Decoy Hound

Yeah it's a great fishery, wish it wasn't a 4 hour drive. It really spoiled me and finding it hard to want to fish Erie anymore. Saturday for us the early bite was great we had 10 fish by 8:00 then took 2 more hours to get the last 2. Sunday we became impatient and expected the same results as Saturday.

Lol, that's funny stuff!!

Yeah we rolled back in to Ohio at 1:30 this morning, rough getting up for work today, I'm beat. I don't know how the Charters do it, it's a tough job!

The boat is an Alumaweld Intruder made in Oregon. All quarter inch welded aluminum, no wood, no rivets, Built like a tank with a custom hardtop, 175 gallon fuel capacity. I've owned fiberglass and tin boats both in the past, just sold my Thompson 260 Fisherman. Can it tow, yeah, pulled a 35 foot fiberglass boat in once that broke down and ripped out one of his cleats in the process, mine handled it no problem. Do I miss a bigger boat, sure, I do have a lot of tackle and it's hard to fit it all on a small boat.

Awesome report, you guys did great! Sunday was a tough bite and we spent a lot of the day searching for bait.

My buddy's catch! Live and learn, I never was a very patient person. Definitely should of stayed!

Sunday was definitely a challenge, took a lot longer to get to the 30 line. It was really blowing in the morning but we finally made it. Some bait around but not many marks, spent some time searching and finally setup in about 450 feet and trolled with the waves. Picked up a few steelhead and coho, no real size, heard the bar was having a king bite, so we made the long run, took quite a while with the waves coming at you! But it was pretty much over by the time we arrived, just a few shakers. So we decided to do a little more searching, headed back east and trolled between 200 and 250 feet of water. Finally found great bait in 240-260 feet just west of Wilson, picked up a few teenage kings in a small area. Kind of surprising with down temps in the mid 60's, 80-100 down. But I said it before, it seems this year if you find bait you'll find the kings no matter the temperature. My buddy didn't make the run with us to the bar, instead decided to keep working the 27-28 line and did great with a limit of teenage kings by noon. So I made the wrong move by not being patient and giving it some time, it's always a tough decision to leave fish hoping to find better fish. Still had an awesome time on my favorite Great Lake! I'd trade you guys Erie in a heartbeat, I think I'm done with smalleyes till November when they become walleyes again! I'll be back in two weeks.

My boat is 22 foot, it's not a lot of fun fishing in the rough stuff, but we were committed. We already had our motel reservations and a guy took a couple vacation days from work. This is my boat.

Yeah we needed something for the guys that just don't have sea legs.

Just the spoon, never tried running an attractor ahead of a spoon but have heard that it works.

Very well said! I think Scott and the whole crew that keep the Olcott launch running is doing a fantastic job! Ok now that's all I have to say.

Olcott - Saturday 12th Another fantastic day fishing the greatest fishery! We ran out to 450 feet of water and setup on a north troll straight north of Olcott. We found clusters of bait on and off the whole way. It was pretty fast action and had ten fish by 8:00 am but then slowed down a bit and took a couple more hours to box out. Mostly kings with a couple big steelhead. Spoons on the riggers and flasher/flies on the divers, didn't have time to put the coppers out, it was hard to keep all the lines in with several doubles and even a triple on at once. It was a little rough out but very fishable. Be back at it in the morning!

You can bad mouth Olcott all you want, but in the Ohio guys eyes it's the best and cleanest launch on the south shore of Lake O! At least a dozen Ohio boats using it this weekend and not one complaint! Still the greatest fishery! That's all I have to say!

Thanks for the report guys, heading up Thursday morning, good luck everyone!

Awesome pictures and very nice fish!!

Nice! Glad it worked out!

Wow that is really sad, I feel for those people, they must feel helpless.