Yankee Troller

#2 Chinook Divers with the weight moved all the way to the outside Sent from my Pixel XL using Lake Ontario United mobile app

The FishHawk ducer wont interfere. The 350a will if you still run that.

Tell me what the other transducers are used for?

Wrenched on them today! A nice class of fish to boot! All released to fight another day. These experienced trollers from Lake Huron just had to come experience Lake Ontario Spring Brown Trout, and today they got spoiled. Bay Rat Luresin Citric Shad, Coho Crusher, My Secret, and Yankee Troller were going 70-100' behind our Off Shore Tackle Company OR-12 in-line boards. Our Cannon downriggers were firing 40' back down 5' with Team DreamweaverSS's in Dirty White Boy and Silver/Green.

I'd say these folks from Harrisburg, PA were spoiled by the amazing Lake Ontario Spring Brown Trout fishery we have! They stood strong in the 1-3' waves battling fish after fish, and many times doubles. Water color was perfect and the waves gave our baits great action! The new Bay Rat Lures Citric Shad short shallow was amazing today! This is the water color I wanted it for when I asked them to paint it. Other colors that went were Firetiger, My Secret, and Coho Crusher. We fished them 70-100' behind our Off Shore Tackle Company OR-12 in-line planer boards. Our Fishing - Chinook Diver-Stainless Steel Troll Fishing Divers and Cannon Downriggers were going well with Team Dreamweaver SS's in Chilly Willy and Dirty White Boy.

Would you be interested in designing a custom sized one?

My problem stemmed from my customers walking off the dock with their limit of Chinook/Coho this past September. They were stopped at the end of the dock by a "new guy" and after he saw the fillets he came down to my boat looking for the carcasses. I told him I cleaned the fish on the Lake. He proceeded to tell me you can't do that. Walked to his truck to write me a ticket. I went over and explained to him I could provide a picture of every fish that went into those bags that had a time stamp on it. I also asked to see the regulation. In the regs it states you need to have Atlantic and Lake Trout carcasses to accompany the fillets. This is to allow a DEC officer to make sure "unders" aren't kept. My argument was these were Pacific Salmon and were not subject to those regs. I leave the skin on all my fillets, so they were identifiable. However, I chunked them up as 20+ lb Salmon fillets don't fit well in a 1gl zip-lock whole. I guess my other question is.....when can the separation of carcass and fillet happen? Can clients get stopped on the way home with just fillets and be ticketed? There is no clear answer.

I was not happy with the answer I was given, and I hope to bring this up with the Region 8 manager in the near future. I run my business on the weekend, which limits the days I have available to run charters. This is the reason why I run so many doubles on the weekends. Over time I've realized to do this I have had to operate charters on a dock to dock time frame. My hours of operation are 6am-2pm and 4pm-8pm. I have 2 hours in between charters to clean the boat, re-tie rods, grab lunch, and shoot the bull with the guys out that morning while I formulate a game plan for the afternoon. Therefore, cleaning fish on the lake is a necessity given the way I run my business. Also, cleaning fish on land attracts bees, which I'm a wuss when they are present, and requires you to burn fuel to bring the carcass back out to the legal dumping grounds. The BEST reason for not cleaning fish on land is to keep friends! We aren't the hero every day. You have good days and bad days. If clients walk off the fleet's boats with coolers in hand no one ever knows what boat was top dog each day. This helps the fleet stay friendly and doesn't hurt people's business who had a bad day. I just wanted an answer from someone so I'm doing the right thing. I was more or less harassed by an inexperienced officer looking to write a ticket that day. How do I know this? After he had to void my ticket he went over to the gas dock at Shumway and wrote a guy a ticket for the expired registration on his boat. Then he proceeded to write that guys lady friend (who happened to be in a string bikini) a ticket for indecent exposure. #truestory I don't fish out of the Port of Rochester (especially the West side), but if I did I can guarantee you I'd be cleaning fish at the dock! It would 100% get someone extra charters.

Sweet!

Today was a much better day. Turns out we prematurely left yesterday when all we needed to do was to go a few miles further East. Today we took a couple chunks. Surface temps are warming up. We fished in 37-38 degree water. A week ago that was 34-35. A white spoon left onboard by Casey Prisco was the man on the Fishing - Chinook Diver-Stainless Steel Troll Fishing Divers. He won't be getting that back! The rest of the action was all Bay Rat Lures behind Off Shore Tackle Company OR-12 in-line boards. Our best sticks were Moldy Candy Corn, Green Frog, Red w/ Black Squiggles, and a custom that Rob Westcott had painted up.

Nice! Tough day for sure.

Toughest day of the year, but we managed a hand full. Couple nice ones too! Finding the right color was crucial, and we ran quite a bit to find it. When we found it the bites came. It was half downriggers/divers and half flat lines for us. Team Dreamweaver Chilly Willy and Caramel Dolphin Super Slims took our best fish on our Cannon downriggers and Fishing - Chinook Diver-Stainless Steel Troll Fishing Divers. Bay Rat Lures that went were Black Flash, Mustard, and a new custom we we're testing behind Off Shore Tackle Company in-line planer boards. Only two fish we're picture worthy. Tomorrow's another day.....