Yankee @ the Summer Tightline

[Yankee Troller]

Friday practice - We only have one day to practice, and we feel there is always a check on the Toronto drop, so that's where we spent our day of practice probing and putting together a program. Water was cold with the surface between 60-62, and once you got down to 50' you were in the 40's. Our Humminbird ONIX was showing us a great picture of bait and fish, and we picked away at them throughout the day, but nothing over 20lbs. Our 400' A-TOM-MIK copper was good with Familiar bite meat, our 70' diver on a 2 setting was good pulling a Dreamweaver Magnum Ghost. We had a Marvs Fatty/A-TOM-MIK #41 going on one of our Cannon downriggers, and meat on our deepest. We heard the fishing had been tough, but we had 6 for our box and a few extra, so we felt comfortable.

 

Saturday - We set lines at 6:30, but we had no picture to work. Our water had moved! Sticking to the theory I've come up with (there's always a check on that piece of structure) we ground it out. Our Stealth Core 10 color lead was good for us pulling a Dreamweaver Magnum Sea Sick Waddler. It took our largest fish of the day. We grabbed a nice one on a 70' diver pulling a FLT Mahi Mahi mag. The rest of our fish were taken on Familiar bite meat fished off our Cannon downriggers. We boxed 9 fish, but 4 were 20"-8lbs. Our other 5 were solid. We also lost 3 fish throughout the day. One of which would have definitely been the one we needed.

 

Weigh in.....the tourney organizers seen us walking over with a Grizzly cooler and struggling. Knowing how tough fishing was out there they asked us to go to the back of the line to create some drama. Toward the end we knew it would come down to Team Vision Quest and Team Yankee Troller for the $40,000 first place prize. We went first. Our biggest 3 for the calcutta went 70lbs, and out 6 weighed in at 105 and change. Pete and team weigh in shortly after and his 3 calcutta fish weigh considerably less than ours. We're thinking we might have a shot! However, Pete and team didn't have the 8lb fish in their cooler like we did, and weighed in a box of 109 and change.

 

2nd place isn't so bad, but it's tough to swallow being brides maids for the two largest tourneys on Lake Ontario this season. Congrats to the VQ team, and to all the tourney organizers for a great event.

 

Edited August 3, 2015 by Yankee Troller

[JakeyBaby]

Great job guys!

[motoman]

knowledgeable team right there.

[dvdegeorge]

Congrats again!

[Gator]

There's something to be said about consistency... hats off to you and your team!

Edited August 3, 2015 by Gator

[BlueEye]

Nice job guys!! 

[skipper19]

Great job men! Nice placings!

[steelie]

Nice job, buddy !!

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