Yankee's Oswego Scotty

[Yankee Troller]

So, this past weekend was the Scotty event out of the Port of Oswego. Considering we are a deep water team, and we had two top 10 finishes on the East end of the Lake this year, we thought it was going to be a good tourney. Well, we were wrong! Fishing was TOUGH, but the good times had both on the water and at the dock made up for it. Saying goodbye to all the tourney teams until next April, and talking about the 2009 highlights made for some good laughs.

Friday 21st (Practice) - We went out and dropped our lines at 80'. The picture on our fish finder was amazing. We worked the 80-150' depths East down to the Power Plant with just one fish. My custom SmartFish (Green blade/Crushed Glow on the back/Twinkie tape on the front) pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist was the combo that took a dark 18lb Salmon. He hit on the wire diver. We then pushed North out to the 400' area and worked that West past the college. We took 2 shakers out there, but it just didn't look as fishy as the inside waters. So, to finish the day we headed back into 150' of water and trolled it East back to the Oswego River mouth. With minutes to go before we picked up our lines the Wire out 350' starts singing! We were battling another nice Salmon. This was the same combo mentioned above that the fish took. At the end of the day we heard the bite was tough for EVERYONE, and figured we should stick it out in that shallow water and see if we could scratch out our 5 Salmon.

Saturday 22nd (Day 1) - Well, we headed straight out and the screen was still loaded with fish. So we set out our usual 8 rod tourney spread (3 downriggers, 2 wires, and 3 junk lines). Everything but the middle rigger had flasher/fly combos. Our first fish took a Wonderbread SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Glow Hammer down 120 over 120 on the rigger. Another one of our keepers would take a Chrome E-Chip pulling an A-TOM-MIK B-Fly later in the day on our wire diver out 180. Those would be the only two fish we would catch on day 1. We lost a salmon on a wire diver throughout the day, and would toss back 2 short fish and a Brown Trout. After everyone's catches hit the scales we were sitting in 17th out of 37 teams. Well within striking distance of another top 10. A total of 3 limits were brought to the scales all taken 20+ miles from Oswego.

Sunday 23rd (Day 2) - Well, since we were unfamiliar with the water 20 miles away we figured we would stick it out in front of Oswego again. The fish were there, but they were just not eating. WE figured if we could scratch of 3-4 fish we would be contending for a top 10, which in this tough tourney wasn't a bad thing. However this day wasn't as good as the previous two. We would go 1 for 4! Our lone fish took a Northern King Glow Froggy (white cup) fished 240 out on our wire diver. We lost a screamer on a 375 wire, a fish off our 240 rigger, and a fish off our 700 copper throughout the day. All of which were various flasher/fly combos. That one fish would drop us a little deeper in the standings, and leave us wondering is we should have just made the run!

[A-TOM-MIK]

Nice job Yankee and Crew !! One tough weekend to hit O town for sure, always nice seeing you guys !!!!

Tom

[Yankee Troller]

Thanks Tommy! BTW....those riggers are the SEXIEST riggers I have ever seen. Your boat looks GREAT!

Quick question.....did Steph and her girls beat us?

[A-TOM-MIK]

Thanks Rick

Team Crazy B itch was aboard the Popeye boat, placed 29th, they also had the 3rd or 4th largest King on Friday !!!

(:

[Popeye]

4th largest on Friday. Missed the money by a couple of ounces. Wish we had fridays hits on Saturday. We really had a rough day then. Came back a little on saturday but still only had half the hits we needed.

[big fin]

rick thanks for a great season,hope to see you at the western end next spring, tell craig he's buying the milk shakes. big fin

[Yankee Troller]

Gene! Whats up brother! You gotta get a facebook. Antenori can hook you up now that you know how to use the internet. Great second place finish. Fishing tourneys has allowed us to meet some of Lake Ontario's finest fisherman, and it only make us better at it. Even though your just a recreational angler your one of the BEST on the lake. See ya in May on the BAR!

[Fishtails]

Rick....missed yas this time, see ya next spring in Wilson!

For what it's worth, we made the run and it was still very hit or miss ( mostly miss ). Then again we only ran about 17 miles, so we might not have gone far enough. Good luck the rest of the season.