rdebadts

We did the maiden Voyage out of Sodus today. I didnt want to do the shakedown in the dark so we got a late start. I met my brother at his house at 6. We checked and double checked everything, towed the boat to the point and filled her up with fuel, then launched at Krenzers by about 7. After some minor hiccups, we were pulling out of the channel and headed west. I had just got my spread out by the time we were between the lighthouse and the trailer park when we took a shot on a gold and orange plug... so I reset that line ANNNNNND the engine stalled. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on with the engine, by which time I had drifted over on of my planer board lines- "Oh crap". We were able to clear most of the lines pretty quickly as we drifted, but a few were wrapped in the planer board line which was wrapped in the rigger. Ugh, what a mess. I must have looked like a complete ameatur out there, and 2 other boats did a good job of working around me. After about 1/2 hour or so, we had the engine figured out and were setting back up. Sadly, by the time that happened it was well after 8 and most of the good action was starting to slow. We did manage a few more hits on bright colored sticks, with one nice big fat laker in the mix as well. We did most of our action around Boller Pt. The water is cold; the warmest I found was 41 degrees, and it was mud puddle dirty. We called it quits relatively early and went to the dock to get the engine figured out. With some minor adjustments and a few choice words, I think we got her squared away. The boat is all tucked in nicely at Krenzers just waiting for me now! How frustrating- we did alot of work to get the boat ready this year to avoid this exact situation. I suppose you cannot anticipate some of the issues until she is under way though. And now I see why everyone always calls it the shakedown. Hopefully next trip out I can just worry about fishing?!?!?!?

Fully agree with gambler on the salmon size issue. I was catching dark fish in JULY, and mid August fishing felt like September, in the fact that every king I caught had a small tight empty stomach despite absurd amounts of bait around...

Where did you get the crappie?????!!?? [ Post made via iPhone ]

There are some south past eagle island now. We did 40 yesterday. They needed the drift, no anchoring. We saw and did nothing north at all. [ Post made via iPhone ]

Didn't sodus have over 60 boat combined this year? It has been quite strong all along. Maybe we can combine the two east events to sodus and that would increase participation you would think? Or does I have nothing to do with participation and more to do with tr organizing? [ Post made via iPhone ]

Why does everyone hate the open division so much? I don't feel like I am alone in my feelings that it is basically the am division now.... Sorry that I didn't want to front 3x as much money to get beat up on by charters, with 2 different crews for each day and no prefishing time because I work full time! Call me minor league, that's fine. But if you hope to keep these things going ams are where you will have to look, because there are only a finite number of charters or dedicated ams.... If/when I win a tourney I will be glad to be "forced" to move up [ Post made via iPhone ]

What a good year. I started late so I missed the early season brown bite. However, starting with basically my first trip we had hands down the best spring king bite I have ever seen! I easily caught way more salmon in april and May than I did in August, without even trying. We never really got the steelie bite going in June this year, which was fine because the kings stayed hot. Also, we had some absurd days on lakers to fill in the gaps. In July, my boat finally placed in the sodus proam (open) and won a nice paycheck for sunday! For some reason I never really got the late summer kings figured out this year, and my biggest fish was only about 25 lbs... Perhaps the best part of the year was the number of first time fisherman I got out, including a bunch of kids. I LOVE seeing how excited they get! My catch percentage was WAAAAAAAAAAY down this year (only ~60%) as a result but well worth it. My brother also got the bug bad and I think I have a new first mate! It is really nice seeing him as much as I do now! A trip with my brothers Pretty fall brownie Nice offshore steelies and an immature Nice laker Another spring king A banner day- this was april 28th!!!! We got blown off by 9:30 am... Spring king, yet again My brother with a good one The two big ones were 24+ lbs, the weekend before the proam... Little man is 10 years old- his first king His 2nd king.... He can barely hold this one up.... lol Sodus Proam- good for 3rd place My wife's cousins- neither had ever been out My nurse friend from work She sure was a trooper, out 9 miles this day. Jake put a hurtin on them Probably my best day in August.... Nice spawner Beautiful atlantic!

And often sail boats don't have their freaking sails up, are under power an still assume they have the row. There is no excuse to come within 100 feet of me when I am 5 miles out in 500 fow. Thats piss poor navigation, regardless of navigational laws. There is my rant... On another point, I say avoid the traffic. Go where people aren't. Those fish aren't harassed and are more likely to eat. Without question my best days this year were miles away from the closest boat. I am always very proactive in traffic too- I often won't run copper, or will shorten my planers and am very quick to avoid people. It does no good to fight over a peice of water, the fish move all the time... We are out to have fun in the end right?? [ Post made via iPhone ]

Love it. I would do that at the oak in August for sure. Love the idea of cull tourneys with 4-5 fish! [ Post made via iPhone ]

Your Name / Boat Name: continuity fish doctor Date(s): 9/2/12 Time on Water: 6:30-12 Waves: less than 1 Surface Temp: 73 Total Hits: 10 Total Boated: 4 Species Breakdown: kings, steelies, brown, coho Hot Lure: small stingers, white spinnies with atommiks Boat Depth: 60-110 Lure Depth: 55-80 rigger, 180-240 dipseys Finally some good action in close. Started with a lot of shots but little in the way of catching. We were 0for 4 on screamer kings to start by 8, then finished the day 4 for 6 on steelies browns and cohos to end the day in the Same water. I had 2 kings break me off today, a first. The screen was just unbeleivable in close, the bottom 30 feet were just plastered in fish. Back at it tomorrow, hopefully a better catch ratio on kings. Small stuff was the ticket today, I had a 10 lb steelie with 10 gobies in it... [ Post made via iPhone ]

That has not been my experience this year but admittedly I have been chasing them less because I prefer kings. And the alewives that I have seen have been HUGE, not a ton of smaller ones [ Post made via iPhone ]

Thank god it wasnt just me. I fished the oak this weekend, Managed 2 salmon each day fishing inside, biggest maybe 21 lbs. very very frustrating and a bit strange. I gave up by noon both days though. All bites came 10-11 am. I really worked for those few fish [ Post made via iPhone ]

Stay in there. They have been turning on really late some days, like as late as 11-12 [ Post made via iPhone ]

Had one like that the other day. My guess was the lamprey caused it to be so thin? [ Post made via iPhone ]

Good job man. Very nice [ Post made via iPhone ]

Your Name / Boat Name: continuity/fish doctor Date(s): 8/20- Time on Water: 6-10, 11-1 Waves: 2-3 subsiding to less than 1 Location: out front to 5 miles east FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 8 Total Boated: 6 Species Breakdown: kings Hot Lure: white spinny with green fly, mag bloody nose Trolling Speed: 2-2.25 Boat Depth: 100-220 Lure Depth: 65-85 rigger, 210 dipsey ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Fished inside waters all am with little to show for it. We zig-zagged from 100-140 all am with 3 goes on salmon to show for it (1 caught), and what was worse we really didn't see any nets come out. I had to drop a guy off at port, so when we came back out at 11 the plan was to fish a bit deeper out front. We set up in 185 and immediately were into some fish, mostly upper teen kings. We had a fluury where ee did three nice ones in 15 minutes on a white spinny green atommik out 210 on the dipsey. When I got in I watched a guy weigh in 31+ king caught on the flats in 100 fow.... I guess those stubborn salmon decided to finally turn on after 11 over there too... All on all not a bad day and a MUCH better finish [ Post made via iPhone ]

Good lord. What a fish. ALMOST makes me wanna put on cowbells tomorrow and go farming [ Post made via iPhone ]

I really really have trouble believing that suddenly 40% of the kings are natural. I have been fishing for 12+ years here and only in the last 2-3 years have I seen so many unclipped "natural" fish. Weird. I wonder what has miraculously changed recently to allow a fishery to take off so much after being here for 40+ years.... I may not have fancy tracking methods but I do log every fish I catch every trip every year... [ Post made via iPhone ]

Trust me I am all for enforcing that no wake zone, it is very important. I just wish they would nab some pleasure boats and sail boats who literally go FULL speed right by law enforcement boats and not guys who go 5 and have a tiny wake. Musta been cause it was crappy weather... [ Post made via iPhone ]

They are a bit selective about when they actually decide to enforce that no wake zone in sodus.......... [ Post made via iPhone ]

That moonshine was the crabface uv. And captains cove is now sold out of them (sorry) [ Post made via iPhone ]