Yankee Troller

Last weekend in April 2019. We fished the King of the Lake and won it so we stayed back to collect our winnings while all the other US teams headed back. I got a call from Paul Czarnicki (damn I miss that guy) about the ice pack coming out of the river. We left St. Catherines marina and got within a few miles of the river and had to go North to get around the ice pack. We found ourselves 7-8mi offshore in over 300+' of water and the ice field went West to about 4 mile state park. Boy was that eerie!

Sore subject! I run 10lb McCoy Flouro 100, and it's bring discontinued. Been running it since I was 18. I'm told Seaguar AbrasX is a close comparison. I will be testing out a few options in the future.

I wish I could get that Smithwick in Hot Steel to go.

They're filling orders before they list them on their website. They started with the short shallow series and you can get those at FishUSA right now. They plan on doing more baits in the future, but it comes down to resources and labor availability.

Yup, click the link ~~~> Chinook Diver

Jerry F always says no captain on Lake O has ever limited out becasue of this.

You give these Lake Ontario charter captains a lot of credit. Take away the cake fishery we've had the last few years and a third of the fleet would be out of business. Sometimes that 20" fish is needed to fill the box. Also, Lake Erie ruined clients from PA and OH. Those greedy bastards are only interested in a limit catch and often ask for the captains and mates limit. If you don't limit with them they find someone else. Just my $.02

I stick to 2.0 in the GPS for the most part. Sometimes I'll slow it down to 1.8. Sometimes I'll kick it up to 2.2.

Ya, it's special alright! Special to the lowest bidding company that can supply the feed. Thank god some anglers had that stuff tested a few years back.

Yup, he's real personable, and he seems to get irritated when you bring it up.

Like Rob mentioned torpedo's or sharks. We run these torpedo's, and they track as good as anything I've used.

You're not allowed to say that . Our biologist say there's no proof that breading large Salmon with large Salmon make large Salmon. They reference one study out West. God forbid they tried their own study. With Salmon sizes declining, and referencing the chart I posted earlier in this thread, I'd be curious if the sizes started declining faster when the hatchery started using jack Salmon in the breeding process.

I thought the whole debacle during covid (where streams weren't treated) was blamed on the Canadians not being able to cross the boarder? Am I wrong?