Yankee Troller

My guess would be June 5/6 for Niagara, 12/13 for Orleans, 10/11 Oswego, and 17/18 for Sodus

Nice job Rob! That's a real pig! What did it take? What part of the family is she in BTW? Sister, cousin, niece? Brian, No need for that bud! It is what it is. Big fish are mostly luck in a derby! Tourneys is where you find your best fisherman, or put your money where your mouth is. Motoman did just that by motoring down to the Oak this past weekend to fish.

Hello All: We have had a few inquiries about king salmon with missing adipose fins, and how to identify salmon and trout.... Someone in region 8 thought that a missing adipose meant that it was a pink salmon. Anyway, we thought that a "canned" response might be useful to you all and save you some time when receiving inquiries about marked fish. Please see below. MC ***************************************** In 2008, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources began clipping the adipose fin of all Chinook salmon (A.K.A. "King") stocked into Lake Ontario as a way of telling "hatchery" fish apart from wild fish. Each year, 2.3 million Chinook salmon are stocked into Lake Ontario and an unknown number of wild fish are produced in tributaries from "natural" spawning. The purpose of the marking study is to determine the relative contribution of wild and hatchery Chinook salmon to the lake fishery. Some marked salmon also have a microscopic wire tag placed in their snout that contains a unique number linking individual fish to a particular year, stocking method, and location. This tag can only be detected with a special handheld wand that senses the tag magnetically. New York and Ontario fishery biologists will be sampling fish at fishing ports, cleaning stations, fishing derbies and in tributaries to collect the tags and other necessary data to determine the relative success of the various stocking strategies. The marking and tagging of millions of fish each year was made possible when the NYSDEC purchased a cutting-edge, mass marking technology called the Autofish system. Developed by Northwest Marine Technology Inc, the tractor-trailer sized system rapidly and accurately marks and tags 7,000 fish per hour automatically. Both agencies plan to continue this study on Chinook salmon for at least the next five years and there are plans for marking other salmon and trout species with the Autofish system in the future. Currently only smaller batches of lake trout, rainbow trout, and brown trout in Lake Ontario are hand-marked with fin clips. For more information about fin clips on salmon and trout in Lake Ontario, please contact the NYSDEC Lake Ontario Unit at 315-654-2147. Several species of trophy-sized salmon and trout are available to anglers in Lake Ontario and each have unique features that help identify them. The adipose fin, the fleshy thimble sized one located on the fish's back about one-third the distance between the tail and the dorsal fin, is a key feature common to all salmon and trout. Fish biologists believe that removing this fin does little harm to the fish. Besides the adipose fin, Chinook "king" salmon can be identified by their silvery color, an anal fin containing 11-15 rays, black gums, and spots on both lobes of the tail. Coho salmon also have a broad anal fin (similar to Chinook) but the first ray is two thirds or greater than the length of the base, spots are only on the upper lobe of the tail, and they have pale grey gums. Rainbow trout (AKA, "steelhead") have fewer anal rays (9-11), many small spots on the body and all over the tail and sometimes a reddish band along the midline. Atlantic salmon (often confused with brown trout) have a forked tail with few spots on the back and sides, and their upper jaw extends to the edge of the eye, compared to the brown trout which has an upper jaw extending past the eye. Brown trout can have a silvery or brown color with red/orange spots (pale halos around dark spots) on their body and on the upper edge of their characteristically nearly "square" tail. For more information and pictures, see the New York State Freshwater Fishing Regulations Guide provided to all anglers when they buy their fishing license.

Your better off just heading to Fat Nancy's and splurging! They have a heck of a selection. They have all the top name brands. If you must place an order they will ship.

Nope, they don't have anything even close to the iphone. I am up for a new phone and there ISNT anything they have that I want. I currently have a Motorola Q. It syncs with outlook. I can carry this phone with me and when someone calls for a charter I can check dates immediately. Every once and a while I can hook it up to my computer and let it sync with outlook, so if anything ever happens to my phone I have all my charters in a calendar in outlook. Im holdin on to my phone till next summer. there is speculation verizon will have an iphone lite, but we wont know till a news release happens. Im a technology geek, and I want the iphone, but I have seen AT&T service compared to my verizon and it aint worth it.

I'm sorry, but I have never heard of shutting off the click when the Salmon is running. I mean how does the customer know when to start pumping and reeling again? That sound of the clicker is the one thing they can listen for. In the last 3 years I have bought all Sealine 47LC's, and I have only burnt out 1 clicker. I don't think that's bad! That one clicker was on a wire rod with an angry king at one of the pro ams this year. I run 7 of these every trip I am out. I also run Scotty's and run them with both 15 and 20lb weights. I set them on free fall every time I go down. So they are trucking! My Penns on the other hand, that I use for copper, have JUNK clickers in them!

If im gonna pay $60/month to have a phone I WANT TO USE IT! Therefore Verizon is the only choice ESPECIALLY on the lake or southern regions of New York where I hunt. AT&T would get my business b/c of the iphone only if they had better service.

I'm all set with extra fishing time! Part of these tourneys is the comrodary after fishing. Meet new people, and hang out with guys you might only see a few times a year. Being on the water 3-4 days in a row kicks my butt. I enjoy relaxing, and bustin chops.

Thanks bud! I appreciate the good words. BTW...she had never been fishing before. Her first fish ever was 22lbs of FURY!

How ya feelin Bob?

Tom, That's an Atlantic right?

Nice job Rob!

WOW.....nice fish Scotty!

Another action packed weekend on Lake Ontario. The wind blew a little during the week, but the fish seemed to stay right out front of the creek. Mixed catches of Steelhead, ranging from 3-12lbs, and Salmon into the mid 20's kept us busy! August 7th (Night Scouting Trip) - Billy V, my brother, and I headed out and shut down on the 25N line. We worked North to about the 28N line and picked fish the whole way. The program didnt change much from the previous week. Gator Stingray spoons and Dreamweaver Gator SS's parked at 65 and 80 on the riggers were taking most of the fish. August 8th (Mornin) - http://www.lakeontariounited.com/fishing/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12704 August 8th (Evening) - Took a "fun" trip with my father and uncle. My uncle's biggest fish prior to this trip was probably a Pike. WE would change that real quick! Rods weren't even down and they started firing. We did 5 fish in the first hour. Lost a big guy, and boated a few steelhead. That same Northern King Copper NBK was firing regualryl as was a new spoon color I put down for the heck of it. A Stinger Nuclear Green parked at 65' on the rigger took two nice Salmon. The first being about 13lbs, but the next was a short, but fat, 23lb fish that took my 6'3" 275lb uncle for a ride! It took him out to 600' according to our Daiwa Sealine Line-Counter reels, and when he gained a few feet the fish would take twice as much! He had quite the grin when that fish hit the deck of the boat! The Stinger Gator Glows also accounted for a few steelies off the 80' rigger. August 9th - I was joined my Mike Avino, his brother, and both of their wives. We decided to hit up the inside water 100-120' to see if we could hook into a big guy prior to heading off to those fertile Northern waters we had been fishing the last few weeks. It didn't take long, and we were into a brute. First to go was a wire diver out 150 on a 2 setting pulling a Gator Spin Doctor/A-TOM-MIK Green Crinkle. We dumped that fish almost immediately. Not 30 seconds later the other wire out 180 on a 2 setting starts screaming! My customer SmartFish with crushed glow on the back and twinkie tape on the front pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist was hooked up. This has been my big fish rig for a few weeks now. It took us all of 30 minutes to bring htis one ot the net, and when we put it on the scale it was a nice 22-23lb specimen. We would loose one other Steelhead in that water before we turned North and started searching. Well, the searching took about an hour and we were into them thick at the 25-26 North lines.Once I dialed in the program we started to put a hurting on them. We ran Stinger Gator Glows, Dreamweaver Area 51's, and Northern King Lazer Spooks on our rigger. We pulled the two combos above on our wires, and our junk rods were a 10 color with a Northern King Copper NBK, 300 and 400 coppers had White/Green Dot SmartFish and an A-TOM-MIK Hypnotist flies. We were done by noon with a four man limit, and some seriously satisfied customers!

Your just jealous you dont look as good as she does!

Nope

Hey, don't pick on Rachel Ray! She's my dream wife. I'm part of her group on facebook called "I'd bang Rachel Ray just for the breakfast in the morning!"

I wish I wanted to get back into bait fishing, but its so damn messy! I know it works, but so do the A-TOM-MIK's I run. I dont even know where all my bait rigs went to to be honest. Mark what color combos work best for you? I know High Voltage has a Mtn. Dew rig, or maybe it was a purple rig he likes to run.

That's how I started!

Depends on what side of the lake your on and how deep your fishing. Here the skinny on how I choose paddle colors, but don't tell anyone! West side - White paddles (Wonderbread and Green dot seem to be the best) East Side - Green paddles (Double Crush Glow and Glow/Chrome tape) Fishing above 75' toss in some chrome paddles

Ditto

Great pics! Glad you got into them. August is generally on fire up there!

Sounds like you had a good day! It sure is fun out there right now!

See where fishin' with Jax has gotten you?

This past weekend I was changing lures and my high rigger had a small Chinook on the bottom lure and an alewife on the cheater. I think dragging these things around shuts your rigger program down.