Yankee Troller

Sorry for slacking on reports this season. Life's been hectic this summer! Anyway....over the last few weeks the Offshore bite been humbling at times and very rewarding as well. Saturday morning - They say "it's not how you start, but rather how you finish!" That was today's motto. We didn't get our first bite until around 9:30am. We then turned a quadruple landing 2/4. After that we dialed in a program, and picked away at them. When it was all said and done we cleaned six Salmon and six Steelbow for these first time customers from Allentown, PA. This morning we started at the 28N line and trolled to the 34N line. 32-34N was best for us. We found a break around 32N where the thermocline came up 20'. Baits that took multiple fish were: * Frost Bite down 70' on a downrigger * Team Dreamweaver Two Face Spin Doctor/ A-Tom-Mik Mfg. shredded Big Fin 200' out on a diver * Regular sized Dreamweaver Martel by FishUSA on 300' of A-TOM-MIK copper We fished a leg of the King of the Oak today as well. Our three biggest fish weighed just over 62lbs. It was good for 2nd place! Saturday afternoon - For our afternoon charter we had some local guys that, more or less, grew up together. We decided to run back out to the 31N line where we left them biting on our morning trip. It was a sloppy ride out there due to the East winds, but we were rewarded with action right from the start. Same program from the morning was working still, which made our job easy. Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Yes, medium Chirp. Problem with Chirp technology is the cone angle is smaller than traditional sonar.

Go into settings and make sure switchfire is on Max mode and make sure you're trolling on 83khz.

Are you using the stock transducer?

We going bro?

Price on the Rampage here at Krenzer Marine was dropped to $35k yesterday. It's listed here on LOU as well. If anyone interested come see me at Krenzer Marine.

I have a 28 Rampage at Krenzer Marine that the owner just stopped by and said he was highly motivated to sell. Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Lake Ontario United mobile app

They make great transducers, but the ones that come from these MFD manufacturers are just fine.

CHIRP transducers have half the cone angle as traditional ducers. 50khz ducers are 45* cones. CHIRP ducers are at best 30* and most times less than 25*. They are also 3 times the money and all you get is a crisper image. If you're bottom fishing/jigging then it's a great ducer, but for trolling it's not ideal.

You can Network ECHOMAP units together. You CAN'T network an ECHOMAP with a GPSMAP. You also can't install Radar down the road and use an ECHOMAP. Whatever you do DON'T get CHIRP sonar. Stick with a 50/200 or 83/200 transducers. I an drop ship whatever you want. We sell a ton of Garmin and Humminbird at Krenzer Marine. You can't go wrong with either.

You can run anything behind them. Spoons, Plugs, Flasher/Flies, and Meat.

Not quite sure what you mean, but use your electronics to give you a starting point. If you're marking fish and the temps are good fish in.

Morning: Great mix of fish today! This kid experienced Lake Ontario at it's best. He caught the biggest fish of his life wieghing in at 21lbs, and got his first ever limit of Salmon. That's what this job is all about. We boated an Atlantic Salmon, Coho Salmon, obviously some Chinook Salmon, and a Steelbow. At the end of the day we dropped a small Late Trout behind the boat, so we were a Brown Trout short of a slam. Familiar Bite took a good portion of our Chinook, as well as the largest of the day. A-TOM-MIK coppers in 300 & 400' lengths, Downriggers from 50-100', and divers out 175' are the set-ups that took fish. FishUSA's DW Martel and the Rod Father were our best spoons. We fished from 90-150' most of the day a click or two West. At one point we wandered out as far as 225', but screen wasn't great out there. Afternoon: Our Sunday afternoon trip with some local Rochestarians stared out great, but slowed after the first few hours. No big surprise though after looking at the lunar table. We set up on a minor. We fished 90-110' most of the night. Spoons that took fish were DW Lazer Spook and FishUSA's Glow Roy Boy. Familiar bite meat also took a couple shots. Our Cannon Downriggers fished from 45-80', A-TOM-MIK copper in 300', and wire divers out 150 all took fish. The last 30 minutes we slid in and went 1/3 on Brown Trout. The lone fish to hit the Grizzly was fooled by a DW SS Glow Green Alewife. . . Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Lake Ontario United mobile app