Yankee 6/26 & 6/27

[Yankee Troller]

6/26 – Derby Fishing

We left the dock at 7am after the girls got their breakfast in. Man I hate it when they don’t want to wake up early! We headed out to 100fow and set lines. We ran with a double diver program, three riggers, and a 400 copper down the chute. We ran paddles on the deep divers, and spoons on the high divers. Spoons on all the riggers and a paddle on the copper would finish off our program.

On the wires we planted a Wonder Dot SmartFish pulling a shredded A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly at 200’ on a 1.5, and a Green Dot SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist out 150’ on a 1.5. On the 400 copper we pulled my Custom Green SmartFish with an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist. The first round of lure choices on the riggers was Northern King Lazer Spooks, Dreamweaver SS Glow Froggys, and pair of Dreamweaver SS Firecrackers. Our high Divers were set on 3’s and put 50’ behind our low divers with Magnum spoons. One was a Dreamweaver gator, and the other was a Dreamweaver Moon Cricket.

After we got set-up it took a while to get into some fish. We ran West a bit and continued to troll west because we knew there were some good Kings down there from reports on Friday our of Olcott. After 30 minutes of nothing I looked up at the sky and it was very overcast. The light bulb goes off in my head. The Sunday of the Orleans Pro Am the sky was very similar to today. So I dug out the spoons that were red hot on that day, and down they went. A Dreamweaver SS Da Shiznit went down 70, a Dreamweaver Feelin’ Erie went down on the 90 rigger, and a pair of Stinger Stingray Wonderbreads went down 50. It didn’t take long and the rods started going crazy with hooked up fish! For the next few hours we would pound on the Salmon. Mostly 2yr olds with 1 or 2 3yr old mixed in. Perfect fish for the girls!

Our fish were only coming on an Easterly troll, and we found out why when we tried to troll West. The current was strong down there. We finally got a few rods to fire on the West troll at the end of our trip, but the East troll was by far the best troll for us and a few other boats I talked to. We finished the day with a lot of fish hooked up and landed, and we came very close to the Lake Ontario Grand Slam. As I stated above mostly a Salmon bite (Chinook and Cohos), but we did manage to get a Brown Trout and a Steelhead on this trip.

The girls had fun, so that was win. We had fun too, but no derby fish for us on this day. On a side note the Coho Salmon that we are getting are very healthy and very nice sized.

6/27 Derby Fishing

We left a little earlier this morning with just my brother, my girlfriend, and me. The six rod spread was the max we could run, which I can’t stand because it’s hard to cover the water column efficiently. Well, by the end of the day maybe less was better!

We set up the same program we ended with yesterday (minus 2 extra wires). The program consisted of: 3 riggers, 2 wires, and a 400 copper. On the riggers we had Dreamweaver Feelin’ Erie on the 90-100 rigger, Dreamweaver SS Da Shiznit on our 70-80 rigger, and on our center rigger we had a pair of Stinger Stingray Wonderbreads down for half the morning, and then we switched it up to a Pair of Stinger Later Gators. On the wires we planted a Wonder Dot SmartFish pulling a shredded A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly at 225’ on a 1.5, and a Green Dot SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist out 200’ on a 1.5. On the 400 copper we pulled my Custom Green SmartFish with an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist.

It took us a few minutes to find the fish. We hung out in that 150’ area we did so well in yesterday. We got a call from a buddy a few minutes after we pointed it north, and he said they were on them pretty good. The end of our conversation ended in “Eric, I’ll call you back! Screeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaamer!†That was the start of it, and it would be CRAZY for the next few hours. At one point 5 out of the 6 rods were out of the water because we had caught fish on them. We tripled at one point, which is fun with 3 people. We did something today that we haven’t done in a long time, and that was to hit a Lake Ontario Grand Slam. In my book that consist of a Salmon, Steelhead, Brown Trout, and a Lake Trout. Our catch for the day consisted mostly of Chinook and Coho Salmon. We caught 1 each of the following: Brown Trout (5lbs), Lake Trout (5lbs), and a Rainbow Trout (17lbs). If we would have boated an Atlantic salmon it would have made it even more special because that would mean we would have caught every cold water species Lake Ontario has to offer.

Everything was going with consistency until about 8:45 when the 80 rigger fires. Within seconds a MONSTER Rainbow Trout is breaking surface. My brother and I both yelled “Holy SH*T!†The focus and the intensity was now directed to getting this pig to the net. With at least 6 acrobatic jumps I was sweating bullets. On the way in the fish decided it wanted to test our McCoy Mono in the wire diver, but my brother grabbed that rod and put it in a safe place in the center rigger. When this fish hit the deck it was all high fives. The decision was to head in and weigh it in for the Summer LOC Derby. We quickly put it on the scale and it read a heavy 17 pounds. Knowing the leader was currently my buddy Rich Baliva on the Godzilla boat at 15 pounds and change we put the throttle down. We arrived at Narby’s and the fish weighed 17.4 pounds on the LOC Derby Scale. Good enough for 1st place! Now we have to wait 3 weeks to see if we get knocked off the pedestal.

We still had two hours of fishing time before I had to go, so we headed back out to the 25N line and set rods. WE changed out the Green dot SmartFish on the wire for a Gator Spin Doctor and an A-TOM-MIK Green Crinkle, but the rest of the spread stayed the same. Well, it didn’t take long and we were into them again. We would end the day with a nice double on teenage Chinooks. Everything in the spread was going quite consistently the whole morning. Our screen wasn’t great, but rods were flying.

The mix of fish off the Oak right now is amazing!

[ray koziatek]

In the 3rd pic from the top ya either had a tasty fly on,its yer secret "sent",yer bro wasnt gonna give up any secrets,or you were using worms and he was keeping them warm...

Erie waleye,oak screamers,erie walleye,oak screamers,erie walleye,oak screamers........Decisions,decisions......

[Gill-T]

Congrats on the great steelhead!

[Yankee Troller]

LOL.....Ray he had to hold the line in his mouth so we could get the flasher fly in the picture.

[ray koziatek]

Yea like i belive that im heading to the garden and start warming up some worms! I ant Stupid!!! .

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Hmmpf,mi moulf mis mull mas my mype....

[Yankee Troller]

LMAO

[Mick]

Way to go on the steelie Rick. You knocked my brothers off the board yesterday for sure. I fished with Old timer when he put his steelie on the board, and his is now in 9th. We were out yesterday also ,but headed east and out, only to find we should have went west. Didn't hear ya on the radio, or I would have chatted with ya. Way to go

[woody 184]

Rick next time you take a pic of a fish like that you have to make sure you zoom in on the lure you took it with... It is to hard to see.... Its something green........... Dale

[Sean Youngblood]

Nice job Yankee, you bumped me out of first I bumped your buddy Sat. out of Olcott with 15.14lbs.We had mostly a Rainbow day out deep 335 to 400 ft. Morning bite was hot , we had some of or best luck on a Northwest troll.8 Bows 3 over 10lbs.3 Salmon largest about 12lbs.We ran 2 divers and 2 on riggers with sliders with all spoons 1 Spin Doc. Everything took hits.Nbk took the most hits.We had our fair share of lost fish.You have got to love those big Bows. Congrats Sean

[Silver Fox]

Great fish Rick!

BTW: Are you getting gray?

[Yankee Troller]

Silver Scott

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[Silver Fox]

LOL

[MANIAC]

Awesome steel Rick!! We lacked the laker to grand slam on Sun. We did take 2 LL's.

[GAMBLER]

Nice job on the big Steelie Rick. I hope it holds for you.

[Yankee Troller]

Rick next time you take a pic of a fish like that you have to make sure you zoom in on the lure you took it with... It is to hard to see.... Its something green........... Dale

Dale,

I gave my GF a lashing when I finally saw the pics. You can only see it clearly in one picture. I wish she would have told me, but she is a newby and really only comes out so she doesn't look like Casper the ghost all summer. It was a DW SS Shiznit. Pic of the spoon is posted in tackle description.

[Fishtails]

GREAT steelie Rich & great play by play as always.... I hope it holds up for you.

[Yankee Troller]

Thanks Rod!

[woody 184]

Rick thanks for the info.. Any way you look at it the more pics she takes the better she is going to get.. When I have the wife taking pics I review them before we are done taking pics... Too many nice bucks and fish that the pics are horrible..... Better off letting the kids take the picture......... Again awesome Steelie...... Dale

[Pike Hunter]

Way to go Rick!

Holy Sh*t is the right word to say when you re looking at this monster steelie.

[FX]

Nice job and report Rick! Congrats on the Steelie!

Shawn