Big Water

Here's our Brown from 12/28. Also on a FLT Alpha Alewive.

Andy sent me to school today about Seneca. Only had four on and only landed two of those all day (licking my wounds). Thought I was throwing the kitchen sink at them, but must have had the wrong sink.

SHE and her 4 babies were stoways and delayed my fishing this spring by a couple of weeks. It's a long story.

I'm in. I hate to see a guy lose his boat/hobby over fate. Unfortunately, I'm not a mechanic.

I'll be there to save him......or vice versa. I'm bringing a good swimmer along too!

I've brought this up before, but Jim Piano (Hammerhead Charters) makes some great red-eye spoons in an assortment of colors that I've caught a lot of fish on at Ontario. They're a little thinner than the conventional red-eye spoons and troll more like a flutter spoon. They're worth a try. I am not associated with Jim for the record. http://www.hammerheadchartersandtackle.com/page9.html

Planning to be there Saturday and Sunday if I can talk my fishing buddy into it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS and Tight Lines to ALL!

I'll be there Thursday and Friday. If you see an 18' Lowe boat with two old guys, wave hi!

I was trolling last winter and had 4" build up in the boat. I had to keep reminding the guy I was with not to dive for the rods. I thought he was going to go overboard! Well Done!!

I had a hard rip on a dipsey during my trip to Seneca on 12/3 and when I pulled the line, the spoon was bitten cleanly off. I'd bet it was a pike.

Another option that I've used is to take a rubber bass bait, like a fluke, and stick a straightened paper clip through the length of the body to allow you to bend it. A lot less expensive and it works. Apply scent as desired.

That's incredible! A fish of a lifetime. Nice work Bob and Darryl.

Check out Jim Piano's (Hammerhead) spoons. They all have red bead eyes and have accounted for a lot of fish for me these past two years.

Had a few days of vacation to burn and they were calling for half decent temps and winds this past week, so my friend Charlie and I decided to go to Seneca for two days. Got in touch with Bobby Fuller and he met us at the lake with an order of FLT spoons in various colors. Got them all in the "razor' thickness. Got on the water about 10:30 Tuesday and started to mark a lot of fish between 35-50'. Put out two wire dipseys at 100' and 150' and two riggers down from 35 to 55' Also ran a three color off of an inline board and a 6 color down the chute, The whole trip we saw fish bewteen the 30-50' but only took one fish on the dipsey and everything else came on the chute rod on Tuesday. Mix of LLs, lakers, browns and rainbows (no pics of rainbow). Ended the day at 4:00 going 7 for 9. Wednesday we got a 7:30 start and had a LL on before we could get the second rod set. Dropped the riggers deep and picked a couple of lakers, but they wanted it REAL slow so we chose to speed things up and target the trout and salmon. The whole arsenal was taking fish on Wednesday and the preferred depth was 35' and about 2.6 mph SOG. FLT Alpha Alwife in blue was the hot spoon for the trip. Lost a huge laker when it managed to get into a wire and another line and flopped around at the back of the boat while we were trying to untangle the mess. Other than that, all smaller fish. Ended up going 14 for 15 Wednesday and got off of the lake about 3:30. Nice weather with a good friend and cooperative fish made for a great few days. P.S. All fish returned to be caught again!