Storm Warning II

Right On Capt. V

Stingers should be working at the slower speeds, but I would change out the DW Stds to DW Super Slims...profile slimmer and more speed tolerant. Ought to better simulate thin profile of skinny water Emeralds & Smelt too.

I would add, our biggest Kings of pretty much every year come out of 39 to 43 degree water. But...OUTSTANDING observations! Fish Lake Erie and you will learn the wave forecast can be less than 2s and it really means less than 10s...

http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/modis/modis.cgi/modis?region=e&page=1&template=subℑ=t1.13069.1610.LakeErie.143.250m.jpg&his=modis Gotta think Ice dam at Buffalo should be getting pulled early to mid April at this point...

Looking at Navionics chips for eastern Great Lakes and was hoping to get some comments and feedback from LOU'ers on the accuracy of the Gold vs. the Platinum, specifically in regards to its accuracy fishing the Niagara Bar area...

March 2nd: a dozen and a half pintails (mostly bulls) spotted at Pymatuning Waterfowl Management area here in NW PA along with a handfull of green wing teal...headed north for the breeding season. March 4th: first buzzards just spotted outside the shop, about 2 weeks early... Here she comes...or Mother Nature is still on 2012 schedule...

Nice Vid! Definitely one of the craziest couple of weeks for numbers I've been a part of... The countdown is on!!!!

Oh yeah, great inland fishing as well. Crawford Co. hosts the PA portion of shoreline for Pymatuning Reservoir. Pymy holds outstanding numbers of high quality white and black crappies as well as some good numbers of quality perch. Pymy, is however, most noted for its outstanding inland walleye fishery, a shallow, shad based forage impoundment, it is stocked with healthy numbers of 'eyes by both PA and Ohio. The largest natural lake in PA can be found here, Conneaut Lake, home to impressive population of largemouths and northerns. It also is home to some quality waterfowling and is home to some of Pennsylvania's largest whitetails.

Crawford Co. PA is great...relatively rural, but low taxes, lots of hunting country! Easy access to multiple metropolitan areas (an hour to Pittsburgh, an hour to Cleveland and Erie is about 40 minutes for most non-major metro area amenities) 45 minute drive to 1st port on Lake Erie on Ohio side, Conneaut ($40 annual non-res license), about an hour drive to any of the western PA Lake Erie ports including Presque Isle Bay, Walnut Creek, and Lampe Marina. It's a 3 - 3 1/2 drive to the islands of the western basin of Lake Erie for great spring, early summer, and late fall fishing...when there's ice, great numbers and significant trophy potential over there as well. 3 1/2 drive to Olcott or the mouth of the Niagara...

Isn't there a fairly substantial population of all the species mentioned as well as the lake Herring, yet it really hasn't done a darn thing for the 'nooks in Superior???

From the mouth of Dave Mull himself: Dave Mull I hear the publishers of Salmon-Trout-Steelheader just bought Great Lakes Angler Magazine. No other details available, but at least subscribers will probably get their subscriptions fulfilled!

3rd pic down looks like a real nice Coho...

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 Tough sleddin' at Olcott this weekend. Saturday: LOADS of marks in the 85 to 100fow range affectionately referred to as "Heaven's Waiting Line"...pulled a couple in the morning on meat rig including a 25. Went back out for the evening bite and managed this highlight: A 30.59 deep meat rigger...STILL not big enough for the LOC board. Sunday nearly a wash, only a 21 and a dark jack...then 2 misses for the afternoon. Spent Monday am at the bar, INCREDIBLE screen, just lock jaw. Managed 2 swings-n-misses on wire diver, NO meat shots, and 2 teenagers and a steelie on outside divers... Worst Labor Day weekend in memory - sans the 30lb beast. ====================

The diver color was tongue in cheek... I run black ones, but my personal faves are metallic watermelon (both my outside divers )... I need one of you two in the water for some fresh juice...headin' north in 4 hrs!

I prefer 9 - 10 ft leads from diver to flasher... Diver color doesn't matter as long as its black someone once told me Keep tryin'... They are moody, crazy stagers...

What down speed were you goin' with those depth "hits"? Spinnys/flies? 'Poons? Both?

We are having an "influx" of Cohos this year on Lake Erie or at least some strange "natrual repro" going on somewhere...I personally know of about 9 Cohos caught off the PA shore this summer... Here are 2 from last weekend: 12lber 8 lber Also saw 2 Kings in the same size range come in the weekend of our annual PRO AM as well as a couple Pinks...

I actually prefer the big ones on the grill...

Top one sure looks like a coho...

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Storm Warning 3 ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 7/29 & 7/30 Time on Water: Not as long as we thought we'd be! Weather/Temp: Calm & nice 7/29, bumpy westerlies 7/30 Wind Speed/Direction: calm to s, then sw, then w Waves: ripple to steady 3s Surface Temp: 75 Location: OLCOTT! LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 42 over both days? Total Boated: ? Species Breakdown: Kings, Steelies, 1 Coho Hot Lure: SPIN DOCS & ATOMMIKS Trolling Speed: 3 - 3.2 Down Speed: 2.5 Boat Depth: 150 - 430 Lure Depth: 55 - 165 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Awesome couple days at the 'cott! Sunday, got a bright and early start - ran west to the red barn and started setting lines in 150 fow...got everything in, made it to 275 and had a Steelie fest on...divers, boards, riggers...all firing, released 9 Steelies in about 1/2 hr. also pulled a teenager on the deep meat rig... Proceeded north into 380 fow and ten color with green gator mag starts screamin, yielding a nice major. From 400 to 425 started blasting the big Kings...300 copper, outsided divers at 285 with the tried and true green dot & white spinny & Pro Am fly very hot, same fly on same spinny, 10" version also hot! Frampton rig also took some shots on the starboard outside and the purple mirage w/ white on white spinny through in some rips as well. Finished with 5 big Kings in the box, a couple lost screamers and 3 mid to high teen Kings and a dandy Coho by 11am. Smokin'! Monday was a little bit slower, S winds most of the night upwelled (should have stayed inside...got warmer the further north we went). Same idea as Sunday, but went east where we had noticed a large pack on Sunday. Hit a few Steelies here and there all the way out to 425, had to keep a 3 that weren't going to make it. Took a nice King on the 300 copper again (green oil spill on white Doc w/ No See Um) but didn't like the rising temp at the ball. Turned east and then south quartering building waves and all hell broke loose, temp dropped hard, bait all over and popped the rigger and Frampton started screamin'. Boxed those two quality fish and the 300 takes off - long battle and I dropped a MAG Kinger right behind the boat! At least the summer LOC was over...proceeded back south and finished up with Jimmy taking another 20lber on the port outside. Finished up with 3 majors, 3 teenagers, and 3 decent steelies by 11.

Vintage, The PFBC with the help of our local club and some of the local conservation / outdoorsmans clubs have been supporting a reintroduction of BT stocking on the PA shore for about 3 years now... We are starting to see some quality BT fishing here...

Rare indeed! I'm sure it'd be bigger if it were black-mouthed and about 25 lbs heavier...

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: Storm Warning 3 ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 5/25 - 5/28am Time on Water: Weather/Temp: Wind Speed/Direction: all over the place Waves: flat to 4' Surface Temp: 62 Location: just west of Wilson to just west of the Cement Plant LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: LOTS Total Boated: 30ish Species Breakdown: LOTS of Cohos, plenty of teens and immatures, some Steelies 3 or 4 matures Hot Lure: Spinnys & Flies Trolling Speed: Down Speed: 2.1 to 2.7 Boat Depth: 100 to 350 Lure Depth: 50 down to 178! ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== A LOT different than a couple weeks ago... Friday night, squeezed a couple hours in out in front of the 'cott. Fished 120 to 180 looking for some sharks - got 6 rods in and the starboard outside at 200 with a Mag DW Habanero takes a shot - nobody home. Got 8 lines in and port outside takes a ride from 325 out to 790...commence program tear down - 45 minutes later, 22 1/2 lb Shark comes to the net. Great start! Never moved another rod that nite sans for a 4 lb Steelie off the probe rigger in 49 degree water. Sat am - headed out in search mode 200 fow off the red barn and put it on a hard NW power troll. Picked fish all the way out to 350 with 325 to 350 seeming the best. Beat up on the Steelies and Cohos along with a couple teenagers and younger kings in the mix. Bloody Death w/ Purple Mirage HOT out 325, outside diver, Frampton took quite a few as well out 350 on the opposite outside. Wires contributing a few back 200 and 250. Deep rigger quiet, probe rigger contributed handily with a MAG SilverStreak UV Blue Dolphin. Caught a bunch, but not the fish we were looking for. Sat PM we went east looking in the 180 - 100 fow range and found a few more Coho, a few Steelies and 1 teenager. Not much happening. Beautiful night on the lake though! Sunday am, went west again. Worked the barn to just passed Wilson in building seas from E wind. Picked fish from just east of the red barn to just past Wilson where we did 3 nice flurries with a few immature Kings a steelie and a Coho. Tried trolling back into them and picked up 3 more coho and what we thought was another major that turned out to be a 32â€, SKINNY 8lb steelie hooked in the back – boy did it make a run when it hooked up! 300 ft out quick! Picked a few fish here and there all the way back to Olcott going into them in the 200 to 250 range. Sunday pm, decided we would try the deep water bite again. Happy Daze (the Hans clan) and friend from LOU Richard had both taken majors in that 200 – 250 range down west on meet on 100’ rigger. We set up about 6:30pm in 200 and worked out to the NW. About 250 fow, the screen lit up…from 150 to the mud (have the screen shot on my phone a couple guys got sent)! Worked around picking a couple immatures and coho looking for some “higher†fish, but couldn’t find them. Dropped the deep meat rigger to 178 and the probe to 150 to see what we could get going and found a nice, big King temp of 42.6 at the ball. As we marveled at the temp and depth of the sharks, the meat fired. Locked! Then the probe fired. Locked! Then the starboard wire fired. Locked! Then the 10 color with 5oz Torpedo fired. Locked! Another 45 minutes of chaos, salmon dancing, rod moving, boat turning and sweating and 2 teenagers, a 2 yr. old, and a skinny, skinny, skinny, 39 ½â€, 24 1/2lb King hits the deck. 4/4 – that’s a first. Worked that water hard for the next 45 minutes til dark and picked another nice ho and immature Kings while of course missing a couple good rips too…headed in to a steady and increasing south blow…hmmm. Monday am, we set up in the same water with some anticipation of a great morning only to find the screen virtually blank and ice water down 90 feet. 41 and some change down 90 feet. The lake upwelled on the hard south blow from the night prior! We worked out to 300 without much on the screen and turned her south heading back inside as far was we could before our 10am curtain call. Only managed a couple swings and misses as well as a couple nice coho on high divers and 2 teenagers, one on a wire and the other on deep meat. Be back Labor Day weekend looking for a derby winner...

He should be up for the internet version of an Emmy... This is better than Deadliest Catch! No commercials and you don't have to wait a week! Now you just need some comic relief...can you find an Edgar? Now you need a video camera and podcast!!!!!!