KING ME

 Thurday morning we decided to take a gamble and leave the bite that has been going on between shipbuilders and ginna. We opted to head west - knowing that the conditions would be tougher BUT not a boat has been west for awhile so we wanted to try for a derby fish in virgin waters for our customers. Ran West to just before Braddocks and found warmer water BUT gin clear to point we could see bottom in 20' of water. We set up a full brown spread and worked 15-25 fow from before braddocks bay to the light house. We pulled some browns but all cookie cutters and one about 6 pounds.Natural sticks in black/gold and black/silver off the boards with 150 to 200' leads. We turn north at the light house and switched gears seaching for a king. Zig zaged between 45 and 75 foot water (still very clear) braddocks pulled a coho of a 2 color core with gllc wobbler in black/silver, then a bunch of skipper kings on the rigs and 5 color cores. turned back east towards light house and moved out to 85-115' water. Pulled a nice steelhead of silver face/red cup wobbler off a 2 color core and some lakers up to 14 lbs. off wire 90 out on a 3 with white/green dot soinny and pro/am fly and  125 out wire with NBK spinny and fly. Lost a good fish on the 60' rigger 40' back with nbk mag. It was now 11;30 and we had out limit for our guys from the tough waters but no derby fish or big kings. We talked with our old bud A-lure-a who was fishing west and said he had some kings and steel still going off hedges. So we pulled and ran to try for anothr grand slam and a derby king.

 Set up off hedges about 12:15 and started setting our the king spread. Didn't take long and we got a few kings going but nothing for the loc with biggest boated 16 pounds. Pulled rods at 2:00 with a good full box and a grand slam. Thanks for keeping the bite hot for us A-lure-a and keeping us updated. Kings came on 5 color core with NBK dw SS and 30' rigger with mongoose spoon, $5' rigger with GLLC double down spoon.

 Friday we went back east and set up just past shipbuilders in 65'. Different water - color-temp and screen. Trolled to hedges between 65 and 85'. Tougher bite for sure but still pulled our fish All kings with a bonus of a beautiful Atlantic salmon. Had a better screen by hedges and a litttle east but all our fish but 1 came west of webster to just off i.bay. 65'-85' fow. 5 color color green spook and gator dw SS spoons, 45' rigger with 42 second spoon, 25' rigger gllc double down, wires out 90 on a 3 with 42 second spoons, 10 color core with wonderbread, The Atlantic came on a new custom painted red/white great lakes wobbler off a 2 color core. All fish on  Friday came on a west troll except 1. Long leads off the rigger 45-65 back

 off for a few days for boat maintenance and other commitments. nice 7 out of 8 day stretch of fishing with a wide varity of species including 3 Atlantics and 4 grand slams. Love fishing off Rochester from kings to browns to steelhead always something chewing!

Oh we have a lot of tricks up our sleeve. Your on the water to fish and have fun. Cell phones, facebook , Twitter and video games can wait till back at dock. I'm sure you think of a way to get rich back for that....hmmmm hide his food

Great time and thank you

today capt. rich and myself had the owner of Great Lake Lure Company (Jason) and his girlfriend Theresa aboard the "fired up". We set this trip up with a few missions to accomplish. 1) to celebrate Theresa's birth day (happy b-day), 2) field test some new great lakes lures products, 3) sample alittle of each offering of the spring fishery - different species, techniques, patterns, water depths etc, 4) compare lure actions and speed ranges against other companies 5) have some laughs and fun 6) fish the LOC derby

We started off sampling the in tight brown fishery. Set up off webster pier and worked east all the way to ginna. Trolled all the way east in 8 to 14 foot of water. water clarity ranged from 5 to 11 feet down most of the troll. First release was gold challenger off the boards ...came off during multiple hand offs of the rod. LOL Next came a small brown on a black/gold challenger stick 125' back. Another shot on a fire tiger and g-o-n-e after a few seconds. Took a shot on a Great lakes keuka wobbler goby 5' rigger back 75' while clearing lines after pulling thru a debris field but dumped it. Black/silver stick bait took a coho back 125' and while netting the goby wobbler fires again but gone by time got to rod. Then rod bends over cracks off the planer release and we got Theresa's birthday present LOC Derby brown on but before it hits the net it comes off Take another brown just before ginna on black/gold stick again.

Mission 1 accomplished

Turn north once we get around the west side of the buoys and start to switch up gear and programs. While switching up we lose probe downspeed/temp....UGGGG. Continue setting up and rolling north 2 color core takes a rip with NBK. Troll out to 100 fow and then turn west and start working back towards home.

Testing speed range and action of the N35's - these spoons have a high end speed range like the old school optimizers. they started to come to life at 2.7-3.0 speed over ground and hold action well above this. Also we compared various Great Lakes lures blanks again other companies -comparing action, speed ranges, cup bends, sizes, weights, metal gauge thickness, paint quailty etc.

Also We tested a new spoon blank form that Jason has prototyped. Very nice action is 2.4-2.7 speed over ground range and doesn't spin out our lose action well above this range. Going to be very productive we they get painted up.

mission 2 accomplished

worked in and west towards webster and rigger fires 47' down over 81' on a custom black/glow/silver spoon. Theresa's on the rod and boats her personal biggest lake trout ever! great job!

mission 3 accomplished

Couple of shots on keuka wobbler spook free slider on the 35' rigger. Then the wire fires 69' out on a 3 setting over 65 foot water. White green dot spinny with pro/am glow fly - another good size laker.

Hooked into 38' water and the corner rigger 21' down starts a smoking. Therea's on the rod and gets her bday present. A beautiful king that put up a crazy fight- put she was a pro on the rod and got it to the net. great job. This king came on a 42 second spoon OUR first fish ever taken on this spoon!!!!

mission accomplished

Pulled rods and headed in

Alot of laughs, testing, talking, and a good time. Happy Bday again !

will let either capt. Rich, Jason or Theresa add about the combat planer boards, all the jokes and pics, and the newly famous phrase from Theresa.

X2 the wire slide divers!!!

Fished 5 hours this a.m. Sloowwwwwww picking. Worked river to shipbuilders 4o to 65. Mullato ss on 19 and 33 riggers took a few low teenagers, 2 color core Nbk took a brown, wonder bread slider a coho and 21 rigger took a small 9lb king on a custom Great Lakes lure n35 out in a.m. Again

Seems like a pattern of a few good days then a slowwwww day. Hope it fires back up. Pic of custom Great Lakes lure

Fished both days between pier and amusement park . Never went outside of 25 foot water either day. Very good mixed bag both days of browns, steelhead (10.01 loc scale but no division) Uggg!, teenage kings and another beautiful Atlantic. 2 color core with double down Great Lakes lurea, 2 color core with Dw ss Nbk, riggers with mix of black/silver, wonder bread, and green spoons. Boards with green sticks and double down spoons. Great two days on the water with Sunday Little better.

It was a 2 color core set up cracked off flourocarbon leader and 1/2 the section of the first color of core.....

For flourocarbon we run nothing but Seagur

It was just one them morning that anything that could happen did happen. But it all got out of the way by 10:00 so had smooth day after

The core was tuf-line first time ever I have had that happen or even heard of it happening. It was one of them types of mornings lol. Gonna order some Amish tow line .... Thanks .

Still can't believe 250lb power pro came apart or the lead

Core.

Well today was one of those OMG REALY that just happened days.

Decided to fish our own water and avoid the pack first thing in a.m. Set up just out side of the piers heads. Before got spread fully in water - doubled up on kings!!! Thinking awesome its gonna be a smoking day. 25' rigger and 19' rigger over 35'. Continued troll to amusement park - 5 color core - laker - I.bay. Then 2 color core starts to go - crack off and lost 1/2 length core. Ship builders - 15' rigger - nice coho jumping 20' from boat - then GONE. Turn and work waypoints back toward river. Laker 5 color core. Then the planer board tow line breaks ?????? wtf it 250lb power pro. Turn to recover board. Set back up slide diver goes short fight and crack off. OMG I give is there banana's on board or what. OK.....got all that out of way now can we get back to catching fish.

Continued to fish between i bay and durand rest of day picking away at them. Riggers 15-31 down, 2 and 5 color core, slide divers 40-65 out on 3 1/2 no ring. Kings, Lakers, Coho. no steel head or browns boated today. We ran a full spoon program. Anything green produced -Mag NBK, Great lakes Lure Co. green/chart N35's, and DW ss froggy best.

Off till Monday then we doing a stretch and will be on the water rest of the week.

Good luck to all this weekend.

Good luck to everyone fishing the LOC derby over the next 10 days. Should be interesting.

congrats on the fish and great to hear you released it to fish another day.

as stated 4 to 5 rods per side. Each side same set back. Added note since first yeAr running big boards/multiple lines....your first line out(closest to board) keep in holder towards bow, next rod out 2nd closest rod holder etc. Also when a rod "pops" keep tension on fish, rod tip up for a moment if possible before you start feeling fish in. This let's the fish "fallback" and keeps from pulling it in thru your other board lines.

Easier said then done most times lol

X2 the electrical tape

No problem.We turned before west side of plant and did the deeper(15-30 fow) pass all the way back to shipbuilders.

FLX Troller- great job

You asked on another thread how far the Kings where.....15 to 35 fow they where down by west side of ginna also on bottom with a few here and there suspended.

Thanks rich - hope your raking them up on your end also. Good luck in upcoming loc to you and your clients

Beautiful Atlantic caught offshore aboard the Fired up last year early August

nice!

awesome!

a-lure-a

 The flow will be welcomed if it continued but i can handle less debris in the water lol

britty-

 to add alittle to what everyone has stated already - the bite on browns so far for us has been 10-1 stickbaits over spoons for the most part so far. the success we have had with spoons have been with long leads off the riggers (3' 5' and sometimes 7' down) 50' to 65' back. DW superslims in nbk, and great lakes lure keuka wobblers in black/ilver, spook, magenta shad, and goby have been what has worked so far for us as far as spoons go in tight

Sea-iv

the bite has been slow for the most part up till this weekend so don't get disappointed. The bite is in now so go get 'em bud

We had a bachelor party group on board this past weekend,None of them had ever fished the big pond before and we tossed them to the wolves. After all 6 of them in the party lost their first 2 fish each they got their game together, and scooped up their limit like they where pro's in no time flat.  

 Once you get past the debris and mud the brown trout fishing and coho have been chewing all the way to ginna. Long lines off the boards with anything green or black/silver in sticks have been the ticket. A few spoon/rigger bites  but sticks out producing them 10 to 1 the past few days in tight. The coho have been cookie cutters but feisty, The bigger browns are starting to show up in the mix with the smaller guys.

 The 20 to 40 foot depths showed these guys a work out . Kings and lakers whacking the riggers and cores while the boards taking some more coho and browns gave these guys a true taste of what a diverse and world class fishery Lake Ontario truely is. Super slims in NBK, wonderbread, and Black/silver, Great Lakes lures in green/chart and spook taking the shots in the deeper waters. Riggers 11 to 21 down and cores.

 A great weekend of fishing and nothing beats a grand slam for newbies.

With the bite the way it is and with the fish currently off rochester - should be some Roc fish on the LOC leader board. Good luck to all fishing it.