Charley Tuna

This was a very good post. I hope that it will help improve consideration for others on the waters.

Nice fish, Glad they are finally statrting to stage!

Nice Report Franchi, Sounds like you made the most of it considering the weather moving in!

I prefer to think that we go out for the challenge of findin, catchin 'n grinin and the fish we keep are all absolutley free!

Nice going! Thanks for submitting a good and thorough report! Wishing you continued success!!

Nice report Cap'n Bill. Thats a heck of a nice Landlock!

Wow, Dan what an amazing report! Thanks!

Fished of Fairhaven today but didn't do much. Worked it hard from 100 to 330 FOW. Marked lots of bait at times from 70 to 100 feet down but few gamefish. I think things are unsetttled from all the wind. hopefully things will return to normal by this weekend.

Great Report Jim, Sounds like you did a great job. Good to hear we may a few salmon around in the coming weeks.

Pat, Thank you for your very nice report. I'm glad you got one (good going). I think we are suffering the aftermath of the east wind. Keep up the good work.

Dave,

Bravo Zulu. Time to splice the main brace as we say in the Canoe Club!!!!

Bravo Zulu RJ !!!!

BD,

Nice report. Way to go! Thanks!

Nice Report. Interesting acrobatics ... sounds like he fought like more like an Atlantic. Good luck tomorrow.

Jim,

Sounds like you had a great day on the water. Nice report. Great boat name.

Cruz,

Nice looking king and nice report !

Thanks Guys,

For one of the two guys I took, it was his first Lake Ontario trip so I was glad we hit some pay dirt even though we didn't find the big guys. He was pretty excited with the steelhead and browns we caught.

CH,

Just found some pictures of cut bait on the web. Check out:

http://www.lakemichiganangler.com/tips/ ... sdavis.htm

A lot of guys are using whole herring with similar plastic harnesses as well with success.

CH,

Cut bait for salmon here refers to herring strips. These are fillets are from herring or alewives (alewives being the fresh water version of herring) ussually 4 or 5 inches long with the skin still attached that are usually placed into plastic "bait heads" and fished behind a flasher. Usually a large flasher (11-inches or bigger) is used and the bait head / herring strip is fished anywhere from 3 to as much as 5 or 6 feet behind the flasher. The bait head is constructed so that one side of it is curved and allows the herring strip to spin behind the flasher. The leader going from the flasher to the bait head is usually at least 30 # test. I like 30 or 40 # flourocarbon. Sometimes 2 or 3 mylar flies are placed on the leader to add attractiveness. These are called "twinkie rigs" The herring fillet is positioned onto the bait head and locked in position with toothpicks. Any bait dealer that sells cut bait will be able to show you how it all works. Its a very effective salmon getter in the late season. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the nice report Chowder. Nice going.

Fishing Report

Charley Tuna

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s): August 19

Time on Water: 10 hours

Weather/Temp: Clear, 80's

Wind Speed/Direction: 5- 10 mph out of West

Waves: Initially 3 feet subsided to 1

Surface Temp: 76.5 F

Location:

LAT/LONG (GPS Cords):

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 12

Total Boated: 9

Species Breakdown: 5 Browns, 2 Kings, 2 Steelhead

Hot Lure: Homemade Alewife Spoons, HK Die Hards, NK Froggies

Trolling Speed: 2 - 2.6

Down Speed: Unknown

Boat Depth: 70 -120

Lure Depth: 50 - 80

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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Hit the water at 7:30 looking for big kings. Rough chop out the NW to begin with. Went due north of the chute to 400 feet. Marked significant bait at 70 -100 fow on the way out and did not mark many fish in deeper water. After a few hours of trolling with out marking more than 2 or 3 fish came in shallow and saw fish and bait 50 to 70 down over 70 to 120. Fished spoons off the riggers and fished flashers and flies off the dipseys but only the riggers got hit. Best browns and steelhead were about 6 or 7 pounds. Kings were yearlings. We were hoping to tangle with some Kingasaurus Rex but will have to wait till next time.

Bill,

Much appreciated. That's great advice. Hoping to get out there tomorrow. Many thanks for sharing you knowledge.

Very nice report Mark, Its good to see an Oswego report again. Good luck on your next run.

Thanks for the post.

Chowder,

Sound wisdom and thanks. Good info! Much appreciated.

Chowder,

You sure have been hitting em good both on the the Big Lake and Cayuga. What type of down temp probe do you use? Thanks for the guidance.