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Fish out of the state park at 1st light this morning. Was using 2 copper rigs(new to me) and a rigger set at 40 feet and was wondering where the fish were when all 3 went at the same time! At 1st I thought I snagged something or one fish crossed the other lines. Nope! 3 lakers. Ended up 11 for 11 before the wind made driving just too tough for me. (About 10am) Was using a orange/silver NK 28 on the rigger and stingray NBK on one of the coppers but the hot lure was NKmag watermellon trolled at 1.7mpg. I think the coppers are down about 50 feet. The rods have about 240feet of copper on 'em. Day wasn't a total lost. Got a call from my housemate. Said my Moor sub-troll 900 had just arrived. All installed and ready for the water! Happy Easter and good luck fishing everyone!

Hi ya Tom We changed lures constantly however the 2 colors that always stayed out both Saturday and Sunday was black and silver and blue and white Rapala's. But I saw fish taken on firetiger, orange bomber, Frog spoon, lemon ice spoon. For speed we kept it at 2.5mph and we always keep a spare pole handy with a lure on it to check how the lures look. Hope that helps

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Buckshot ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 3/17-3/18 Time on Water: 7-12 both days Weather/Temp:40's and 50's Wind Speed/Direction: east on Sat. calm sunday Waves: 1' Sat Surface Temp: 44-45 Location:West of Hugh's Marnina LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 16 Sat, 15 Sunday Total Boated: 11 and 10 Species Breakdown: all browns. 1 bow on Sunday Hot Lure: It was a mix of sticks and spoons Trolling Speed: 2.5 Down Speed: Boat Depth: 10 fow average Lure Depth: ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Fish in the fog Saturday with Tacklebox on my boat. Fished between Hugh's and Salmon Creek. Seamed where ever we found stained water along with a degree or 2 higher temp, we found fish. Same tactics for Sunday just using Tacklebox's boat, Blackduck. Being a bright day the fish shut down earlier. About 10am. Biggest fish was 10.3 lb Brown. Bow was about 3-4lbs. Both of us had trouble free maiden voyages for 2012 season.

Sweet! Thanks for the reply!

Hi all! I am thinking getting a Moor's for my small boat. Because I use the boat for other types of fishing, I need to remove the downriggers from the boat. Is it possiable, with the attenana attached to the downrigger, to remove the rigger from the boat? Thank you Zern/Mark

And I am going to beat Adam!! very nice fish!!

I felt nothing at my place just east of Rochester, NY.

I just used those docks yesterday. I see the equipment all ready to start work. I talked to other boaters and no one seams to understand why the change or justfy the money spent. Aside from a bit of maintance are a solid platform to launch from.

Thanks to the report from Iron Duke, I set out solo from the Northend. Set down at the drop off headed into a light south wind. Had my 1st fish, a nice 5lb rainbow before I had a chance to sit down. She came on an NK28 blue and silver as did the next fish, a 3lb laker. Both down 60 feet on the riggers. While digging in the tackle box for more blue spoons, other rigger fired on a yellow NK with a black ladder back. Boated a small laker (maybe a 1lb, I shucked it off at the boat). Reset and took another laker (5.5lbs) on that same lure in just a few minutes. Then at 7:30am, everything stopped for me. I continued to wash lures till 11am but could not buy a bite. Increase in boat traffic? sun angle? Maybe I need to hide my face. Not sure what shut them off but I am not complaining. Was a nice morning to be on the lake!! Thanks again to Iron Dukes thurday report, I knew where to start looking! Zern S.S. Buckshot

YAYAYAY!! Hope he signs it before the fall Loc derby!

is this true? http://assembly.state.ny.us/member_files/045/20040519/

If the bill sits on his desk for 10 days. it becomes law. It should be close ta that now.

Needed to restock the freezer with perch and sunnies so grabbed the older brother and hit up Canandiagua at the north end. Started on the west side near Butler park and was hardly hitting anything so we tried the bouys on the east side. Ended up with 32 big sunnies,9 rockies, 5 perch. Only 1 massive smallmouth. Would have caught alot more but my brother only bought a dozen worms. What a blast on 4lb test and ultralite rod! Perch of course were all spawned out but the sunnies and the rockies still had eggs. Lake temp was 68. Winds were calm. Hardly saw the sun. Boat launch was fine. Water lvl is down. Mark S.S.Buckshot

WOW! IF I get half as lucky tomarrow out of Hugh's, I will have gaint smile too! Way ta go Nick!! Great blog going too!! Zern/Mark

Ok, I will take a shot at this. How does your Dad explain upwelling? Your trolling north in a south wind. Wind speed is 10mph. Surface temp is 70. Your riggers are down 80 feet in 150 feet of water. Temp at 75 feet is 55. Your surface speed is 2.5mph Now the warm water is pushing north along with you. (The warm water hits the canadian shore and pushes downward) But at 80 feet and below, the colder water is moving south at 1mph to replace the warm water. (at the beach, the temp is 55) So what are you lures doing at 80 feet? I would think they are spinning too fast. I have noticed this by watching my cables when I change direction. And what about when your headed south WITH the surface current? I am not sure where water density comes into play. Maybe this isn't a good example but best I can think of for under water currents. Mark S.S. Buckshot

ahh the bugs aren't that bad. I thought they kinda tasted like chicken.....(shrug)

Welcome back, Nick! Mark Buckshot

Hey woody Yeah the fishfinder was blank. (oh once in a great while I would see a hook or bait fish) Leaving me to beleave all the fish were very near the surface. About 3 times I saw rings on the water where fish had surface. So I knew they were there. I guess I should have stated that I was using planer boards. Wasn't till later that I used a rigger while expermenting. The King was small. 5lbs.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Buckshot ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):5-14-11 Time on Water:5:30am-12:15 Weather/Temp: clouds with some light rain.Temp around 50 Wind Speed/Direction:0 Waves:0 Surface Temp:44 inshore.49 off Location: in front of Hugh's Marina LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 7 Total Boated:4 Species Breakdown: 2 steelies, 1 king,1 choho Hot Lure: black/siver Rapala 13 Trolling Speed: 2.2 Down Speed: na Boat Depth: 100-300 Lure Depth: surface ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Did nothing along the shore at 1st light. Temp was 43 and water was gin clear tight against shore. Met up with Tacklebox coming out of port. We ran side by side out to 300 before we hooked one. He out fished me as he always does. After that it was a steady pick at em. He caught most of his on orange type lures and I did all but one on back/silver Rap13. Go figure! Was a Great Day to be on the Big Pond! Next weekend, I Join Tacklebox and his Faithful sidekick, Paul, out at Wilson. Hope them guys out that'a save us some! Mark

Now that is a good fisherman! Tom didn't even have a line in the water and he had me HOOKED! LOL Good Luck with your new Buddy! Mark

LOL! Yeah I can understand what ya went thru. I own a 16ft seanymph decked out for the big pond. Vest is AWAYS close by if not on. Thanks for the report and good luck tomarrow! Mark

thanks for the info Ed. I guessed there was not restriction after the 1st few boat went zipping by. Alot of crap in the water tho. Nothing really to report either. I got one laker off the rigger. I was mostly supprised that I didn't really mark alot of fish. oh well. some day I will figure it all out. tight lines everyone! mark

Is there a No Wake restriction on Keuka? Planning on Lauching at the state park tomarrow. Also, how's the fishing been this week? Thanks for any replies! Tight Lines all! Zern

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Buckshot ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):4-22 Time on Water:6am-11am Weather/Temp:cloudy-milky sunshine Wind Speed/Direction:Southeast Waves: slight chop Surface Temp:42-44 Location:Hugh's/Pultneyville LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 8 Total Boated:7 Species Breakdown: all browns Hot Lure: blk/silver rapala's 13 Trolling Speed: 2.5 Down Speed: Boat Depth: 7-10 fow Lure Depth: ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Lauched at 6am out of Hugh's. Just set the second line and 1st fired. My best action was infront of Salmon creek. (love doubling when solo). Ran both lines in black and silver. Creek was also where I saw the best temp (44.4) Picked away at em for the next 5 hours. Biggest brown was 8.8. Had one other about that size. Water was tainted to brown in some spot. All an all I would say it was a morning ====================

My thoughts are "ewww! east wind!" however like Yankee said "gets ya out of the house". I plan on launching at Hugh's Friday and I am in a 16 footer. Good Luck everyone! Making note to stay off red dock at Oswego