Yankee Troller

I'm all set with extra fishing time! Part of these tourneys is the comrodary after fishing. Meet new people, and hang out with guys you might only see a few times a year. Being on the water 3-4 days in a row kicks my butt. I enjoy relaxing, and bustin chops.

Thanks bud! I appreciate the good words. BTW...she had never been fishing before. Her first fish ever was 22lbs of FURY!

How ya feelin Bob?

Tom, That's an Atlantic right?

Nice job Rob!

WOW.....nice fish Scotty!

Another action packed weekend on Lake Ontario. The wind blew a little during the week, but the fish seemed to stay right out front of the creek. Mixed catches of Steelhead, ranging from 3-12lbs, and Salmon into the mid 20's kept us busy! August 7th (Night Scouting Trip) - Billy V, my brother, and I headed out and shut down on the 25N line. We worked North to about the 28N line and picked fish the whole way. The program didnt change much from the previous week. Gator Stingray spoons and Dreamweaver Gator SS's parked at 65 and 80 on the riggers were taking most of the fish. August 8th (Mornin) - http://www.lakeontariounited.com/fishing/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12704 August 8th (Evening) - Took a "fun" trip with my father and uncle. My uncle's biggest fish prior to this trip was probably a Pike. WE would change that real quick! Rods weren't even down and they started firing. We did 5 fish in the first hour. Lost a big guy, and boated a few steelhead. That same Northern King Copper NBK was firing regualryl as was a new spoon color I put down for the heck of it. A Stinger Nuclear Green parked at 65' on the rigger took two nice Salmon. The first being about 13lbs, but the next was a short, but fat, 23lb fish that took my 6'3" 275lb uncle for a ride! It took him out to 600' according to our Daiwa Sealine Line-Counter reels, and when he gained a few feet the fish would take twice as much! He had quite the grin when that fish hit the deck of the boat! The Stinger Gator Glows also accounted for a few steelies off the 80' rigger. August 9th - I was joined my Mike Avino, his brother, and both of their wives. We decided to hit up the inside water 100-120' to see if we could hook into a big guy prior to heading off to those fertile Northern waters we had been fishing the last few weeks. It didn't take long, and we were into a brute. First to go was a wire diver out 150 on a 2 setting pulling a Gator Spin Doctor/A-TOM-MIK Green Crinkle. We dumped that fish almost immediately. Not 30 seconds later the other wire out 180 on a 2 setting starts screaming! My customer SmartFish with crushed glow on the back and twinkie tape on the front pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist was hooked up. This has been my big fish rig for a few weeks now. It took us all of 30 minutes to bring htis one ot the net, and when we put it on the scale it was a nice 22-23lb specimen. We would loose one other Steelhead in that water before we turned North and started searching. Well, the searching took about an hour and we were into them thick at the 25-26 North lines.Once I dialed in the program we started to put a hurting on them. We ran Stinger Gator Glows, Dreamweaver Area 51's, and Northern King Lazer Spooks on our rigger. We pulled the two combos above on our wires, and our junk rods were a 10 color with a Northern King Copper NBK, 300 and 400 coppers had White/Green Dot SmartFish and an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist flies. We were done by noon with a four man limit, and some seriously satisfied customers!

Your just jealous you dont look as good as she does!

Nope

Hey, don't pick on Rachel Ray! She's my dream wife. I'm part of her group on facebook called "I'd bang Rachel Ray just for the breakfast in the morning!"

I wish I wanted to get back into bait fishing, but its so damn messy! I know it works, but so do the A-TOM-MIK's I run. I dont even know where all my bait rigs went to to be honest. Mark what color combos work best for you? I know High Voltage has a Mtn. Dew rig, or maybe it was a purple rig he likes to run.

That's how I started!

Depends on what side of the lake your on and how deep your fishing. Here the skinny on how I choose paddle colors, but don't tell anyone! West side - White paddles (Wonderbread and Green dot seem to be the best) East Side - Green paddles (Double Crush Glow and Glow/Chrome tape) Fishing above 75' toss in some chrome paddles

Ditto

Great pics! Glad you got into them. August is generally on fire up there!

Sounds like you had a good day! It sure is fun out there right now!

See where fishin' with Jax has gotten you?

This past weekend I was changing lures and my high rigger had a small Chinook on the bottom lure and an alewife on the cheater. I think dragging these things around shuts your rigger program down.

Ditto!

Yeah well, Im done with them!

Nope....mine Chit the bed this spring. I'm down to my Furuno CRT (which clouds out once the RPMs are raised in a chop or current, and a chitty Lowrance. I HATE Lowrance products! Anyway, we are re-powering over the winter. AS for your unit....I used to get that message when the transducer cable did come out. Terrible way to connect that transducer wire on that unit. Other than that it was a decent unit. I used to run it on a manual gain ranging from 70-80% gain. Dual freq w/ the split screen.

My brother has had it going for a few weeks now. We first started getting it to go in practice for the Oswego Pro-Am back in July. Then it was a closer at Sodus for us on the final day. I cant believe it even out produced the wonderbread and green dot SmartFish Sunday morning with that overcast. I thought for sure that morning when I was rigging those combos they were gonna fly. Not even a touch on either of them. Put the gators out like I had rigged the previous day and WHAM!

WHATA PIG!

I just hope Ray kept his shirt on for Jerry's customers! They may have went from RETURNING CUSTOMERS to I AINT GOING ON THAT BOAT AGAIN TO SEE THAT HAIRY BEAST!

Jax - better get on that Laker thing ASAP! Come on....you know you wanna!