Yankee Troller

Hey quit pickin on me! And it went like this:

Hero->Zero->Almost Hero

Yeah, I have been running the 13lb weights for 2 seasons. They track nice! Although I havent run the lighter weights, I wouldnt recommend them for LO Salmon fishing.

Clarke.....it was good to see you this weekend. I have to say I am no copper expert, but this year I have been having some great success with my 600' set-up. So much that I recently spooled up a 500' rod, and Tom from ATOMIK is getting me another reel so I can me me another 500' rod. If I am reeling it in to change lures I point and reel. If I am fighting a fish I let him take his first run (which usually tires him out) and then we tighten down the drag and pump and reel. With the Penn 345 reels you can get a lot of line on one pump (not due to the crappy retreive rate). Once you reach the bottom of the pump I have been able to get 4 or 5 turns of the handle in. I think this really picks up that slack you are talking about. A lot of guys in central to western LO wont run this stuff and Im fine with that. On my trip last night my biggest took 500 copper set up. In Orleans my biggest fish took a 600 copper. It flat out produces bites!

Yeah, we tore Jeremy up pretty good this weekend. My old man told me to ease up on him. Hes a good kid, but fun to rip on! He was a little slow to the rods this weekend, or maybe I was a little faster. Either way it doesnt matter b/c we did well.

I run 25lb McCoy Mean Green and it doesnt collect fleas ever. Disapears underwater too. Check them out!

100' is a good number, but i have seen guys run 25' and do well. its all in the water clearity.

I think we had 1 or 2 tangles but we took care of them pretty simple. 4 wires is hard in rough stuff. I use the big rings on the inside deep ones so i dont have to let as much line out to achieve depth.

Thanks guys! It wasnt easy....let me tell ya! Rought water made it tough to run a nice program, but on Saturday in the 4-6 foot waves we ran 4 wires 3 riggers and a copper. Boated 10, dropped 2 and cracked off 1. Sunday we ran 4 wires 2 coppers and 2 riggers and we had 5 fish at 12. We finally found where the wind pushed our fish from practice (we couldnt make it to them on Saturday due to weather) and in an hour we did 7 fish. One triple on 2 wires and a copper. A double and a few singles. It was total mayhem! Sadly enough the Habanero did take about 4 of our fish in that flurry. I thought to myself.....hey im in Habby town why not try it? Sure enough it was smokin hot. Only thing that would go on the riggers (which im starting to believe are useless in the East end of the lake!

WE were having trouble getting the boat off the trailer. The able got embeded in itself for some reason. So we figured that if we backed up and stopped real quick it would come off. Well, that didnt work too well becasue when we got back tothe launch the powere winch was broken becasue of that. Oh well! Talk to ya soon!

Dude, ya should have introduced yourself. I had JAX onboard too.

I dont have my map on me so Im not sure where the point youare talking about is. I fished there for years but have choosen not to go there much anymore becasue the fishing got really tough. Cayuga was one of the prmier bass lakes in NY a few years back. OK, back to what you ned to do to catch bass in there. For smallies fish the points with spinnerbaits and jerkbaits in the morning. Charteuse is always a good smally color. LAter on in the morning hit the insde weedline for them. INto the afternoon I would target the outside weededge for them. The LM will be mixed in with the SM. For strictly LM go to the North end and fish the huge weedbed up there. Jigs and plastics will work.

Fished out of Sandy Creek from 6am-12pm. Not sure the exact number we ran into, but it was a lot (Somewhere in the vacinity of 20 bites)! 50-130 FOW was the target area with 10 color cores being the best rig. Copper took its fair share out 300'-400'. Wires were HOT in the morning but cooled down towards the end of the day. Finally in the last 2 hours we got the riggers to fire consistently. Basically orange was the color today. ANYTHING with orange! Targeted the top 60 feet and the temp was in there too. No leaderboard fish, but we lost a 10lb steelie and boated a few 20lb kings. Everything else was teenage to skipper size. If I would have boated the Steelie we would have had a LO Grand Slam.

Well, I guess I will see you out there then. Im leaving on Thursday.

Well Tommy, when the big boat overheats I have to have a back up plan or else the day is shot! We were out to Sandy on Sunday but we had boat troubles. Everything is all fixed and I look forward to having some fun in a few days!

I hope you sold it to buy a bigger one!

Nice job dude! I got my biggest King last year off Rochester on this very weekend. I will be out of Sandy on Wednesday. I would imagine we could reach each other if your going the way most are out of Rochester. TTYL

Aaron nice job bud! Keep a watch on them fish for us! I need to know where they are and what they want.

6/29 - practiced for the Avon Anglers tourney on Keuka lake. What a disapointment. I have heard a lot of good things from this lake. We caught 3 keepers all day. What a crystal clear/tough lake. We saw fish all over the place, but htey seemed to have lock jaw. Congrats to whoever won that tourney. If you want pickerel GO THERE!

6/30 - Went to Conesus and had a steller day! ME and my buddy kept our 5 biggest fish. In the end it was me with 15.4 and him with 16 even. Great day and a lot of nice fish. Our biggest five combined weighed in at 19.3lbs. All on soft plastics and jigs.

7/1 - Took my GF's 14yr old brother to Irondequoit. Got on the water around 12 and fished till 4. I was gtaking it easy on him until he said we were ited 3-3. OK, GAME ON! Broke out the senko and light his arse up!:laugh: He finally dropped the tourney and I went back to my jig. Caught a beauty that weighed 4.8 on my digital. Took a bunch of other 3lb fish on the jig. I would hjave had a 17lb bag fairly easy. Gotta love that place!

I have a friend in Dansville that is doing SWET wrk and winning a lo tof awards for it. He id my Largemouth last year and it came out amazing.

Lanes Taxidermy

Here is his link:

http://www.atommiktrollingflies.com/

Dud I got one for you. If you want to call me I can forward thier number to you. 5857047996.

Yeah GTN, he found out that the school of Lakers migrated West and to keep on top of them he moved his operation.

Hey, the Runnin Rebel and the Yankee Troller are going to have to behave themselves out there on Sunday! See ya out there Jerry!

Where were you two months ago!

They are easy to catch! Go to Lake Erie or Quite. It would be like me saying King Salmon fishing on Erie is tough and I hate it. OK, I know the 1000 Islands area has more Walleye than Erie has Salmon, but ou get my point.

Bass put up nice fights! And its one on one with them unlike Salmon fishing where there are 3-6 guys on board.