zackblain

would like the chamberlain release if I can meet up locally, are you in rochester?

winning fish was a laker

There's a good night bite outta sturgeon

today we used a friend (ruger1nut)s New 19' islander, i fished outta my 16 last weekends

Nice fish! you seem to do very well over on hemlock.

only pics I have on my phone from the day, pictures make everything more enjoyable.

Weather report looked good and heard of some real good eye action out near my buddies place out on Erie, so I hooked up the boat and headed out at noon. We were on the water by 3:30, started from 12-20 around some of the small unnamed shoals and pounded on smallmouth up to 7lbs, bladebaits, lipless cranks, jigs, cranks, jerkbaits, piece of hot dog, it didn't really matter what you threw out you were getting bit. As the sun started to set around 830 we decided to switch gears and lay out some boards pulling jdhj's taildancers, reefunners, and bombers. First eye(24'' male) hit a blue steel mr-9 flatlined back 120'. After that we had a slow but steady pick of eyes, eventually moving in shallow and switching out to all shallow sticks. Best part about it was there wasn't another boat in sight the whole time we were out there! Heard of a good bite up towards buffalo but we didn't really feel like playing bumper boats and we had a feeling that if we put our time in we would get some away from the crowds and we were right. Kings browns and lakers up on ontario saturday, monster smallies and eyes on erie sunday gotta love WNY! Water temps started touching 60 at 330 and last time I looked around midnight they were around 56. Planned on trying for perch this morning but we woke up to 15mph southwest winds which are way too much for my 16' My buddies mom snapped this pic of us from the beach which I thought looked pretty awesome first 2 of the night "average size" smallie of the day, only on erie!

launched at 530 went right out to the mudline and headed east. Riggers and dipsys were hot, nothing on copper, lead, or flatines. Purple and glow spoons took every fish. Made it to about shipbuilders before the screen went blank and headed back west. Screen was best from the mouth of Ibay west about 3 miles. All lakers from 5-20 lbs and kings from 5-12 pounds. Ended the day when some @sshole decided cut about 50 yards behind me. Seemed like once those fish on the mudline got ran over a few times they shut right down, but it was nuts when we went through it the first time. I think I'll try to avoid the weekend/holiday crowd here for a while, seems like there isn't a real set pattern to how most people troll(east/west)

It's a killer set up for sure

Just watch your electronics, yesterday it was just a, matter of dropping it down and reeling back up as fast as I could and holding on

One ounce northland glow jig head with a pearl 4' Berkley ripple Shad paddle tail plastic, that combo has probably netted me more trout than any other set up I've fished

Yes head east outta the mouth flatline sticks there are still plenty of fish inside.

Hopefully the weather cooperates and I can get out again and try it next weekend, that may have been the most fun I've ever had with my pants on!

My buddy bailed, if anybody wants to join I'll be at the launch at 6:15

Thanks for the info logger

Awesome guys thanks for the info, going to try out in the lake first, if that doesn't work out or the weather turns then we'll head for the bay. The reports I've been reading say there is still a decent near shore bite for trout/salmon, is this true?

hoping to fish Ontario out of my own boat for the first time and was wondering if the launch near the mouth of the bay is paved, would rather tow boat up with the wagon instead of the truck for the gas savings if possible to launch with my front wheel drive wagon. Also I'm kinda limited with only a 16' boat and a 9.9 so any pointers or if i should try a different launch to be closer to the bite, any info will be greatly appreciated! Well this morning was pretty epic, My buddy bailed on me last minute so I decided to wait a bit and launch around 6:15 so I had some light to work with. Headed east out of the channel in 10-20' and put out 2 church boards, one pulling a purple prism thunderstick and one with a firetiger scatter minnow. Put a chicken wing stinger down 7' on the rigger as well. Fifteen minutes in I had a rip on the purple prism, after getting it to the near the boat I had a nice 10#+ brown pop off while I was trying to net and steer. That would happen 3 more times before I finally got a net under a 9-10#er. Purple prism was hot 80 back taking probably 10+ rips and putting 5 nice browns in the boat. Played around with other colored sticks and cranks on the other board but nothing yielded more than 1 or two bites. Rigger was dead shallow too. Around 9 I'd had enough of the browns between dodging all the big boats(I think I steared clear enough not to piss anybody off). Went out to the west side of the mudline coming outta the bay and started in 55' and headed north. About twenty minutes in the rigger parked at 55 over 70 pulling a flinstone blue jamaican sunrise spoon popped and before I knew if I had a 19'' king wrapped up in my copper causing one hell of a tangle luckily no copper was lost. Sorted that out and put the rigger back down as well as a 300' copper with a sd/fly and a 10 color pulling a stinger. Popped another 4# king on the rigger and stumbled over a massive cloud of bait that was loaded with fish. I pulled everything and went back over the bait and dropped a 1oz glow jighead with a 4'' white berkely ripple shad. On the first drop I had 3 fish rocketing up and I was hooked up in no time with a nice 8# or so king. As quickly as I could get the jig back down I was getting hit, landed 5 and lost twice as many all between 5-15 pounds. Ended the day losing a monster that I would guess was 25# that straightened my hook right out while trying to net it. All in all a solid trip for my first time fishing ontario in my boat. Woulda been a lot easier if I had another person in the boat! water temps in shallow ranged from 45-60, out deep in the clear water 42. LOTS of debris floating, Very difficult to navigate out over the deeper water.

Awesome looking boat! love the work you put into it. Good luck with the sale.

With bait that thick I would think dropping a jig down could lead to some serious fun.