted more natural looking baits. Yesterday they wanted Chartreuse and Orange Rapalas, and today they wanted Black/Silver and Black/Gold Rapala J11's. The water was 49 degrees when we started fishing and warmed up to 51 by the days end. We did manage to find 55 degree water off the Genesee river at one point. The bite for us today was mainly off the mouth of the Genesee River, but we did hit 3 or 4 on the troll down and back from Irondequoit Bay. There was a good school of Cohos hanging in the warmer dirty water right off the Summerville Pier. Every pass yielded a fish or two. Today was mostly a Coho bite with 2 Brown Trout mixed in. One of those Browns was a real Beauty! That Brown Trout took a Stinger Stingray Mixed Veggies 50 back down 4' on the corner rigger. We had just come out of the deep side of the Genesee River plume. That smile tells it all! On the boards the lines set back 150' took more shots than the lines set back 125's on the other side. We kept our down speed between 2.0 and 2.4mph for most of the day. These last few days of Brown Trout Fishing has been FUN, and we love to fish for them during this time of year, but next weekend we will be moving on to Port Delhousie, in Canada, for our first tournament of the year.

Vince, Does this mean we wont be running together in tournaments anymore? I didn't feel so bad when I would look over and there was your boat going the same speed as mine and I knew how many wins that speed has gotten you!