Yankee's Oak Report 8/9

[Yankee Troller]

We teamed up with some members of the Irondequoit Bay fish and game club for a little tourney today. We figured if we wanted to catch fish then we needed to be off Point Breeze (Oak Orchard). We checked the inside water and took a shot on a Sea Sick Waddler down 70' on the corner rigger. He got into a wire and he left with one of my spoons! The picture dried up real quick because of the traffic, so we picked up and headed for the 27N line. We stop there and start setting lines to have the middle rigger parked at 50 fire. It ended up being a 10lb king that we threw back. He took a Dreamweaver Glow Forggy SS. That spoon would take fish throughout the day just like the previous few trips out. Another hot spoon was our NK copper NBK. We had it on the rigger between 60 and 80 and it took our majors, and some great steelhead. 300' copper pulling a #3 J-plug in a Mongoose color was another HOT rig. That took 5 shots throughout the day, and we dropped a screamer on it towards the end of the day which would have been part of a triple header. Our low/deep wires were firing at 150 out on a .5 setting pulling Kelly Green Spinnies and A-TOM-MIK Wiggler's. Our high wires out 200-225' on a 2.5-3 setting were going with Dreamweaver green sparkle SS's and orange Yecks. We had another 20 fish day that was anchored by a 25lb Salmon and a 12lb steelie. We ended up taking 2nd and 3rd in the Salmon division, and 1st in the steelhead division. I have to loose some weight so these big fish can look big! When that fish hit the deck we though it was high 20's! Boy can these fish fool ya, and I have been doing this for 20+ years! Green was definitely the color today!

[motoman]

nice stringer there you guys have ! what marina are those pic"s at ?

[Yankee Troller]

Irondequoit Fish and Game club.

[motoman]

did you motor out too point brezze from there , or trailer out ,just wondering if you motored out how lond it took ya !

[Yankee Troller]

Heck no! We trailered out there.

[motoman]

lol , thats what i was thinking but you could have a really fast bayliner and be there in 45 mins , or not lol , i just picked up an older sportcraft and have too motor it back here from lil salmon river , i think its going too be a 4hr run give or take , i hope it dont brake or blow up ! lol

[salmonite]

motoman,

did you get that sportcraft off of craigslist?

[motoman]

yep the 27ft , do you no the boat ?

[salmonite]

nope i just saw it on there... nice boat! you should be proud! did it come with a trailer or no?

[motoman]

thats a big No on the trailer lol i wish it did , hell i don"t even know if my f250 would handel it if i did have one , I was at the river last season pulling my bout out and this guy was pulling out a 27-28 footer and his rear end explodied , i don"t want too be that guy , anyways yes i am super happy about the new boat ! but i need too rerigg it with my stuff in a hurry for the fall LOC derby , this will be boat #4 in the last 2yr so i hope this one is big enough for my guys i fish with ! john

[salmonite]

i hope its big enough!!!!!!!!!!! how big are the guys that your fishing with? i think you will be real happy and no i wouldn't want to be that guy at the launch either. that's one heavy boat! get her rigged up and let us know how she rides.. i tried to get my buddy to look at it but he loves his islander too much.

hopefully this will be the end to the dreaded "foot disease"

[motoman]

you"ll see my 22ft starcraft on here in a few days no need for it now ! ,......oops , sorry for the hyjacking yankee

[REELJERKS]

YT;

Is that Skamanic in the pics?

Mark

[Yankee Troller]

yup

[Pike Hunter]

20 fish plus a day!!!!!!! That 12 lbs steelie sure fooled me.

Thanks for the great report.