Yankee Troller

Many will work. In my opinion use something 12lbs or greater. Fish are coming deep, for the most part, and its nice to have the least amount of blow back possible.

http://www.chautauquaanglingadventures.com/ A nice guy, and a good fisherman. If you book with him tell him i sent ya.

Brian - you should have had your copper flag out!!!!!

Nice bro! There is a lot of fish in between where you were and Braddocks point. Kind of makes ya think what the heck happened to them last month??????

Dude, nice fish! BTW....thanks for the info on Onieda. We did pretty good, especially towards the end of the day.

7/4 - Well, after a short break from trolling to chase Bass we got back on the water to sharpen our skills before the last leg of the Pro-Ams. We set up lines out front of Sandy Creek around 6am and took our first shot on the wire dipsey out 225 pulling a white on white Spin Doctor and an A-TOM-MIK Wonderbread fly (my new favorite fly). This set-up would also take a small steelie later on that morning. While we were fighting that first King Salmon the 600' copper pulling a White on White SmartFish and an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Green Glow fly starts ripping line out. We eventually dropped that fish only to wonder if it was "the one!" We finally got our riggers to fire at 100', and guess what that King Salmon took????? If you guessed the Sea Sick Waddler then you guessed right! We would end up taking a few shots on that today with the biggest being in the 15lb range. Another rigger at 100' took a shot pulling a Dreamweaver SS Dave's Salmon Slapper, but we dropped it very shortly after it took our 100' rigger. Our 300 wires would both go pulling a NK28 Area 51 and a Dreamweaver SS Green Sparkle. Last fish of the day was another 600' copper fish with the same Smartfish/A-TOM-MIK combo. This one also ripped out line uncontrollably! Another one we would have liked to see, but this time it won. Ended the day boating 6 and loosing 6. Of course two of the ones we lost felt like REAL nice fish. Nothing boated was over 15lbs. Stay tuned as we will be derby fishing Saturday and Sunday with reports directly after we get off the boat! 7/5 - What a frustrating morning! We dropped lines a tad bit West of Sandy creek in 150fow. We started off 0 for 7! By the end of the day we would boat 8 fish and loose 8 others. Many skippys, but at the end of the day we put one in the boat around 17lbs on a white on white SmartFish pulling an Ultra Glow Green A-TOM-MIK fly on the 600' copper. We also dropped a SCREAMER on that same rig earlier in the day. Sea Sick Waddler off the riggers took a fish or two as did a Stinger Copper NBK. Riggers anywhere from 60'-100' down, and wires out 200 on a 2.5 took most of the shots. Got off the water around noon and went home to hook up to the bass boat. Figured I would give Watoma Shoals a try for some Smallmouth Bass. Marked a few fish but only managed 3. I was dragging a a tube and tossing around a drop-shot with a 4' roboworm. Out of the three hooked I only boated 1, but it was a really healthy 3lb'er. 7/6 - Lit the water on fire today! We boated 18 fish and dropped 6. For the third day in a row we headed out of Sandy Creek around 5:30am and fished till 1pm. Much better than yesterday. 3 of the 18 were Lakers in the 11-12lb range. First thing this morning we took a 24lb Salmon on the wire pulling a Wonderbread J-Plug. Right after we boated that big guy we took a teenager on a Wonderbread A-TOM-MIK fly behind a White Spin Doctor. Our program today was 3 coppers, 4 wires, and 3 riggers. Our high wires set on a 2.5 out 225'-275' were smoking hot with area 51's and super glow/green Northern King 28's. Our low wires set on a .5 out 150'-200' pulling various SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK fly combos were our second best set-ups. Dreamweaver SS Green Sparkle, Copper NBK's, and Sea Sick Waddlers were taking fish on the riggers from 60'-125' down. We lost a SCREAMER on the copper pulling a White on White SmartFish/Ultra Green Glow A-TOM-MIK fly. Couldn't turn that fish and when we pulled it back in we had a the SmartFish minus a fly or leader (that's a first). We worked the 130-150 waters until it dried up around 11am and then slid out to 170-190 to finish the day and rods started to fly again. Plenty of fish out there for everyone, so go get 'em. Green was definitely the color today. We put a Steelhead and a King Salmon on the LOC Leader board today! Wish us luck, so we can stay on the board.

As long as your boat will allow you to use! Its hard to have a 10' leader on many smaller boats. Too short and your killing your flasher action.

Yeah, and you would have probably used that damn rubber net to land it too!

No problem! I hear the place is AWESOME in the fall time with a lot of big smallies. WHo knows where they go inthe mean time. One last tip i learned on my own was.......if you hear a train coming find the nearest rip rap on that side of the river. The smallies go crazy when the train comes by becasue it rattles the crayfish out from the rocks...IMHO....but it works! If i had to go fish a tourney there today I would start off at the first lock with fast moving water I could find and fish it for a couple of bites then fish rip rap shoreline on outside bends.

I have fished the Amsterdam area a few times for the state federation trail. Summer time is a tough time to fish for smallies. A limit is hard to come by.....especially when there is no water moving. When fishing a river system the bite is always better when there is current. A few tips..... slack water - fish migrate to mid river channels and humps moving water - look for them on the bank on rip rap and trees Fish the water discharge from the locks with a heavy tube When fishing river smallmouth its always good to downsize baits Fish creeks coming into the river and bridge embuckments

Stupid rubber net! What the FREAK is wrong with you? What if that was a derby fish????????

A kid was fishing a bass tourney in the Oak two weekends ago and hooked a steelie. So, im not shocked.

You bet! If its off the boards then it goes in one of the ciscos pictured above.

Got to the ramp about 6:30am and headed for the first spot. Managed a small Smallie on a Pop R first thing, and that was the end of the topwater bite. I took a small smallie on a spinnerbait in the same area. We bounced around looking for Largemouth, bvut couldnt find them in thier usual haunts. Headed for my offshore shoal that always produces good Smallies and hooked up within minutes on a 4" roboworm. A nice one close to 3lbs. Caught another shortly after. Left there to try some other areas and nothing. So, we headed back tio the shoal and put a hurtin on them smallies. Drop-shot'n was the ticket. Only fished the West end of the lake, but it was fun! Got to break in my new drop-shot combo I picked up from Daiwa this spring. I figured my biggest 5 would have weighed 13-14lbs.

Fished thier little working man tourney from 6-9pm last night. This lake has gotten really tough in the last few years. In May you see a TON of HUGE bass crusing, but come the season its off 75% of the time. Anyway, we managed two keepers and a short in 3 hours of fishing. Missed 2 other on topwater. Winners had 11lbs, which for that lake is about 10lobs shy of what it shuold be. Oh well, next week we will be at it again. If anyone is looking for a little fun these tournaments are fun. They are 3 hours long, $30 to enter, and you can pair up with a buddy. Every Tuesday night on Conesus.

Its my understanding that they have closed thier doors?????

Blacks will work just fine. Just tighten them down. Many spoons work well. In my opinion check out attheoak.com for the hottest spoon colors. I did real well out of Wilson this Spring on many diferent spoons. I run mostly Northern King and Dreamweaver spoons, but all of the other brands will work. There is a lot of green water up west near Olcott, so glows work well throughout the day. If you get high sun go to your silver and or copper stuff. 15lb balls will work great! fish the marks!

Thats what we do.

Here ya go! http://www.legendaryproduct.com/ I have been running them since the spring and they have taken some very nice fish. I usually will run them mixed in with Spin Doctors. Many trips the SmartFish has taken the big guy of the day though.

All day long! I wont pass up a copper fish.

Well, we did a triple right as the storm was coming and another right after we got back out. Last year at the Oswego Pro-Am we boxed out during one.

Sorry dude! Shawn on the Kingfsher boat probably wants to take a shot at me too! I knocked them down in the Spring LOC and now the summer. No need to worry with 20+ days to fish. Im sure ours will fall a few. On a side note dont mess with me after im done reeling in 1000' of line. I got Popeye arms and can take on anyone! They were burning really bad! I have fought a lot of fish on copper the last year and a half, and the way this one took line off the reel i knew it was a big guy.

You probably missed the best fishing! Those storms put a charge in the big guys.

You can take a ride to Gander mountain, which is in tonawanda. Its just west of grand Island on 190 or 290.....i cant remember. They would have everything u need. Probably a 20 minute drive.

I put on some traxstech track and added 8 cisco singles that slide in the track. I would say the way I have it set up is the most verssitile set-up you can come up with. I wasnt a fan of the triples or quads b/c i didnt like how close the reels were to each other and could see a rod getting flug out of a holder when someone was going for another rod. The ciscos have the widest range of movement out of any holder out there. There is no pin hole that your limited to.