Storm Warning II

Wow! I hope she's proud of that one! She might even want that one on the living room wall.

Ummm...ice water... Really like the 41 - 44 water this time of year...

Nice Shark!

How did you weigh that? That fish looks quite a bit bigger than 24#...

It does look like it could go either way... The closeup of the head looks like the jaws may not extend beyond the eye, but the full cooler shot and hanging from the Boga look like it could be a brown. The cooler close up "head" shot also show that snicker looking kype on the upper jaw more reminiscent of an Atlantic.

Yep Wolf, we didn't know either. When we passed him, he was already hooked up to TowBoatUS. We got back to the launch, secured the boat for the ride home, and the Wilson police dropped him off at his truck & trailer. BOAT = 'BOut Another Thousand. You guys headin' up in the Fall? Maybe we'll see you in Conneaut or Erie during the summer chasin' eyes. Bite has started...

Whatever you say Capt. Lake Ontario...

No Paul, sorry, we won't be there to harass you in the Pro Am. Unforunately, the economy has severly hampered our ability to fish the tourney schedule that we would like to, so we unfortunately won't be returning to the O until late August in search of "THE big one". Time to catch 'eyes on the E.

Yep Wolfman, I believe the walleye was compliments of Jeremy - Never Enough, the president of our fishing club out of Erie, PA. I was beginning to wonder if you guys even fished! Every time we pulled in you guys were in the back of the boat enjoying some adult beverages! I would have probably shared more if prompted...

Rick, Todd's (Pacific Time) scale read 14 and some change. It was 35" long and had broad shoulders (I wish I would have taken a girth measurement). Darren is 5'9" if that helps put any perspective on it.

Nice shootin' Rick, I talked to Pacific Time that morning and he informed me of your 29. I was down in that area lookin' for you, but no luck, so we proceeded to the can area. I'm with you, can't wait til late August trip for Mega Mud Sharks!

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Storm Warning II ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 5/29 - 5/31 Time on Water: a lot... Weather/Temp: beautiful, most of the time... Wind Speed/Direction: very little until E / NE Monday morning Waves: 1s Surface Temp: 61.8 - 67.7 Location: Everywhere between the bar and the Chrome Dome LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS FInally... Memorial Day weekend at the 'Cott (pics added tomorrow) « on: May 31, 2010, 04:49:41 PM » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Made the annual spring pilgrimage to big silver fish mecca, the Niagara Region. Despite slow reports we managed to scrape together a pretty unique trip. Spoons were quiet to say the least, so most of the references to rigs will be to Spinny / fly combos. Spoons netted a grand total of 1, that's right 1 shaker. Best set ups were the green oil spill / glow crush on white Spinny with a No See Um, purple oil spill / glow crush with a purple mirage, and the Mt. Dew on white Spinny with a green glow. Down speed for us was very particular, by far and way, almost every rip came at 2.4 down. Saturday: Started out on a hunch worked out with Rock N' Reel that the big Kings that had been absent for the past week had kept sliding east and we headed out towards a regular spring mega King haunt, the Chrome Dome, about halfway between Olcott and the Oak. Set up in 180 fow and worked a NE / SE zig pattern from 220 into about 100 scattering presentations throughout the water column. After an hour, finally had a 2 yr. old break the ice on a wire diver parked about 75' down, not what we're lookin' for, but a start. Another 2 hours of trolling, nada, so we pushed into shallower water where reports from earlier in the week suggested a mix bag inside 100 fow. In the next hour we produced a shaker and a nice laker weighing in at 12# that took a wire diver a couple feet off the bottom with a pearl on white Spinny and Hammer fly. Ran back in at lunch and re-evaluated game plan... Saturday afternoon we decided to try old faithful, the bar, along with the rest of the EPSFA crew that was calling Olcott home for the weekend. The lake was absolutely gorgeous for most of the weekend, so running the 18 miles to the easternmost marks we have for the bar was actually a very nice boat ride. Unfortunately, the afternoon bar bite was slow as well. Super Search mode dissecting water was the tour du jour. Guys got fish, Cohos, small Kings, and some Steelies, but Majors were hard to find. A brief ray of light broke through on the trip late in the afternoon / evening when an outside diver took a MASSIVE shot, but was unfortunately short-lived due to a "drag malfunction" on a Daiwa Accudepth. The fish took my last oil spill green on white Spinny! No worries, those Accudepths are going to be replaced with Sealine 47s before the Summer Slam rolls around. Back to the drawing board, and team meeting. After consulting with multiple sources of "intel", we decided to follow up on a lead that suggested there were some Majors hanging out in front of Olcott - game plan for Sunday. Sunday: Started out right in front of Olcott in 180 fow. Spread the depths with an armada of divers and junk lines with a variety of Spinnies and Flies and decided to "turn and burn" and find active, aggressive fish. We worked the waters from right in front of Olcott to just east of the "Microwave Tower" from 180 to 230 fow and just before the anticipation built up for day two came undone, the 300 copper releases off the board and starts singing towards Oswego. A merciless 25 minutes later, a nice 23# Kinger gets netted to break the curse. About this time (8 am or so) the radio chatter picks up dramatically at the bar and a brief tele-conference with Pacific Time resulted in a full sprint 8 rod rack, stack, and run to the bar. As luck would have it, the bite had shut down as a throng of boats had descended upon the bar. We started on the east end of our bar "paths" and took the 180 fow option towards the can, nothing going on, and most of the boats combing the 220 to the break waters seemed to be "pushing" into the break zone. We decided combat trolling with deep presentations wasn't going to be a good deal and instead turned north due north of the can and decided to try to find the outer edge (or something close to it) of the plume where we could take a higher line back east. At just about 260 fow, the starboard wire fires and shortly thereafter yields a decent King, hmmm. A quick review of our location revealed that we found the pea water! During the reduction of the decent King to creel, we had stumbled into the best looking water of the trip so far. Shortly after re-setting that wire, the outside diver fires, a steady, angry King of the other end that eventually resulted in a 16# Springer resting in the bottom of the big net, shortly thereafter. It didn't take long before the starboard wire fires again and this time its taking drag in chunks, 150' a run, I think we've got something here boys, in fact a 24# King. A short argument with our stomachs ensued, and our stomachs won; we decided to stay out another half an hour, and the 300 copper goes again, a nice 7# Steelie on a Spinny / fly. After some sandwiches, leftover pizza, and a nap, we returned to our "water" around 4:30 to work the evening shift. We were greeted by a beautiful lake, strong sun beginning to set in the west, the pea green water conspicuously absent and the temperature on top 5 degrees warmer than when we had left 3 1/2 hours ago. Search and destroy mode again, during a pass just to the south of the fruitful mid-morning track, the outside diver gets D-E-M-O-L-I-S-H-E-D! and I mean demolished doesn't really even do it justice. Its all Darren can do to get it out of the rod holder as it is tank slapping the wire diver in front of it. The fish takes a pretty beefy run as it is removed from the holder. Twenty-five minutes later the fish surfaces 80 feet behind the boat and we can see a rather large tail surface, but notice that it is somewhat odd looking, until it gets to just outside of net length and we realize it is a Coho or a Steelie and not a King. Well, here you go: Now that's some chrome... Then it got weird... Shortly after the high 5s and a beer chaser, I notice a large fish shoot from the bow to the port side about 30 yards just under the surface. I call everyone's attention to it just in time to see a silver flash, load up, and charge the boat! As it went under the boat between the passenger seats on the port side, we all watched as a 20#+ King goes under the boat with a green oil spill on white Spinny and a No See Um trailing...the same combo that we broke off Saturday evening about a 1/2 mile away. Hmmm. We continued on and initiated a turn, the turn resulted in the 300 copper releasing with what appeared to be a small fish from the resulting short fight. As the fish came to net, I peered over my shoulder to see distinct spots on the fish in the net. The fish was a relatively short, but very stocky Atlantic with a very pronounced kype on its lower jaw. Wow, an Atlantic, there's a first. The rest of the evening proved uneventful, with only a shaker coming to net. The weird continued Monday morning with beautiful calm seas inviting another run to the bar. Shortly after set up and not a whisper of wind around, rollers began building from the NE, and shortly thereafter a breeze and steady small chop from the NE. Green water became a little more difficult to find and the morning resulted in a nice 8# Coho before we decided to pack up and head back south. Just a brown shy of the Lake O cycle... ====================

Out front of Wilson or the Oak Ray?

That looks an awful lot like a King...

A buddy's Olcott Monster from Saturday... 34# 9 oz... Too good not to post... Maybe there's another one waiting for me this weekend! WOW! Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): Time on Water: Weather/Temp: Wind Speed/Direction: Waves: Surface Temp: Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: Total Boated: Species Breakdown: Hot Lure: Trolling Speed: Down Speed: Boat Depth: Lure Depth: ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ====================

Reefies are NOTORIOUS for not running true out of the box, kind of like Stingers losing their paint. Great baits once you get them dialed in though.

Your buddy's probably not gonna ski with you much more Billy... You're gonna cost him too much money! Now the boy is going to want a boat, tackle, spoons, spinnies/flies, nets, downriggers... Another addiction is born.

I agree 50#s is a stretch, but I was really surprised by the 42# taken off the Bar last fall too. There are definitely larger Springers this year than the last few years, but even if you go on the high end of the "20 - 30%" of their body weights in their 4th year (32# x 30% = 41.6#), you still aren't at 50... That being said... I would believe that there are 5th year Rogue bucks out there that always create the outside chance that there is a high 40s or 50# King out there. If there wasn't a chance, what would we dream about??

Confirmed. Capt. Vinnie boated a 32#. Have reports from other buddies of a 27.7# and a strong 25#er.

Yippeee!!!!! Thanks for the head's up.

Yippeee!!!!! Thanks for the head's up.

Not sure about the discoloration, but I'm pretty certain that your daughter caught her first Brown Trout.

That VQ Green Dolphin is a good one! The 'eyes like to eat it too. Don't forget to get a VQ Blue either! Thanks for the report Capt. R

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Storm Warning II ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 9/5 Niagara Bar, 9/6, 9/7 am Olcott Time on Water: AM & PM each day Weather/Temp: Nice 9/5, 9/6 am, 9/7, NE choppers 9/6 pm Wind Speed/Direction: mostly from the E/SE/NE Waves: less than 2s, 2 to 4s on 9/6 pm Surface Temp: 72 dropping to 67 Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 12 Total Boated: 7 Species Breakdown: KINGS Hot Lure: None really... Trolling Speed: 2.2 to 2.7 down Down Speed: 2.2 to 2.7 down Boat Depth: 68 to 115 Lure Depth: 50 to 85 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== SLOWWWW going over the Labor Day holiday on the west end. Inside bite was almost exclusively Spin Doc / Flies for us. Wire divers produced a total of 3 hits, boated 2; both Kings over 25# Outside braid divers took the most shots, boated 4; 2 high teens Kings a 3 yr. old, and one 20#er. Riggers very slow. 2 hits all weekend, boated none. Green Glow J plug on a flat line, 180 back took 1 24# King EARLY on Monday morning. Fished from 65 fow out to 115 or so with the "best" water around the 75 - 95 fow area. Good quality, but few fish eating/smacking out of aggression. Fish were scattered but got most hits at Olcott from the water tower west to the Red Barn. The bar was very slow, every bite east of the red can @ 2 miles, right on the drop out to about 135.

Wow... Kinda speechless after seeing that...