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350 blue with fishfull thinking blue fly SCREAMIN! -
A few small kings on the 120 rigger
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No still real deep. But the fish are biting, 450, 350 dipseys, lost two screamers, got two steelies.
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Let's go fishin!
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Still a beautiful boat ride
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Looks like our second skunk of the year Time to head in.
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Yea it will probably take a day or two to straighten out.
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It certainly isnt tonight! They just aren't hungry. Five boats out here, one small king.
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Took a shot on the 500 copper and 140 rigger. Temp is down 120 even in 450fow
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Lots and lots of fish down 120. Folks are saying they've been like this all day, but nothing biting.
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Let's go fishin!
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Frogger the water to the West is always cooler than to the east, it's exacerbated this weekend due to the major west winds we had all week. If you read Rick's (yankee troller) reports, they typically fish 10-20' higher than us in Sodus. The water temp is normally a bit higher up out there, best guess is due to normal wind direction from the west and current direction from west to east... but I'm sure some of the guys who are much smarter than me can provide more detail!
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It looks like it's shaping up to be a beautiful weekend, warm weather and calm seas Reports I've been hearing from people today are that the strong west winds over the last few days has brought in warm warm water and temp is WAY down. It will be a good weekend to head offshore! I'll likely poke around in the shallower water a bit tonight to see if there are any kings tolerating the warm water as they prepare to stage shortly, but I have absolutely no problem catching 2-3yr old kings in that deep water either For those looking for a gameplan, best I can offer is to start in 150fow and troll North until you either find fish or find where temps gets within "reach", around 80' so you can get your dipseys, coppers, riggers etc going through. The last few weeks there has been a strong thermocline (looks like a fuzzy line) on the fishfinder out in deep water... when you first hit it, it's deep (150ft+) but then keep following it until it rises to 80ft and that's where I've been finding hungry fish. It's also the first weekend of the Fall LOC! After Theresa got knocked off the last day of the Summer LOC, she's had that look in her eye... I have the feeling if I get in the way of her running for a rod, I might be in serious trouble! We have coworkers coming up this weekend and next, we've told them LOC tickets are required to board the boat! To wet everyone's appetitie and get a bit pumped up for this weekend, here's a video of last weekend's fun with one of my coworkers John, and his daughter Devon. At one point, you can see how awesome the new Frabill net is as the fish gets tangled on the downrigger cable and completely bends open a swivel! I lost the lure but managed to scoop the king. My friend Dean also gave me this video he took using is Contour camera of a bait school passing by... pretty cool! Good luck to everyone out there this weekend! Let's see some LOU folks with some bruisers on the LOC board! Nick
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When I put my camera down on my downrigger I put the lure within a foot and still get hits. Unless you're fishing shallow, I'm really not sure it matters. Experiment and find what works for you though.
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Buy the cush it... just buy it now. Don't think about it, don't hesitate, do NOT collect $200 at go, just buy it. For something so simple and cheap it's a wonder every boat doesn't have one yet. One of my must haves these days and everyone that comes on our boat prefers to use it over a fighting belt. It's amazing how rookies struggle with the rod until you put it on. Buy it. We have the medium, sometimes we wish we had the large. We have one rod that doesn't fit real well and I think the large would slip over the bottom of one of our rocket launcher holders making it more accessible, which is honestly the only reason I don't use it on every fish. Nick
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TOP SECRET replied to bout time's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
Mike how did you like the new Frabill net? Mine saved my butt this weekend! -
Headed back to the marina, not sure what will be higher... the gas bill or tackle shop bill! -
I use the 28 size, very rarely do I run mags.
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Not sure, I cant keep all the names straight.
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No clue, it broke about 15ft from the knot. The fish slammed it, maybe I had the drag too tight, but it must have had a kink to break the copper before my 30lb leader.
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550 copper now at the bottom of the lake
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550 copper screaming
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200fow fish all morning long, cant keep up with reports
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That last fish was on the 120 cheater +10. It was a green monkey puke which now rests in Davy Jones' locker.
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Wow that was close... Fish got in the dipseys, then the rigger cable. I had the net half under it when the swivel gave and managed to do a quick scoop and grab it before it swam away.