Yankee in Monroe County waters 12/5

[Yankee Troller]

We did a quick recon trip to check on the Lake Ontario Brown Trout. After a very difficult Spring fishery there seems to be a good amount of cookie cutters in the water we fished today in Monroe County. There were also some nice ones too! The surprise catch of the day was this nice Rainbow Trout. It definitely fought different than a Brownie. Fingers were crossed it might be a small Salmon. Our best rods were flat lined Bay Rat Lures Short Shallows in Glow Goby, My Secret, BT Candy, and Referee. On our Chinook divers and Cannon Downriggers Bay Rat Lures 3.5 spoons in Glow Frog and My Secret were best.

 

 

 

[Houndog]

Your Awesome! A charter captain that gives fishing reports on a fishing website in the middle of deer season?One of a kind.LOL

[ifishy]

do you run big boards off that lund or do you use inlines.  

that is the next step of rigging for my new to me boat this winter and I keep going back and forth.  i have a couple inlines that i have mixed feelings about but hate trying to store big boards on a smaller boat.  

[Yankee Troller]

19 minutes ago, ifishy said:

do you run big boards off that lund or do you use inlines.  

that is the next step of rigging for my new to me boat this winter and I keep going back and forth.  i have a couple inlines that i have mixed feelings about but hate trying to store big boards on a smaller boat.  

 

We only run in-lines on the Lund. On the Trojan we run big boards 70% of the time and in-lines 30% of the time. On the Lund I don't want to store big boards, and I'm not a fan of a planer mast in the bow area due to excessive board stalling on turns. In-lines take some getting used to. Especially with newbies.

[Jeff Mick]

Thanks for the pics and report!  

 

How was that water temp looking?  Were you still able to locate any warmer pockets of water?  

 

And was there a magic depth?   

 

 

Thanks  

[Yankee Troller]

Lake was still 41-42*.

[Jeff Mick]

Nice..........envious of you guys.  

 

Something to look forward to in the spring!  

 

[Finnagain]

Once again , thank you for detailed report and still getting after it in Dec.!

Merry Christmas and can’t wait to get up there this spring .