Chas0218

Thanks my 2 of buddies never went walleye fishing so I thought it was a perfect opportunity. The one kid never caught a fish over 15" so with all these fish he was grinning ear to ear.

Start pm-ing people for info and if they don't give aNy info no skin off your but.

Here are a few more of me fighting the big pike.

Here is our catch from this past weekend total of 5 walleyes the largest was 6.25lbs. and the 2nd largest was 6.1lbs.

We were in chaumont and did pretty well. We hooked up with 5 walleye on sat. and 3 more on sun morning the biggest 2 were 6.25lbs and the other was 6.1lbs. The rest of our eyes ranges from 4lbs. and up. We caught 5 more pike and 2 big pickerel. Ours were all on deep stickbaits on a wide range of colors. We lucked out and didn't catch a single sheephead.

I am not sure how they are hitting but what are you looking to fish for? Walleye opens this weekend and I can report back about eyes if that is what your looking for. I believe there are a lot of people catching fish out of Sandy.

I am heading up to Chaumont bay tonight, looking forward to seeing you guys out there! Anyone else planning on fishing that area? Tight lines, Chas

We caught a few thru the ice 2 years ago but nothing like it used to be. I remember going with my father and grandfather catching a good 20-30 in a day. Nothing like hand lining a 40" pike.

Thanks

My buddies and I don't offer one another mostly because we trade up on trips. Although I use a lot more gas I don't really expect them to shell out any money. Last week I took a bunch of the same guys out and each one threw me $20. It was a nice gesture on their part but if they really knew how much I spent they would have had a stroke. Running 8 hours at 1 gallon/hr plus the 16 mile round trip run at 2 miles/gallon I blew through 16 gallons of gas and that didn't include trailering to the launch which was another 4 gallons of gas meaning a grad total of $80 to cover my costs. And I won't even talk about the oil burned...Hopefully that 8 gallons for trolling becomes 2 with my kicker. Either way we had fun. Hopefully this weekend they return the favor seeing how I am housing them for the weekend. Chas

when is the cut off for registration? We won't be up there until later. Also is this biggest fish or a weigh-in at certain time each day?

Are the brakes in working order?

Ok sounds good I just wanted to be able cover my costs.

I always set my lures for 15'-20' when the boat is in 30'. The sunnier the deeper the cloudier the shallower, and troll 2 mph.

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I was going to say I just use my finger nail.

Troll 20-30 FOW with planer boards. Use natural colors no bright firetiger colors. I have never caught a walleye on the super bright colors. Find structure if you can.

any idea on what the payout would be?

We threw our last 2 Browns back to fight another day. Here are the promised photos:

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Sea Mist ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 4/28/12 Time on Water: 9:30am-7:00pm Weather/Temp: 40* Wind Speed/Direction: WNW 15mph subsiding to 8mph Waves: 6' subsiding to 2' Surface Temp: 46* Location: Maxwell Bay LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 16 Total Boated: 6 Species Breakdown: 5 Browns 1 Rainbow Hot Lure: Storm Thunderstick jr. Assorted natural colors Trolling Speed: 2.5 Down Speed: Boat Depth: 10'-30' Lure Depth: 7'-15' ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== We started a little later because of the guys going out on the town in Oswego driving over to Sodus. The waves were battling us pretty good in the AM. We started trolling got all of our lines out and about 10 minutes later our boards flipped and crossed we caught it quick enough where we didn't tangle any lines but had to bring in all the lines and boards then flip. next we were trolling and the planer board line broke. The worst part is in all of the confusion one of the guys from Boston dropped my bait casting rod over the side and into the deep it went. After all of the equipment malfunctions I was able to get the boards running better and started catching some fish. We lost a lot of fish (Boston guys first time out trolling.) I lost a monster in 20' of water my guess either a laker or king. My 8' 6" rod was bent clean over straight down looked like I was deep sea fishing. haha I really need to get my captains license so I can start charging for these trips. They are getting expensive out of my pocket. Pictures are to come.

Who is this on the Oswego camera? Looks like the lake is rough!

Ya if you are in the Chaumont bay area Be sure to pick up a topo map of the area. They are worth their weight in gold. Cherry Island has a long shoal with large boulders after it on the SW end.

Sorry I had to re-read to understand too.

Ya I was just looking for it to steer the boat not pull so much. I think I would set the target speed slower on my kicker then use the electric to pull just slightly to keep her heading straight. Its a 24v system and 70lb thrust so it won't take a whole lot of juice to move the boat with the majority of it coming from the kicker. Is there an autopilot setup for a kicker/main motor that would be right about the same price? This setup would cost me close to $1000. I have seen autopilot for sail boat rudders but I haven't look around a lot.

I mounted 4 LED accent lights in my boat for this reason. I have not tried them at night to see how much light is given off but they should do the trick. I will report back when I have an answer.