Tim Bromund

Not a ton of Canadian guys on here. You should also check out Spoonpullers, which is a Canadian based site http://www.spoonpullers.proboards.com/ Tim

What Glen said Yup

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: FishStyx ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 8/13/11 Time on Water: 0600-1130 Weather/Temp: 80's light clouds Wind Speed/Direction: s shifting to se 10-15 Waves: 1-2'+ Surface Temp:77 deg Location: Olcott LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: lost count Total Boated: 15 or 16 Species Breakdown: Brown, Kings and steelhead Hot Lure: lots Trolling Speed: 2.9-3.3 sog Down Speed: 2.2-2.6 at ball on DR Boat Depth: 80-150 /450-300 Lure Depth: 30-50 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Dad and I headed out Saturday morning and found a big pack of boats working the inside water so we motored out to 80 fow and set up. We worked the inside for a while and despite a reasonable temp profile (55 deg down 60) and a great picture on the graph with lots of bait and hooks, we couldn't get anything going other than a 3 lb brown out in 150 fow. Radio chatter seemed to suggest that most of the boats were experiencing the same, great screen but not a lot of action so after a couple hours, we pulled lines and ran offshore. Set up at the 28 line and trolled north. We worked the 28-31 lines and had a mix of mostly decent steelhead and a couple shaker kings, with one nice mature king of 23 lbs. By 11:30 the wind, which had shifted to the E-SE had started to build the offshore seas to 2+ out of the east and that started to make the N-S troll a little uncomfortable, so we pulled lines and called it a morning. I wasn't really keeping track but we probably caught 15-16 fish (mostly all released, kept the mature king and a couple bleeder steelies) and lost quite a few more. (Action included 1 triple header, lots of fun with 2 of us on board) Temps were higher offshore, we had 48 deg down 45. The mature king took a white/green dot SD and hammer fly on the wire diver back 140, took a couple shots on a lemon drop DW plug (J-plug style ) on the 160 diver, the rest were on the riggers at 35 and 45 on a variety of green spoons. Dad with the 23 lber Tim

top eye of the weight.

J's will catch fish all season long, but for whatever reason, not many people seem to run them except for late summer/fall when fishing for stagers. Tim

yup.

From the FWIW department. I know it's the other end of the lake, but before last weeks big blow tore the lake apart, we were consistently finding the browns out of Olcott in 35-45 fow. Tim

yeah, there's a good suggestion

That is the North Coordinate... probably put him out in that 600+ foot of water range. If you look at a GPS it will show up as N31.xx.xx W00.xx.xx. Just a bit of a correction, it is the minutes of latitude not degrees. That is the MIDDLE set of numbers not the first set, so in the the coordinates above, that would be N xx.31.xxx W xx.00.xxx In our part of the world, each minute of latitude is approximately 1 mile, each minute of longitude is approx 3/4 mile The harbor at the Oak is at the 22 line, so the N31, or the 31 line, is approx 9 miles offshore. Tim

After several days of solid w/sw winds move the ice water away from the shoreline. Tim

Here is the pic Paul posted on twitter. holy crap what a fat fish!!! 42.8 lb on his boat scale. Tim

I have my wires on 9.5' Daiwa Heartland Diver Rods with Twilly tips that are 10 or 11 years old and are still as good as new. Tim

Happy Birfday Ray

I don't know Mark, Ray gave good advice and got belittled for it. He's absolutely right about the eye on the back of the spoon. For whatever reason, spoons with an eye on the back end DO get bit more. I don't think a fish with a brain the size of a pea has the ability to rationalize that the bait is swimming backwards, they see what appears to be the eye of the fish and strike at what they perceive to be the head of the food they are trying to eat. I don't think Ray's typing/spelling skills are quite a bad as he pretends, but that's always been how Ray's posts have been on here, don't take it personal and listen to Ray's advise, he's a pretty good fisherman. the three spoons I wouldn't leave Olcott without would be the NBK Stingray, a spook/laser spook, regardless of brand and for first thing in the morning/low light/overcast conditions, the old classic NK Black and Purple with the white back. That spoon has been a Lake O king killer since the 80's and it still is today. I started running it regularly again this year and has taken multiple fish for me every trip out. Not great in bright sun, there are better options then, but in reduced sunlight conditions it absolutely rocks. Tim

Get a hold of Hank - (L&M here on LOU). His shop is located on Port Bay, Shouldn't be too bad of a haul for you. Tim

We've had that happen a couple times with steelhead, then this year during the Niagara Pro Am we had a 1 rod double with teenage kings. That was an experience, but we got em both. Tim

well you know, there is a big shortage of browns in the lake...

Details below on the Fish Odyssey, they moved it up, concurrent with the Fall LOC instead of Mid September. Also this year LOTSA is offering an extra prize for the largest Tournament Legal Salmon caught by a Club member.

Ok Mark, that makes sense now why you were having problems with the wire kinking and breaking. 7 strand is MUCH more forgiving than single strand wire. Yes 7 strand saws the fleas off just fine. Tim

yup, size 8 spro power swivel, it is 50 lb test. Tim

VHF signal is direct line of sight (straight line), so if the radio/antenna of the boat/station you are trying to contact cannot physically see your transmission (curve of the earth and all that) then it cannot receive it, nor can you receive from them. Coast Guard Stations have really high antennas for that reason, so it greatly expands the range that they can receive from and transmit to in the event they receive a distress call. Handhelds are 5 watt units, mounted VHF radios are 25 watt and with a quality 8' antenna, have a much greater range. With the low power and limited range, Handhelds are ok as emergency backup units especially if in a worst case scenario, the boat sinks and you find yourself in the water, but I wouldn't want to use one as a primary radio. With the heights of the Coast Guard antennas, they are probably the only ones that MAY hear you in a true emergency. Tim

we see lots of steelhead with orange meat. Nice brown!! Tim

Is this a new problem or has it always been that way? If it is new,first you need to identify why it changed. After having my boat rebuilt in 2003 (floor, stringers, motor bunks and transom) it picked up at least 500 or so pounds from all the new wood, epoxy, fiberglass etc that went into the reconstruction (plus the 200 lbs of sand bags I now have in the bow as ballast because the boat was decidedly transom heavy after the rebuild) and all of a sudden, I couldn't get anywhere close to the recommended rpm range at WOT. It is a 5.0L 230 HP Merc Alpha 1 in a 1986 24' Thompson Hardtop. It was really lugging the engine and I was getting maybe 3600 rpm at WOT (4200-4600 recommended at WOT). It had a 14.5"x17 pitch quicksilver 3 blade alum prop which at the start of last season I replaced with a Mercury Black Max 16"x13 pitch alum 3 blade and that 4 degree pitch change and 1/2" extra diameter made all the difference in the world. That 25 year old boat runs like new, jumps up onto plane and tops out at around 4000-4100 rpms, so I still could have gone 1 more deg of pitch down (they also make a 16x12). Adding trim tabs will also help a bunch if the boat doesn't already have them. Tim