ryonybony

This is my first year fishing Sodus. I grew up fishing the henderson area, but in all honesty it was my dad and brother running rods and I would sleep until they said fish on. My kids are now old enough to go out on a boat with me (6 and 9) so I decided to get a boat and get back into fishing the lake. Its my first year at Sodus( switched from henderson because I live 45 minutes from sodus) and I teach so I have the summer off. I am able to get my kids out for about 4 hours at a time. I will do 6-10 in the morning or 4-8 at night and wait until its flat on the lake. May and June were great, lots of lakers and a good number of steelhead and kings out deep when I made runs. July 4th was decent, but I have been out 4 times in the last three weeks. Here were the results. 1-5 on kings, then 1-3 on kings, then 3-3( 1 laker and 2 browns) and 2-2 tonight(1 laker and 1 brown). I decided to go for browns the last two trips because I am blanking on kings and only getting a few lakers to hit when im out there. So I guess my question is...How is everyone else doing, and maybe how am I doing? I dont know many people in the area and most of the time I fish during the week so I am out on the lake alone, and havent met many other fisherman as a result. I am targeting kings with copper, dipsies and riggers. I get a nice spread going with flashers and SD's. I feel like I am convering water well, and I havnt been skunked, so I guess thats a plus. I have just heard a lot about July salmon fishing in Sodus and feel like I am striking out a little.

Just wondering if anyone was going to do an evening trip tomorrow. Ill be heading out around 3. With all the winds the fish will be fun to find. Message me and we can chat over the radio.

I wanted to take my kids out fishing and thought going for lakers would be fun( 6 and 8 years old). You can usually catch quite a few. Im new to sodus area fishing. Where do they get lakers this time of year? I used to run cowbells pretty effectively off the sand dunes in sandy. Are there areas like that in sodus? Thanks for any help or advice.

Ill post how we do. Hopefully he gets a king or two on his birthday. Thanks for the info.

Nice fish! Im taking my 9 year old out tomorrow for his birthday. Deep as in 300? I have had some luck with spoons this year as well. Fun to catch on!

Nice fish! I took my family out from 2-6(wife, brother, 4 kids) I thought...hey try some lakers at 120. Saw a ton of marks up high. After an hour or so we said forget this, lets fish for salmon. Brought in 2 kings and had 3 other nice hit and misses off the dipsies.

The weather had not looked great, but I woke up this morning and saw the storms were not coming until late in the day. I took my 8 year old out for 2 hours, (9:30-11:30). We ended up with a 17 pound king and an 8 pound steelhead. Got the king right off the bottom at 140 feet and the steelhead off the dispy back 300. Dodger fly for the salmon, green/glow ladderback for the steelie. Seems promising for the weekend if the weather holds. On a side note, does the weather call for thunderstorm possibilities for the whole summer in Sodus? geesh

I had my two kids(6 year old daughter and 8 year old son) so I didnt bother getting up early for the bite. Got to Arneys around noon and heard from about 4 boats and not much going on. So I decided to head out for lakers. Started at 120 with cowbell/peanut and trolled out. Didnt get anything until 150 feet and then hit two in about 30 minutes and brought the kids in. I plan to head out early on Saturday, anyone catching browns? Someone mentioned a lot of boats in the 80-90 foot of water range. Just curious whats going on.

Ill make a note of that...my boat is at slip 83!

You ever try the mini planer boards? I have a large boat amd use them. Tighten them so they dont release...then take them off to start fight. And they can store in a tackle box

I spent the last few weeks fishing lakers, it seemed like that was all there was going on until about two weeks ago. I was not about to take my 8 year old with me last weekend, the water seemed a little too much. I have not seen or heard anything out of the area so here was my thought process. 1) I was not going to get up early enough to get at a good brown run. 2) I like lakers, but caught enough already this spring and me and my son have never caugt a steelhead. I decided to see if the steelhead are still around. I mentioned before i am new to Sodus so until I meet some people im pretty much on my own. I thought I would post the good and bad. I think posting what didnt work could be just as usefull, or show that I cant fish! We started with the lines down around 6:15, fished from 180 - 280 and back to about 150. I didnt mark much of anything or get anything to release. I tried every direction and lure combination for about three hours and struck out. I decided to go out to about 350 feet and see if anything was deep. Got out there and my depth finder stopped working! The gps map showed somewhere around 360 feet of water NW of the lighthouse. Trolled for about an hour and a half. We boated one steelhead, had another close to the boat before it jumped and spit out the hook. Had two more hard releases and went in. It was my sons first steelhead so he was trilled, I was happy that my 8 year old could fish for 5 hours, get one fish and be happy! The steelhead we boated was on an orange and yellow thunderstick off the surface. The one he fought for a few minutes was on a Blue Dolphin, the other hits were on a black/white flasher fly and a natural born killer, all 70-80 feet down off the riggers. I did hear the browns were great early saturay and decent this morning. A captain I spoke with did browns early and then lakers when it died down and had some success. He had 7 today...3 browns early and then 4 lakers. Yesterday he said he slammed the browns early (14) and then a few lakers later. Ill be out again memorial day weekend.

I started a little later than I would have liked...I got the lines down closer to 7. I didnt see many marks trolling from 80-120, I went west of the lighthouse. Tried for kings like you did...picked up 2 lakers in about an hour and a half...then headed to 250 and trolled out and back to 315. Picked up a steelhead in about an hour and a half fishing out deep on a thunderstick. Had my 8 year old with me..so that seemed to be enough, the sun was high and hot at that point. I did get a few releases on some spoons out in the deep water down 100 and 120...flasher/fly didnt do anything. Good luck finding the steelies.