Yankee Troller

8/23 - We headed out early in the AM. Action started immediately with the first fish taking a NK Sea Sick Waddler Mag parked at 50' on the corner rigger. Next fish took a Dreamweaver SS Daves Salmon Slapper down 40' on the middle rigger. Both of these fish were skippies. Next our wire set on a 2.5 setting out 125 with a Black Spinny/A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly went. This ended up being a 10lb Laker. We re-set and the same wire takes off! After a little battle we boated a 15lb short/FAT female Salmon. A short while later the other corner rigger fires down 45' with a NK 42nd spoon. This was an acrobatic 8lb steelie. Our other wire took off shortly there after with a White on White SmartFish pulling a White Halo A-TOM-MIK fly. Another short/FAT 15lb female Salmon. The last fish we would boat was a 22lb Salmon that hit a White on White SmartFish pulling an Ultra Glow Green A-TOM-MIK fly. He hit our 60' corner rigger like a freight train. The rod never came up. Throughout the day we also dropped a screamer on the 300 copper pulling a Hammertime Spinny and an A-TOM-MIK Glow Pro-Am fly. This has been a super set-up the last month for us off the copper. We dropped a small fish on the 10 color that hit a NK Mag Purple Thunder. While pulling rods we found out we were dragging a 12" Steelie that found our NK 42nd spoon, but couldn't release it form the rigger. All this action took place in 50-100' of water from Sandy to the Pump House. After we dropped off our charter we headed back out for 3-4 hours of derby fishing. The bite wasn't as good, and we went 3 for 3 with all 8-10lb Salmon. We tried the deep bite that some guys found productive in the AM, but we only managed two fish out there. The first one came 60' down on the corner rigger pulling that same White on White SmartFish w/ a Ultra Glow Green A-TOM-MIK fly. Second one took the 300' copper with that hot rig I mentioned above....Hammertime Spinny and an A-TOM-MIK Glow Pro-Am fly. We trolled back into the area we fished in the AM to find our third fish on the 300 copper. 13 bites today on a day where temps were ice cold in the AM from a lake flip. 8/24 - Well, yesterday was tough. But today was tougher! We had high hopes of a big guy considering some slobs were taken between Rochester and Oak Orchard the past few days. Again we tried the short water to match yesterdays bite, but we never moved a rod. We tried the 50' line from Sandy to the Pump House, and then the 70' line back to Sandy. TONS of bait, but not many fish. We soon turned it north to look for some active fish. We hit 250 fow and rods started to pop. Our low diver went off first with a Black Spinny/A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly. Very soon after that the high diver went with Dreamweaver SS Glow Froggy. We landed this one and it was a 2yr old Salmon. The same low diver took off again and we boated another 2yr old. Next we got the 45 rigger to go with NK Glow Froggies. That would take a few fish, but we seemed to have a case of the dropsy's. We got a 42nd spoon to go on the 35 rigger only to loose our only steelie of the day right at the back of the boat. Our copper rig with the same set-up as yesterday took two shots. We ended up going 5 for 10 from 6am-12pm. Then the crew decided on trying to get a Laker on the leaderboard. We put down our Hammerhead cow bells and the fish just started flying in the boat. We ran a chrome/Mtn. Dew set, and a chrome/Blue set with peanuts behind them. Fish ranged from 5lbs to 12lbs. My boat is now covered in Lake O Laker Slime. Does anyone know how to get this stuff off?

You know thats why they call them rumors! Most of the time they arent true. However, this time you heard right. My crew wanted a chance at a leaderboard fish, and we knew the Salmon werent co-operating. They have a cottage on Keuka and fish for Lakers all the time. So, they decided to go Lake Trout fishing! I just supplied them with the necessary materials.

You guys can count me in! Im pretty sure i can get some of my sponsors on deck. I would love to help with something like this. I would say that we have pleanty of room in the river to hold this right in the parking lot at the beach, so people walking the piers or the boardwalk can see what we have here.

Id rather watch your wire rod arch. Make sure she is bent over!

I went to get mine at 10:30 today at the town hall and the "system" was backed up!

So, I checked my heartlands that have had wire line on them since the spring of 2007. I fish Kings basically all summer becasue I follow thier migration, so these rods take a pounding. Not even an indication of a groove starting to form in the tip.

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Bob......do you guys even have any fish down there? AND you ant beat me if your on here threatening me buddy!

I have tried to get it into a couple of tackle shops, but since its a line with little popularity in this part of the US its tough. Your best bet would be to order it from them online or another tackle shop online.

My brothers.....i have more than on and if they were all on the boat at the same time it would be tough!

We got out early with hopes of getting a good inside bite. We knew with a light crew we weren't running 8 miles out again given the conditions. The picture was spotty until we got down east a tad ,and there we found bait with fish mixed in as well. We worked 120-140fow most of the morning. Sea sick Waddlers were our #1 lure today on our 100 rigger, which happens to be the set-up that took a 30.03 Salmon for us today. He hit the NK Mag Waddler 5' above the 28. Other rigs today were the 42nd combo on a wire dipsey, White/Purple Spinny pulling a purple mirage A-TOM-MIK fly, #3 Green glow j-plug on the 300 copper, and a hammertime spinny pulling a glow pro am A-TOM-MIK fly on the 600 copper. We didnt do numbers today, but a big 'ol fish makes up for half the bites ya been getting. Thats our first fish on the Fall LOC leaderboard. Two weekends left to go!

Yup, good job bud and thanks for helping me dock. You guys had a good class of fish down there it looks like.

Those were 3-5's with an occasional 6 rolling through. The camera never shows wave height all that well. Anyway, it wasnt fun going into them and going with them went too fast especially becasue fish were flying on a following sea troll.

Yeah Bruce! Good job representing LOU. Looks Like Matt French from the Misdemeanor boat did as well.

We hit the water off of the Oak around 6:30. We tried the inside waters again for 30 minutes until they dried up and managed to loose a good one on the wire Green double crush glow SmartFish with a Green Crinkle A-TOM-MIK fly, and we landed a skippy off the rigger that took a NK 28 Suplerglow NBK. We dropped in at the 27N line and worked out till the 30-31 and had a slow pick. At one point all four wires took off with the low wires out 125 and 150 on a .5 setting, and the high wires out 200 and 225 on a 3 setting. Riggers were firing, but there wasn't a HOT color until late morning when our NK Copper NBK's started to fire on the riggers down 50-100, and on our wires out 225-300. I guess the fish went a little deeper than expected for us at least. The last rig we had go was our 300 copper with the same #3 Mongoose colored J-Plug. We ended the day with 19 bites, and we landed 15 of them. Only had 2 big guys on throughout the day, and we dropped them both. Nothing for the leaderboard today, but we will be out again on Sunday morning to give it a shot. We had some nasty conditions to deal with out there working the 28-30N lines. Here is a cool video I captured from driving on the flybridge.

We bought 2 Moulltrie D40's. They ran about $100 bucks from Cabelas. We let the soak for a little over a week. They require 6 D cell batteries and we had them set to take 2 quick shots, and then wait a minute before it would take anymore. We choose the highest resolution the camera had to offer. One cam had a mother and fawn blow it up and it took 84 pictures and killed the a batteries in about 3-4 days. The other had 24 pics on it and was still functioning when we got there. All in all we are very pleased and now this has turned into an addiction! Gas is gonna kill us with an hour and a half drive each way to the hunting land....lol.

My reference basing that there were more fleas for longer on the east end was becasue they have warmer water for much longer than we do on the west end for the most part. However, its just my opinion. No one can actually prove it.

Id say that rod was dead for a while!

This is the second season on the factory tip for me. 9'6" Daiwa Heartland rod. Now that you say something I am going to check it tonight. I havent even looked at it to see the wear from a season and a half. I will report back this weekend.

What size shaft?

You cananadia's need to stop inventing color combos! Your driving my bank account to broke! Im gonna need to work overtime this winter, and I refuse to do that!

This might be a tad too late, but here is my two cents. I have run the Ande's, the Silverthread, the stren, and the Berkley's. They are all great lines. Each line has its pros and cons. I now run a line out of the west coast called McCoy Mean Green. I believe one captain and one rec are running it out of Rochester now, and I know of a captain running it out of Sandy now. I have heard no complaints! We run the 25lb and when the fleas are at thier worst you get a smidge here and there. Im talking peak when every 30 minutes you have to pull your wires becasue a 1-2' is riding in front of the dipsey. The week of the Oswego Pro/Am was pretty bad during practice and we didnt bring up any fleas on our rigger rods. Its still a round line so there is no weird lay on the reel. Its not cheap, but it doesnt frey easy, and has a great life span. The owner passed away last year from cancer, and in his will it was stated that the recipe could never be sold to Pure fishing/berkley/stren/whatever.....lol If your really into looking for areat line it should be at the top of your list. Just by looking at my reports you can see i beat the heck out of it all year on kings!

Nice report Billy. That took some grapes to buy 3 lines only to find one that worked. You can go on a site like this and ask guys what to buy to avoid the fleas, but you will get 100 diferent answers. If you dont run a test like yourself then you will realy never know. Some guys on the west end have no clue how bad the fleas get on the east end, and other guys just arent on the water as much as others to see peak periods. Good job, thanks for the results, and good fishing.

About a click west.