Kevin J Legg

Picked up 2 walleyes and released a nice bass. Couldn’t find my third walleye this morning.

You might be able to get some bait in a minnow trap but dipping in the river would be tough and with certified bait regulations I’d get it at the bait store.

Try walleyes along breaks in 30-40 fow where there is current. I fish mostly at night.

Out solo early this morning and got a couple great fish . One 10.3 and the other 8.2. Going to be a while before Ranger can handle these but he did catch his first fish yesterday.

The last 5 days are a great representation of why I love living where I do. June 11th I fished the river and we caught 6 nice pike. June 12th I fished Stony light and we caught 7 browns trout and 4 cisco. June 13th I canned 7 pints of brown trout and smoked the cisco. June 14 I fished the SLR solo and caught 3 walleyes. June 15th I fished with Prof T and we caught our limit of smallmouth. We kept the smaller ones and realease a bunch of big ones. Not many places you can do this in less than an hours drive from home. What a great week!!!!

I canned 7 pints of brown trout yesterday and smoked a batch of cisco today. They all came out very good.

Maybe we can meet up and fish sometime 😀

Had another successful day out of Stony today. It was a slow pick but we ended the day with a decent catch of fish. Incidentally I grilled some browns, smoke a cisco, and fried some pike we caught on the river yesterday. What a feast!!!! All the fish came out delicious especially with the strawberry rhubarb pie my wife made for desert.

Spent yesterday fishing with Captain Richie Clarke. The wind was tough but he was able to produce a good catch never the less.

I’m fairly certain by the straight jaw this is a Cisco. We’ve been catching a few lately fishing browns. I have heard other refer to them as whitefish. I’ve saved them and am going to try them in my smoker.

Went out today with another banana packed in my lunch. Ended up catching 7 browns (released 1) and 2 ciscos and a very tiny salmon.

I agree with Gator. 7’ med to heavy rod. I was using 12-15 lb. Mono with 20 lb fluorocarbon leader. 1-11/2 ov jigging spoons worked well as do jigs in 25-30 fow we fished. As a side note there is a large fleet of kayakers targeting them on the old canal where we were fishing.

I believe you are correct they do appear to be ciscos not whitefish. I use to catch ciscos in Millsite Lake and they were much smaller (12-13”) then those I’ve caught in Lake Ontario. Thanks for educating me.😀

We caught them on plastic on jigs and jigging spoons. Actually the jigging spoons were most effective.

For a change of pace I made a run to my brothers on Cape Cod. He has a gorgeous place just past the Bourne Bridge. We fished two mornings and had a ball catching good size black sea bass. We will head home tomorrow!

Caught two my last trip on Ontario and one the trip before. Not unusual to catch them targeting browns.

Packed my lunch and put in a banana to test the myth. We fished for browns early and caught 3 and a couple bonus whitefish in 10-25 fow off boards and 2 color leadcores. Things got slow and I was thinking of chucking the banana. We made a move to deeper water and set some snap weights and riggers. Around 11:30 a snap weight took a rip and we soon had our first king of the year. Shortly after the rigger fired and it was another king on the cheater. Missed another good one after having on for quite a while and missed a few other hits and caught another brown and a small king.. By 2:00 the bite slowed and although we trolled another hour had no more hits. We ended up with a nice mix on a beautiful day and saw very few boats out. Best of all I even got to eat the banana!

I was working a Tom and hen out around 250 yards with a cheap hen decoy moving in the wind about 10 yards away. I heard a sound of wings and caught movement as a large hawk swooped down and nailed my decoy! It knocked the decoy off the stake and didn’t want to let go. It then jumped off and stood next to it and then moved 5 feet away and stared some more before flying off. Unfortunately the photos and video I took didn’t turn out due to the brush. The real turkeys moved off and when I checked the decoy there were talon holes in it.

Bite has been phenomenal the last 2 weeks.

Had a very eventful hunt this morning. set up in a blind and had 5 birds come into the field out 400 yards shortly joined by 8 more birds. I could see 3 long beards fanned up and several others chasing. It took a while but when they saw my moving strutter decoy they headed my way. Once they got to 10oz yards I knew they were coming. The dominant Tom ran in the last 75 yards and I shot him at 15 yards The rest stayed in the field for over an hour and had a Jake come into the decoys two more times. There were 3 long beards, 3 jakes, and 2 bearded hens in the group and I got some video as well. Tom was likely dominate bird as it had 1” spurs, 9 1/2” beard, and weighed 20.2 lbs.

It’s close!

We drove to NJ yesterday morning during the snow. We saw around 8 flocks of turkeys totally over 50 birds on our short drive from home to Watertown but only 2 birds the rest of the trip. Looks like I live in a decent spot for turkey hunting compared to more to our south.

I’m going away for a week and won’t return home till 5 days before opener. Since I’m hunting the same farm I’ve hunted for years I decided to put up 4 pop up blinds early without much scouting. (I have seen plenty of birds on the farm). They generally roost in same areas yearly so I’m confident where I set them up and birds will have plenty of time to get use to them. I’ll have a few days to scout before season opens to determine which I want to hunt first but I’ve killed multiple birds at all 4 locations previously.