Yankee Troller

7/18 - Friday Pre-Tournament - Well, we left the dock about 5:30am and headed out to practice for the Wayne County Pro-Am. We stopped in the short water around 50 foot to check out the screen. We saw bait and fish so we dropped our lines. It wasn't long before we had our first Brown Trout in the boat. A healthy lb brown that took an Orange Yeck Frog off a rigger. We would end up taking one more Brown Trout heading out to check the Salmon waters. We get out to 150fow and the Salmon rigs start firing. Mostly a SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK fly bite with white and green being the colors of choice. 400 and 600 coppers, wires, and riggers would all take fish. We pulled lines around 1pm with a good box. When we weighed our fish we had 3 fish for 57lbs. That totaled 87 points and was good for fourth in the pre tourney. Currently we are learning how to smile! 7/19 (Day 1 Sodus Pro/Am) - We passed up the Brown Trout water and headed right for the Salmon waters. We had no idea what we were in store for! It took us 15 minutes before we took our first shot, but it was a good one and we couldn't turn him on the wire dipsey. Eventually he won and we were back looking for our first fish. Next rod to fire was our 80 rigger with a Dreamweaver SS Glow Frog. This was our hottest rig the whole day and would take many fish. Our 400 fired with a Chrome Frog Spin Doctor pulling an A-TOM-MIK Packer fly. We dropped that screamer within the first minute of him striking. The 600 went with a Green SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Ultra green glow fly and we drop that screamer within the first few minutes. The wires were pulling Chrome E-Chip's with A-TOM-MIK Big Fin flies, or White SmartFish with A-TOM-MIK Ultra green glow flies. What a disappointing day as we ended it by going Brown Trout fishing to scrounge up a few quick keepers. We boxed 5 Salmon, lost 5 screamers, threw back 6 short Salmon, and went 1 for 2 on the Brown Trout. After everyone in the tourney weighed in we sat just out of the money. I can say we lost the leading box without a doubt, but as they say "That's why they call if Fishing and not Catching!" The leading boxes were all Brown Trout boxes. Not many people were targeting Kings this weekend. Our box for the day scored 107 points. 7/20 (Day 2 Sodus Pro/Am) - The decision to go right back out to the waters we had fished the prior two days was an easy one. When we sat down and dropped lines the screen looked good, but the fish had lock jaw! It wasn't long before the screen would disappear and we would be in search mode. We trolled around till 11am without a single strike! We traveled out to over 300' and the screen just never looked promising. Our team made the decision to hit up the Brown Trout waters, so we pulled lines and ran in. Finished setting rods and the corner downrigger fires and we have our first fish on. We stuck it out in there pulling in 4 Brown Trout. 3 of the 4 took a Stinger Penguin, and the other took a Stinger Gin and juice. Our score for the day was just under 70 points and we finished the tourney in 16th place out of 37 Pro teams.

Great idea Paul. We were just talking about how there arent many of these on the West end this weekend. There are 3 on the East end, which have turned out to be a great gig for the local businesses.

Well, we ended up taking 3rd in the pre-fish tourney. We had a 22, a 20, and a teenager. Our prefishing led us to believe there were some good fish in the area. The other top boats in the tourney were fishing in almost the same vicinity. I will give ya a quick update on our day without giving specific details until Sunday night. We boxed 5 Kings, lost 5 kings (keeper kings that took line), tossed back 6 under Kings, and when we went BT fishing we went 1 for 2. To sum it up we dropped the winning box today! The teams leading the Pro side went BT fishing.

OK Tom, I felt so bad about calling hyou guys names I let the kid use one of my riggers today to try for a laker. Guess what.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................THEY TANGLED WITH ANOTHER RIGGER AND COST US A BROWN TROUT AT THE END OF THE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They need to make these SALMON tournaments and not Salmoin and Trout

Yeah, its been a Brown bite for the leaders. Candy boat is in 1st and i think top gun is up there too. We are in 12th and about 100 points out. Not much separates the top 10.

You need to learn how to deal with Jax. He tried to have me go in and fish for Lakers at the Oswego Pro Am. He got laughed at by the rest of the team. What joker fishes for Lakers? If there are kings around.......and there were b/c you caught some......why bother? Figure out how to change your program to keep the rods firing in the late morning-afternoon bite. He is such a queer when he talks about "your gonna need them one day on a charter." Yeah, well charter with me and if the kings dont bite I'll take ya out again for FREE! They need to eat sometime.

First off......I'm glad to hear everything worked out in your almost tragic matter. Secondly, there were no claps of thunder or any lightening during the tourney. I know it was predicted, but it never accumulated to anything.

I was able to put 300yards of power pro on the Accudepth Plus 57 and then a full 10 colors with about a 75' leader. Still a little bit of room. Its a nice reel and handles kings great with a smooth drag. For the money you cant beat it.

Was that the same boat the cops were circling the marina looking for? We left the dock Saturday and they were hiding waiting for someone to come down to that boat.

Everything get released after we weigh them.

Fished another Tuesday night working man tourney on Conesus. Pulled in a pretty quick limit of 12" fish on the weed edge at the north end. Hopped around to a few spots and didn't really upgrade my bag until about 30 minutes before the tourney ended. We got on the West shore and started tossing around some top water baits. My buddy nails a nice 2lb+ SM. Then he takes a 2lb+ LM. I caught a couple of shorts in the mean time. We missed a HUGE SM that jumped right over the bait along with a smaller one. He then catches a small SM, but it helped our bag. 10 minutes to go I hit the big guy. 4.77 LM.......what a PIG. We ended the night with 12.85lbs in 3 hours and took 2nd. Last week I took a 4.53 and this week a 4.77......Cant break that 5lb mark yet this year.

First number after the team name is cup west, then current cup east, then total cup points, and lastly rank.

Team# PRO Teams Final Cup West Current Cup East Total cup Point Rank 108 Cold Steel/A-Tom-Mik 545 220 765 1 116 Vision Quest 483 274 757 2 103 Cortland Machine 525 219 744 3 105 Candy 481 262 743 4 110 Rebel Charters 475 254 729 5 142 High Voltage 447 276 723 6 117 Reel Pleasure 510 194 704 7 120 Top Gun 425 276 701 8 121 Kingfisher/Flat out 480 217 697 9 134 Yankee Troller 458 237 695 10 143 Salmon Bound 500 189 689 11 119 Team Thrillseeker 434 235 669 12 125 Dream Chasers 410 249 659 13 138 Cannon Ball/Irish Prid 444 210 654 14 141 Tall Tails 423 200 623 15 113 Praying Mantis 383 213 596 16 AM Teams Final Cup West Current Cup East Total Cup Points Rank 202 Dodger 549 302 851 1 210 Screamer-A-Tom-Mik 538 257 795 2 201 Liquid Plumber 530 253 783 3 225 Team Spoonfed 507 272 779 4 234 5 More Minutes 475 263 738 5 219 Cold Water Affair 483 251 734 6 204 Oh Baby 461 269 730 7 232 Fish Nutz 467 260 727 8

Eli.....stop by more often dude! 9 posts......I know you got a lot more to say than 9 posts. Good job guys!

Yeah, thats my uncles house. So you gonna tell me the hot spots before Sodus?

Exactly! And I was one of them I think. Did you guys go Trout fishing?

You fishin Pro or Am this weekend?

Trout fisherman :roll:

How many pros could u have beaten this week?

Friday (Practice) - Did some looking around (from 100-500+ fow), and ended up finding 7 bites out in front of Fair Haven. All the waypoints were fairly close so we figured there was a school of fish there worthy of our time on Saturday. Our biggest 3 totaled just under 30lbs. Fish werent big, but from the sounds of it we had more bites than most boats. Our hot set up today was a Dreaweaver SS Dave's Salmon Slapper parked at 100' on the rigger. We had two wire bites one took a Green double glow SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Green krinkle, and the other was a White double glow SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Ace fly. Saturday (Day 1) - Well, we let Fridays pre tourney throw us a curve ball. Guys plucked some good fish out of the inside waters (140 fow in front of West 9 mile), so we started our day there hoping for a couple of bug guys. Marks were there but we only ended up taking a laker out of there. With about 3 hours left we made a run to our waypoints from Friday and in no time we were hooked up. Every bite once we set down on our waypoints came off the same rig. Chrome E-Chip pulling and A-TOM-MIK Big Finn fly out 275 on a .5 setting. We boxed 5 fish for a total of 98 points and ended day one in 15th place out of 37 teams. Sunday (Day 2) - We didnt make any other plans but to run right to our waypoints in front of Fair Haven seeing that the leader took his box from there on day one. We pull up around 6:30 and drop lines. We werent even set-up yet and corner rigger down 100 fires with a short steelie on a copper NBK. Not much longer and the high wire out 350 on a 2 setting starts ripping. We boat a nice 22lb King on a White Double Glow SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Ace fly. Next the 600 copper takes off with a 8-10lb laker on a Green Double Glow SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Green Krinkle fly. Get it back out there and it takes off ripping. This time it wasnt a mud chicken! We boat a 21lb King. Middle rigger fires again with a nice 8-10lb steelie only to dump off 25 yards behind the boat. We would then end up boating a 7lb steelie on a NK Mag Froggie cheated above a Mini Spinnie. With about 30 minutes to fish we boat a short steelie and dump another keeper Steelie. We boxed 4 fish for 97 points and ended up just out of the money. Here is a few pics of our big guys from today:

All you have to do is read my reports on the SSW. Since it has started catching fish it has a permanent spot in the morning set-up.

Ill typically look for 38-39 and set my deepest rig there. Then work up from there and fish the marks. You asked about 3 other species......wasn't aware Lake O had anything else to offer

both on the senko, but texas with a weight on the 5' worm that caught most of the fish.

Gottcha! We had a 21' Penn Yan. White and brown.

We blasted off at 6pm with no real plan of attack. Fishing has been tough there for a few weeks and I heard it hadnt changed as of the weekend. They were semi-turned on last night though. We weighed in 13.70lbs in 3 hours of fishing. Our biggest was 4.54lbs. We caught about a dozen keepers. We placed fourth and got a little more than our entry fee back. Weed edges with a worm or a senko is where we took all of our fish.