Olcott 8/11

[Gill-T]

Tough start to the morning. I had some nubes that needed to fish early to be home by 1:00 so despite my reservations about the lake not being settled we headed out at about 6:30 am. LOTS of boats launching today for a non-derby day!  Set down in 100’ and went into search mode heading North. Hit tons of weed mats in the 200’s but never marked anything until we hit 400’. We set an East troll from 400’-430’ taking 5 shakers, three female majors (lost two more), a steelhead and a tagged unicorn. The Atlantic was undersized and may have been dragged awhile so I didn’t want to dink around trying to read the tag numbers so I ripped the tag out, released the fish quickly and gave the tag to the DEC survey people to do follow up in port. NOAA wave report was not even close!  Got beat up pretty good on ride in. Fish have started to darken a little more noticeably. 

Edited August 11, 2019 by Gill-T

[Decoy Hound]

I have to agree NOAA was way off, Sunday was a bit bumpy, but not as bad as Saturday, but at least Saturday we knew it was going to be bad. Fished the same depths as Gill-T, lots of bait, decent marks. Mostly a meat bite, flies took a couple, spoon got one and an unwanted steelhead as we were dropping the ball. Saturday only managed three, didn’t stay out very long, just too rough. Sunday we went 8 for 14, nothing huge but nice class of fish. Again Minion was the top performer, bringing most of the hookups!

[Jeremy Goodison]

Awesome day


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[Gill-T]

Nice!

[Eyecatcher]

Yesterday evening calmed down quite a bit but the fishes weren’t hungry.  A few shakers and mid teen kings.  Interestingly enough, marked more fish/bait in 100-120 but didn’t hook any matures.  

 

This morning slow, very few marks from 320-400ish where we are now.  Continuing the search out deeper.

[Gill-T]

If it helps we had flasher/ flys on two riggers to suck them in at 72’ and 82’, two  mag slide divers with spoons out 180’-225’ out and a 200’ weighted steel with 1 ounce additional, carrying a spoon. We were just West of the power plant with line of fish we were on. Only hits were into down current trolling East.