Tim Bromund

Happy belated Birthday Shawn, hope it was a good one. Tim

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Here's the Am Division board. I could have swore I took pics of the pro and open boards as well, but for some reason they aren't on my stupid POS Kodak Camera. Glen (Spoonfed) had the big fish for the tournament with a 29.85 (I believe) king I fished on Shade's team Hannah Christine, we finished 6th. would have been 7th but one of the teams ahead of us got penalized 20 points for leaving the dock a couple minutes early and that pushed em down quite a bit. Fishing was amazing all weekend, I believe over 1600 fish weighed in, totaling over 13,000 lbs. Almost every boat in the field boxed out both days. Some years at the Niagara, you'd be begging to get 9 barely legal fish to get a box, this year you did everything you could to try and avoid em. Had the somewhat dubious pleasure of both fishing with and sharing a hotel room with Ray K for three days and somehow managed to avoid having to witness any buffy fishing..... whew!!! Good times this weekend, I hope at least some of those fish move down to the oak for you guys fishing the Orleans Pro Am this weekend. Tim

and that would tell you what, exactly, about how the lure is running 80 feet down either into OR with a significant subsurface current?? not that we have any of those on Lake Ontario

don't be afraid to explore the shallows, even in mid summer. we've found them in 30-50 fow in the middle of July many times out of Olcott. IMO, the reason most guys catch so few incidental browns in the summer is that the browns are INSIDE where they are typically fishing. find where the top of the thermocline is (55 deg) and where it intersects the bottom, fish inside of that, so if 55 deg is 60 feet down, 60 fow should be the outside limit of the water you fish generally, but not always within 15 feet of the bottom. Unless screwy winds have the lake all tore up, you really shouldn't find browns much outside of 100 fow. Tim

But relative to the medium you are traveling in it absolutely is not the same. Really it depends on how you measure it. If you had an anemometer hooked up to the car it would most certainly show a speed of 70 mph, the sog measurement is utterly and totally irrelevant to the equation.

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Wow, awesome trip Richard, way to go. Nice report, thanks for posting. Tim

Done, Number 229 Tim

It looks like this when all done Tim

Rick, we had a REAL close call with him yesterday in front of Olcott. We could hear the fog horn and knew it was close, but the fog was doing funny things to the sound and we couldn't pinpoint a direction till it was right on top of us. All of a sudden it came ghosting out of the fog just behind and to the east of us, heading west. I don't think we were more than 200 feet away when it came into view. I just about put er on plane with rods deployed to get some distance between us. The wake that hit us at that close range was pretty severe. It was close enough when it passed I was worried about my 200' copper hanging up on it. Damn these fish for deciding they had to hang out in the shipping lanes Tim

On Thursday June 9th at 7pm the Lake Ontario Trout & Salmon Association (LOTSA) will be sponsoring a Seminar on Buffalo Harbor Walleye Techniques. This seminar will be put on by well know local Captain Frank Campbell. Captain Frank will cover the techniques he uses to consistently provide Walleye for his Customers and to be successful in tournaments. This seminar will provide beginners with a starting point of how to rig and where to fish for Walleye out of the Buffalo Small Boat Harbor along with providing more experienced Walleye anglers with tips to make them more successful. LOTSA is a group of mainly weekend recreational fishermen who are dedicated to the enhancement of the Lake Ontario Sport-Fishery including the pen rearing project at Olcott. Each meeting also features a sharing of information the current fishing conditions. So come join us and become more successful at fishing Lake Ontario! The meeting will be held at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, 4487 Lake Avenue (Route 78 two miles north of Lockport), Lockport, NY 14094. The Seminar is free and open to the public. See www.lotsa.org for any questions.

Outstanding, Way to go Hunter!!!

Ray, most of the dropped slider fish were because the first couple rigger bites were shakers on the main line spoon that didn't pop the release (easily seen with the scotty releases by the way ) so I stopped burying the line in the release to see if that would make it easier for them to release it. Once I started burying the line in the release like I normally do, we had much better hooking success, so call it operator error on my part. My Raymarine DS600X and Depth Raider work just fine thank you very much See you next week for prefishing. Tim

Dad and I headed out of the harbor this morning in the fog and headed NW out to 150 fow and started a NW troll as I started setting lines. First fish came in 205 fow on the wire diver out 150, coho. From there it was a steady pick on the way out to 300+ in front of wilson. Found a good pocket of fish in 320-350 fow that we worked the rest of the morning. Ended up with over 20 bites with quite a few shaker kings put back to grow up, ended up with 3 nice coho and 3 teenage kings in the box. Lost a big screamer on the wire diver after the 7th or 8th big cartwheeling jump 100+ yards out. Don't think it was a steelie, perhaps a big atlantic, unless kings are jumping a lot these days. Fish were high in the water column. Riggers at 45 and 25 (later dropped to 35) took lots of shots on both main line and free sliders but it was tough to keep the free slider fish hooked. Best spoons were the R&R razors on the riggers and NBK stingray on both the wire diver and 5 color core or 200 copper. stupid camera was acting up and most of the pics were too blurry to bother posting, but here are a couple that came out ok coho with R&R razor hanging out of it's mouth and in keeping with the tradition I started last year: Now where have we seen THIS before It was nice to go out and not just wash lures for a change. Back out on Monday. Tim

Rod, We're in the Am Division so no worries about having Ray on your boat

If you are talking about downrigger reels, you really can't do better than the Shimano Triton TR200G. Basically it is the Charter Special with a star drag instead of the lever drag on the CS (for almost half the price). Drags are absolutely butter smooth and at $69.00, by far the best bang for your buck out there for rigger reels. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Shimano1 ... l+Products http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/s ... x?a=329040 Tim

I still see coho for that fish, the head and tail on that fish are absolutely coho, not atlantic I don't see anything particularly unusual about the markings. But your right it's not worth arguing over. Regardless it is a nice mess of fish. Tim

what I'm seeing left to right are as follows: King, King, King, Steelhead, Steelhead, Atlantic, Laker, Coho, Brown, Coho, ?? (off the edge of the pic, probably another Coho from what little I can see of the tail). Tim

Don't think so. The only one I see is the one previously identified.

Oh Boy, now I'm REALLY looking forward to prefishing the pro am

We've been trying to get this bill passed for 20 years.

Not to doubt Vince, but we must have had vastly different 840's. Mine was a pile of crap to the point I had absolutely ZERO confidence in the data I was receiving. I put up with it for 8 years before I finally had enough and took it off the boat and upgraded to the Depth Raider. I've been much happier with my Depth Raider than I ever was with my Fish Hawk. It sounds like with the X4 they fixed the many issues I had with the 840, but my experience with it left such a bad taste in my mouth that I'll never own another Fish Hawk Product. The coated cable complaints are WAY overblown IMO and I'd much rather deal with that than go backwards. Besides, I just sealed up all the holes in my transom a couple years ago and don't really want to drill any more holes below the waterline to install another transducer again. Tim

The Navionics package definitely isn't free, but it is a great app and well worth the 14 or 15 bucks it costs. I had it on my droid and it was great. I now have it on my i-phone. It's really cheap insurance to have a viable backup fully functional chartplotter in case you boat's unit happens to take a crap on you. Tim

There are a couple of reasons you haven't seen any reports, 1)the Wilson Harbor Invitational was this past weekend and everyone was in lockdown mode and 2) the fishing has REALLY sucked for just about everybody. I believe only 24 of the 77 boats in the WHI had fish to weigh in, and only 2 of those had their 6 fish box with 3 boats that had 5. Most that had a box to weigh in at all were 1 or 2 fish and most of us got no kings at all. Good luck, but the weather forecast is for rain and E-NE winds all week again, so I don't expect it will turn around any time soon. Tim