Yankee Troller

Hey guys...I spooled up some Mason 27lb leadcore this spring. I don't run core much except for spring and fall. Summer is usually copper time. Anyway i had lead poking through the sheath throughout the whole 10 colors. Finally, last weekend I had a fish hit the 10 color and when i went to snap it off the board my leadcore broke about 5" from the knot. I have my scotty's on the power pro, so it didn't break from a hard hit from having the release on the core.. I did notice some lead poking through the sheath when I let it out, but it has been like that and I wasn't in the mood to fix it....lazy.... Anyway, I called Mason up yesterday and she knew of the problem with their 27lb test right away. If you are experiencing this call them up and they will replace it for you as long as you send in the bad stuff. She, the lady who answered the phone, was great about the situation. Very good customer service!

We have been using the Spro swivels for a couple of years now. They have been great. Aren't as expensive as the sampos either.

Top of the fly to the top of the loop. Ditto what Gambler says. We have them from 20-26", but I try to stay between 22-24"

Not an easy task Fishtix! Good job! I missed the Fall board unfortunately. I had placed a Salmon on the 2007 Fall, 2 on the 2008 Spring, and the 2008 Summer. I was bummed that I couldn't make the Fall 2008. Oh well!

No worries! These guys are the cool cops! LOL

Matt.......that's way too far offshore for your liking bro! Whats a matter? BT didn't want to play?

Hey whats up man. How can I forget a bunch of plastered policemen from Maine? LOL You guys got my ol' man lit up! As for the size shirt I wear it doesn't matter. I'm not gonna wear a Yankees shirt or a Red Sox shirt! That so called sport you call Baseball is BORING! I cant believe someone would want to play 160 games and not get to toss an elbow at someone or knock them out. Real man sports have hitting and fouls. Actually, my ol' man and bro r the Yankee's fans. I just catch all the fish for them.

On nice days your gonna LOVE the bridge. On rough days your gonna wish it was never there!

I have my fly bodies that are un-rigged stored in plano 3700 boxes. The rigged one hang upside down in my head. Hanging them upside down maintains their puffiness. This is a pain in the arse on a smaller boat. So what I would recommend is to keep them that way when storing them in tubes.

Brian.....Micky's went to a kid out of Port Bay. Him and my brother are getting their licenses this fall.

Now that's some funny chit Ray!

Good job guys! I kow it is very rewarding when everything comes together. Im sure those memories will last for a long time.

Im sorry Jerry! I cut and pasted the report form my website, and people would have no idea who a Runnin Rebel is. So...... I think myself along with 14+ boats would like to thank Master Captain Jerry Felluca for broadcasting across channel 72 on a marine VHF radio that there was A LOT of action out in 300-400' of water right off sandy creek west. Jerry is the "friend" I mentioned in the above post. He is "the man" out of Sandy Creek West when it comes to offshore fishing. Jerry....is that better buddy?

What a difference a day can make! We started in shallow (40-70 fow) and there was a decent picture. We never moved a rod and worked West/North West out to about 150. Got a call from a friend stating that we needed to head out to the stomping grounds of the prior two days as the picture and fish were everywhere. Well, he wasn't lying! We got out there and there was more bait than I have ever seen in my 20+ years of trolling. It seemed as if there was a bait pile somewhere on the fish finder at all times. We didn't mark a ton of fish, but they were there. We got out there a little later than we should have, but we still managed 8 or 9 bites. Mostly steelies with a 2yr old Salmon tossed in the mix. Lures today were all spoons! Dreamweaver SS "Da Shiznit" took a few fish. This is turning into a nice steelie lure! Stinger Orange Crush Stingrays off our 250 wires on 2.5 took a few. Watermelon NK 28 took a fish as did a Dreamweaver SS Area 51. Our riggers were parked anywhere between 30-70 down depending on where the boat and fish were marked. There was a better class of steelies out there today. Nothing into the double digits, but some fat 7-8 pounders. Besides the floating car pic I posted in the Open discussion forum we also had some fun on the radio out of sandy today. I can say i laughed pretty hard just BS'n with the great guys out of sandy creek. I also tried to trick Jerry, from Runnin Rebel, into taking a picture of my boat while my crew stood in the back of the boat with the water baloon sling shot. It was my fault we didnt get close enough to hit him. Then a guy who I just know from fishing out there took us serious about taking pictures of our boat and wants to pull up next to me to take pictures for me. Little did he know about the water baloon sling shot. Jerry got a kick out of that radio transmission. Well, lucky for him I didnt know him and we didnt launch any. But man was he close enough! Maybe next time Whaler one!!!!!

Headed in at the end of the day....i was like WTF?

Definetly not on fire.....BUT on the way in today it looked like things might be setting up!!!! Lots of bait and a ton of BIG hooks hanging down 150 over 200. Temp was there too. Maybe a good morning bite inside tomorrow. Anyway heres how I fared the last two days: 8/29 - We started out in front of Sandy creek around 6am. Setup in 30fow due to heavy fog and a lot of boat traffic. We trolled north and only took 1 shaker on the 125 wire pulling a NK Mulatto mag. Once out around 300 fow the picture on our furuno started to look a lot better. It didn't take long after that to find a group of fish that wanted to play. We would take another 9 bites ranging from our 150' wires to 10 colors of lead, but most fish came off our riggers. On our cores we had a couple of fish take a black spinny pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly. Our wires would each take a fish. One was pulling a NK Mag Copper NBK and the other was with a NK 28 Coyote. Our riggers were firing with NK 42nd spoons, both mags and 28's, and Dreamweaver SS glow froggies. Two salmon, one which was about 13lbs, and the rest were nice steelies. 8/30 - Well, I thought yesterday was tough but today topped that! I guess you cant always take 15-25 bites, but I sure did take those days for granted. We went 6 for 7 all steelhead, biggest being around 8lbs, with a skipper king tossed into the mix. We figured it would be worth it to skip the inside waters and head right out to the spot we fished yesterday. We stopped short by about a half a mile and the screen was lit up! Fish from 30-150 down. I set up half a Salmon program and half a Steelhead program. By the time I was set up and we turned on that screen it was gone! So, I quickly re-rigged for steelies. The first rod to fire was my 10 color pulling that Hammertime Spinny with an A-TOM-MIK Pro/Am Glow fly. I went to release it off the otter boat and the leadcore breaks 4 inches from the knot. Well there goes that one! We waited till almost 11am till our next bite and we had a very slow pick till we quit around 2:30. The other 10 color would fire with a black spinny/ A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly. Then the wire out 150 on a 1.5 setting started throbbing with a shaker steelie that took a white spinny pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly. Then the corner riggers took over. One with a Dreamweaver SS called "Da Shiznit" and a Dreamweaver SS Area 51. Our center rigger would take a small king with a Dreamweaver SS Glow Froggy. I went through more spoon colors today trying to find something they wanted to eat that it was frustrating. Talked to a guy at the Oak and there were some majors in that tight water all day from right out front and to the east. He pulled a couple, but it wasnt fast and furious. So maybe thats a sign of things to come.

Dont pull me into this RAY! LOL That Billy V character sure left a trace of FH in Sandy today! Ever since he stepped foot west of the Genny fishing has gone down! I dont know....maybe im looking into this WAY too much.

That's awesome! I'm happy for you Mike!

I ran my flashers 20-30' back off the ball this weekend.

I always switch to the furthest hole from the one that comes pre-set. But thats just me. I'm sure there will be multiple answers to this one.

wasnt mitchells b/c i called there and spoke with Ryan when I first head of it.

I'm surprised! I thought you guys would support the "grand slam" concept. There were a lot of 3 fish tourneys on the lake this summer. The Oak is struggling to hit 20 boats with theirs, and there are a lot of boats fishing out of there right now. I thought the opportunity to show the diverse fishing off Rochester would be something to help draw people to our waters. I mean you can really go off Rochester at any point and get into any 4 of the species. It would also make people more diverse by having them fish for those others species. But whatever format would produce the best showing is what we should lean towards. I like keeping it simple like Steve said, and he has way more experience under his belt than I do when it comes to fishing out there.

He did mine this spring.....knows his stuff! Im surprised Hank didnt refer you to him.

So, just to spark a discussion we were thinking about how we could put on a tournement in Rochester with a format unlike the rest of the tourneys poppin up around the lake. So, a few options a few of us tossed around are on a poll. If you choose other please share your idea. The three biggest (seems to be the norm) The six biggest The Grand Slam would be something like 1 of each species (BT, LT, Salmon, and Steelie), or maybe 1 of each and a fifth your choice?

BTW....i made sure there were no boats around when we started fishing for them, so who saw me? I made sure I put the flashy thingies away when we came in, and all the fish were already cleaned. So, did I blow myslef in or did Jax run his big mouth?