Yankee's Sandy Report 8/23-8/24

[Yankee Troller]

8/23 - We headed out early in the AM. Action started immediately with the first fish taking a NK Sea Sick Waddler Mag parked at 50' on the corner rigger. Next fish took a Dreamweaver SS Daves Salmon Slapper down 40' on the middle rigger. Both of these fish were skippies. Next our wire set on a 2.5 setting out 125 with a Black Spinny/A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly went. This ended up being a 10lb Laker. We re-set and the same wire takes off! After a little battle we boated a 15lb short/FAT female Salmon. A short while later the other corner rigger fires down 45' with a NK 42nd spoon. This was an acrobatic 8lb steelie. Our other wire took off shortly there after with a White on White SmartFish pulling a White Halo A-TOM-MIK fly. Another short/FAT 15lb female Salmon. The last fish we would boat was a 22lb Salmon that hit a White on White SmartFish pulling an Ultra Glow Green A-TOM-MIK fly. He hit our 60' corner rigger like a freight train. The rod never came up. Throughout the day we also dropped a screamer on the 300 copper pulling a Hammertime Spinny and an A-TOM-MIK Glow Pro-Am fly. This has been a super set-up the last month for us off the copper. We dropped a small fish on the 10 color that hit a NK Mag Purple Thunder. While pulling rods we found out we were dragging a 12" Steelie that found our NK 42nd spoon, but couldn't release it form the rigger. All this action took place in 50-100' of water from Sandy to the Pump House.

After we dropped off our charter we headed back out for 3-4 hours of derby fishing. The bite wasn't as good, and we went 3 for 3 with all 8-10lb Salmon. We tried the deep bite that some guys found productive in the AM, but we only managed two fish out there. The first one came 60' down on the corner rigger pulling that same White on White SmartFish w/ a Ultra Glow Green A-TOM-MIK fly. Second one took the 300' copper with that hot rig I mentioned above....Hammertime Spinny and an A-TOM-MIK Glow Pro-Am fly. We trolled back into the area we fished in the AM to find our third fish on the 300 copper. 13 bites today on a day where temps were ice cold in the AM from a lake flip.

8/24 - Well, yesterday was tough. But today was tougher! We had high hopes of a big guy considering some slobs were taken between Rochester and Oak Orchard the past few days. Again we tried the short water to match yesterdays bite, but we never moved a rod. We tried the 50' line from Sandy to the Pump House, and then the 70' line back to Sandy. TONS of bait, but not many fish. We soon turned it north to look for some active fish. We hit 250 fow and rods started to pop. Our low diver went off first with a Black Spinny/A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly. Very soon after that the high diver went with Dreamweaver SS Glow Froggy. We landed this one and it was a 2yr old Salmon. The same low diver took off again and we boated another 2yr old. Next we got the 45 rigger to go with NK Glow Froggies. That would take a few fish, but we seemed to have a case of the dropsy's. We got a 42nd spoon to go on the 35 rigger only to loose our only steelie of the day right at the back of the boat. Our copper rig with the same set-up as yesterday took two shots. We ended up going 5 for 10 from 6am-12pm. Then the crew decided on trying to get a Laker on the leaderboard. We put down our Hammerhead cow bells and the fish just started flying in the boat. We ran a chrome/Mtn. Dew set, and a chrome/Blue set with peanuts behind them. Fish ranged from 5lbs to 12lbs. My boat is now covered in Lake O Laker Slime. Does anyone know how to get this stuff off?

[GAMBLER]

You will never get that slime off. Just ask Jax. The lakers will flock to your boat now.

[Lund SSS]

The same here but numbers were alittle better, 5 for 5 on Sat. 5 for 5 Sun. Did weigh in #1 steelhead #18.09 the most exciting 35 seconds of my life. This fish hite 35' down and 25' back out of the water 4' taildance at the boat I'm yelling at my net man to clear the wire and he picks up the net with this very pissed of cromer already in the boat!!!! Unbelieveable, the fish didn't even have a chance.

Tight Lines,

Steve

P.S pictures will follow

[GAMBLER]

Congrat on your fish Steve. I called Keith right after I saw your fish on the board when I was at work.

[Storm Warning II]

DANDY steelie. Got any pics???

[Lund SSS]

look to the fall derby post for the my 1st place cromer

Tight Lines,

Steve

Triple s

[Silver Fox]

Steve,

Nice fish! How far out did you get that fish?

[Traveling Circus]

Beautiful Fish Steve...... Congratulations.

[Lund SSS]

Sliverfox,

Scott I was in 390' of water trying to find a temp that was a little deeper than 30-35' down. Caught a smaller fish 10 min. before that one. Ran right back out after weighing in the steelhead shut down in 380' and smashed 2 more 2 year old kings. Real good action this year on a straight white 10" spindoc from A-TOM-IK goes on every trip at least 2-3 times

Tight Lines,

Steve

[final flight]

scubbing bubbles will take it off but is hard on the wax job!!