Yankee Troller

We thought you Canadians were better drinkers.....We'll take it easy on you guys next time!

Most of July it was great on a 300 Copper most of the day. We run ours stock.

Summer Tightline Event Practice - We had a great practice! We started on some waypoints from last year to the East of Bluffers, and the fishing was pretty decent. We had good bites around the Frenchmans bay area on both A-TOM-MIK flies and meat rigs. Our program consisted of our three Cannon downriggers, two wire divers, and three coppers. Although it was a 6 rod event the next day we like to run 8 in practice to see which coppers are hot. The 400 and 500 coppers were our best although later in the day we took a fish or two on the 600 copper. Later in the day we headed over to the filtration plant, and before we could get set up our center Cannon downrigger fires. We get that fish in the net and it was a 29lb Chinook. Our personal best for 2013, and the biggest of the day. We went on to pound on a good class of fish the rest of the afternoon, and made the decision to start back there in the morning. Tourney - It started off slow for us! We went two hours in the morning without a bite! We had some issues jockeying for position going into the drop, which cost us some time and put us outside of our waypoints from the day before. Once we did get there the rods started to fly. A Dreamweaver White double crush glow Spin Doctor/A-TOM-MIK White Halo fly was a stud on our 111 Cannon downrigger. It went three times, but we only landed two of those fish. After that everything was a one and done bait. We took 9 matures Salmon bites during the rest of the day, but only boated five of them. Again, half took meat, and the other half came on A-TOM-MIK flies behind Dreamweaver Spin Doctors. In the end it was the first time we fished a Tightline event and left without a check. Tough pill to swallow, but we had a ton of fun. It's also great to see all of our Canadian friends. Also, unofficially Striker leads the King of the Lake points race with 465.15, and we are right behind them with 465.14. It's a close one going into the last event on Labor day weekend.

Yup, and that side bet paid for my gas to come down and play!

I thought it was too! They are great people!

You don't need rollers or Twilli's. However, these with greatly reduce the resistance you feel from the wire going through the top guide. Especially, when the fish is at the back of the boat. We've been running roller rods this year, and boy are they sweet when it comes to no resistance due to the wire going through the guides. Cons however, are a heavier action rod, and heavier weighted rod. They also aren't cheap.

Silver backs 80% of the time. The golds work too, but I just don't soak them as much.

July 27th - We fished the Sandy Creek shootout out of Sandy Creek, which is always a great time. We’ve had the same charter clients for this event year after year. They really enjoy the competition. We made a run back to the west, but we just didn’t go far enough. We fished the Glass House/Flats are on the 27-29N lines. The screen was hit and miss, and we realized a little too late we needed to be another six miles West to get into the monster school of Kings off the Oak. Anyway, we picked at fish all day with a lot of hook-ups, but they just weren’t the right class of fish. We didn’t place in the event, but we all had a great time. We ran our typical eight rod spread consisting of our three Cannon downriggers, two wires, and three coppers. The stud of the day was a purple meat rig on the 500 copper which took most of our mature Salmon. The Dreamweaver Sea SIck Waddler, and the Stinger Green Nuclear also took a few nice shots. Sorry for the lack of pics, but our four fish box consisted of three nice Salmon and this really nice Steelie. July 28th - We had the pleasure of taking out some really good clients that have been with us since the beginning. Mike and Loraine come up each year and always bring new people up with them to experience Lake Ontario. We broke the pier heads about 5:45am and headed North to the 26N line. We trolled it out to the 27N line before we got into the fish and bait. The bait string was almost unbelievable, and the mature Salmon were all over it! When the bite started we had doubles and a triple take place. It was incredible! It happened so fast that the deck was sloppy, and the waves were big, so we couldn’t get many good pics. The Dreamweaver Sea Sick Waddler mupped was good on our 70’ Cannon downrigger. A Kelly Green flasher/A-TOM-MIK Hijacker fly was good on our 80’ Cannon downirgger. The 300 coppers were good with Moonshine Carbon 14s, and we had the divers go a few times with Dreamweaver Wonderbread Spin Doctors/A-TOM-MIK Glow Blue Hammers.

The tournament organizers did a great job. I know all too well how much work goes into putting on an event like this. So, a huge thanks goes out to you guys from the Yankee Troller team. We can't wait to get back there next year. More "props" goes out to Jason Franz and his Trout-N-About team for a four-peat! That is just flat out impressive!

Hey Motoman.......at least the rest of the participants in this weekends tourney didn't call me begging to mate for me that last few weekends to obtain our program that we clearly put on here every week!

It went a little like this: Fish hits the out -n- down. I run to the rod grab it and reel down to the fish and set the hook. The fish goes under the diver so I do a quick maneuver to get it untangled. I run to the middle of the boat and surf the fish in at which time I grab the line and boat flip him in. Ending the battle shouting never give up. Mind you this whole thing lasted about 5-10 seconds.

LMAO.....if you can't have fun none of this is worth it!