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Are you sure it wasn't all those Kings pulling your arm out of the socket? Better get in shape for next year when those fish are all pushing closer to 30 lbs! Nice shooting

That would be my experience.

NICE....you finally made it up to the mayhem. These reports must have been killing you . I am scratching my head how you went the whole weekend with only a few Lake Trout......what is you secret to keeping them off the line?

A couple reasons. One, the hook only grabbed a small piece of flesh and tore out. I am starting to move away from Owner cutting trebles and have had better luck with just a traditional hook point but still to early to tell if this helps. Two, the fish are in the nippy mode, again only hooking themselves with just a little bit of tissue. The initial thrashing of the head when a dipsy rip happens is extemely violent, followed by the fish turning and burning with the hook pulling in the opposite direction it entered the tissue. A lot of luck is involved in getting a mature salmon to net. With experience you will make your own luck percentages go up, but somedays we all get the dropsys. I will disagree with Ray on this one......I don't recommend setting the hook with no stretch braid or wire as the initial strike and run is plenty of pressure to put the hook in place. Setting the hook is only going to potentially open a bigger hole around the hook IMO. I generally loosen the drag during the initial run to lessen the pressure on the hook and allow the fish to tire while getting centered in the spread behind the boat away from other lines. Experiment for yourself.

After 350' of wire is out, the drag on the line will plane-out the dipsy and you will stop getting deeper without slowing down.

x2 I use all those calls with exception of the Screamin'Green.

Ah......Pete, maybe you can expound on this "wet noodle action" you have been getting.

I have had them hit bottom with a flasher/fly at about 112' going 2.4 downspeed with 350-400' of wire out. If you want 150' you need to go to 1lb thumper weights.

When I first saw your thread title I thought to myself.......a virgin in Olcott? I have GOT to see this!!! ....oh well, welcome to the addiction and a great first trip out into deeper water.

The pup was chewing on my daughter's nose in the picture.

Great hunt!!

In previous years, teams would have loved a 15 lber......not this year!

What a bummer!!!!! No worries though.....the fish are not going anywhere any time soon. Nice meeting you at the dock.

The kids got to help pick out my new hunting buddy. An all liver German Shorthair.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name:Gill-T Hooker ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): Time on Water:6:30-11:30 Weather/Temp: Wind Speed/Direction: Waves: Surface Temp: Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: Too many to count Total Boated:Too many to count Species Breakdown:Kings, Coho, Lakers Hot Lure: Northport Nailer Blue Mahi Glow, Lure Jenson Shoehorn Mag, Capt. Val w/A-tom-mik mirage glow, Northport Nailer Orange-ice-glow/gold Trolling Speed: Down Speed: 2.25 Boat Depth: 60-68' Lure Depth: 2 color/10' to 52' ==================== The fishing is the same as my report from two weeks ago. Non-stop action on Kings, giant Lakers and Cohos. Took some newbies out..... a father with two boys. I think we may have ruined them for life. Eyes where as big as saucers when the fish started hitting the deck. I am a catch and release guy, but the boys wanted fish so.......the boat got really bloody today. Not sure how long it will last but boy what a ride!! ====================

No worries, the fishing off Olcott is on FIRE!!!!!!! Will be out tommorow and its going to be a bloodbath.

Turn at the light in Youngstown and go to the free launch. Brand new and won't hurt your outdrive like the fort launch. Will be a zoo tommorow off the Niagara with the tournament going on.

All my divers have a small pinch-pad release above the foregrip on the rod. Place the wire or braid into the pinch pad to keep it from creeping.

Was down working on my boat yesterday and I noticed just upstream from the marina a huge colony of Cormorants in the trees. Was wondering with the DEC oiling the eggs on colonies in the eastern end of the lake, could we get a similar program started on this end of the lake? Anybody know who we can contact about this. Those baby steelhead don't stand a chance if released.

Pick your poison good man. The sure thing is trolling the shoreline for browns, cohos, with a dabbling of Lakers, Kings or Atlantics as incidental catches. If you see boats deeper......they are probably on Kings/Lakers, in which case you will want your dipsys. You could get away with just spoons this time of year but you might as well bring some Flasher/fly combos. Your biggest challenge this time of year is not IF you will catch fish but CAN you fish due to the weather.

This time of year .......no matter what NOAA says, if weather is coming in, you are going to get NE or E winds. It can be blowing from the south right at the marina, but as that warmer air hits the cold air bank over the lake, the wind curls around the bank like an air foil and will blow across the lake in a completely different direction. Been burnt enough over the years to learn you have to become your own Lake O weather man. Don' t rely on NOAA!!!!!

Apparently there are Kings off Olcott. Nice report.

Gee Tim........seems to me you might be awhile and your slip is empty. Leave the key to the dock lock under my door mat eh buddy? I feel your pain. When you were catching all those Kings in July last year, I was rebuilding my hardtop. Man there was a lot of wood rot. You really should have taken my suggestion to either get a port-a-potty or at least a piss can to prevent that from happening again PS I will stop posting pictures of fish I catch until you finish.........naw