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Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 4/28 .. 4/29 Time on Water: 4:00 pm to 7pm sat./ 11:30 to 2:00 pm Sunday Weather/Temp: sunny, windy, a little cold Wind Speed/Direction: 10 to 15 mph NW Waves: 2 to 3 Surface Temp: Location: front of port to Johnson Creek LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 3 on Saturday/ 8 Sunday Total Boated: 1 perch Saturday 3 kings one Laker Sunday Species Breakdown: Perch, kings, Laker Hot Lure: frog, green gator mag, ATOMIK hammer fly. Trolling Speed: 2.4 to 2.8 gps Down Speed: Boat Depth: 12 ft Saturday...55 to 75 Sunday Lure Depth: Sunday, 35, 40, 60, wires out 90 and 120 on 3 setting. ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS My daughter and her boyfriend came out with a friend of theirs, Todd, and wanted to get Todd to catch some brown trout. We went Saturday afternoon trying for browns down toward Johnsons. Had a few hits down there in front of the creek mouth but only was a ble to come up with a 13 inch perch on a jointed Rapala. Couple other hits and that was it for that shake down run for this year. We got back to the dock and the DEC survey guys wanted to see what we had so we go over and show them our perch. They were intrested in it for the way we caught it trolling for browns. They also mentioned that no one had brought any browns in that day on their watch. So with that info, we decided to hit deeper water for salmon on Sunday. We arrived at the launch about 11:00 am and much to our dismay the water was looking mighty white out there, but non the less we went out and motored west 5.5 miles against the waves and set up trolling east in 75 fow. 3 riggers with spoons..two wire divers on 3 settings out 90 and 120 pro troll/hammer fly and spinney crinkle glow fly...and a 200 foot copper with spinney and fly. We went for about a 20 minute ride east and had no action until moving shallower to 60 feet then we collected two kings quickly, one on the frog spoon and the other on hammer fly dipsy. Had a rip on the 200 copper but gone, a couple other hits on the riggers with just a bounce and still clipped to the release. The Laker, about 10 lbs, came on the green gator mag down 55 over 64 fow. The green frog took a king about 8 lbs, and the hammer fly on a white pro troll green dot took a king about 15 lbs. Nearly back to port now and the port rigger flys off with a real screamer. My daughter Amanda grabs the rod and just hangs on for a 500 foot blistering run with a king headed for the Niagara. She says "what do I do dad?" I said " just hang on and enjoy" ..wish I had a video cause it was one of the fastest drag rips I can remember. 3 more times the fish ran way off to parts unknown. 30 minutes later she wrestled the monster to the net. 25 lbs and she is pumped! They had to head home this afternoon so we had to wrap up the day at 2:00 pm and headed in straight out in front of port. And then we had barbeque when we got home. Mmmm good. Mark hosting images image host upload pictures ==================== [ Post made via Android ]

Great catch men!... Tom is jealous, was meant to be his Laker.. [ Post made via Android ]

Love those mornings with the sun on Lake O. [ Post made via Android ]

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A SALT TRUCK!.....FRIGGIN SALT ON THE ROAD AGAIN!.....THERE GOES MY POLISHED ALUMINUM AGAIN... Hey bug wash doesn't work very good on ice...now 33 degrees thick fog [ Post made via Android ]

CA CA POOEY! ...Erie pa. White bugs on my winshield.....35 degrees..wind no so bad [ Post made via Android ]

I 80...Cleveland area...very strong winds nw....43000 lbs of mail gettin knocked around 45 degrees [ Post made via Android ]

blame it on the dog Ray... [ Post made via Android ]

Atlantic Salmon ......Aerial Acrobat Brown Trout............. Bulldog In reference to the fighting character of each [ Post made via Android ]

Yup, I have the HTC EVO smartphone and use the navionics app. For Lake O. It works fairly well and has the marina info along with shore dinning marine stores, marina info including the phone # to contact most of those featured info screens. Sure has helped to keep me from grinding the paint off my rigger balls when fishing the Niagara bar between the red and green cans ....however a bigger screen than the 4.3 on the phone would be better....hmmmm, the other half has a Acer Iconia pad running Android honeycomb, 10.3 inch screen on that baby too....wonder if she will let me test drive it on the hot rod center console. Maybe some good Bungee cords will be useful. Mark [ Post made via Android ]

I have 6 of the Penn 209 but no copper on them. They are slow like mentioned. Putting 300 feet of 30 lb. Copper on one will be a push, but you might be able to do it. I would recommend 30 lb power pro backing. Also the small line guide on those reels is hard to pass your leader to copper connection through. I have a Penn 309 spooled with 600 ft of 30 lb copper and 300 yds 30 lb power pro and that is very full. Be careful not to get it too full and rub on the guide or the braces. In my own experience with that reel I would not consider it for copper. Not saying it won't work but there are some better choices for that work. However sometimes you got to use what ya got. Mark [ Post made via Android ]

I have used green grass in my trout creel. Bedded brookies in it with a sprinkle of water and don't let the fish touch together. Worked ok, not sure about heavy fish in a cooler, but lots of crushed ice and bed them in it out of the melt should work. [ Post made via Android ]

Atlantics are white. The grey color of the outside of the lips end before the jaw teeth, then its all white inside Coho have some white in their mouths, kings always are mostly black, but variations occur in the coho and make the mouth color deceiving. Best to go by the spotting on the tail between those two and look at the anal fin. Coho is longer from the body and shorter where attached to the body. King is longer where attached to the body and more tapered close to the body. Which doesn't help much if you don't have one of each in the boat to compare. Spots on an Atlantic are x shaped and sparse compaired to a brown trout. Mark [ Post made via Android ]

Almost always if the gas is running out of the air box then the float needle and seat has a piece of rubber stuck in it and causing it to flood. My 9.9 yamaha four stroke had that happen form stinkin ethanol farce gas. I also had to replace all the low pressure fuel pumps (3) with rubber diaphrams on the yamaha 225 ox66 because of that crap. Use a good ethanol treatment on every fillup and it will stop the problem. Be sure to run the engine with the treatment before storage. Better yet use non ethanol if you can find it. I like the Lucas brand treatments and fuel supplemental additives. Mark [ Post made via Android ]

Now that was cooool great video [ Post made via Android ]

Browns Tom!...nice catch Also a good way to tell is the upper back end of the lip extends behind the eye of the brown trout and the upper back end of the lip on the atlantic is more directly under the eye. Mark free picture hosting Close up of the Atlantic Paul did a mount of, shows the eye in relation to the end of the upper lip [ Post made via Android ]

I haven't tried a rub however I would think it would cause a drier product and would not form the pellicle which is the beginning of the carmelization of the sugars and helps preserve the meat. It's just easier to get flavor and moisture throughout the thickness of the meat and for the smoke to penetrate into the meat better with the moisture. I have sprinkled on some different seasoning during the smoke or just before the smoke. Black pepper for a little bite, red chili flakes for more bite. Italian seasoning for a unique taste. Marinades are just a good way to get the base flavor into the meat, for example terriaki with soy and worcestershire. A sweet taste like here with the Apple juice. Hot marinades made with pepper sauces, etc etc. Mark [ Post made via Android ]

Bow bow wowwow bowfin! [ Post made via Android ]

15 people would sink that thing there's a complete lack of common sense on that one, but not in my cranium. Pardon me if I keep my 20 bucks. [ Post made via Android ]

Now I am rethinking the change to lighter leaders, thanks for the report Carl Mark [ Post made via Android ]

DITTO! As good if not better than the old Ripparians at the Oak Mark [ Post made via Android ]