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I hope you are wrong about the warm winter for 1 reason. I need to ice fish after the garbage season last year!

Lou, We were a little further East of his house but I guarantee he could hear the hooting and hollering when that beast hit the floor. Larry, I'm going to contact the DEC today and see what I have to do to get this fish aged.

Thanks everyone for the kind words. It has been one heck of a season on the Escape (aka Chicken Coupe). I think our success is due to a good TEAM effort on the boat and a TON of LUCK. I am luck enough to fish with some mighty fine fishermen out of our little network of guys here at Sandy. It looks like Kurt is going to do a replica mount of this fish and I'm going to get a skin mount done to add to my collection. That fish is definitly a fish of a lifetime. I think it was Capt Vince that said Lake Ontario never stops amazing me. I feel the same way. We are all lucky to have this WORLD CLASS FISHERY right in our back yard! There is a ton of trophy fish out there. Go get them guys!

Temp was a lot better today. Good number of kings from 120 to 180. Some nice browns in 100 to 120 also.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name:Escape ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):8/19 Time on Water:530 am Weather/Temp: Wind Speed/Direction: Waves: 1 foot Surface Temp: Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: ? Total Boated:? Species Breakdown: Kings, browns and lakers Hot Lure: Spin n glow and hammerhead cowbell Trolling Speed: 1.1 Down Speed: 1.1 Boat Depth: 100 - 180 Lure Depth: 75 to the bottom ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS =================== Started the morning East of the creek fishing kings. Did some kings, a brown and lakers before starting the laker troll. Headed down to our weigh points from the other day and started lighting up the lakers. After 20 minutes we had boated 10 and the Starboard rigger fires and immediatly starts taking drag. Kurt yells to me, I can't get it off the bottom. I started going in and out of neutral and we started to gain line. When it surfaced, I knew it was a slob. After the net was slid under it, there was a lot of hooting and hollering. I put it on the boat scale and it was bouncing between 34 and 35lbs. We rushed to weigh it in for the LOC and the Orleans. It hit the scales at 34lbs 6oz. A new boat record by 9lbs 9oz. Great job Kurt on the rod and Keith on the net.

If it was not the DEC's idea, they will not go for it. Don't they use nets in Alaska's rivers to net kings for studies?

The Rochester Basin (Ship Builders Point to Braddocks) is the second most diverse port for trout and salmon on Lake Ontario. The number one of course is the Niagara River area. Tons of inshore slob browns, giant lakers, a great offshore steelhead and king fishery. The only issue with Rochester is, you have to be willing to burn a little more gas. Mexico Bay is a great brown fishery but on a NORMAL year, how is there king fishing for May, June and some of July?

2007 they did not get enough eggs to make the quota. Get on them not to change things so it does not happen again.

We hear of wild kings all over the lake now but you do not hear anything about wild coho. Does the DEC know if there is a lot of natural reprodcution going on with the coho?

I ordered some rods from them this spring and had a very good expierence. Price was right, great customer service and I got them the next day.

The numbers of matures were noticably lower. If you fish the East end of the lake, you may not notice a difference once they start staging but the smaller ports to the West it was more noticable. There were matures around but not nearly the numbers we were used to seeing.

Good thinking Rick. After the amazing season we had this year, I would hate to see all these genetics of big kings go to waste. I did notice a lot less skippers this year. 2 years in a row of bad stocking would make for some long seasons and stress on the other year classes of salmon.

That is the plan for Sunday! Steve, It is not easy being a farmer now a days!

Jeremy, I have one good one of it on the scales I will put up when I get a chance. Jerry, we went by in stealth mode this morning. It was still dark and the rods were down.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):8/16 Time on Water:530 Weather/Temp: Wind Speed/Direction: Waves: 1 foot Surface Temp: Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: A ton Total Boated: A lot Species Breakdown:Lakers Hot Lure: Hammerhead cowbells and spin n glows Trolling Speed: 1.1 - 1.4 Down Speed: Boat Depth: 90 - 120 Depth:Bottom ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Did a laker run for the Orleans derby and had a blast with the lakers. Could not find many fish over 10lbs but we found 2 slobs. The first one came around 830 am and weighed 23lbs 8oz. on the derby scales. The second one came around 10am and weighed in at 19lbs 3 oz. We dumped 2 other hogs. Direction of troll did not matter but speed was crutial. Anyone looking for kings, there was a nice picture in 110 - 130 60 to 80 down. I was going to run some high rods but we were too busy. Here are the pics of the slob!

I found you will not tangle coppers with your divers if you let them out and then let them settle before sending them out to the board. I have been running copper for years and have had 2 tangles with divers and it was when I first started running it. NO problems running divers on a 3 or 3.5 if you let the copper settle before running it over top of the wires.

Welcome!

Happy Birthday!

Nice report John. Congrats on the good day!

Buy the X4 probe and use it with the old head unit. That is the way the old unit worked. The X4 does not skip a beat.

What tournament?

Seagar. You pay for what you get. You need to spend $ to get quality floro.

Happy Belated B-day Carl.

We have been getting them on occasion in the intake at work. They do not show up until the water gets below 60 degrees in at the intake. They must be deep in the cooler water.