Yankee @ the Oak 6/25-6/26

[Yankee Troller]

6/25 - Boy did it feel good to be back on the water! After cancelling last weekend's trips due to weather it's been two weeks since the Yankee moved from her slip. Today we were joined by Tom Hunt and his crew from Massachusetts. This group has been all over the world hunting and fishing. I don't think Lake Ontario disappointed today.

 

We left the dock around 5:30 and headed NW to 150' and set up on a NW troll. We had no shortage of action today, but we did lack Salmon bites. We were inundated with Steelhead. A-TOM-MIK coppers in 250 & 300' with regular sized spoons were our best presentation. Geezer, Glow UV Two Face, Gold Spook, and Gold 42nd all went on the coppers. On our downriggers we had Carbon 14's, UV NBK, Rodfather, and UV Sea Sick Waddler go from 55-75' down with sliding cheaters. Our two King bites came from King baits. One was a Smart fish Double Glow Two Face flasher/A-TOM-MIK Stud fly, and the other took a meat rig down 225' on our Cannon Downrigger.

 

 

6/26 - Rick and his crew joined us from Maine to chase Lake Ontario's bounty. They fished with us yesterday afternoon as well as this morning.

 

On yesterday's afternoon trip we stayed inside and targeted Brown trout. The bite was good for the first hour and then like a light switch it turned off. This morning we tried to go back to the numbers from the previous morning, and found that water to be void of fish and bait. We were in search mode for the first 2/3 of our charter today. We fished from 100' of water out to the 28 North line. That troll put two fish in the cooler for us. We picked rods and headed for brown trout waters. On the inside we picked up a few brown trout, a couple small lake trout, and loads of Skippy kings.

 

When we did find a steelhead or a brown trout these last few days the size was quite nice. It was a tough weekend of catching, but after canceling last weekend's charters it felt great to get back out on the water.