Tim Bromund

I run a 16 lb weight with my Depth Raider as well.

Yeah, don't worry so much about the migratory fish. I wouldn't eat a resident fish out of that creek for any reason.

They also give you a feel for the mood of the fish that day, since they are short leads. If you are getting a lot of slider bites, that should be an indication that you might want to tighten up your leads on the main line. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I like free sliders. They account for quite a few additional bites over the course of a season. It's usually easy to tell if it's a slider bite because the rod really pounds before releasing from the fish pulling on the belly of the line. You just have to remember to reel like a mofo to pick up the slack when it fires and get tight to the fish as quickly as possible. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I usually have at least one on a rigger, fairly tight to to the ball (8-10 ft) and at least one on a diver. Then let the fish dictate if I add more. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I've had that same knot on a wire diver for multiple seasons without retying and never had it break, Had to be a kink in the wire somewhere.

Those are in reference to either the minutes of latitude or longitude on the GPS. When someone says they are fishing at the 25 line, that is the minutes of latitude, which is the middle set of numbers. a Minute of Latitude is approximately 1 mile in this part of the world so if you are fishing say, out of Olcott, the marina is at the 20 line (the pierheads are at the 20.4 line), so if you hear someone saying they are fishing the 25 line, they are approx 4.5-5 miles out. Works the same with Longitude, though if I remember correctly, each minute of longitude is approx 3/4 of a mile. Tim

That was a rhetorical question, 650 fow doesn't exist off of Olcott. I don't think you find water that deep in Lake Ontario until you are way offshore off of Sodus. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

But it doesn't catch fish like wire divers do. At least on my boat it doesn't. I run both when fleas allow and over quite a few years now, the wire takes about 3X the shots that the braid divers do. Doesn't matter where I run em or what I run on em. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Or maybe the Kaho and didn't know what it was. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Earlier this year, I donated a fishing trip for a benefit, before I discovered the rotten stringers in my boat. Since I'm still not in the water this year with all of the rebuilding, I asked Adam Gierach to help me out for the trip. We took the winners of the trip out today on Diversion II out of Olcott. Took a quick look inside and not seeing anything interesting, we picked up and ran offshore. Set down in 375 fow and started trolling north as we set lines. Caught fish from 400 all the way to 500 fow. Rods set were riggers at 45 and 55, divers at 155 and 135 200 copper and 10 color. Had a good day with around 20 bites, a mix of kings and steelhead. The 10 color was the hot rod with a jawbreaker stinger stingray taking nearly half the shots. Unfortunately, our landing percentage sucked on that rod today, but we did manage to put 7 fish in the box for the guys, plus one undersize steelie that was released. One nice mature king at 22-23 lbs plus a teenager, really nice class of steelhead with one 12 lbs and 2 others landed over 10, plus we lost several similar sized fish. The big king came on the 135 diver on an NK28 Hawg Wild. Many, many thanks to Adam, the guys had a good time and went home with a cooler full. Beauty of a day out there Tim

Was that big jumping brown an Atlantic, maybe? Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

There aren't a ton of kings but they are out there. Gotta go way offshore. Last two times I was out best fishing was 450-500 fow. Fish are high, 40-60 down mixed with the steelhead. Almost exclusively a spoon bite. Tim Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Port Darlington is at Bowmanville, Ontario on the North Shore., kind of between Olcott and the Oak.

Of the offshores, definitely the heavy. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I would recommend the Scotty Powergrips instead. Much better release in the pinch pad style releases. I load the crap out of my rigger rods and never have a release unless a fish bites. Tim Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

They make automatic feeders for the pens. Several of the pen projects on the Canadian side use them. We are looking into the cost and feasibility of adding them. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Totally agree Brian, I'm heavily involved with the Olcott Pen Project and have been since we started it. The first couple years, we had all kinds of volunteers signing up to feed, but once the novelty wore off, that completely collapsed. Of the 3 weeks of feedings, 5 times a day, If I get a dozen time slots filled by volunteers (at least those that sign up via the feeding calendar on the LOTSA website) that's a lot. I know that people just show up without signing up, but quite honestly, if it wasn't for the dedication of the Town of Newfane Marina Staff feeding the fish when no one is there, Our pen project couldn't exist.

The Cannons don't work if you have riggers that have an autostop mechanism in line like the Scottys with the autostop beads or big jons with the autostop magnets on the cable. The Traxstech planer tow line retriever pullys I mentioned have a large enough gap in them that the beads fit through them. Tim Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app