Yankees Orleans Pro/Am Report

[Yankee Troller]

Friday (Practice/Pre Tourney) - We hit the water on Friday after hearing about a decent steelhead bite. We dropped in at 70 right out front to check the King waters and trolled on a due North heading. We took our first shot around the 200' mark and it ended up being a 10lb King that took our 140 wire diver set on a 3 pulling a Dreamweaver SS Gator. It would be a while until we took our next fish. We trolled out to 550 and then headed South East towards Devil's Nose. Once we hit the inside water there we ran into the motherload of Lakers. We took a 10lb fish and being 1:30 we made the decision to toss it back. WRONG MOVE! A few minutes later we took a 6lb Laker, and tossed that one back. One took a Wondebread SmartFish pulling a Hammer fly and the other took a Northern King Glow Coyote. About 1:45 the 300 copper starts to sing. This fish took a few nice runs and when it got to the boat we knew we had a big guy. He took a White w/ Green Dot SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Green Glow Live Series fly. On our Berkley boga scale he just misses the 25lb mark weighing in at 24.85lbs. So, after we boxed that fish we tried to scramble for another big lake Trout and just couldn't do it. We did grab us a small 6lb King that hit our center rigger, but we tossed his back to live another day.

So, at the captains meeting they announced the winners of the little pre tourney. If we had made the right decisions during the day we could have taken the 5th biggest box of the day and most likely the biggest fish of the day.

Saturday (Day 1) - We headed over to Devil's Nose first thing. We took 2 nice Lakers and a couple of Kings there late in the day on Friday, so the decision wasn't a hard one. Well, the Lakers took no time at all! We boxed a couple of nice Lake Trout off SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK combos. One off the wire diver and the other off the 300 copper. We worked that area looking for a couple of Kings, but we never got bit. So we worked our way down to the Sandy creek area where we would pick up two fish. One King and one Steelhead. The Steelhead took a mixed Veggies Singray Stinger off our 10 color, and the King took a Dreamweaver SS Silver w/ Green Glow tape off our rigger parked down 40'. We would end the day by pulling into 30-40' off the nose to see if any Brown Trout were around and took two shots, but lost them both. One off a 5 color core towing a stinger Stingray Black Wiggler, and another off the rigger with a Stinger Copper Glow Green Alewife. We ended the day in the middle of the pack, but within striking distance of a check. Out of about 40 teams on day 1 there was 1 12 fish box, 1 10 fish box, 2 7 fish boxes, and the rest of the field had 6 or less.

Sunday (Day 2) - Well, day 2 we decided to hang out in front of the Oak because some big guys were caught there the last two days. We managed to take a small Steelhead out of there but that was it. So, we made the run down to the nose and had our two Lakers in a matter of 30 minutes. We worked the area to see if there were any kings in it and we did take one off our center rigger while we were hooked up with a Laker. The King took a Dreamweaver SS Gator and the Lakers took White SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK combos. We worked that area a little more and even checked inside for Browns without another touch. We then made the decision to take a run out to 450' of water to try for some steelhead. With 30 minutes left to fish we took one on a slide diver pulling a Stingray Gator. When it was all said and done we stayed right were we started the day in 22nd place.

[Tank]

Yankee nice king!! Thanks for the conversations this winter about the ciscos..they are on the boat now and they are sweet!! Tank

[Yankee Troller]

Dude, I passed right by it the other day and never took a moment to look. What set-up did you get?

[Tank]

You can't see them with the cover on anyway. I got a bert's track for each side and four satin finish, silver tubes. I'll be adding more in the future. I ran four dipseys off them today for the first time, great product. Thanks again! Tank

[Yankee Troller]

Oh nice! Just like mine. Yeah, I need 1 more per side too.