BreakingBass

I-Bay 7/2, my 2 cents and a compass mishap. Saw a few good marks this morning about 2 miles west of Hedges in 160 FOW. Got several good hits, lost a screamer, but brought this one on board. 13lbs., 29". 90' down on a NK 28 UV green frog. Saw a few guys out in about 300' I would guess, just north of me, but the marks in 160' made me stick around. All action on spoons, not a hit on flasher/flies. BTW - had a strange thing happen over the last few days. The crown on my 3" Danforth Cruiser compass cracked or burst, from 17 years in the sun I guess, and leaked all the fluid from inside onto my dash. Ritchie seems like the best replacement piece. Electronics are great, but a good compass is hard to do without. Anybody ever have this happen? You can bet I'll keep the new compass covered when not in use.

First real run this year. Answering the request for more posts .... took the real first run out on the lake last Sat. the 3rd from Mayer's Marina on I-Bay. It was pretty bumpy at about 8:00 and the lake settled down about 10:00 to 1 footers or less. Picked up a nice 2 year old king 90' down over 240' due NE from the bay. 21", 6.5lbs. Hit on a DW tiger spoon with gold back. Didn't think I'd need to get that far out to hit one. Had to head in after just the one. Very little temp difference in the water, 53.7 on the surface and it varied by about 0.5 down below 50'. Fish was returned (as usual) to make more fish. Happy fishing guys, a good stretch of weather is coming.

Easy Troller trolling plate. $50 OBO. Standard size Easy Troller trolling plate for 50-300 HP motors. Works equally well on I/O as Outboards. Used one season only, then sold boat so it's no longer needed. It worked very well for me on a 3.0L Mercruiser with Alpha-One outdrive. The plate has a spring hinged bottom so if you forget to release it while it's down it will kick up out of the prop thrust so you don't bend the heck out of it. Comes with installation bolts and long release cord.

It's a small world sometimes. Sent from my XT1080 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

No matter what your opinion is of the lake fishing this season, here's a good reminder that we have great fishing opportunities here in NY. My daughter began fall classes in Oswego this week and was behind this Vermont car in traffic. I got a kick out of it, hope you do too.

Nice ones, good job! Sent from my XT1080 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Trolled about an hour and a half tonight due NE out of I-Bay on a solo run. It was almost 8:00 and I was heading back in to call it a night. Caught a nice King in 230 fow, 85' down, using a gold/white spin doctor and a metallic green and white Atomik fly. Came in at 20.4 lbs and 35". Was also the first use of my GoPro camera so I could relive the fun.

Had good luck this morning heading NE out of I-Bay 80-90 down in 220-280 fow. 2 nice steelies on a green/gold UV NK spoon and small king on a green/white fly with spin doctor. Also caught a headless seagull. Second steelie took the spoon line crossed over to the downrigger line with the fly and tangled it so bad the spoon line snapped. How that line stayed on the fly line I'll never know. Brought the fly line in up to the spinner and the last 40' of spoon line by hand. What a day! Sent from my XT1080 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Easy Troller trolling plate for sale. Very good condition. Used for about 3 months in 2014 on Mercury 3.0 with Alpha One outdrive and reached trolling speeds of 1.5 - 2 mph. No longer need it as sold that boat. $70 or best offer.

Thanks for the report, I was heading out tonight in that same vicinity. It was nice meeting you this year. Have a good fall and winter, maybe we'll see you in the spring.

Lined-out, nice fish. Must have been some excitement in that boat. Whereabouts were you fishing today? I was out all morning from I-bay to the river in about 85 fow and couldn't scare up a hit.

Headed directly N out of I-bay at 7:30 AM and hit two 10lbers, one at 110' down in 240 fow on the way out and the other at 100' in 150 fow on the way back in 2 hours later. Lost one at about 270 fow on the way out. White/green glo spin doctors with green/white and green/white/blue Atomik flies. One of the kings brought a lamprey along. Glad I could pluck it off before I released him. Nice morning out there.

After 45 days of working on your boat, now I know why you're always out on it. Thanks for the report on a good day on the lake. I troll the same stretch and it's good to keep tabs on the action.

Thanks for the I-bay report Matt. Good to keep up with the action out there.

At first they looked like salmon because they had some black around the mouth and the tails were slightly forked, but I'll give in to the experts here. After doing some comparisons it looks like the anal fin is a difference too. You're right, either way they were fun to catch and long overdue. Thanks guys.