Sodus Proam Open report Friday-Sunday

[rdebadts]

Your Name / Boat Name: Continuity/Fish Doctor

Date(s): 7/20-7/22/12

Weather/Temp: very windy and wavy, calming to flat calm saturday, then wavy to start sunday calming to flat

Wind Speed/Direction: heavy east followed by SW

Waves: 3-5s + friday, 1-2 most of the weekend

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 25+

Species Breakdown: Kings, steel

Hot Lure: Mag glow spoons, white prochip atommik, white spinny atommik fly

Trolling Speed: 2-2.5

Boat Depth: 150-650+!!

Lure Depth: 60-90 down

So the plan was to prefish friday and do BFF, then fish the open of the sodus proam both days. Word was of a decent salmon bite so thats what I geared up for. What I didnt plan for was a STRONG east wind on friday.... So right before bed thursday I called my guys and said that we were going out late on friday (when it was supposed to start calming down). We got to the point at 8 am and it was whitecapping in the no wake zone, so I knew it was nasty. We waited it out, and finally got out at ~10. We set up in 100 FOW and trolled NE into the 3-5 footers... UGH. we did manage to miss a few shots in 140 and 220, but nothing good so we kept going. The plan was to go to 400 then ride it back in and call it a day. However, as soon as we hit 350 FOW all hell broke loose- I think we did 10 hits out there on salmon and steelies in 2 hours, but we were having a hell of a time keeping them hooked in those waves. Hits coming down 60-80 with good temp there, mostly on mag moonshine spoons. Fortunately I could see that it was finally calming when we came in and I was very confident about saturday. Our box wasnt enough to compete on BFF given our dropsy tendencies (needed about 75-80 I think). I talked to the guys and the plan was to set up in 200 FOW and troll N on saturday....

We woke up on saturday to this:

I was excited, and couldnt wait for a crack at those fish when I could actually stand up to fight them! so we did a very similar program as friday, stacked riggers with mag spoons down 60-90, dipseys with FF back 180-250. We missed a quick one in200 FOW on the way out, and once we got to our waypoints from friday we hooked a mega steelhead- which jumped us off 15 feet behind the boat and flopped on the surface for a few minutes while we tried to turn around and net it. That would be our last hit of the day (it was 8 am) and we would struggle from then on. we tried our waypoints in 350, east and west of those, and worked the living crap out of 200-400 FOW. Nothing. Nada. First skunk of the year and I had it for the proam. Typical....

My poor brother was not amused. We hemmed and we hawed and we watched some boats weigh in huge boxes. Of course there were you brown trout, but I cannot stand fishing browns when I know there are perfectly good salmon around. Anyways, browns wont win a trophy division. I noticed that most successful guys were coming west, so we decided to go west on sunday.

On sunday we had a good SW wind and it was a bit more wavy:

we started in 200 FOW and had a screamer get cut off by a dipsey- wicked current? after 2 hours of nothing, we decided to throw the hail mary and go way west and WAY deep, thinking those fish from friday rode the east wind down to the west. We picked up and ran, and set up in 350 FOW and trolled NW. As soon as the depth finder read 600 FOW it was game on. Man was it game on... we did 4 fish in 15 minutes around 8am, the first two a double on steelies down 70-80, the second two kings on the 270 dispey and 300 copper. we would slowly pick away at 2 and 3 year old salmon for the next 2.5 hours, and by then I had three good salmon for the weigh in. By far the MVP of the day was a mag moonshine UV crabface down 80 and 90 on the rigger. A white prochip also took a few nice ones. We came in at 11:30 and I felt pretty confident (but given the scores fromyesterday not overly so). We would end up putting up a box of 79 pts on our 3 fish, good for 3rd place for the day. I finally broke my friggin proam curse! In all we would walk away with $350 cash, and an additional $250 in merchandise, not a bad haul for 1 good day of fishing...

Here are our best 4 that we kept:

Big fan of the open division. Alot less hassle, single day event, decent payouts. Definitely will do that next year, maybe even oswego as well.

[Fishtails]

Nice job in tough conditions. It was not easy fishing....glad you had a good time, as that is what its all about!

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[rdebadts]

Nice box of fish today Rod, and yesterday as well. Some really nice fish- and the boys looked stoked! You really put a hurtin on them this weekend!

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We did just the opposite as you, decent bite saturday with the dropsies, today didnt move a rod... frustrating weekend for sure! Nice job getting in the money today!!

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[stoutner]

Nice job. We only had 2 fish on Sunday and total weight of those fish was about 8 lbs. We didn't bother to waste everyone's time weighing them in. Our 28 point box wasn't going to help. It was tough fishing for us this weekend. We had to try some tactics that we normally don't do and found out we need to learn more.

[rdebadts]

Nice job. We only had 2 fish on Sunday and total weight of those fish was about 8 lbs. We didn't bother to waste everyone's time weighing them in. Our 28 point box wasn't going to help. It was tough fishing for us this weekend. We had to try some tactics that we normally don't do and found out we need to learn more.

You can say that again! There is always more to learn... I think this lake just likes to show us who is boss every now and again

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You can say that again! There is always more to learn... I think this lake just likes to show us who is boss every now and again

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