Yankee Troller

One fall derby about a long time ago we docked our old penn yan at the river. Me my dad and bro fished every day of that derby. Someone stole all our rods and tackle one night. I think i was 16 b/c i remember wanting to go down and sleep onthe boat. boy would they have gotten a surprise! It sucks! Good thing was at the time I was good friends with Pat from NK and he took care of us!

No spotter? Idk if I like that...... If everyone else needs one why do the ams get off?

Hey Fishtails........are you guys the fishtales team from the Pro-Am's? I think you had on blue and yellow shirts?

Nice slob!

I had Lane's Taxadermy do my Largemouth last year and it came out flawless! I can get you info if you'd like. He is located in Dansville.

well, he bought the remmington adl 7MM. Thanks for your reply's.

I'll let him know.

If you can get out then GO! Its harder this time of year b/c the salmon are running and trying to get a good troll in front of a river can be hard on weekends. The steel and 2yr old kings are off shore and can be a blast. With less boats out there searchin it gets tough. Theres a lot of lake out there!

If you are or know of someone who is selling one let me know. This will be used for deer hunting and west trips for mules and antelope.

I have a trip on Erie this Saturday and I plan on trying a spoon on them smallies!

Nice job! I always have a hard time on that lake. IDK....maybe i need some more time onthe water.

If he says so! I have been getting some small males each time im out, but it should start by the end of this month.

Well, if u had any brains you would have remembered back to the blast off and tried to remember seeing me. Its not hard to remember me with such a sexy bass boat. All joking aside, yeah i fished with Scott last night and we took 3rd. Just above ten pounds. Winner had 4 fish and lunker which was a touch over 5lbs.

Yeah, nice one smart ass! Too bad I didnt contribute to your pot.. ..LOL! I had to cancel my trip in Rochester from gail force wind, and couldnt make the tourney blast off. Your lucky for that! I figured if you brought in 18lbs I could have at least pulled a 20lb sack. On the other hand it proly would have been nice if my money was in there to offset all the money I have taken from you in the past.

I run strictly metalic purple and I have good wire bites. I would say 75% of my fish are wire bites.

Gambler that must have been cool to have 7 rods fire. I have cleaned 10 out of 10 rods once all is said and done, but they werent simultaneous. It was more like double here than a single then a double......bla, bla, bla. I would say I had a very memorable year with all sorts of ups and downs. First year chartering was cool! I met some great people and learned a lot. As for the Pro-Am's.....WOW! I would have never expected to take 2 top 5's inthe pro side let alone a win. Then to top it off with a Fall LOC placing. So, in conclusion Uncle Sam will be getting a nice chunk of change from me in taxes this year! :shock: I would say the most memorable trip was either the charter with the two women in bikinis (I swear I didnt sit on the fly bridge and look down, it was to make sure the fish was right behind the boat) or the 8yr old kid who was rod shy at 6am and by 8am was a rod hawg(Will never forget his face or smile when he landed some of those Spring fish)!

Nope, my leaders are 10' then add the falsher and fly.

Nice job Pat! Very Interesting.....

I have been running 10 passes worth of leader on the 345. I do believe that is too long, and plan on cutting some down for the simple reason you dont need that much when your 2 football fields behind the boat. LOL

Thats interesting Paul! Im no fisheries biologist by any means and I took the words of some captains over the years. It always seemed to be he case, however, when we were plucking them off the bottom. For example 2 years ago on memorial day we were up at wilson and we were pulling kings off the bottom in 175-200fow. Yeah, i had 300' of cable out on the riggers, but we were smokin the teenagers. A lot of those fish had that folded over tail. I guess most of the tails I have seen were from fish on the bottom, but I never seen a salmon in a tank so i cant argue with you. Do you agree though that a salmon on the bottom can be explanied by the scratches and markings on its belly? Casue I have seen this too.

Mike, Mike, Mike! Yes Lakers hug the bottom, but there atre a lot of kings down there too once the sun comes up! A loto f times you will catch a king and the bottom of its tail is folded over. That is becasue he was laying on the bottom. I would say I catch more Kings off the bottom in that 50-200' range than lakers, but im not targeting lakers either.

Thanks PH!

Yeah all you need for core is a Penn 330.

While your at it you can also cut a 1/4 in off either side of a NK 28 and it will let you run it at speeds of 4.5-5mph at the ball! I have never had probems running chips at speeds up to 3.0 at the ball. They always catch fish! Oh I know, that must be a laker trick! Guys - the answer for anyone not catching fish on flasher or flies is more than the set-up. Some of you guys run 5-7' leaders off the dipsey. That isnt getting your chip or spinny much action. Also on the rigger you can stretch those things out to 50 foot if need be. Make sure your fly leader is 20-22' on an 8" flasher and use color combos that are popular. To top it off make sure there are fish below you and you are fishing their depth. Somtimes the fish you see are inactive, so it doesnt mean the flasher of fly doesnt work. Fly's have taken 90% of my fish the past few weekends, but somedays they want white and others they want green. You got to give em what they want. Im no expert by any means, but I have never had to cut a chip to make it work and I stick with the colors that have produced for me in the past. For these colors go to the Atomik website and see whats hot or attheoak.com.

I gave my great lakes to Jay Vee a few years back and let them clean and repair one or two of them. Price was reasonable. There is also a guy in Buffalo (Tony's rod and reel repair) he is very good too and also works on trolling motors.