Yankee Troller

Nice job guys!

NICE!

My 600 copper setting is definitely a 8-9 o'clock setting. I look forward to seeing the video on this setting. In all honesty these things sort of fell into my lap. I received them when we won the Orleans Pro-Am in 2007. I tossed a white on white flasher out there this spring becasue I couldn't find a Spin Doctor. BANG! Derby fish! Then the weekend after that another one on the leaderboard from the SmartFish. After it took our Summer leaderboard fish I was hooked. There is just something different about this product. There probably is a greater learning curve with the SmartFish than with any other flasher, but one learning curve that's well worth it.

Keep showin us all ur secrets!

I had some great success with these flashers over the past year. Here is some video of them in action at two different settings. These were conducted in a test tank. all variables were taken out except the setting on the flasher. Check it out! Here is an 11:30 setting: Here is a 4 o'clock setting: More settings to come!

I almost forgot! We were trolling up the Genny this past fall and I had my wire out 15 0r 20' and a fish hit the thing and all I heard was zit...zit....nothing! He hit so hard he snapped my 30lb wire. Rod went straight, and it stayed in the holder. As for planer board fishing I would suggest it becasue I have head horror stories of those planer lines poppin' rods out of holders.

We were thinking about heading down that way. Good thing we didn't. Hey, at least you made it out!

Nice job guys! Its on from here on out!

Did you guys check out the hump on the fish in picture 2? Weird!

We got a late start on Sunday due to the 4-12 hour days I put in at work prior to Sunday. I needed a little sleep! We stopped short of Shipbuilders creek and started to cast. First thing I noticed was the decent water color, but more importantly the water temperature was a few degrees warmer than last week. So, hopes were high! We casted spoons and stickbaits down the shoreline with no hits or follows. I made the decision to start trolling. We put out a few small in-line boards and a couple of flat lines and down the shore we headed. Right as we got into the cove East of Shipbuilders creek FISH ON! IT was our first fish of the day and it was our smallest fish of the day. We trolled a little bit further without a hit, and I made the decision to head down to 4 mile creek. We pull up and the water still looks good. We found 37 degree water outside the mouth and once in the creek it was 38. Not a touch, which was really surprising. So, again the decision to troll was tossed out and accepted by the crew. We put the lines in the water and headed back West. From 4 mile creek to shipbuilders we were able to put 5 more fish in the boat, and we also lost one. It was a great end to a slow start! Black and silver off brand stickbait was the hot bait for us pulling 6 bites, and its brother in a goby pattern took one. Reports from some friends said they had as good or better luck trolling from sun up. Its starting guys, so gear up and lets go whack some fish! Here are the pics from Sunday:

I guess its a possibility. I've been fishing Lake O for over 20 years and I have never had it happen to me. But, I would imagine it only takes one instance for you to protect your rods and reel like that.

Hey Nick congrats on getting married. Better you than me! LOL Anyway...if you want to save some coin that new 246 is a prettier version of the Bayliner Ciera 2452. That rig was around for a while, and there are a TON of them online for sale. See ya in Wilson!

I have a pearl front with a black back Yeck that has its times. Just about any spoon will catch a fish or two. Its the ones that catch more that you want to continually put in the strike zone. All the rest are for days when the fish have lock jaw. Well, at least on my boat. What am I talkin about! After a day of fishing I have prolly went through 25-30 spoon colors and 10-15 flasher/fly set-ups!

This is a very sad day for all who fish Lake Ontario. I know I have reaped the benefits from his website, and in some way his tactics he developed on Lake O. My respects go out to his family.

At the boarder it says passports will be enforced July 1st. So you should be good.

Brown Trout.....troll light spoons and stickbaits. I wouldn't pass up the Smallmouth bite either. They will start to get on beds in May, and that's a great area for Smallmouth. Try pitching tubes or tossing spinnerbaits around to entice some of them.

Gottcha!

Sure was! Especially after the cop nabbed me for an unregistered trailer on the way there! I told Jeremy as we were driving there that I forgot to register it for 2009, and that I wanted to keep the trailer backed into the water while we were fishing. Well, we didn't have to worry about that! Not 5 minutes later here comes Mr. Trooper. Oooooooooooo, and to top it off when he pulled the trailer put of the water I noticed the license plate wasn't there. On bass boat trailers it tends to bend a lot from the constant in and out. Well, when we got back i fished it out with a net. You guys know....typical shake down!

Thanks Tim! Well that sucks. However This feature also allows you to see where ur buddys are on the GOS without giving away numbers, if this is what your talking about Tim.

I don't recommend waiting! When you get a chance to fish I say go for it. I'm no Pro, so maybe you could entice a fish or two with something in your tackle box.

Well, my ol' lady bought me some Larry the Cable guy tickets for Friday night. So, I had to go and watch him, and boy was he funny. He came with all new material that I have never heard before. Earlier in the week I saw the forecast and knew this weekend would be the first weekend for me to get out chasing some of them Brown Trout I have gotten so good at catching. Well, I rushed her home on Saturday with hopes of making it out, but the rain was on its way and I didn't want to get the boat soaked. Therefore, the trip was put off till Sunday. Jax and Legacy wanted to go so we piled in the bass boat around 10:30, and off we went. Stopped at shipbuilders, which was our "honey-hole" last year, and not even a sniff! Picked up and drive down to Webster Park, and again nothing. Figured Hedges was only a few more miles, so we made the run down to there and as god as it looked nothing again! On the way back we figured we would give Shipbuilders a shot again. We tossed out 3 top lines and had the electric trolling motor pull us along at about 1.6 to 1.8 and right about the time my bait came out of the plume at the creek FISH ON! I landed a nice little Brown Trout on my new Daiwa Heartland noodle rod pulling a BPS Nitro minnow. After that fish Jax and Legacy would have 4-5 followers to the boat, but they wouldn't touch anything. Water temp was 33-34, so we were thinking they were still a bit sluggish. If the nice weather holds up this things should explode with hungry fish, so stay tuned!

I have my radio linked to my GPS. The newer radios, or at least mine, has a red button that calls the coast guard in an emergency when pushed. I am under the impression that this is how the radio gets a location for the vessel. Its a very simple hook up. No autopilot on my boat so I don't have any other hook ups.

I hunt down in Cameron. Sometimes come down to Bath for breakfast. Nice little town you have there.

It starts when you can get out! Honestly...and when that period is here, which should be in the next week or two, concentrate on the creek mouths as they are pumping the warmest water into the lake. I run and gun creek mouths from Irondequoit to Bear Creek sometimes hittin up the creek plume. Now you can also troll the shore too, and when you find a concentration keep trolling through them. Here are some pics of last spring in March and April: My PIMP pose!

Call Kevin Jerge (he runs the Wilson Boat House Marina) at 716-863-1001. He has some that he is blowing out due to the fact Raymarine is discontinuing the unit. Regardless, there is still a 2 year warranty on it unlike the 1yr Lowrance warranty. I have the DS500x and FLXTroutman has the DS400x and I have had no REAL complaints. There was some moisture behind the screen that would burn off during late morning. This was fixed from my understanding. Mine was an outside unit on the flybridge. So it took some more weathering than most will. I think the picture was great, and the side by side dual beam image is a great feature. In my opinion the two top FF companies out there are Furuno and Raymarine for what we do on the lake. If you want to go Lowrance to get the power you really need you have to step into the higher end models. That being said I am not a FF guru. Kevin Jerge is and he can help you with any questions you may have.