Yankee Troller

Trout fisherman :roll:

How many pros could u have beaten this week?

Friday (Practice) - Did some looking around (from 100-500+ fow), and ended up finding 7 bites out in front of Fair Haven. All the waypoints were fairly close so we figured there was a school of fish there worthy of our time on Saturday. Our biggest 3 totaled just under 30lbs. Fish werent big, but from the sounds of it we had more bites than most boats. Our hot set up today was a Dreaweaver SS Dave's Salmon Slapper parked at 100' on the rigger. We had two wire bites one took a Green double glow SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Green krinkle, and the other was a White double glow SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Ace fly. Saturday (Day 1) - Well, we let Fridays pre tourney throw us a curve ball. Guys plucked some good fish out of the inside waters (140 fow in front of West 9 mile), so we started our day there hoping for a couple of bug guys. Marks were there but we only ended up taking a laker out of there. With about 3 hours left we made a run to our waypoints from Friday and in no time we were hooked up. Every bite once we set down on our waypoints came off the same rig. Chrome E-Chip pulling and A-TOM-MIK Big Finn fly out 275 on a .5 setting. We boxed 5 fish for a total of 98 points and ended day one in 15th place out of 37 teams. Sunday (Day 2) - We didnt make any other plans but to run right to our waypoints in front of Fair Haven seeing that the leader took his box from there on day one. We pull up around 6:30 and drop lines. We werent even set-up yet and corner rigger down 100 fires with a short steelie on a copper NBK. Not much longer and the high wire out 350 on a 2 setting starts ripping. We boat a nice 22lb King on a White Double Glow SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Ace fly. Next the 600 copper takes off with a 8-10lb laker on a Green Double Glow SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Green Krinkle fly. Get it back out there and it takes off ripping. This time it wasnt a mud chicken! We boat a 21lb King. Middle rigger fires again with a nice 8-10lb steelie only to dump off 25 yards behind the boat. We would then end up boating a 7lb steelie on a NK Mag Froggie cheated above a Mini Spinnie. With about 30 minutes to fish we boat a short steelie and dump another keeper Steelie. We boxed 4 fish for 97 points and ended up just out of the money. Here is a few pics of our big guys from today:

All you have to do is read my reports on the SSW. Since it has started catching fish it has a permanent spot in the morning set-up.

Ill typically look for 38-39 and set my deepest rig there. Then work up from there and fish the marks. You asked about 3 other species......wasn't aware Lake O had anything else to offer

both on the senko, but texas with a weight on the 5' worm that caught most of the fish.

Gottcha! We had a 21' Penn Yan. White and brown.

We blasted off at 6pm with no real plan of attack. Fishing has been tough there for a few weeks and I heard it hadnt changed as of the weekend. They were semi-turned on last night though. We weighed in 13.70lbs in 3 hours of fishing. Our biggest was 4.54lbs. We caught about a dozen keepers. We placed fourth and got a little more than our entry fee back. Weed edges with a worm or a senko is where we took all of our fish.

Gottcha......I didnt recognize ya, but I knew you knew me from one of the message boards.

I dont stay anywhere......I just go to where the good fishing is. You will probably see me out there a little more for the next month or so. Come September you cant beat the Genny. I was amazed the antenna didnt snap. I was waiting for it to for the whole 30 seconds we tried to get it unpinned from under the bridge.

Tank......didnt know that was you in the Bayliner. I think we hung out together all day long on that west/est troll. Im not real familiar with all you Sandy guys. You guys have a great port though! Only **** is the bridge...I almost lost my antenna talking to a guy at the launch. I clearly told my crew to take all the rods and the net down, but since i didnt say antenna they figured it didnt need to come down.

I dnt know the boat name....all i know is it was dry docked a few weeks ago.

Did either of you two see my next boat there? It is the 29' Luhrs open. What a SWEET ride!

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.