Gill-T

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name:Gill-T Hooker ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):9-12-10 Time on Water:2:30pm-6:30pm Weather/Temp:Partly cloudy/60's Wind Speed/Direction:10-15mph west Waves: 2-4' Surface Temp: 62 Location: Wilson-Olcott LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: Total Boated: Species Breakdown: Hot Lure: Trolling Speed: Down Speed: Boat Depth: Lure Depth: ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS After seeing the Canadian north shore roll over from NW winds during the week, figured the temps would be screwed up on south shore. Checked NOAA site temp transects and couldn't believe 50 degree water on top for most of the deep zone. Not wanting to break out the 2 color, pointed the boat north out of port watching the surface temp go from 63 degrees out of Wilson to 59 degrees once we hit 220' FOW, turned back around and started at 188' with 60-62 degrees. I thought the cold onslaught would push all the fish out of the blue zone into the warmer Niagara current, and that is exactly what we found. I think every bait pod and all the steelhead were pushed out of the deep. Bait everywhere with steelhead and small kings to 8lbs in the mix. Made one pass from a little east of Wilson to just east of the microwave tower in 188-220' FOW and we had all the action two people and four rods could muster. Down temps 50 degrees at 45', riggers set at 33', 43' cheated. Dipsys set at 110-125'. Down speed 2.8. Hot lures DW steelhead candy/custom tape, DW mixed veggies/custom, DW SS moody blue. After our east troll, we decided to troll for some darkies off Olcott. Spent a couple of hours trying to tempt kings to bite J-plugs and flasher/flies. One release was all to show for the inside bite. Only saw one other hook up. Down temps in front were ideal with 50 degree water on the bottom all the way into 23' FOW. ====================

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With an intact adipose fin those could be natural repro. fish and because they spent more time in a river system eating zooplankton and other invertebrates instead of food pellets in a hatchery they start small and stay small. I caught some little kings approx. 15" in the Two-Heart river in the U.P. where nat. repro rules the day. These fish were in spawing pods with males and females all similar in size with spawning colors.

Mag sized luhr Jenson horseshoe spoon.

They love wild cherries, and new cherry shoots.

10' Ugly Stick roller tip, and cabelas dipsy rods are great values.

I like to shoot does with my bow to keep the hill quiet during gun season. There is something to the arguement that more does means better rut activity, conversely, less does around during the rut means more competition among the bucks so more likely the big boys will get to do the breeding. One of the tennants of QDM is that you keep doe levels low so most of the does get bred on the first estrous cycle so they drop fawns earlier to make a hardier fawn come winter.

The spot gives you a nice target to shoot at I have never seen a large piebald OR albino buck. Recessive gene, nice conversation piece, but bad for big bucks IMO.

I think you should tell me what depth you were fishing and how far down and THEN I will tell you what I think about a potential hybrid.

East to West the Green Dot/Double crush glow spinnie with a hammer fly is the number one combo I would say. I like chrome E-chips also (both in eight inch versions). I see a lot of mountain dew on white flashers on tournament boats. This time of year guys will run the big 11" Kingfisher type of flashers with meat.

I can cure you Rick Billy, good luck with surgery, healing times are a lot quicker with todays' methods. Was that last fish picture of a giant Coho or a King?

If you are going to put some down and target big kings, buy the white/double crush glow ones and try bumping up the speed a little. Normally, guys will run at 2.4 mph-2.7 with 8" spin docs, but the 6" version spins in a smaller arc so less fly whip/action.......speed it up if they are streaking but not hitting.

Mostly a springtime coho paddle. Try 15-20" length leader. I have caught steelhead and small kings on them also. I am experimenting with them on bigger fish right now. Double orange crush 6" spinny with a small blue/green fly is a coho killer.

Evening trip start 100'. Morning trip start closer. Temp probe helps here. Usually, where I first run into 50-ish degree water on the bottom I start there and fish the marks on the graph.

Go back to the stone age Jack. Seems like you have a little "****" in you too. Keep in mind, team crazy B, did not win because Tom sponsored them. They won because they outperfomed a unbelievably experienced field. Tom sponsors the great teams, but they were great BEFORE sponsorship not BECAUSE of it. Lake Ontario is the great leveler. Sponsors will not help the fish to bite. Sponsors will not help with the weather. With the exception to size of boat (sponsors don't give teams boats, by the way).....it is a level playing field.

Great work Werner. I was very impressed with your execution, boat handling, fishing knowledge etc. etc, and more importantly the balls to stay with your fish. A lot of fishermen would have moved after a while, but you recognized the type of day it was (an east wind grind) and realized you had to be over fish during those few moments they went on the feed. A well deserved victory! Chad

Every morning this past week, boaters are casting Erie Dearies on the hump in front of the sunset bay beach club off the Catt. in 17' FOW from 6-8am and limiting out every morning!!!! Wierd year I think you are seeing the results of the eastern end stocking program come to fruition.

I have never seen a deer sit still and feed in one place, unless it is going to bed down. Deer are constantly on the move living off a variety of foods. I am always perplexed to see deer eat a couple of apples and then continue on with floor covered with them. I think if they eat too much of one thing they get gassy (see also Mighty Taco). Bottom line you have to offer them browse (by tree trimming/logging), nut trees for protein, greens-agriculture, apples are a bonus but more like desert for deer. Your play on hunting the trails to/from the food plots and apples is the right play and won't change no matter what you plant. (ps try brassicas) Do you have apples this year? We got the warm spring/early bud/frost kill in the southern tier so no apples again

All the laws are open to interpretation by the DEC officers enforcing them. The spirit of the law is to keep people from transporting an exotic species to other bodies of water, so I would never keep one in a pail waiting to be used. I have no problem when I catch a gobie, sending it back down to be eaten by a smallmouth. Dead gobie, confused smallmouth, happy angler

I will be there to observe, driving in from Buffalo. Might need a place to shack up, however, since we have to be there by 4:45 am.

Apparently, I am not going to make detective.

You can run a free slider-spoon over a spinnie, when you pop the release DON'T REEL until the spinnie is at the top where you can skip it back in.

Ray, you might has well add any game animal out west to that list. I didn't care for the elk or antelope I killed and won't chase them anymore for the same reason. I tried to feed the antelope meat to my dog, and he wouldn't touch it!

I alway seem to do better trolling into the current. Best way to make sure your lures are kicking.