Iron Duke

Thanks Dave !! Mike Sent from my SM-N910V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Mike Sent from my SM-N910V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

We left the dock in the dark and fog and slowly made our way to the drop off and cut over to the East Shore and set up shop in about a 120 fow.. We ran cores, coppers, spoon Dipsy, rig rods and riggers.. One of my fishing partners keeps records of every Lake we fish and everything that the fish have come on for probably the last 20 years believe it or not so a couple days beforehand we had him look back in our records and figure out everything we have caught silver fish on in Canandaigua over the last 5 or 6 years and within an hour I had an email(because our last tournament of the year is silver fish only) of what lures at what times at what depths and on what trolls, pretty amazing that we have a teammate that keeps unbelievable records for us.. So I decided to put together the ultimate Canandaigua off fish spoon box before we headed out Sunday morning... We put a 20 spoon spread out of all the colors and patterns that have got it done for us before and shortly after sunrise we were into the bows and lakers pretty good including a spoon dipsy that took a real good smack and took some drag too before we were able to land a nice bow just under the 5lb mark.. We caught 9 more rainbows but nothing that would top what we already had all fish but the Rainbow that we weighed in and one other that got the hooks in the gills were released to fight another day..Bellis Tackle Spoons and some of my old go to FLT spoons and O&M spoons all got the job done for us yesterday.. I want to thank Bellis Tackle Spoons for giving us a bunch of great quality lures that have definitely gotten the job done for us many times this year, thanks for supporting us and helping us out throughout the year Josh.. We headed into weigh in knowing that we would have liked to add a brown or two to our box but we tried hard and could not come up with one but when we got there we found out that everybody seemed to be in the rainbows pretty good .. We were able to pull off a third-place finish with the rainbow that we caught and hold on to the points lead which made us 2017 Finger Lakes Trollers Association Champions for the year.. I want to thank my crew on another amazing season and I can't tell you all how important it is to have a team that is all on the same page during every tournament and knows exactly what to do at any point of time while tournament fishing thanks again guys.. I also want to give a huge shout-out to all the guys and gals in our Fishing Club on the amazing job that they do fishing in these tournaments the comradery and sportsmanship is awesome you guys are all champions in my eyes.. Anyone who would possibly be interested in joining the club and fishing these tournaments next year pm me and I will send you the information on joining..Here's a few pics from yesterday.. Mike Sent from my SM-N910V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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Here's the pic.. Definitely not a healthy specimen.. Mike Sent from my SM-N910V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

It amazes me that none of those fish had any type of forage in them.. The bigger lakers we caught definitely looked long and lanky anorexic looking for sure. One would think if these fish were starving the would hit anything that came by them and I can tell you that's not the case were we fished anyway.. It's not over yet... I'll be there to try and win it just like the rest of you guys..[emoji6] Mike Sent from my SM-N910V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Hell of a job John !! You guys all found the off fish yesterday and when you do that that's an automatic top 5 for sure. Being able to put off fish in the boat is a major accomplishment on Keuka.. Congratulations on your strong performance Mike Sent from my SM-N910V using Lake Ontario United mobile app