Yankee Troller

I might give it a try tonight. Depends on weather and how lazy I am. Its tough to talk myself into walking out there for a few strikes.

Nice job Anthony! That is a blue dolphin, but it looks to me like a NK 28 from the honeycomb pattern. I have been wrong before though. Another great pattern with tat spoon is an orange ladderback instead of the glow tape. That is called a coyote and a very HOT spoon for me.

Gene, I didn't see this post. The person who you've been talkin to holds the NYS Federation heaviest 5 bass sack from Lake Erie, so he knows his stuff. Anyway, I would have given you a couple of GPS coordinates if I did read this earlier. It should be that hard to catch fish there this time of year, but its a HUGE body of water and it can be tough to locate some good schools.

All the good lakes are out of your range. Out west is Chautauqua, and its SLAMMIN for big fish. Most all the Finger lakes have their good days and bad days, but Honeoye and Conesus are the more popular lakes. They are smaller so you don't have to worry about weather and wind.

Fish are worse than women! If your gonna be offshore running them late summer without rattles is fine, but if your combat trolling in muddy or stained river water I would go with the rattles. JMHO

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I run a few different style weights. When fishing 75' or above I'm running Ridgeback Rattlers in a 13lb weight. These have a cool cross drilled hole pattern to let water through and crate bubbles. When I go below that its 15lb sharks. I don't know of any other weights that track as good as a shark down deep, or else Id have them.

I have the 582 and its a great unit. It was around for quit some time. A lot of boats wee equipped with this unit. I am having interference problems with mine right now. I'm trying to fix that. However, I know of other guys with the same unit that can mark a penny if flipped over the side of the boat and I can vouch for witnessing this. It all depends on the set-up of the boat your on. On to my next point.....that 113hd is a SWEET unit! I love those large screen Lowrance units.

One of mine took 500 pics in the last month and a half and it had 30% battery life. All pics were high res.

These were taken in Cameron, NY down near Bath, NY.

Now thats an awesome buck!

Um..yeah! Im not a trophy hunter yet!

What could this be?????? Coon or Bear?

We did our fair share of them out of Wilson this spring. Maybe not the numbers we did last year, but they were there. After that I didn't see much of them. In talking with a few guys they seemed to of experienced the same thing.

If you wan them to gain weight while sitting in the cooler come on my boat! And NO I don't put anything down their throat!

A buddy of mine had a Rochester Bass tourney last weekend. They were smoking big smallies. First place went to a bag of Largemouth on both days, but 2nd-5th were all smallie bags in the 15-17lb range. All of them fished west of Sodus. Drop-shot and deep diving jerkbaits were key.

Coming! Thanks for reminding me! The next time I update it....which should be the next few days....Ill get you your props! Sorry Buddy!

That's the sweat Pea....but the one I was using was the glow sweet pea. Im outta wigglers for the year! They were AWESOME behind a Kelly Green Spinny.

This was when me and my bro were very young! So we didnt take up too much room.

We had a 21' Penn Yan with the same motor. We would fish 6 guys out of there at times and there was plenty of power.

Yup

This one took a fish behind it.

Now I know what I was doing wrong! Too many flasher/flies! I think all 8 rods had flasher flies. Nice job!

We were the first boat out of the pier heads and didn't see much on the screen as we worked the mouth for one pass. We turned the boat North and headed out to where we were the day before. WE got out to the 40' range and the fish were there. However, we again had a tough time getting them to open their mouths. First hit was on a Green dot SmartFish pulling an Ultra Green Glow A-TOM-MIK fly. He hit the 40' wire on a 3 setting and was off within the first minute. Next the other wire took off with a White SmartFish/Sweat Pea A-TOM-MIK fly. During this battle The middle rigger would take off and we are doubled up! That was also a White/Dew SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK TG fly. We boated both of these and one was 20ish and the other closer to 15 pounds. Everything gets re-set and I'm leaning against my corner rigger (my back turned) talking to the clients and I feel something jumping. I turn around and see the rod bobbing. I grab it and hand it off to one of them. Guess what that fish took? Sea Sick Waddler Spinny pulling an A-TOM-MIK Sweat Pea fly. Now I'm stoked! We boat that fish and it was a 10-12lb fish. We would go a while with nothing then the 300' copper takes off. I didn't have it out the full 300' and when the albright knot passed through the eyes of the rod it must of gotten hung up and SNAP. The copper broke right above the knot, and I mean right above! Anyway, that was my last white e-chip pulling an A-TOM-MIK White Halo fly. That would be it for our day. We watched other boats pull fish slowly, but we couldn't turn anything the last few hours. I have to say I went through more attractor fly combos this weekend than ever before. Staging fish are tough! Real tough!

Tems were good! 60' down was mid to upper 40's.