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Not essential but recomended. Mid-day a silver finish spoon does not need any glow. Good rule is use glow with overcast days or low light situations. It comes down to the simple premise of can the fish see your bait? When in doubt, pull the glow out.

As you reel in your line, slap the line on the surface. The surface tension will pull off most of the fleas. This works with braid or mono, but don't do it with wire or you will wonder where your dipsy went.

I used to run a lot of attractor balls but now have gone to stealth. By taking the color out of the equation, you simplify your decisions on what to run. I only use clear and black dipsy now also. Using the camo pattern used to flatten shapes in the wild (see whitetail deer), I paint the top of my torpedos black, the sides green and the belly white. Not sure if it helps but I have noticed a lot less streaking around my balls displayed on the fishfinder.

Yes, nice tip on the Boga Grip. I have been using the Boga to release fish but by holding it. Was always an issue with doubles or clearing the back of the boat quicker so the Boga on the tether should solve that. How far back do you set your tether? Off to the side or off the back? Nice report as usual.

Bigweeniebrand.com Best glow beads on the market. Glow for hours on a single charge. Best fly/bead combo the last two years has been the A-tom-mik glow/mirage fly with Big weenie blue-glow beads. Put it down and forget about it, works all day in any light conditions.

Use braid with mono leader. Attach torpedo with OR-16 orange release to braid. Reset line counter and deploy using the dive curve chart provided to target the depths you want to hit. Fish are scattered all over the column so anything from a three color down to the bottom. The torpedos get kudos for telgraphing the little white perch, silver bass and yellow perch better than leadcore.

Hit the water off the Catt. Saturday with almost no boat traffic. A school of 3-4.5 lb males have moved in if you are looking for some good eaters. Ran bottom rigger, an 8oz torpedo, 2 oz torpedo, 5, 6 colors of lead. Hot rod was the 2oz torpedo back 150-165'. The trash fish were not too bad. Walleyes wanted a small chartreuse blade. Larger 3D blades only took one fish. Fish wanted it slow 1.4-1.5 mph. Trolled from 6:45 til 11:00 starting in 58' out to 78' (where the screen went blank) and then back in. Lost only big fish at the back of the boat , but got some nice fillets for my fish fry fix. Bucket list checked off ......now back to Ontario for fish that can pull drag! Concentrate in the 60'-70' band of water.......have at 'em.

NOAA site is showing cold water at your levels from the north shore to the south. Warmer water NE of you offshore.

I believe it represents either a small salmon attacking a school of bait OR bait that has been injured and is spiraling out of control. Lots of thump and flash to attract. The picture I have in my head of what is going on down there is based on what I see on the graph and what I catch at depth. Small Kings are voracious. To get to 30 lbs in four years you have to swim and eat. I usually catch small kings around bait at the thermocline. Those small kings are in the schools slashing and attacking. Some of the Alewives are 8-10"......the same size as a flasher. Most of the hits on those big Alewives are going to result in a injured fish that will spiral down twitching to the big kings waiting below. In the end....who cares flashers catch fish!!!! [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

30lb Big Game is all you need. Why bother with the Flea Flicker? [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Helps to have enough deck hands to deal with crazy kings, but your set up sounds good. I would keep the ring off the mag dipsy and put it on a .5 or 1 setting and send your copper FAAAARRRR out to the side. Big fish on, I pull the wire dipsys (8' transom) and get them out of the way. Make sure after you deploy copper over wire, run a bunch more backing out and then let it settle (rise) before sending it out over your dipsy. Helps to figure out which direction the down current is going also. Try to head into the current. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Great report. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Rent a Sea-Kayak for the week. Sit on porch with beer. Watch for dark shapes moving up coast (schools of Menhaden). Launch Kayak when Menhaden spotted. Cast Yozuri's around edges of fracas (use a leader) for Bluefish and Spanish Mak's. Don't fall in (sharks). Rent a small boat or get charter. Head out where the shrimp boats are running their nets. Drop live bait to bottom after shrimp boat passes.........hold onto rod as a shark will hit your bait within 30 seconds. Intercoastal areas have redfish and trout. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Got a report from my brother who fishes out of the Catt. On a morning trip Sat. June 23rd fishing solo in the morning he caught three walleye all around eater 21" size fishing around the perch beds 50-55" out in front on Pink blade/harness. 4oz torpedo, 8oz torpedo and a rigger on the bottom. The cleaning station was absent of walleye soooooo still slow. Lots of bait/perch on graph. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Sodus has the deep hole offshore to keep cold water around all year, but Oswego does not. My guess is with the blue cold water showing absent already from the east end on the NOAA site......Oswego is due for a lull with bathwater moving in. Come August, Niagara to Sodus would be my guess for Kings.

Sounds like an algae bloom killed the fish and is probably why catch rates are down. Oxygen levels drop, fish die or are lethargic.

Depends on the water depth for me. If my bait is water less than 60', it is getting a spoon (with exception of 6" spinnies for Coho). Later in the season, almost all spinnies. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

With spoons you add weight when you go to a treble. Usually not a problem but you will have to speed up to get the spoon kicking right. IMO flies should have a treble since they whip around a lot. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Congrats to Capt. Pete and team!!! Class act guy that deserves the win with all the time and travel put in on the tournament scene over the years. Hey Rick, didn't you beat Team VQ by a few ounces when you won the Orleans Pro/Am a few years back? [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

I use the Penn 209 for a two color and it works fine, but as stated by others it is a slow reel so reeling up long core segments would be a chore. Consider the Okuma Convectors as a good value on longer cores. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Any time someone is trying to grasp why they have a day of "hit and runs" where your dipsy goes off for a few rips then nothing.....should refer to this video. How many times did those Kings nip at the fly????? Great educational video. Let me ask....were you watching the feed live?........and did you try slowing your troll down to see if that help with hook ups? Keep showin' those feeds!!! [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Note to Steelheaders fishing tribs using black anondized egg hooks; we caught a steelhead with a hook stuck in it's lower jaw.......there was zero signs of rust on the hook. I know some of you guy like to use 4 or 6 lb fluoro but consider the fish may have to live with that hook for a long time if you snap one off. Fish was released in good shape. Looking good for the dog-days-of-summer upon us. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Gill-T Hooker ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): Time on Water: 6:30-2 pm Weather/Temp:Beauti of day Wind Speed/Direction: SE/E Waves: none Surface Temp: 62 degrees in tight, 68 degrees out deep Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 25-ish? Total Boated: 20-ish? Species Breakdown:Kings and Steelhead Hot Lure: Dreamweaver SS Steelhead Candy, NP Nailer Blue Mahi Glow, R&R Spook pattern, Spin Doc and A-Tom-mik mirage/glow fly Trolling Speed: Down Speed: 2.25 Boat Depth: 40'-470' Lure Depth: 30'-110' ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Nice to get back in the saddle again as I have not fished since mid-April. Greeted today with cold water from East blows the last two days. Cold temps inside had us trying for browns around all the bait first thing this morning. Had trouble keeping small Kings off the lines so headed out deep looking for bigger targets. Ran 4,5,6,7, colors, two wire divers with flasher/flies and three riggers. Had a nice steady day of Steelhead on the leadcore and Kings off the divers. No derby fish but three nice Kings of 19, 20, and 21 lbs. Had a lot of trouble releasing fish today with the lack of O2 (no waves) and warm off-shore surface temps (68 degrees). The bugs became bad as the sun rose. Took time after a 25 min. battle with one of the Kings to jump in the lake and enjoy a few pops/lunch with the lines pulled. Headed back into 150' range to see if the temps had warmed. The in-shore bait and Kings had pulled out deeper at mid-day as we got into some nice fish the last hour before pulling the plug. The larger Kings and two of the larger steelhead came from the wire Mag Divers out 225' and 315'. Nice day to be out! [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Try off the windmills in 20-30' FOW. Find where the bottom gets REAL lumpy on the graph. These lumps are dumped slag piles. Lots of gobies in the structure=lots o'bass. Put a little piece of worm down.....if you don't feel the little tap tap of gobies...pull anchor and try a different spot. Sturgeon point has nice structure and a nice launch also. If you are keeping fish.......I am always apprehensive about eating fish near the windmills so try down lake further Seneca shoal, points further south, Sturgeon Pt., or if you are coming from down south launch on the Cattaurgus Creek launch and fish the structure south of the breakwall out in front of the beach.

The fish don't really change feeding preference port to port so baits are pretty universal. Wes at the Slippery Sinker can hook you up with some good combos. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]