Fish Junkie

I have never fished it but both largemouth and smallmouth are listed as being present in the Sander's guide. If you are new to the area this book is a worthwhile investment. Lists all fishable waters of Western NY along with techniques and tips. I have his Western NY edition. He is currently editing and updating the finger Lakes edition. Also check out the Sander's forum and website : http://sandersfishingguides.com

We fishes saturday morning out of the creek as well and went 3 for 7. Started the morning around 380 ft. after a tip from a friend and had first rod pop while setting up. Nobody home. Shortly after a dipsey with with spin doctor fired and after a nice fight we boated a nice 16 lb. king. Set back up and a little while later the other dipsey start screaming! Just as I'm pulling the rod out of the holder it stops. Nothing there. SH!T !!! Upon bring everything in I notice the fly missing with teeth marks above the end of the 60 lb. leader :shock: Regrouped and circled back through and our 70 ft. rigger starts screaming! I grab the rod and the fish ran about 100 yds. and leaps completey out of the air. MATURE!!! Fish appears to be a mid 20's sized king and now my blood is flowing. I'm thinking we finally have one to put on the board. I then gained a bit of line and think I got the fish somewhat subdued. WRONG! The king makes a lighting run and somersaults 3' in the air spitting the green glow NK. FUDGE! What can you do? Anyways, we regrouped again and circled back through thie same area only to find just a couple more marks. Next pass no marks. NExt pass mad a bigger loop and still nothing. After a hot first bite for the first 1 1/2 hours and consistantly marking hooks 40-70 ft. down, the fish just vanished off the sreen. Was dumbstruck. HEard some chatter about a slow pick in the inside waters so we picked up and ran in where we doubled up on a laker and small king in around 100 ft. Called it a day after that around 11:30.

Nice porker!

Another great report. Thanks for sharing again.

Seemed like the weather was clearing up this afternoon so I called 'Pops' up and convinced him to try the waters for a few hours before dark. Hit the water around 5 pm and set up in 250 ft. Started north troll and soon after had a dipsey fire on a spinny and fly. Missed that one but shortly after hooked a small steelie on a free slider. Proceeded to boat four more steelies and a small king over the course of the next couple hours in the 300-350 ft. range. Dipseys and spindoctors took our best steel (8.5 and 9 lbs.) while the 65 ft. rigger took the other fish. Ran mostly green color combinations. Most marks in 40-80 ft. range with a few higher and lower. Some bait showing up as well.

Best shoreline access for pike I know of in Rochester would be the shoreline of Cranberry or Buck ponds. Try rapalas or a white spinnerbaits right around dark. Also, I haven't fished there myself but there is excellent pike fishing along Black creek in Churchville.

.....been registered for the LOC !!!!! Here is team 'Pacific Time' from the Orleans Co. Pro - Am a couple weekends ago with a 30.9 lb. king they brought in on day # 2. Biggest king I have seen or heard of this year. Hope they don't mind me posting the pic. Too impressive of a fish not to share. Nice fish guys!

FWIW, My friend saw several spawning and digging beds in Irondequoit Ck. this past weekend....

One of the bays....

My fishing has been very limited due to work and I have taken up some walleye fishing due to the fact that the only time I can pick up a rod is after work. This time of year that means the very end of the day with a landscape business. Been picking up some dandy eyes. Here is a nice Lake O. specimen my friend Dan took tonight. 27" and back to fight another day. I love Dan's expression. Must be all those years catching dinks on Honeoye

I think the state record is 17 lbs. or something. That is a beast!!!! Any pics?

Squeezed in my first Lake O. run of the season early this morning with Dan. Had rods in the water at 6:00 am in front of Braddock's Bay for a brown trout program, only to find very clear inshore water. Not wanting to waste time in a seemingly futile effort, we opted to go into search mode and head to deeper waters. In around 90 fow. we had a couple marks near the surface and the eastern horizon showed a few boats east of us. We were initially had 39.0 degree water at 90 fow, but as we headed east we found a bit of color and 42-44 degree water in 150-180 fow. We kicked the skunk out of the boat in 138 fow. as slender steelie took a spoon I had set 18 ft. down on the rigger. A while later as more boats showed up for the dance, we managed a C.C.C. (Cookie Cutter Coho) at 25 ft. down on a Poonie Spoon and later on another one off of a stickbait off the boards. At around 9:30 we called it quits to keep the wives happy Beauty of a morning to be on the water. Definitely looks like things are shaping up in that 150-180 ft. water. Around 20 boats in that general area by the time we left. All of them had LOC Derby on the mind I'm sure as that starts this week I believe.

Scott, See you found another site to keep you distracted. LOL. Steve

I've heard the same thing that Turp is doing is fine. No prop and you are good. Anyways, Anybody have any reports? I picked up a permit from the kiosk at the north end yesterday and there were a full page of people signed in. No ones talkin. :? BTW, just a handful of dink rainbows out of Springwater yesterday. Didn't hook any lake-run fish.

I enjoy the big pond as much as anyone else, but our steelies just aren't the quality of a Fingerlakes native, born in the spring waters in the foothills of the Appalchian mountains.... These fish are distinctively brighter, cleaner, and spunkier.

Now thru mid April

Fantastic report! Once again, thanks for sharing

Yankee is right. The lake is fair game. Tributaries are a different story....

Braddocks t'was......

Orbaker's on the way back from Sodus on 104. Fantastic artery clogging meals.....and scenery too

Video: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v68/g ... review.flv

I was wondering if anyone would catch that. It is indeed a remora that posed for a quick picture then was released.

That particular schtick is a medium action 8 1/2' steelhead/salmon rod rated for 8-17 lb. test. That is about as light as you can go down there for anything. I was using 12 lb. line and tossing big plastic bass flukes in natural baitfish colors. various topwater plugs will also work as well as the popular 'tube lure' designed for the barracuda that most tackle shops carry down there. Also using a small piece of wire leader so you don't get bitten off. The retrieve should be fast so that the bait is literally skipping across the water. The more wake and splash the better. I saw fish come in from as far as 10 yards away to blast the bait. If you see one following it reel even faster. There is no such thing as slow down there....many species can swim in excess of 40 mph. We found the best bites in early morning and just before evening. During the day we got many follows but not as many fish to commit to striking the baits. Fishing topwater for the 'cuda is probably one of my favorite ways of fishing down there....face paced, visual strikes, a great fighting acrobatic fish, and doesn't require much in the way of tackle or equipment to pursue.

Nothing like a 'Cuda on topwater. Only wish I could have caught the viscious strikes on video... http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v68/g ... eflats.flv

Believe me mine didn't go anywhere. It sat there for when we returned the other night! :? Jax, there are resident tarpon around the keys year round however there is a larger influx of fish starting about now and through summer I believe. If i'm not mistaken april is a hot month with alot of fish. We typically travel in Feb. down there and always see a few schools of tarpon breeching around some of the channels and bridges in the middle keys. We fed the fish at ROBBIE'S marina in Islamorada. They look penned in the video, but they are actually wild fish just accustomed to being fed there. The lattice on the dock that you see is to keep the pelicans from jabbing you as you try and hand feed the tarpon. Anywhere that the charters routinely clean there catch you will find these hawg tarpon hanging around the marina. We also saw them in the Hillsboro marina around their charter fleet north of Ft. Lauderdale. I think ROBBIE's has a website with a live video feed that you can watch the people feed the tarpon. Glad you guys like the video. It was real hard work fishing and filming it