Yankee Troller

He has been seen lurking out on the lake with enough downriggers for 2 boats! He fishes for Brown Trout becasue they hang in the shallows which means he doesn't have to spend much money on gas. His "real" business is garage doors, but i think that's so he can hang out with everyone's wives while they are at work! This is the face he impresses them with! Sorry for the picture quality. I wasn't operating the camera.

Friday (Practice/Pre Tourney) - We hit the water on Friday after hearing about a decent steelhead bite. We dropped in at 70 right out front to check the King waters and trolled on a due North heading. We took our first shot around the 200' mark and it ended up being a 10lb King that took our 140 wire diver set on a 3 pulling a Dreamweaver SS Gator. It would be a while until we took our next fish. We trolled out to 550 and then headed South East towards Devil's Nose. Once we hit the inside water there we ran into the motherload of Lakers. We took a 10lb fish and being 1:30 we made the decision to toss it back. WRONG MOVE! A few minutes later we took a 6lb Laker, and tossed that one back. One took a Wondebread SmartFish pulling a Hammer fly and the other took a Northern King Glow Coyote. About 1:45 the 300 copper starts to sing. This fish took a few nice runs and when it got to the boat we knew we had a big guy. He took a White w/ Green Dot SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Green Glow Live Series fly. On our Berkley boga scale he just misses the 25lb mark weighing in at 24.85lbs. So, after we boxed that fish we tried to scramble for another big lake Trout and just couldn't do it. We did grab us a small 6lb King that hit our center rigger, but we tossed his back to live another day. So, at the captains meeting they announced the winners of the little pre tourney. If we had made the right decisions during the day we could have taken the 5th biggest box of the day and most likely the biggest fish of the day. Saturday (Day 1) - We headed over to Devil's Nose first thing. We took 2 nice Lakers and a couple of Kings there late in the day on Friday, so the decision wasn't a hard one. Well, the Lakers took no time at all! We boxed a couple of nice Lake Trout off SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK combos. One off the wire diver and the other off the 300 copper. We worked that area looking for a couple of Kings, but we never got bit. So we worked our way down to the Sandy creek area where we would pick up two fish. One King and one Steelhead. The Steelhead took a mixed Veggies Singray Stinger off our 10 color, and the King took a Dreamweaver SS Silver w/ Green Glow tape off our rigger parked down 40'. We would end the day by pulling into 30-40' off the nose to see if any Brown Trout were around and took two shots, but lost them both. One off a 5 color core towing a stinger Stingray Black Wiggler, and another off the rigger with a Stinger Copper Glow Green Alewife. We ended the day in the middle of the pack, but within striking distance of a check. Out of about 40 teams on day 1 there was 1 12 fish box, 1 10 fish box, 2 7 fish boxes, and the rest of the field had 6 or less. Sunday (Day 2) - Well, day 2 we decided to hang out in front of the Oak because some big guys were caught there the last two days. We managed to take a small Steelhead out of there but that was it. So, we made the run down to the nose and had our two Lakers in a matter of 30 minutes. We worked the area to see if there were any kings in it and we did take one off our center rigger while we were hooked up with a Laker. The King took a Dreamweaver SS Gator and the Lakers took White SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK combos. We worked that area a little more and even checked inside for Browns without another touch. We then made the decision to take a run out to 450' of water to try for some steelhead. With 30 minutes left to fish we took one on a slide diver pulling a Stingray Gator. When it was all said and done we stayed right were we started the day in 22nd place.

Anthony.....there is an open division you might want to check out. That gives you Friday-Sunday of 3 small tourneys (1 per day) only requiring 3 fish at the scales, and no observer. You can fish wherever you want to fish on the Lake too.

Good job bud! Its nice to see you getting into some fish.

tell him to head towards 4c's marina and he will pass right by it. The overpass is the one for the parkway.

Count us in!

I agree with Paul. I have used both the Albright knot and the swivel, and the swivel has cost me one fish. However if the Albright knot is tied right either will work.

When we ran mono divers we would run them on 25lb test. However, most applications on the Big O require you to have wire to reach the Salmon.

Kings are hanging in 100-300' of water and the Cohos are in a little tighter. Kings will take spoons and Flasher/Fly type baits and the Cohos are taking small spoons and small flasher/flys. Read some of the Pro/Am reports from this weekend.

You should get into one! Its more than competition. Its comrodery (butchered that word) more than anything. There is an AM side and an open division. The Oak is close enough to you, or even Sodus. Get a buddy together and try one!

Anthony, I see your liking those Smartfish?

Hey Rodney, it was nice to meet you too. Thanks, and keep in touch.

Friday (Practice/Pre-Tourney) - We headed out about 5:30am and worked the area from Wilson west to the Niagara Bar. Fishing wasn't fast and furious for us, but there was a steady pick most of the day. Our first big guy came 105 down on the corner rigger pulling my favorite Sea Sick Waddler NK 28. Shortly there after we took a ripper on the 375 wire that eventually wound himself up in the 10 color core off to the side. We ended up dropping him because of this. He took that Green dot Smartfish with an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Green Glow fly. Our last King would come from our center rigger that we had parked at 75' for Coho on a Dreamweaver SS Orange Slurpee. The rest of the day was a steady pick of Coho, small stealhead, and small kings. We got our limit, but it wasn't impressive. Saturday (Day 1) - Well, we wanted to see if we could scrape up a few kings before we headed into box out on Coho, but the Kings weren't playing in the area we were working. We went deep looking for some and all we found were Coho and a nice 9lb Steelhead. The lure of the day was the Stinger Stingray Mixed Veggies. It took 4 out of the 6 fish we boxed fished off our 10 color core. The Coho we found the day before had moved West a tad and when we got on top of them the bite was over. A very disappointing day for us given we have been slamming the fish out of Wilson for a few weeks, but it is June and the lake seems to be very hit or miss during this particular month. So, our decision Saturday night was that we needed to go big! Coho weren't going to get us in the money. Sunday (Day 2) - So, we headed out to a spot that another boat had some luck on a few Kings the day before. We didn't have all the lines in the water when the 400 wire starts to throb. Well, 6:04am and we had our first King locked and by 6:15 he was in our cooler. He took a Dreamweaver Spinny White w/ a Green Edge pulling a Sea Sick Waddler A-TOM-MIK fly. We were pumped thinking we would have a shot at money by the end of the day. Well, it was 8:am before we were locked into another fish. This one hit the 200 rigger pulling a Dreamweaver Spinny Black w/ green dots trailed by an A-TOM-MIK Ultra green Glow fly. No sooner did we get it down and it was hooked up again. So in 15 minutes we had another teenager in the box followed closely by a Coho. Then another lull! We would take a few shots off the 600 later pulling the Green dot SmartFish trailed by an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Glow Green fly. Lastly, our 400 wire would take off with another big guy. This one on a Dreamweaver Frog Racer Spinny towing an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Glow Green fly. We would end the day with 6 in the box again. However 4 were Salmon and 2 were Coho.

Nice job glen!

Nice job! Hope your son enjoyed it. I know I did when I was younger! I see you have a pic of my next boat in the background. Thanks!

Here is my grip about floro on a wire dver, and I know people use it, but floro has NO stretch. I dont use snubbers so I need that mono to give a little. I dont get cracked off on my divers ever. Not for nothing, but you do have a 5" disc less than 10' from the lure so does the fact you can see the line matter? I am one of the guys that has the new Wonder Set diver Mike C talks about above. If you want to see it stop by the Wilson Boat House or 4C's during the next two Pro-Ams and I will gladly get you a look at this devise.

I think I am purchasing a Coolpix P90 tonight. I played with it last night and it did everything I wanted. Plus the guy at the camera store in rochester knew his stuff!

I've gotten 2-3 people since this post. I will keep you updated bud. Thanks for the offer, but I think your safe at this point...lol. Go catch some fish!

Looking for an observer given the fact ours decided yesterday he "couldn't" do it. We pay $75 a day. You can fish with us on Friday practice at no charge to you. Only downside would be we don't have a bed for you. 5 guys sleeping on the boat is enough...lol! So, if there is anyone in the area that would like to do one, or both, please let me know as soon as possible. e-mail: [email protected] phone (after 4pm): 585-704-7996

Same here!

Thanks guys! Every bit of info helps.

Thanks! That's a great site.

That was a NASTY Labor Day weekend. Strong East winds made the Eastern Basin Ice water. So about 60 boats trolled inside Oswego Harbor in Fog so thick you couldn't see 100 feet in front of you. We were trolling the East wall in this pick and you can barley pick out the wall:

So, for my b-day i want to buy a new Digital camera. I would like an optical zoom out to 10x and 8 mega pixels or more. I don't want to spend over $400. Kodak looked to have a nice one (Z1015) for under $300, but are they any good?

Man that was a fun weekend!