Sk8man

The farm raised salmon are fed pelleted food while the wild salmon from the ocean have krill in their diet (from the baitfish they feed on) which yields the Omega 3 and 6 nutrient value for humans. Farm raised salmon do not have the same anti oxidant properties. The question I've always wondered about is: What are the differences in nutritional value of the Pacific salmon raised in the ocean vs. those raised in the Great Lakes? I've never seen any scientific studies on it.

For those of you more adventurous than me (I'm kind of attached to mine) you could tell within 5 ft of where your actual diver AND attractor is running by attaching a Fish Hawk TD to the wire and check the depth (and the temp at that depth) and correlate it with the readings on your line counter and speed on depth finder/GPS. I think that because of a variety of real life situational factors not taken into account in most of the chart info I've seen (e.g. directional current forces/speed, type of attractor and lures combined with a diver etc.) a lot of the info on the charts is questionable at best.

Nice going Chris....about netting time you were probably wishing you were an octopus

Thanks Mark. Lot of fun.

Ditto

That could be it Ed. I've noticed that the farm raised salmon in the store appear to be a lighter color than the wild salmon too....

Thanks Cheers....Jeff (his boat) was very familiar with the area (grew up there) but most of my fishing has been either west at the Oak or Point Breeze or east at Sodus Point so it was me "out of my element"

Time for the "pidgeon drone" approach Nick > He might need help carrying the Go Pro though

I had a great experience yesterday aboard Tannero's 24 ft. Proline with Jeff and his good friend George. We launched out of Sandy Creek and went a bit west in about 160 ft of water to start out the beautiful morning. There were all sorts of marks on the screen and it appeared that we might have hit the jackpot about 80 to 100 ft down. We circled a couple times through them but they weren't interested in the multiple wire rigs with flashers and Spin Docs/fly combos or the spoons of various patterns and sizes fished off the downriggers with a variety of different leads. . We moved out to deeper water in search of active fish and at about a little over 300 ft Jeff connected with the first king of the day and mountain dew colored Spin Doc with a dark green and white Atomic fly set at 100 ft. Smaller king at about 10-12 lbs or so. We worked the 300-400 ft. range going east and out from in front of Braddocks and the mouth of I think the Genesee (couldn't distinguish landmarks because of haze and distance). We worked that area for hours and George connected with a king about 20 plus and worked him skillfully to the net, Jeff caught another in the 15 lb range and then I hooked onto a very large king and it was obvious right from the start he was a real good one. He not only took about 150ft. of wire on the first run but came right out of the water a good 2 or 3 ft. in the air way back as we had that rod out about 325 ft. He then jumped 4 more times about 2-3 ft. in the air while taking line while then coming toward the boat and to the side. Each time he was fully out of the water and we got some real good looks at it...definitely over 30 and one of the better fighting kings I've had on in a long time. After about 15 minutes and the 5th jump he was all of a sudden gone. When I pulled in the rig the treble was gone and the 40 lb.mono had broken...unreal it wasn't a drag setting problem either...oh well... after that fight he deserved to be free anyway but it was a bit "disheartening". I later had another chance on my wire rig with mountain dew and white glow Spin Doc with a dark greenfly....about a 15-17 pound king made it into the box. All fish came off green flies.No action whatsoever on spoons. We had another fish on briefly on wire but then off. Along the way Jeff also lost a king that bent a standard fly treble out nearly straight. For totals we went 4 for 9 all kings in the box. Most fish and hits came from about 100 ft. down. Unfortunately Jeff's specially rigged "Dolphin" lures didn't work quite as well as anticipated . A very enjoyable day indeed. Of interest is the fact that I had had never actually physically met either Jeff or George before our outing yet we fished together successfully without missing a beat....as though we had been doing it for years... another positive aspect attributable to this forum...it is a goldmine of information but also a great social mechanism for meeting like-minded people. A big thank you to Jeff.

Hey Nick.. that pic with the pink rod looks like a laser beam coming out of the sky Maybe it was pointing to fish...is that your secret?Help from above (aliens maybe)?

Nice fish! I don't know the sequence of the catch but the native laker has much more pronounced (deeper) coloration,,,,they are that way on Seneca as well and usually their flesh is a richer color as well...pretty cool!

We're fishing out of Sandy Creek in the AM so it should be interesting out there. The surface temp map this AM looked as though most of the cooler water is in Canada. I guess some of it may depend on how strong their "homing" instinct or "urge" is right now and whether it offsets their preference for temps too.