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Hudson was loaded with boats as we drove to and from Boston Fiday and Saturday. Was wishing.....

Good luck to all! Wish I was going to be out but road trip to Boston for my son's Ski Team Banquet. Be safe! Bruce

Make sure hose from tank to motor are a good seal at both ends..... also in my haste in the past i have forgotten to vent the tank. Good luck!

Anyone know if the docks are in at the County Launch at the north end of the Bay? Thanks in advance, Bruce

Set out this morning to fish Seneca for the first time in many years. Went to my old favorite - Roy's for bait and easy launch. Fished in front of Roy's and a bit south, Glass Factory and across the lake at Reeders Creek. Tried 20- 45 fow with Oak Leaf grubs and minnows. Not a tap in 4 hours. I can not get over how clear the lake is these days! See the bottom in 35- 40 feet of water. No apparent shortage of Zebras, bottom just coated in many spots. Nice day on the lake. Hope to get back soon. Saw some guys that said they had sat on a school all day with little or no action on the east side. Did manage to get the boat to idle well at trolling speed as I may want to use it out of Ibay and the Oak until I get the bigger boat in at the Oak. Bruce

Those landlocks are down deep or along the shore? You doing anything on stickbaits? If so any particular size or colors? May try to sneak out late afternoon... Thanks, Bruce

These are great rod "holders". Ran them for years no problem but bought a couple more two years ago and they both broke, replaced under warranty and those broke as well. The clamps on the newer ones seem to be a cheaper alloy and break or crack. I would not recommend using dipsey rods in them or for that matter a large net. Took losing two setups and almost a third before braindead self said WTF! If you do choose to use them for dipseys put a bunji to your reel. BTW West paid to replace the rods, reels, line as well as the dipseys and hardware. Great customer service!!!!

Yankee - here is a thought for your next adventure now that you have the kayak thing down.... http://playak.com/index.php?option=com_ ... deoid=3044 you need to play it on the 360 (on the bottom bar) setting unless you have a wicked fast comp and connection...

These look awfully nice.... what speed do they run at and are they up to big salmon hit? If so sure would give them a shot for our LO salmon and steelhead. If they are heavy enough I sure think they would entice a few strikes.... let me know.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name:Throbbin Rod ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):11-22 Time on Water:8:00-11AM Weather/Temp:overcast/45 Wind Speed/Direction:0 Waves: glass Surface Temp: 46 Location:5-100 FOW LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 0 Total Boated:0 Species Breakdown:N/A Hot Lure: Trolling Speed: Down Speed: Boat Depth: Lure Depth: ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Marked no fish, no bait and same temp from 5 FOW - 100 FOW - lots of ducks and geese nice to get out - strange to see all the docks empty and no one around - will fish perch or finger lakes if I get a chance to get out again. Happy Thanksgiving to all.....

Very interesting! we have had no zebras since we moved the boat to the Oak. Had lots when in I-Bay.

yup.... had to go to 28.5 and deeper to find fish on Saturday but I bet they are finding there way back inside

Mark, Same up at the Oak today but once we got to 28.5 temps were much better. Found some good fish 29- 30 line. We took 8 or 9 quality steel and 4 or five kings the largest 20#. Two wire bites.... out 200 and 210...one steelhead and one king and missed one. Spoons that were working in order of popularity with the fish were Stinger Dirty White Boy, R&R Spook and a silver Stinger with black down one side and a purple "tag". Riggers at 60- 70 with a number of fish on cheated up 8 sliders. We ad 43- 48 degree water inside and had 70 on top out deep with 47 down 70ish. Sounds like a blow day Sunday.... I'll call you and let you know how our grass is growing! Bruce

There is definitely an interest on our boat of a reasonable way to target fish at those depths. Do you need a Lake Ontario tester? We would be happy to do so and with the LOC starting any trick that will put fish on board would be welcome!

Fishing Report Your Name / Throbbin Rod ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):08-17-2009 Time on Water:7pm- 8:15pm Weather/Temp:90 sunny Wind Speed/Direction:0 Waves: 0 Surface Temp: 74 Location:Oak Orchard - touch east in 150- 110FOW in front of wall LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 5 Total Boated:3 Species Breakdown:2 Chinook 1 Steelhead Hot Lure: Stinger Dirty White Boy Gator Spin Doctor/ ATOMMIK Green Crinkle Trolling Speed: 2.25 Down Speed: 2.4 Boat Depth: 120-150 Lure Depth: 70-80 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Fished with Patty last night for a little over an hour. Small 3#steelhead, 10# Chinnok and 19# Salmon. Two small fish were on Dirty White Boy on rigger at 70' and big King took Gator Spin Doctor/ Green Crinkle out 240 on wire at 2.5 setting.

Fishing Report Your Name / Throbbin Rod ========== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):2-16-2009 Time on Water:6am- 3pm Weather/Temp:90 Wind Speed/Direction:0 S Waves: 0 Surface Temp: 72 Location:Oak Orchard LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): 9-11W 24-30N =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 15 Total Boated:14 Species Breakdown:8 Steelhead 6 Chinook Hot Lure: Gator Spin Doctor/ATOMMIK Green Crinkle, Geterdun Trolling Speed: Down Speed: 2.25 - 2.5 Boat Depth: 150 - 550 Lure Depth: 65-75 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Fished Saturday morning with Stacey and had a mix of Steelhead and Kings @ 18w-30N. White 8' E-Chip flasher-Meat Rig with Gulp imitation strip and Stinger Gator, White SpinDoctor/ Mirage Fly did fish as well as Stinger Dirty White Boy did most of our fish. Thanks to Irish Thunder for getting us to a fishy location. Fished Sunday and started @ 9w-24.5 and worked out to 11w-30n. Had steady action all the way ending at a nice pocket of fish at the northwest end of troll. Largest was 25#King and 10# Steelhead.

Although an old book written about the Finger Lakes called ( to the best of my recollection) Fishing the Finger Lakes for Fabulous Trout and Salmon written by a guy named Earl Holdren is a warehouse of information applicable to most bodies of water containing trout and salmon. A good read and adjust to your specific body of water. Lots of stuff about thermocline and how fish relate to it as structure, light and color considerations as well with specifics about the Finger Lakes. I learned a lot from this old book. Tough to find but well worth seeking out.

Fishing Report Throbbin Rod ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):Sunday 8-9-2009 Time on Water: 7-12 Weather/Temp:68 Wind Speed/Direction:south- 0 Waves: 0 Surface Temp: 68 Location: varied LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): varied =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 9 Total Boated:1 Species Breakdown:1 King Hot Lure: ???? Trolling Speed: Down Speed:2.4. 2.7 then 2.2 Boat Depth: all over Lure Depth: 60-80 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Took my younger sister out for her first LO trip. Started east of port in 90 and worked out through that recently, for us, productive 150 -170 area. Just one 10-12# king for her. Got a suggestion to move deeper and west of port and motored over there. Set up and went though a big pod of bait and took a nice alewive. Proceeded to get out a Twinkie rig and put it behind a white 8" e-dip flasher. It was down no more than 2 minutes and took off. Dropped that fish (and all the rest). No more real bait and remembered we had some Gulp Saltwater bait in a rectangular sheet. Cut it to resemble the old RhyDavis strips and it took three more rips including one that took out 200 and then shot to the depths rather than Canada, good fish, we dropped that one too after working it back into within 70 feet of the boat. Never saw it.... Got a very nice courtesy call from Joe Toomey of Irish Thunder regarding a strong thunderstorm headed from Toronto and a second call saying time to boogey... thanks! A good steelie as we were pulling rods took a mag Stinger Diehard which we proceeded to loose while at the back of the boat. Drop city for the day for us but a nice visit with my sister. She really enjoyed it and loved the look and dare I say ambiance of the Oak.

Fishing Report Throbbin Rod - Oak Orchard ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):8-8-2009 Time on Water:6:15- 1:00PM Weather/Temp: 75 and Hazy Wind Speed/Direction:South 5mph Waves: negligable Surface Temp: 72 Location: 150- 400 Just east of port LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 14 Total Boated:12 Species Breakdown:8 Steelhead, 4 kings Hot Lure: DW M&M and NK Glow Frog white cup Trolling Speed: varied Down Speed:2.25 - 2.5 Boat Depth: 90 - 400 Lure Depth: 70- 90 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Fished Friday night for a couple hours with Patty in 150 - 170 just east of port. Boated 11-4 Steelhead and a 10# King and another King around 5# or so. DW M&M and Gators did the trick. Saturday set up in 90 FOW just a tad east of port. Worked out to 400 FOW. Best was 170- 260 range. Port rigger at 70 with glow frog and M&M up 8 feet accounted for all but 4 fish. The other four were on wire out 210 and 240 on 2.5 setting with 42 second spin doctor/atommik crazy **** and Gator spin doctor with atommik green crinkle fly. Temp was 52- 55 down 70. Fleas minimal and only in deeper water.The steelhead were, all but one, 5-9#. Kings were 2 skippers, one around 12 and one tipped scales at just about 25# - 70 foot rigger glow frog of course. Good day on the lake, again!

All of our days up there have been good with one exception early in July. Pretty much same hadware plus Gator and Geterdun spoons in the mix many days. That same area has held fish most days and times of day. All but two fish this season we have been able to release.... a good feeling.

Very nice! Enjoy it while it is there! I remember those days fondly! Tough finding time to fish with Stacey these days between his work, girl friends, soccer, and school stuff etc, etc...... At least he has been able to use the boat on his own occasionally turning friends on to our fishery. He loves the Oak move we made.

Had a similar experience with two as well. Made up my own "sub-harness" and no more problems. Was glad it wasn't the other side of the probe!!!

tried this out tonight with part of a 9# steelhead fillet. excellant!!!!

Throbbin Rod: Oak Orchard Fishing Report ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): Saturday 8-1 Time on Water: 7AM - 12PM Temp/Weather: 85°F and sunny Wind Speed/Direction: south @ 5 Waves: 1 Footers, Calm Surface Temp: 68 Location: 150 -175 just east of port LAT/LONG: =============== FISHING RESULTS=============== Total Hits: 13 Total Boated: 10 Species Breakdown: 3 Kings, 7 steelhead Hot Lure: NK Glow Frog White Cup, 42 Second Spin Doctor/ Atommik Crazy **** Fly Trolling Speed: Down Speed: 2.25-2.4 Boat Depth: 150-175 ft Lure Depth: 70-75ft ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Fished Saturday AM and found a good pocket of fish in 150-175 FOW just east of port. Did 3 Kings largest just under 21# and 7 Steelhead with largest just over 9#. Glow frog parked at 70 and 75 did most of the fish and 42 Second Spin Doctor/ ATOMMIK Crazy **** taking 3 fish on wire out 210 @2.5 setting and Gator Spin Doctor/ ATTOMIK Green Crinkle Fly out 240 taking 3 hits but not solid hook ups. No lamprey marks on any fish and had 54 degrees down 75. Bite died at about 10:30 for us with just 2 fish after that. Most boats were working deeper water as day progressed.

Throbbin Rod: Fishing Report ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 07-22-09 b]Time on Water: [/b] 7:30- 1:30 AM 0Temp/Weather: 70 cloudy to sunny Wind Speed/Direction: south light Waves: 1-2 Footers rface Temp: [/b] did not look Location: north of port LAT/LONG: 25 -26N straight out =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 9 Total Boated: 7 Species Breakdown: (4 Kings, 2 Bows, 1 Brown Hot Lure: Gator/ Atomik Green Crinkle (from Sharon at Narbys), Geterdun, Purple spoon from Joe Toomey behind a diver, green silver and orange random spoon (perhaps brass "Confusion"? by his description) and of course Stinger Gator Trolling Speed: 2- 3mph Down Speed: 2-2.5mph Boat Depth: 170-260 Lure Depth: 30-60 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Stacey and a friend Tom from high school went out this am for the morning. Everything he put out took a hit if not a fish. Temp was 47 down 45 for the most part. Riggers at 45 and 50 and wire at 150 and 140. Said they lost the two biggest salmon at the back of the boat. Stacey said probably pushing thirty by estimated length and he has a darn good eye for that having put many hours in out there with me in the past! I had to live vicariously by cell phone the last two times he was out while I worked to pay his college tuition! But then again I went fishing Friday last week while he was mowing his lawns (summer job).