Rochester Friday 7-25 Brown Trouts

[Pike Hunter]

Went out for two hours this morning between 40 to 55 FOW. Found baits immediately in front of I bay. Trolled east to Webster Park. Saw numerous recreational boaters and some charters. Landed brown trout on NK glow frog spoon off rigger down 50'. Everybody seems to be hitting browns today!

Tight lines.

[momay4000]

PH,

Those fish and the bait have been in there for weeks - right out in front of the Bay, the river, and as far east as Hedges. We've targeted them the past few weeks on our way in or when the weather looked ominous and we wanted to stay in close.

We've seem them hanging on the bottom, typically in 45-65 fow. We've had a good rigger bite - typically near the bottom and some action with 5 and 10 color cores. Typically we switch to stick baits and have done well with the Kaboom green and blue gobies, black/silver rapalas, and the DW SS coyote pattern. Believe it or not we're still using our rods set up for salmon (30# Big Game with 20# Seaguar leaders) and the heavier line doesn't seem to be spooking them. A little slower troll (1.8-2.2 mph at the ball) worked best. We went out yesterday night for a half hour (3-4 foot rollers with thunder so we turned back in) and we were still marking them.

Good luck - thanks for the post,

- Chris