Yankee in the ROC 1/8 - What do you think it is?

[Yankee Troller]

Today we're thankful for another chance to fish Lake Ontario in the middle of Winter! We had two local guys looking to get out and experience this fishery we've been posting about. We met at the launch around 7am and headed out. I guess we should have paid attention to yesterday's wind direction. When we set down the water was very dirty. We gave it 30 minutes before we picked and ran looking for the water color we wanted to fish. That didn't take long. As soon as the rods went in at spot #2 they were firing!

 

10-15' of water was our best Brown Trout water. At one point in the late morning we slid out to 50' hoping to swing on a Late Trout. We marked a few, but never turned a bite. As soon as we slid back into Brownie water we started moving rods again. Bay Rat SS's took most of our fish flatlined behind Offshore OR12 inline boards. Stairway to Heaven, Firetail Secret, and Citrus Shad were our best stickbait colors. On our Chinook Divers and Cannon Downriggers we pulled Dreamweaver SS Glow Frog patterns early in the trip. Towards the end of the trip we tossed in some Bay Rat 3.5's in My Secret, Black Flash, and Chicken Wing. All took fish.

 

Last pic.......Brown or Atlantic?

 

 

 

 

[REELDRAG2]

Atlantic?

[lachsforelle]

Atlantic

 

[dry net]

Atlantic

[fisherman21]

Brown

[LazyRiver585]

Atlantic

[LazyRiver585]

I just wanted to disagree with fisherman21

[fisherman21]

I’m about 95% confident lol

[Gator]

Wow, that's a tough one...did you have him hide the tail on purpose lol? 95% of the time, I'd call it a salmon, but it's got a long jaw more like a brown.

[Sk8man]

It is unfortunate the way it is being held. It would be very helpful to see the adipose fin and tail. The head structure looks like Atlantic, The lack of significant spotting below the lateral line also looks that way as well as lack of significant spotting on lower gill plate. It is difficult to tell the exact eye alignment with the end of the jaw because of the way it is being held and likewise for the thickness of the peduncle. Based on the image I would guess Atlantic as well. The only sure way to tell is examining the inside of the roof area of the mouth for the vomarine teeth structure.

Edited January 10, 2023 by Sk8man

[ontherise]

Trick question....

[fisherman21]

So what was it Rick? What were your thoughts?

[LongLine]

Last one has a lot more Omega-3 so must be an Atlantic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fishstix]

A silver fish. 

[Kinghunter]

Atlantic, formerly a unicorn.

[Tip-sea-tuna]

Were the browns all that different in color phase or is that just the way the pics look with the lighting or angle? 

 

[Capt Vince Pierleoni]

Looks like an immature Atlantic.

[Capt Vince Pierleoni]

9 hours ago, Tip-sea-tuna said:

Were the browns all that different in color phase or is that just the way the pics look with the lighting or angle? 

 

Looks like Yankee got into mixed age classes. Fish that have spawned will hold their spawning colors right into Spring. Males usually have more vivid coloring than the females. Some very nice specimens there.

[Yankee Troller]

On 1/26/2023 at 10:04 AM, Tip-sea-tuna said:

Were the browns all that different in color phase or is that just the way the pics look with the lighting or angle? 

 

 

I think Vince covered that well.

[troutslayer81]

Atlantic!!... jaw doesn't go passed its eye, very defined lateral line... pretty easy one there imo

[minion]

On 1/9/2023 at 7:08 PM, fisherman21 said:

Brown

X2

[skinny420]

My first guess is Atlantic. My better guess is that everyone on that Yankee boat knows the truth! What is it? 

[Trouthunter]

It is a atlantic & I hope we start seeing lots more of them because they are the best fighting fish out there enough said