Missdemeanor

48 minutes ago, Finnagain said:

Great report!

what a fishery and nice work , God I  wish I lived closer .Retirement still 2-3 years for me .

226 work days for the Land Gig and I'm done... 

18 minutes ago, 13owhunter said:

Beautiful fish!  What FOW were you in?

 

Thanks!

Started in 12.... 14-16 was ok...got out as far as 20 feet (ish) and had our last king bite out there

Left port with the idea I'd work the inside stuff. If that didn't work, I was planning on going north and put out deep diving sticks for Kings.

  Blew past a fleet of boats and set up in vacant water. Smithwicks in natural patterns and bay rats in naturals. Divers had gold perch and blonde chicken wing stingers. Riggers had green glow frog and Sodus pt buckeye stingers. 

       The natural colors were key today .. first fish was a really nice king that did what spring kings do.... Little later we had another big guy on a diver /gold perch and he cracked us off! Weeded through some cookie cutter browns and a coho .. had a 3rd king hit a black and silver Smithwick off a board 120 feet back. Fish ran out past 780 on the line counter, got him back to 20 ft from the boat and the hook pulled. All good, he was getting released anyway. 

    I will say, things got a little interesting when that fog rolled in...

    Be safe out there and tight lines

The weather couldn't have been better... Fishing? A grind ... 

    Started in relatively tight on some good colored water. Fish we took were on citric shad short shallow rat, silver Smitty, gold(ish) Smitty... Spoons that worked were stingers in blonde chicken wing, regular chicken wing, and Gold perch. I did have a couple shots on the stinger mongoose on a weight rod.   My riggers were parked anywhere from 6-10 feet down and 45 feet back. Chinook divers #1 back 15 & 20 feet back were probably our best set ups. I think we ended the morning 8 for 11 or something like that... Wasn't great, but wasn't terrible.

     It's crazy how quickly the fish shut off due to boat pressure ... And there was a ton of boat pressure ..

     Hopefully the upcoming cold front will put us back a little as far as spring conditions go. 

   Tight lines!    

Update..... Fish are doing great... Boiling up on feed.... Thanks to all the volunteers who are stepping up...

Here is the Feed schedule . If anyone wishes to fill in on the open dates, please contact the feed schedule coordinator Randy Callus at (585) 739-0569. Thank you!

The kings I caught this weekend were empty.. browns were puking Gobies up....

1 hour ago, AnglingAddict said:

 

Message Brian Garrett on this forum - his User Name is Tall Tails - he can provide a SAMs accredited survey.

100%......Brian is your guy

It's great to see all the folks getting out and enjoying our resource ..  brings me back to when my Dad used to bring me and my brother out on our 19 ft Thompson ... Manual down riggers....  

     The MissD isn't the best rig on the lake... But she's good enough to get us out and back safely.... I appreciate the kind words.   Good luck this season.

It is cool to watch how the DEC load those fish into the pens. They did a great job.

   If anyone would like to be on the hand feeding schedule, please contact Randy Callus at 585-739-0569. 

    Its actually pretty fun to go down and feed the fish and see them boil up on the feed like a school of piranha. 

    Great job by all the pen rearing sites volunteers. 

The word of the day was Mud... Lots of dirty water!  Ran to where I thought there was some cleaner water ( night before road scouting mission,) and found it was still dark and dingy.. put out short shallows and long shallows bay rats ...120 ft back on boards. Glow frogs on mini Chinook divers 15 ft back...

   First hour was painfully slow. Got a call from Yankees Craig and Rich ( thanks boys) that they had decent color water ahead of us and we're getting bit... Rolled into a small patch of water and pulled a pile of browns, a coho and two really good spring sharks. Those kings were not happy and the anglers had their hands full with the light tackle. 

   Colors that worked... Citric shad long and short... Wonder bread long, fire tiger long, dirty goose short, frog short....

     Beautiful day and a great start to 2023... Be well... 

Maybe the biggest turnout we have ever had... Thank you! 

   Let's pray for continued success for all pen rearing sites.....

...I'm glad to see Sandy step up and take the bull by the horns... Not a big fan of how the kings were "re distributed" .. I give Jesse Hollenbeck alot of credit.

.  Good luck to you guys.... Let's hope the king pens return to Sandy and the other ports it was taken from..

 Let's pray for a longer spring so you guys can keep the little guys a little longer....

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I will take this one Sam....

      The Genesse raised steelhead for many many years... And for many many years, the project fell on the backs of the same Lake anglers. Fast forward to a few years ago..... The DEC gets influenced by a hand full of people ( non lake anglers) to lower the creel limits of steelhead in tribs as well as the lake. The new creel limit was adopted with much opposition from the Lake guys. So now if people catch more than 2 steel, #3 has to get tossed back... Even if it's dead... Illegal to keep #3... And steelhead tend to not make it when you bring em in on junk rods or from deep depths....

   Lake Anglers made a very good argument that fell on deaf ears.... And the new regulation went through...

   So after a vote at the ( then ) Genesee Charter Boat Association meeting... It was unanimous that we cease raising steelhead... I mean it was Lake Guys who did all the work anyway  and got a regulation jammed down our throats.

   So we have been approached many times since then to start raising steelhead again... We would love to... But only when the Lake Creel limit returns to 3.

   Not alot to ask, since it was our sweat and bull work that has made this program possible from the beginning....

  The simple solution... Bring it back to 3 silvers ( including steelhead) and we would 100% raise them right next to our kings.

8 hours ago, lyteline said:

Sad that Jim passed Honeybee was one of the best...

I'll comment for a bump.

  Absolutely agree with you. Jim was a gentleman for sure. He was always available for a chat. I really like talking to the older fellas who have been around the lake. It was cool to hear his stories about how he and a couple local Captains came up with Honeybees and Optimizer spoons. 

   To this day, I still run both...especially those bright red ones for steelhead offshore. Those green ones are great for browns also.

    Good luck with the sale ...

I don't need explanations....  It obviously doesn't matter what I, or the numerous other people who have similar opinions have.

    Jigger... Every time you post season dates there are comments about January dates.. what did you expect would be different this time?

   I won't waste my time with a phone call... Kinda like when I wasted my time with the survey I filled out....

I know exactly what your doing... Braid is not the way to go. I use two or three rod lengths of #50 mono. I attach it with a small spro barrel swivel. 

  No curly wire... I can run a little lighter leader if I'm running spoons ( the 50# momo has a little stretch). Plus the fleas don't like the 50#. 

And yet again.... No January Season for Ducks!  I'd say I'm surprised, but I'm not.

    Glad I wasted my time filling out that survey.

Black.... And if I have another color, I paint them black

8 hours ago, chowder said:

How are these “Pirate” spoons being marketed? I don’t see them for sale 

If you have the book of faces.... Here's the link...https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083336642657&mibextid=ZbWKwL.   I'm sure more marketing is in the future... I'll post updates when I can....

If anyone is looking for a marine survey, I wouldn't look any further. Knowing Capt Brian and seeing the condition of the rig he runs, I wouldn't hesitate to have him survey a rig for me.

    Anyone purchasing a new ride, should have it surveyed. A detailed and comprehensive survey can save a pile of headaches in the future. 

     Good Luck with the business!!!!

3 hours ago, HB2 said:

I think a lot of the success of the original Pirates and NKs we the blanks and the plating . 

 

 

100%agree....  Whoever warrior uses to plate their spoons does an awesome job...

   I'm very excited to see how the pirate stack up against spring kings....

I saw some of the paint jobs on the Northern Kingss after the new company took over..... Hmmm... What a shame...

     I'm glad to hear Capt Dan Kelly brought back the ole Pirate spoons .. they were fish killers... I have been in touch with him and they are working on better paint schemes and durability...

 Out of the service, USN, in November 1966.  Used to stop at Max's, every Friday night in the winter to purchase Michigan wigglers for ice fishing on Conesus Lake. The perch fishing was very good late 60's to the early 1970's. Almost invariably, while in Max's shop, there would be several young men singing. A little out of place for a B&T shop was my thought. Yet, at the same time, " these guys are pretty good." The rest of the story is musical history. I also recall that Max, in his well worn flannel shirt, was sort of a, "surly character," in his own way. (demeaner) He seemed almost oblivious to the constant singing/music that emanated from the young men. His shop was a mish mass of tackle, much different then today's B&T store.  Also, JV tackle was located at this time, on the second floor of an old building on Mt. Hope Avenue. I recall going there on one occasion to purchase ice fishing tackle. Bob, the owner, (do not recall his last name) seemed almost annoyed at my request. He went to back of the store and returned with one plastic tackle container filled with various jigs. That was, at the time, his sum total of ice fishing gear/lures. A very far cry from the offerings we have today. In addition, there were several other B&T shops around the city, and just about every town also had a shop.  Just sayin ... Willi

This Atlantic was caught a couple weeks ago.... 6 years old... Was stocked as an adult this past February out of Port Hope with 80 other adult Atlantics..
There is a ton of bait in the lake.. all different year classes of bait ( I've been closely watching stomach contents this year). Not to mention the fish is Six years old... How big do you think a 6 year old King would be? Just saying..... Yea it was a hatchery fish eating pellets, but it had 6 months to put on size and God knows there it's a tremendous amount of food in the lake this year.
The small mouth bass idea is kind of interesting... How great would it be to have that lake fishery back to its status in the 80s and 90s?


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