Traveling Circus

hey Scott .... I fished with Kara on Saturday in my boat, and I think we landed 12 or 14 fish....... Sunday I fished with Joe and his B in L George, and it was about 20........ I can't remember the last time we had such good fishing out of sandy for so long a period of time...... We struggled to find the big kings though...... lost a couple, just couldn't keep them hooked up.. Couldn't find a brown over 10 lbs...... or a steelie over 12....... what a problem to have..... Big Fun.....

Thanks for the report....... Did you happen to run a probe? If yes....... how deep was temp, and how were the currents? I'm considering taking a VayCayDay tomorrow if thing look good in the early morning.

Sounds like you had a ball Steve, that's some great fishing...... graduation Saturday and a party today had control of my weekend, but hopefully we'll be chasing fish this week and into the holiday week too...... a buddy is in town today, and we planned on fishing tomorrow with his 10 YO..... but the SCA has scared me off the plan.... damn weatherman.....

Like Yoda...... Wilson splits the difference. It's my favorite port on the lake.......Spring kings and lakers at the bar..... offshore steelhead fun in August.... what a place.....

will take the torpedo's. PM to follow.

Thanks for the answers.... JCR ...... Your suggestion is what I was hoping for when asking about 16" rims......How is the offset measured?

Need tires for my trailer..... The current tires are 8.75x16.5 LT....... .... Called GY..... don't have.... neither does the warehouse. Called a trailer shop...... got a confused response...... 16.5??? Seems the 16.5 is an odd size and with an "E" load range....... Anyone ever run into this before...... Sears has goodyear workhorse RIB 8.75 x 16.5 LT advertised on their website, but Goodyear is unaware....??? WTH? Whats RIB? Can I use 16" rims with the same bolt circle and a similar or greater load rated tire????

Thanks for the report Scott ...... the water in the western end is warming up fast, so you'd think it'll be improving off the Oak and Sandy soon.....

Great article today about LO Atlantics! It's wonderful to see them as a consistant part of the take. There was one weighed in at the the Niagara Pro-AM Cash Friday event that pushed 20 lbs real hard! The downside is that to read the article you have to stare at Jerry F. ......... almost puked in my coffee...... at least he wasn't wearing "THE HAT"

Thanks Scott ...... good luck at the Oak.......

Launched out of Wilson at about 5:45 started out in 75 FOW a little W. Fished 2 wire divers w/spinner/fly. 2 spinners / flys on 2 riggers rigger, and 2 spoons on the other 2 riggers..... took 2 shaker kings and one 6 lb steelie in there and headed out deeper for a different class of fish.... ran into a bad case of the dropsies, lost 4 fish in a row including one on a spinner/fly that broke us off after a 150 ft rip.... Then we doubled up on majors, one on W.diver / spinner / fly and one on a cut-bait rig....... Your's truely banged one in the head with the net and we lost that one...... Christie landed the other one.... a beautie king at 25+..... We landed one more 10 lb king on spin/fly...... Overall a great day. Lots of fun.... some excitement too...... We weighed in the big king at 25.03..... and that sat in 1st for big fish for a while..... Then Rebel showed up with one around 25 1/4..... and we watched our fish drop out of the money...... A great time though, and if we'd have landed the fish we had on, we'd have done pretty well! If, If, If......

NIce Bird and great story.......

Had an older gentleman from work who hadn't been on the big pond since 1998.... Can you say "JONESIN"?....... so we targeted lakers and did about a dozen from Lighthouse to Sandy in 90 - 110....... We didn't mark a ton of lakers and we did mark several pods of what I thought to be silver fish(35 - 60 down)....although we never fished to them...... The younger daughter is getting to be quite xpert...... do this, change that.... try this..... holy chit!.... who trained this kid?

BA..... Direction of troll can be huge due to E-W current.... if you have down speed, you'll know what's up...... if you don't..... pay attention to direction of troll and rpm when you're catching fish (and when you're not) and like the other's have said.... with cowbells/peanuts, fish dead dog slow..... 1.1 - 1.5..... good luck.

WTG Jerry.....That's just great! Why didn't you talk about Kings, Cohos, Lakers, Steelies.....????? Anything but Browns! Prolly gave up the secret spot too!

Fished with the 2 kids this morning..... Launched at about 6:15, and ran out to 400 fow looking for some thermal structure..... nada.... steady temp drop the whole way.... Ran back into 100 FOW off Lighthouse, and started trolling W. Plenty of lakers ...... 9 lakers and 1 small king in 90 - 105 fow.... Fished til' about noon.... nice day. King came 210 out on a wire diver w/ DW SS in toxic toad.

Thanks Scott / Skip / Steve ...... She kind of saved the day. I was looking for a fishing partner for Sunday, and she volunteered! I think she's gonna twist my arm to fish the Friday pre-fish tourney at the Niagara Pro-AM... Maybe her older sister will join us too. I hear school's optional on that day if you have a good excuse . YT..... The screen on Sunday was amazing...... full of fish for miles and hours. If everything goes right, we'll make another attempt down there this weekend....

Fished with my younger daughter this morning.... not fast and furious, but good company.... the graph was full of fish from 65 to 75 fow from 1 mile E of Wilson to 4 mi W. We took 2 kings on 2 hits..... white sd with green krinkle fly 140 out on a wire diver, and 60 down on a savant spook...... nice day, but not real productive for us......

We travel to Wilson Tuscarora to fish all the time... In fact we're heading there tomorrow morning. All of us spend a considerable amount of money on boats, gas, tackle, electronics..... bla...bla....bla... and there's state taxes applied to all those purchases.....so let's make it difficult to enjoy the things we like to spend our money on...... doesn't make a lot of sense to me..... you can go right down the lake and name the State launches.... Youngstown, Wilson, Golden Hill, Oak Orchard (saved by the locals), Sandy, .... and eastward...... If the state were to close all those areas... in the long run, won't it hurt the income side (tax revenue)? Hell of a plan..... I agree with the votem'out philosophy! We may not have to worry about low water if there's no place open to launch from...... Question?....... is there a good privately owned launch site in Wilson for a 20 - 25'boat? Wilson Boatyard?

Way to go Rob.....I've gotta learn to incorporate deeks into my hunting..... I've never used them, but there are times that I think they'd help me out......

Thanks for the kind replies..... They're both good kids and they're my "boys"..... This morning #2 and I sat about 75 yards from a pair of gobbling birds..... they flew down and went away.. ... We chased and set up, chased and set up..... chased and set up..... and then had a pair of big boys come to about 60 yards. They gobbled to every sound we made, but wouldn't close..... I was certain one of them would commit.... and then a bird behind us alarmed , two deer crashed by at 15 yards and it was over.... once again, no gobbles late in the day..... last gobble about 9 AM.... big fun! Woods are very green..... and black flies are just starting to go to work.....

Fished west of Wilson to the bar.... 50 - 120 FOW..... 6 Lakers, 1 Atlantic, 1 King..... We struggled to find the kings..... Only landed 1 small one, and lost one major on a wire diver rod. No spoon pattern was evident. Several different spoons took fish. Full size Savants took a few in alewife patterns, and several on SuperSlims in various colors.......Fish came from 32 to 50 down on the riggers, and out 85 to 105 on a wire diver rod. None on spinner/fly. Biggest laker was 14 lbs....Tough day for us....

We worked 2 birds off the roost 1st thing, but with little interest, and things got pretty quiet at 7:30..... We never heard another gobble all morning. I'm sure 80+ degrees wasn't helping much......At 11:30..... 3 birds were purring back and forth about 100 yards out, and at 11:45 3 of these guys walked into a slate call, but only 2 made it out..... She made a nice 30 yard shot and tipped him over. The quote of the morning...."Man! I forgot how hard those shells kick!" It's her second bird..... Back at it again in the morning with daughter "#2". I do love this time of year.

Does anyone know if the Wilson (Tuscarora State park) launch is open? Are there any good options in Wilson other than the park launch?

http://www.usps.org/localusps/rochester/loran.htm Here's a link to lat / lon for just about anyplace on Lake Ontario you could ever want to go........ and probably a few places you wouldn't want to go