Finders Keepers

Nah, but they are very comfortable!! Hey Matt - I'd really like to fish the Sandy Creek Shootout, but I believe it's the same day as the LSRC, and we're in for the Triple Crown.

More than likely you were fishing too shallow for the kings. General rule of thumb: if you're getting steelhead, you're fishing too high for the kings. They like the cooler water and I believe on Sunday (from what I heard) they were down 120-150 ft.

The Summer LOC is going on now, and the next trout/salmon tournament for Sodus would be Capt. Jacks Big Fish Friday on July 20th followed by the Sodus Pro-Am Tournament on the 21st and 22nd.

Beautiful steelhead Nick & Theresa!! Congrats!!

Nice job Rod!! It's great to see the younger kids learning the sport!!

Yeah, it's crazy! Just wait until August when the average sized fish is 25+ lbs!!

Nice fish Nick!! Wish I was out there again today!! C'mon, let's see that 30+ pounder hit the deck!!

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Finders Keepers ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 6-23-12 Time on Water: 5-1 Weather/Temp: Beautiful! Wind Speed/Direction: light NW Waves: 2-4's settling to 1' chop with rollers Surface Temp: 72 Location: Fair Haven East LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 23 Total Boated: 19 Species Breakdown: Kings & Steelhead Hot Lure: Black Green Glow NK Mag and Green with white tape & green dots spin doc with ultra glow green fly Trolling Speed: 2.3-2.8 Down Speed: 2.7 Boat Depth: 150-220 Lure Depth: 70-100 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Since we didn't have time to pre-fish this event and some big kings were caught off Fair Haven the day before, we decided to fish east of Fair Haven near some of our previous waypoints. We left the chute at 4:30am and were greated with 2-4's out of the NW, but with a light wind. We motored out to 165 fow and at 5am set lines continuing on a northerly troll. Before we could set the wire rods, the port side rigger fired and started screaming! After a short fight we had a decent 15 lb king inthe box. Over the next hour it was non-stop action and by 6am we had 6 fish in the box including one pushing 20 lbs! So the rest of the day we kept upsizing. The hits came in flurries with lulls in between. By 1pm we were 19 for 23 (4 steelhead, 15 kings) and had a decent box to head back to port with. We had our riggers parked at 122 and 95 with free sliders pulling spoons, and the wires out 220-300 pulling spin-docs and flies. All rods took shots, and the following lures hooked up: Black green glow mag NK, UV Black Tuxedo Stinger Mags and Stingrays, Carmel Dolphin Stinger Mag, Green with White Tape and Green Dots Spin Doc with Ultra Green Glow Fly, Wonderbread Spin Doc with Glow Hammer Fly, Gator Spin Doc with 42 Second Fly, and White with Green Dots Spin Doc with Ultra Green Glow Fly. At weigh-in it was evident most teams had a great morning on the big pond, and many fish over 20 lbs were boated! It really looked like the Fair Haven Challenge in August rather than the ATOMMIK Challenge in June!! Despite having a great box totalling 92.85 lbs (152.85 pts), we ended up in the middle of the pack, as the larger concentration of larger kings were found further east off Oswego. So even though we didn't place, it was an amazing tournament with incredible catches by many teams, and we had a blast fishing that morning! We'd like to thank Tom for putting on a great tournament, and we even scored a few bags of goodies!! Congrats to Team Hot Wires for their 135+ lb box!! That's simply amazing for June!! We'll see everyone at the east end Pro-Am's coming up in a few weeks!! If the fishing remains like this, teams are going to need 2 coolers at weigh-in!!

Nice job! Wish I could have gotten out today, but had to wrap things up at school - last day for me!!

Great fish!! Congrats!

Good luck to everyone fishing the Atommik Challenge this weekend! Hopefully it will be a slob-fest!!!

And I'd have to say, we were a little apprehensive of the new format going into the Niagara Pro-Am, but it turned out to be great!! We give the new format and encourage anyone on the fence to give it a shot.

All bets are off this year with the fish averaging bigger. I think we're going to hear a lot of stories this August of break-offs, tear-aways, spooled encounters, .... If someone goes fishing this August without a LOC ticket, they are extremely foolish!!

Were you in the pack that was west of port? Seems they had a little more action than we did out front.

Nice!

We use Romer releases for fixed cheaters, and on free sliders just a simple clip on the line. We also typically use a 8-12' lead off the ball and 4-5' leaders for the cheaters/sliders.

Nice job Woody! Isn't it great to be able to go out and whack a few kings every trip? I hope this continues all summer long!! We should get out together sometime again and smoke the kings on the raspberries!!

Hey Kyle - How did you do tonight?

Yeah, we were getting them on the wire lines Sunday off Sodus. Nothing too bad yet, but they're coming fast! Our 30 lb FF was clean the whole trip.

You would have to make sure it was sealed back up tight! And probably not use it on the same cable as the probe!

Sounds very cool! Do you know how fast the transfer rate is? I'm just thinking, if we bring up the rigger to re-set lines and upload the video, how long will it take (say for 30 minutes of video)?

Nice!! Thanks Nick, there's another toy we'll have to buy! Do you happen to know if they make one larger than 8GB? I didn't see one...

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Finders Keepers ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 6/17 Time on Water: 5:30-11am Weather/Temp: Partly sunny, warm Wind Speed/Direction: SSE 10-20+ Waves: 1-2's in close, 2-3's out deeper Surface Temp: 67 Location: In front of Sodus LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 10 Total Boated: 3 Species Breakdown: Kings, Steelhead Hot Lure: UV Black Tuxedo Trolling Speed: 2.7 Down Speed: 2.7 Boat Depth: 80 - 180 Lure Depth: 35-100 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== On Sunday we brought out Fox Rochester/News 8's John Romero and his son JD for some line-ripping action. We were setting lines over 85 fow soon after sun-up and before I could get the first wire in the water, the port side rigger fires and starts screamin'! JD let his dad take the first fish since it was Father's Day and it was GAME-ON!! The fish smoked-out several hundred feet of line on its first run, then had two more robust runs and we knew we had a good fish on! The fourth run was straight at the boat and when John finally caught up with it, the king was gone. After that, it was a slow pick the rest of the morning as the wind picked up strength and held us under 150 fow. We had a feeling the larger kings that were in tight early had slid out deeper, but to target those would make for a rough ride, so we held in tight to see what we could find. We had several short hits, one 14 lb king, a skip king, and about a 10 lb laker get off about 20 ft behind the boat. It was getting towards 11am, and John still hadn't put a fish in the boat, and had said he'd like to catch a steelhead. So we put out a shallow steelhead spread, missed a couple, then he finally brought a beautiful 9lb chromer to the net! On our way back towards the lighthouse we tried in closer for some browns, but they were M.I.A. and we would finish 3 for 10. All in all it was a great day on the water and both John and JD were happy with some fish for the grill later that day! I'll get pics posted as soon as I get the chance. We're hoping to get out once or twice this week to pre-fish for the Atommik Challenge on Saturday. Good luck to everyone fishing the Summer LOC - with the size of the kings this year, it's going to be a fun season!!

Nick's right - There are some days when our "typical" leads off the balls and longer leader lengths won't produce. As soon as we tightened either one or both of those variables, we started taking shots. So there's definitely a lot of room for playing around to see what works best, and getting that live feed on the video will be paramount for fine tuning the program!!

We saw these blooms last year on Sodus and Port Bays, Sodus being worse. We've already heard of some showing up on Sodus this year, much earlier than last year. Definitely something to keep an eye on if you frequent these waters!