Gill-T

I have taken trips to Naples creek after the crowds have left, and have often had the best pools to myself. Often, there is a late run of fish that come up.

This weekend should be ok. There is virtually no ice on Erie. I would think your game would be browns and Coho along the shore. Past 20 FOW for Lakers, or drift for them at the bar. You want kings....probably going to need a Canadian License.

Sure it wasn't a Cormorant.......that would be good luck.

Poetry in motion if you see Larry and Jerry running six riggers. To add to Larry's post, you might want to try pancake weights with slightly bent fins on the outside riggers to increase the spread distance. When it is lumpy out, however, those pancakes will start to swim and probably tangle on the inside rigger cables. If you are doing LONG straight line trolling you should be able to determine by cable sway, which way the subsurface currents are running. You can keep at least one pancake in the water even in waves by placing the weight on the side of the boat the current is moving towards. The side current will catch the fin and push it out even further than bending the fin alone. Larry could expound further on how they use pancakes.

Name: Dr. Chad Kahler a.k.a. "Fuzz" Team "Still No Sponsor" ( formerly team "No Sponsor") Boat Name: Gill-T Hooker (my wife hates the name, because I make her wear a lot of make-up when aboard) Boat make: 23' Bayliner Trophy Home Port: Was Youngstown, now I am a traveling man due to those damn Pro/Am events Years on Lake O: Started pier fishing at age twelve.

There is ice pack along the shore from Niagara to Wilson. COLD!!!

Olcott is a mud bath right now. Unfishable. The only game the next few days will be for Lakers in the green water around Wilson in the 20-40' range. Ice from the storm on Sat. has been settling west of Wilson toward the Niagara.

I assume you meant to date the thread 4/2? Good to see the lakers coming in....they usually follow the smelt and shiners with the Kings following next. To bad the weather stinks this weekend. Ice is jumping the boom and pouring down the river.

Now Larry, it is a two way street. I may be mistaken but I don't recall any fish reports by Rebel Charters. I think everyone would love to have more reports from charter captains. We don't need GPS coordinates, but generalities sure help.

Get to work Tax Boy!!!!!

Getting a little itchy Larry?

My packet from Wayne Co. Pro/Am came today. For all those wanting to try the Pro/Am thing, mail in applications for the first event in Wilson are due May 22 by 5:00 pm. Phone # 1-877-Falls-US or email at [email protected]. On another note....a King was caught in Canadian waters today . I don't know how I am expected to work the rest of the day. I probably will drill into the side of my patients cheek while re-inacting a downrigger rod release .

The black face/white cup nk with orange tape on the face has taken as many kings on Lake O as any spoon since the late 80's IMO. An all-time classic. I made some spook patterns recently with some. I added white glow paint over the white cup.

I can only speak from what worked last week......natural colored stickbaits like a goby (brown). Until the emerald shiners come in, which will be the next two weeks, then silvery/minnow looking baits.

The distance between the green can and the red can is a couple of miles. In between is "the bar" with plenty of shallow water. Browns are caught this time of year trolling the shoreline, drifting the bottom with three-way rigs and minnows, trolling with planers from the mouth out to the red can etc. etc. Plenty of water to cover. If is browns you are after I would stick to shoreline trolling with planers. The mudline along the shore concentrates fish and make them easier to find. Targeting brown off the bar can be a needle in a haystack. Usually, they are caught by accident by fisherman drifting for lakers or King fisherman using stickbaits.

"Big in the rear".

Savant spoons has a pattern that is realistic. Rebel stickbaits in brown trout color. Storm has some colors of hot'n'tots and junior thundersticks that mimic the dull brown color. Yo-zuri makes a crankbait called Aile Goby (Bass Pro has them) that is probably the most realistic. Capt. Pete Alex's site Dreamsteelie.com has it's own custom version of a gobie spoon pattern. Aw hell, anything brown and ugly!!!!

Is that the 21' model? I have an '88 23.5' model. If you are going to slip the boat, get some bottom coat on her before the stains and grime build up......looks like a clean hull. Jamestown distributers online site has how to's and everything you will need.

The problem is we have to stock our tackle boxes with new drab colored lures!!!!!

It is a three thousand dollar mistake if you don't take appropiate measures. I ran the non-toxic antifreeze thru my engine right after fishing this weekend....and kept it in dry dock for peace of mind. If I go out this weekend , I will do the same. I have an I/O. A jug of antifreeze from Autozone is $3.99.

You want the shallow diver/floater models, otherwise, you will be dragging bottom. Our inside lines were in 3-4 FOW. 30Lb test with #15 fluorocarbon leader keep the bait running up high. Suspending models would have more of an application out deeper. The floater models of any stickbait have better action than suspending models IMO.

Great picture Adam, thanks. Wow, was it nice to finally get out.....catching some fish was a bonus.

God willing Adam, I will putting in on Sunday.

For updates you can go to Boomdays.com. Looks like mid-April.