Missdemeanor

Sponge your exactly right...My apologies....The fly was the crazy Beehatch...Just went to the oak and bought three more yesterday.

Ran all the way out to 450 only to find a gradual temp break all the way. Ice cold water so we headed in to about 180. Wire dipseys 110 and 95. One with a Mountain Dew Spin DR No-see-um Atomik. The other was rigged with my new favorite Crazy Bit$h Spin Dr. and matching Atomik fly. We ended the day with a respectable 6 kings 1 Steelhead. lost 4 other fish. Not a bad morning and we were back at the dock by 11:00. Most of the kings were mid teens, however we had one monster that weighed 27 on the digital scale. Too bad it wasn't last weekend. All the fish were successfully released.

I have an X-4....awesome unit........

Thanks for clarifying that for me guys......Still sucks. If its not the blow boaters causing trouble, its the freakin fast ferry or the air show. Rochester is by far the most underrated port in the lake. It too bad it wasn't a little more sportsmen friendly.

Just so you Rochester fishermen are aware,The coast guard will not allow any boat traffic in or out of the Port during the air show . May 30th and 31st. You could probably go out in the morning, but they will close the port at 0800 for the rest of the day. NOT GOOD! As I get more details I will post them up

The only vessels that fall into the "Fishing vessel" category are Long Liners, or drag neters. Commercial fishing vessels in other words. regular guys who are trolling like we are fall into the "Power Driven Vessels" category. I almost puke in my mouth to say it, but the sailboats have the right of way.

WTG...I use some heavy duty stuff. I have an abu garcia bait caster heavy action 6 1/2 ft rod, spooled with 85 lb power pro. Instead of a steel leader I use 50 lb mono with a beefy snap swivel. My musky fishing has been in the Niagara river jigging big baits off the bottom. You really need the heavier stuff to pull your bait out of snags. For trolling in the Late Late Fall I tend to use my salmon stuff with titanium leaders...Good luck chasing the Essox

Mark...No problem. I think we can have most of the bases covered. Probably not out again till next weekend

Nice morning. 47 degree water and pretty good color. First rod in the water went off almost immediately. Smokin drag and a vicious run to the boat. What a way to start off the 2009 season. 13lb king. Little while later my brother gets a nice surprise, 7 lb walleye. We ended the short morning 5 for 5. Mixed in a few cohos. Its been a long winter. Hopefully this is an omen of this season. Good luck and tight lines .....Matt

Name: Matt French Boat Name Missdemeanor Boat Make : 31 Baha Sportfisherman Home port:Rochester Number of years on L.O: 30

Just installed the Fish hawk x-4. Splashing the boat soon and I'm anxious to check it out.

Yea thats not my usual spring haunt, but I figured it would be nice an easy for the small boat, plus its nice and close to home.....

Fished out of Sandy today. Not much to report other than skim ice on the lake. The lake was dead flat with no wind. the ice was really screwing up the flat lines. Around 10:00 I had a rip on one of the inline boards. Never saw the fish but it made a nice run with a few head shakes. I never did turn him. Might have been a bigger brown or a king. That was my only hit for the morning.

Rick.....Looks like you got that brownie fishing down......Now just brak out the evil eyes and your all set.

Glenn.....Just so you know the only places around us,in NY, for fingerprints is US CG In Buffalo and the USCG in Messina. That was right off the OUPV license application and the Chief in station Rochester. I know of guys who had quite a bit of trouble getting an appt to get their prints done. I went to Buffalo and those guys were great. Its a real pain to go there. Heck I fingerprint people everyday and I still had to go to Buffalo. Good luck....

Gotta love those Squaw mounts.....

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Web its all good my man... The guys on here that are serious musky fishermen know what time it is when you get a big girl to the boat. As much of a "Don't handle a fish like this" video , its still one hell of a muskie.

You know I didn't want to post anything, but I agree with you nitro.....Those fish are real sensitive and need to be handled properly. Its a great trophy no question. As it would make one hell of a replica mount. A big fish like that could get stressed very easily and like nitro said ....belly up time. Some areas of the country are not experiencing the disastrous effects that VHS has had on our muskie population. The Niagara river and Lake Erie fisheries are in big trouble right now. It may take a closed season for many years to protect what muskie population we still have......

Irondequoit bay........Not a very fun place to hunt. TONS of Pressure l(Like said on a previous post) and once the shooting starts the ducks are hell bent for shoe leather. If you hunt divers and don't have a boat, you really limited. Puddle ducks you could get away with hunting Tonowanda or Oak Orchard WMU's. Those areas are pretty much walk in spots. Like Irondequoit, there is a lot of pressure there. I choose to canoe back to small open water pockets. There are dikes that run through the properties, but thats usually where you'll encounter the skybusters. In the late season the Lake Ontario shoreline can be good. You just have to have a nice south wind. Certain areas I hunt on the lake you still need a small boat to put out the decoys. Any wind other that south you are pretty much screwed. My suggestion is getting a boat. It will open up a ton of opportunities. Like posted on the other thread, the open water hunts are great. Check out my previous post viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8835

"There's no gambling at Bushwood and I never slice..."

Brian.....most of my local ramps are froze up.....This was a western port hunt.

Oh boy was it ugly.......... The inside of my boat looks like Jeffery Dahmer was at an all you can eat buffet........LOl....

SS....I hunt in the vicinity of Braddocks bay....Within about 6 miles. When the first shot went off in Braddocks, the Ducks made a mass exodus off the bay. It was pretty telling when they were flying at 2K feet and when you called at them they just got higher....LOl...that's duckin for ya....

I was out too. We hunted a field and did pretty well considering the set up. 18 birds consisting of Mallards, teal, Wigeon and Blacks. Could have smoked some honkers but somehow the call fell out of my bag . Nice........No pics, my camera and raining conditions don't like each other.