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I have found them at mitchels in rochester and on their website. The purple uv dr death however is proving to be elusive.. http://www.warriorlures.com/FishingSpoonDisplay.aspx?ID=355 http://www.warriorlures.com/uveliteseries.aspx

I really like my slide divers and I am running the mag rings with the standard weight not the upgraded weight! I find on a 1 setting it’s 1 foot down for every 2 feet out using wire dipsy line! when running divers I push my led cores way out on planers to avoid tangles. I have a fishawk TD that I have used to better understand that line to depth ratio! I haven’t done it on a 2 setting yet only the 1 setting that’s a 1 foot down for every 2 feet of line. I also run 50 feet of 30lb mono on the slide diver proper and tie the wire and mono via a nice barrel swivel that will feed into me rod and reels level wide guides. hope this helps!

as a kid we fished almost every morning and when I turned 14 and got my boat license we hung out daily at the rope swing just south of the waterfront

Thanks Scott! See you down there in September!

Went on my 38th week-long vacation, and this time, it's my 5th year hauling my fishing boat along. Added some excitement this year with my newly acquired 21-foot Trophy Walkaround. Most of the time, we were more into hunting exotics than specifically going after lake trout. We covered every nook of the Crooked Lake, mainly aiming for different spots and points, hoping to reel in some Atlantics or a Bow, but luck wasn't on our side this time. But when we did decide to target lakers, things started picking up once we nailed down a plan. Our best setup was 8 rods cruising at 1.9 mph in 130 fow, and here's the gear we used: - Planers - 5 color with a Smithwick Firetiger stick bait - 7 color with a Reel Rage Electric Muffin - 220 weighted steel with a Reel Rage Brown Town - 250 weighted steel with a Stingray "You Can't Afford It" - Downriggers set at 50 feet and 55 degrees, holding a Moonshine Walleye 1/2 Moon Gold Perch, and a Warrior Flutter Purple UV Alewife, both with a good 30ft lead - Wire Mag Slide Divers doing great work at 1.5 mph over 111 feet, loaded with Moonshine Walleye 1/2 Moons in Blue UV and Purple UV, each rocking a long 30-foot lead. Our luckiest spot turned out to be along West Lake Road, around 2 miles south of Switz. At 130 fow, we teamed up with my dad, and things got wild—7 fish in an hour, even scoring a double and a triple catch back-to-back. Unlike two years back, we noticed a shortage of bait this time, especially around the Bluff area. Through the week, we kept about 4 lake trout for lunch. Funny thing, all their stomachs had were perch minnows. Most of the catches were the usual 2 to 3-pounders, with a handful tipping the 4-pound mark. Those little fish must not have much of a shelf life with not much grub around. Despite the rain playing spoilsport, it was an awesome week of fun. Gotta say, that boat cover was worth every penny, keeping us dry and happy!

Nice boat!

Good Job Dan! Those kings will rip up your gear..

I have caught 4 so far this year which is my PB! Is anyone seeing an increase in Atlantics

Nice Trip! captian songin stated in one of his reports that the bigger ones are off shore

2.2 to 2.5 all day

Lines in about 530am we were the first boat out in 100 fow west of the Genny. It’s amazing what a week makes as the 50 degree temp was at 55 feet down! Set on an east troll with riggers set at 50 feet with a green hulk 8in spin doctor with a fly and the other rigger at 55 with my go to green night and a gold NBK free slider. Dipseys were parked at 30 and 55 feet down. We caught all our silvers above 55 feet and the only laker on the bottom at 130. Laker was on green jeans glow flasher with an alien glow gambler spin n glow. Mostly a rigger and dipsey bite for us but did get 1 king on the 7 color and an Atlantic on a 150 copper. Went 10 for 13 with a couple doubles and almost a triple. 8 kings, 1 laker and an Atlantic back at the dock by 1030am The chinook diver #3 and the hulk flasher fly Matt brought took most of the fish! Thanks @Hickel24 for bringing some gear!! Best depth was 110 to 150 fow. We were able to get away from the pack and after we found some good bait we just circled them all morning for a nice steady pick! https://www.facebook.com/anthony.desalvo/videos/566667299003886/?mibextid=DcJ9fc

Thanks !! You name the date and I will make it happen Scott!!

I took a 1/2 day Friday and fished with my college student who’s home for the summer and a buddy Matt out of Braddocks. After getting through the channel where the depth was just about 2 feet in one small section we headed west and setup in 70 feet and headed northwest. In the first 45 min we landed a nice chunky laker down 50 on moonshine green knight that went back and then a nice screaming king that went in the cooler on a 5 color you can’t afford it. From there we just covered a lot of water from 90 to 140 fow and most of the water column running a 9 rod spread. We only marked a small pod of bait in 100 fow. We caught a few more lakers on the wire slide diver out 180 on a 2 setting running a custom painted reel rage brown town on a mag copper smashed northern king. We also caught a nice steelhead that went into the box on the same slide diver while setting it on the way down! This custom brown town setup has been one of our best laker producers in the spring! We lost a few, my son lost a silver on the green knight 80 down on the rigger and we lost a couple more on the rigger with no one home after the release. We boated a couple small kings and gently put them back to grow up. went 7 for 9 back at the dock by 7pm and home by 745 with a stop at abbots for some of the chocolate almond goodness

Just got around to posting pics of the stick and spoons

I got a 2002 trophy WA from a member of the FLTA club who’s the second owner. It’s always lived on a trailer, never salt and was re powered with a evinrude e tech. she was great in the rough water too!! I am planning on bringing her down to for the canadaigua lake trout derby this year for the weekend and staying in the cuddy for the weekend. We’re you planning on being there? anthony

Shakedown Trip on the new to me whip! If you have been following my reports over the last few years you would of seen my recreational boat turned into a fishing boat. Sunday I was lucky enough to purchase a legit fishing boat from a friend of the FLTA before it was even listed! Got out on the big lake about 6pm and trolled into the stiff breeze in about 30 feet of water right before shipbuilders creek. As soon as we slid into 17 feet we doubled up on some spring kings that gave a show but never made it into the boat. One broke off and the other came loose. One was on a custom blue and red hammered spoon the other on a stingray size NBK. We turned around at Webster park and headed with the eastern breeze and boated a nice Atlantic and 2 browns pretty quickly. Over all we had a good shakedown and got 4 in the boat and lost 4. Best setup was a perch styled stick bait and 80 foot weighted steel right on the bottom running a NBK and the blue and red hammered custom seen In the pics. Also thanks to the guy who picked up my planer and actually called the number to return it.

Thanks for the report

My buddy talked me into taking a 1/2 day to go after them brownies. Wind was stiff just out of the south west but mostly west so there was a considerable chop. . We launched out of iBay but if I had a Time Machine I would of launched at the Genny and started at Braddocks and then back to iBay. Lines in at 7am It seemed sticks with orange bellies were the best baits. I am guessing the rattle in them helped the fish locate the bait since the water is still super dirty. We fished from iBay to Webster park and picked up 4 browns and then jumped to Durand and fished back to iBay and landed another 2. Lost 2 You can’t afford it and NBK glow also brought fish. Chinook at 10ft also had 3 Flat lines with sticks and one colors with spoons took all spoon bites Best water temp was 47 in 10foot of water wrapped up the morning at dons original for burgers and fries. looking forward to our first FLTA club tournament this weekend on canadaigua with the same setup.. mostly

I will be on canadaigua Sunday targeting browns and will give it a try.

We saw you guys pop in when we were getting ready to depart! We were in the most recreational fishing boat out yesterday. (Glasstron) nice boat and great fish! we had a couple kings hit the rigger on the caddy shack but couldn’t get ‘em to the boat.

Nice Haul! We had luck at about 10 to 15 ft yesterday!

Nice Report and thanks for posting the pics! was it busy today? Yesterday there was about 4 boats out. I love the chinook divers, Inwonder if they work for browns on the finger lakes?

As many mentioned before between the wind and rain the rochester basin is all chocolate milk. I have even read that it’s all chocolate from oak orchard all the way to Hedges! Heading out Sunday morning at 28 degrees I didn’t have high hopes! On Saturday night the lake finally died down letting some of the sediment to fall out of the water. We launched out of iBay and went right over to Forrest Lawn and while the water was still too dirty to see my prop it was better than the chocolate milk in front of iBay. Air Temp was cold this morning at 28 putting some ice on the back deck of the boat but the lake being glass and sunny conditions made it manageable! Water color and temp seemed to improve the farther we went east. Larger brighter color spoons with green and yellow produced specifically the you can’t afford it stingray size. A few secret customs also produced with orange, white, blue yellow pattern. Nothing on the mixed veggies, or orange tuxedo Uvs . One color led cores took most of the fish which seems to get under the dirty water. Flatlines with sticks with the same green and chartreuse colors did well. All poles in the water caught fish from chinook diver set at 10feet , riggers, and in-line boards. Once 10am hit blues and chartreuse colors produced like the blue dolphin. Water temp really improved and spiked in-between ship builders and Webster park at 44. 41 seemed to be the normal temp Anthony @flx_adventures

Got it thanks!!

Thanks so much for posting. I just saved the ones on the DEC site for later reading. [email protected] is my address if you don’t mind sending the more detailed report. I hope they don’t stop stocking brownies in canadaigua. https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/27875.html