Fishtails

Awesome recap Nick. You done well my friend and it was nice being at Arney's and seeing you two. Thanks for the loaner probe and bucket. It was tough fishing , but a great time was had by most who parti cipated. Sent from my SM-G900V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

That Tony guy is tough to beat lol. Congrats Tony and his five more minutes team. Congrats to Sure Strike for an impressive win on the Pro side. Sent from my SM-G900V using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Looking forward to it !! The Keyser family will be there again as team Lucky Enuff

Nice Nick !! How good did that feel....lmao. Screaming drags have been tough to come by this season, but that's all gonna change right fast ! Good fish bud, get another one so ya have a pair of his and hers

I finally got the old girl up for 2015 splashdown out of Sodus with a friend and his kid. My only trips thus far have been off a friends boat, Fishing was challenging and I broke a few things requiring me to bring the boat back to Pa for repairs but it takes more than that to dampen my spirits on one of the most amazing lakes in the country. It just felt good to be out there. I set up in 120 and headed north to the best screen. Huge bait pods and hooks with the bait. Mostly the bait and hooks were deep though, with much of it 100 to the bottom in ice water. Being stubborn as I am, I worked those hooks long after the rest of the pack moved on. I was certain big kings were feeding below my boat, but they weren't eating my junk. This year has been a predominant spoon bite for us thus far, so I mixed in a few moonshines deep but no go. I swapped out to a couple paddles with A-Tom-Mik flies and finally pulled two small kings on flies. one on a 400 copper and one on the 300 copper. We then landed a decent steelie on the 70 rigger with a spoon in 48 degree water. Our best bite was 210 to 215 fow and I wanted to dedicate more rods to the deep but the boy wanted fish so we pulled lines and ran out to deeper water. There was a temp break around the 250-275 zone and we picked up a coho and steelie there while trolling north. I made it out to 425 but lost my surface temp, however we did pick up a few lake trout on the 3 color core out there, Our troll in produced nothing so we called it a day. It was a very slow grind for us but there is plenty of life out there. All the bait makes it that much harder but we managed 12 bites and landed 8 fish, just no size to them. Some constant winds out of the west and it could blow up any time !! Unfortunately I have to replace a broken planer reel pulley, broken rod holder, and my port motor ran warm telling me it's in the mood for a new manifold. Then I noticed a broken bracket on my trailer . The life of a boat owner. Hope to get back in a couple weeks. Good luck to all !!

Still Avail?

I set mine up this way using the blacks after using them as kite releases this past winter in Florida. They are perfect as planer board releases.

A big thing is that the Am division is far more diverse in terms of the skill levels of the teams involved. You have beginners to teams that probably "should" be fishing pro. That's causes a lot of contention and it creates a dynamic that doesn't exist in the Pro division. The better teams want the rules to be more challenging because in the end a challenging format tilts the scale in their favor. The beginners want less fish and simple rules so they feel they have a chance to win. That is simply a dynamic that does not exist in the Pro division so it's apples and oranges really. I thought The Sodus Pro Am got it right a few years ago with the AM format and while I was involved a little the first year there were no complaints that I am aware of. The Am's are part of the main event, and not treated like a sideshow as they are in Niagara. This year, I think Oswego has changed up the Am format a bit to be similar to that of Sodus. There will ALWAYS be whiners but they can't be allowed to run the show. Put together a good set of fair rules and stick with it. If you get it right the real teams will eventually buy in.

Hey Chad, maybe you want to consider fishing the Sodus point pro am ? The Am division it that one is great !!