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Fish them like you fished them in spring. Tributaries mouths are good places to start. Some browns do not run tributaries and stay in the lake too. Right now the water is still too warm and the browns are still where the thermal cline intersects the bottom. Once the lake surface temp gets into the low to mid 60's they will be in around the shoreline in good numbers.

Not sure yet. 27 tiara open or a Baha 277 GLE are my two favorites. Once the Fall LOC starts, the lake trout gear comes home. NO sense beating them up when the derby doesn't have a division anymore.

Took my son, Keith and His son out for one last shot at placing an LOC fish. We started the morning in 90' looking for kings and had a blast with them until 9am. we took a bunch of matures and two decent browns. 50-65 down on spoons and meat. Not a sniff on flies. The boys started getting bored when the king bite slowed around 9 so we slid in looking for an LOC brown. 12 browns hit the floor in the 2 hours we had left. Biggest brown was a little over 10lbs. Lots of small browns around. I know guys were worried about the lack of small browns this spring but I have caught more small browns this summer than I ever have. 1-5lb browns are plentiful. I would say the 6-9lb class seems to be a little thin. One more trip and the season will be done for us. The Escape is going up for sale and I'm taking a possible buyer out on that last trip.

I have 300 yds of 30lb Power pro, 7 colors of stealth core and room to spare on my Saltist 40.

Go offshore and have a blast with steelhead. September can be some of the best steelhead fishing of the year.

I have both my 7 colors on 40's with a full spool of backing. I have my 10's on 50's, 7's and 5's on 40's.

East end kings are running due to water flow! They have received a ton of rain on the East end the past couple of weeks. The Salmon River was raging a couple weeks ago.

This time of the year (late August) I find bigger browns will be in 62-70 degree water. As for structure, deep points and shoals (which the oak doesn't have a lot of) are keys to finding numbers and bigger browns. If you look East of the Oak, Devils Nose, Wautoma Shoals and Braddocks Point are some of the best deep water structure areas on the entire South shore. I also find slower speeds (1.8-2.2mph at probe) with Stinger Standard, Stingrays and mags work best for me. Free sliders and cheaters will take a ton of big browns at this time of the year. Those big hooks you see up off the bottom in piss warm water are usually big browns. Big browns seem to stray from the normal Thermal cline bottom intersection area more this time of year than any other. If the weather is stable, they will load up in the thermal cline/ bottom intersection. If the thermal cline is like it usually is in August (unstable), they move slightly off the zone. I have caught a lot of big browns fishing kings up high not too far from the thermal cline intersection. For example, 2019 in the fall LOC, we placed a brown fishing kings in 110' on a high diver. We fished the early morning in 60' for browns and caught a bunch but not many good ones. We took 4 browns late that morning up high fishing kings in that 100'-110'.

The Canal in Brockport, Spencerport, Greece and Fairport are all great for carp. Corn on the bottom with light floro leaders. I take my son every summer and we catch a bunch every trip.

There should be representation from every port, trib with a sustainable guide population and fishing related businesses that thrive off of the fishery. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United