Fishbowl836

OK understand, I think SK8man is correct. When I blow up the picture a little closer it looks like the spots on the guilt plate are a little different. Either way I know there's been a lot of big Silvers in the lake this year. Maybe that's a photo of the 12 pound salmon that was caught during the salvation army tournament. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

LOL, yeah maybe you want to fish two days of Silver's instead of one day of Lakers and one day of Silvers. [emoji12][emoji23][emoji476] Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

suttontroller94, yes it looks like my fish. Why do you ask? I took the fish down to Bear's Bait shop this morning to have the weight certified. I got all of the measurements that I needed to do a fiberglass mount and left the cooler and fish with Steve for his efforts. I only eat fired haddock therefore Steve ended up with some nice salmon fillets.

Thanks Jim, yes it was quite a 25 minute battle. I did the same thing with the big Laker I caught about 3 weeks ago. I assumed it was another big Laker this time as well, so I put the rod back down in the holder to clear other rods. For about five minutes while I was clearing other rods this fish was just pulling drag and the rod was setting in the holder. Imagine the look on my face when I saw this fish coming to the surface and it was a Salmon. I just about shXX my pants. After missing the fish twice with the net I did get him the third time and by now it was getting pretty dark with no lights on. It will be something I will never forget. Wayne

Hopefully here is the photo, having problems getting the photo uploaded. For some reason had to upload a lower resolution photo.

Headed out of Myers point for about one hour of fishing before sunset and it was well worth it. Fished from Portland Point to just north of Salmon Creek. On my second pass right in front of the creek I caught this monster Landlocked Salmon on a wire Dipsy using a spin doctor and fly. Again, Iron Duke's trolling fly - "UV wild child" did the damage again. This salmon was weighed and measured at Bear's this morning about 9:30. Fish weighed 14 lbs. 9 oz., 34 1/2 inches long and the largest girth measurement was 16 inches around. I have all the measurements to do a fiberglass mount. Does anyone have a recommendation? Seem to be having a problem up loading the photo. Is there a size limit? Have uploaded from my Go Pro camera before with no issues. Not sure what's going on. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Boy Jim, that 200 copper is hot no matter what lake you put it in. I'd have a bunch of those rods out Saturday morning first thing. Nice rainbows good luck this weekend. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

TTT Make sure you scroll down through this thread to get the latest information as far as dates, cost and entry form. The tournament is to be held on September 9 and 10th. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

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Cayuga Lake Report 8/20/17 Launched out of Myers Point at 7:00 AM.. Ran to the middle of the lake and trolled North towards AES. This area has been very good for the last couple of weeks with a mix bag of fish. Plan for the morning was to run riggers in the silver zone and experiment with leader length from the fly to the Spin Doctor using Mag wire Dipsy on a #1 setting 180 to 275 out. Used a number of different color Iron Duke Trolling flies for this test. Ran leader lengths from 12" to as much as 36" from the SD. Landed nine Lakes and four Salmon in five hours of fishing but for some reason I had the dropsies. Dropped three Lakers and one nice Rainbow at the back of the boat. All silvers were caught on UV spoons of different colors. The experiment on leader length was very interesting. With a short leader (12 to 18") it seemed like the fish would come up and try to hit it but would not hook up. I was surprised by this because I didn't think that could happen. The rod tip would suddenly move or jolt but then no one home. Just not sure what was going on. But my guess is that the fly being that close to the SD the fish was very skiddish, not sure. Never hooked a fish in that configuration. I normally run the leader length around 22 to 24". As expected, as I increased the length to that distance I did catch fish. My next leader length zone was 30" to 36". As I increased the distance behind the SD I notices that the fly just seems to lose some of its action as I let it down. The fly just seems to make a bigger circle with no additional action. I did catch fish using a leader length from 20" all the way out to 32". Has anyone else experimented with leader length before? Not really sure if this is consistent from day to day or if that was how it was that day. I do no, I have had days that the fish would not hit a certain length leader and make a small change to the length and you are now hooking fish. Not really sure if this was worth the time and effort but was just curious about this so I wanted to see what would happen. Either way it was a good morning of fishing all the way up to Rocky Dock and it was surprisingly quiet until around noon for a Sunday morning. If you have experimented with the leader length between the SD and fly before I would like to hear your thoughts. Attached are a few photos. Thank you.