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Wow!

Some good walleye catches being reported by friends at night West of Dunkirk. Haven’t been able to try the night game so for shats and giggles today I tried some contour line trolling off shoreline points. Hmmmm I may have figured something out. Gizzard Shad and smelt were around. Caught a huge brown that I attempted to land by hand because my brother forgot his net and failed miserably. I had the fat porker out of the water wriggling in my hands twice only to have him flop onto the 12 lb leader snapping it. I got to watch the beast swim off with my scatter rap strapped to its face. Of note is my dive into baits which generate electronic impulses. After seeing plenty of underwater YouTube footage of walleyes swimming past trolled lures only to hit a Water Wolf camera -plus last year my friend posted a picture of a walleye that he caught on a Smart Troll probe that had jammed sideways into the walleye’s mouth and locked behind its teeth, I had an epiphany that walleye are interpreting electronic = alive. Enter Livingston lures and their walleye lineup of stickbaits you can get at FishUSA. I put one down behind a rigger and it fired in short order. Bandits took the most. A couple of bonus bass and some mega perch were also caught plus fish fry lunch that followed.

Could be whitefish or Gizzard Shad if no hits.

Going to give it a go Friday night. Light winds, warm night … even if they aren’t biting should be fun.

Purely anecdotal but I think the 15-17 lbers are stocked three year olds and the large group of 10-14lbers are the result of a good hatch of naturals that occurred somewhere.

Are you guys seeing bait in Oswego?

That is encouraging. Were they the large class of 4-5 lbers that are out there in large numbers or more likely residents?

Full disclosure, I have not fished for browns since March. Three trips, easy fishing and big fish in Niagara County. With the leading king in the low 20’s, everyone was trying for the money fish, especially with that brown leader on the board early. Still lots of browns being reported in the Niagara

Agreed with everything you said about the evolving bite this May. I believe we are now in the June phase early as suggested. Inside waters same temps top to bottom and green water offshore for fish to spread out in (all the way to Canadian line).

Roll call, who has been out trolling. Been too busy fishing kings on Ontario

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Other factors. Dr Weidel stated a good majority of the alewives caught in the survey this year were found in Canadian waters. Most years the bait is on the South side of the fence

Yep, I am done. Eight straight days of fishing for the big one. One clunker of a day yesterday and a grind bite today, otherwise, it was a king bonanza. Damn you NE winds for ruining a great bite off Olcott! I was out in 488’ catching kings today and we fished as tight as 62’. Green water is everywhere. When a pod of bait comes ashore, kings are with them. Every day was slightly different where we would level off and find a line. Congrats to the LOC leaders!

I don’t know why I take pleasure in getting plug fish but I got a couple more this morning

I left fish to find the derby winner offshore today. Trollled all the way out to 350’ and back. It was a futile attempt that didn’t bear fruit but I couldn’t believe how green the water was out there already. The water looks like it does in August.

They were on plugs third day in a row on the inside water

Great report. The good old times are now! FYI, try some plugs on your leadcore if it is rotting. We have had some good bonus junk line fish that are often the biggest of the day. Silver horde and jplugs in #4 size.

Just rolled into town myself

Looks like I am not targeting Browns lol 😂 congrats on what should be the winning fish!

Tons of three year old king mouths to feed. Expect lots of entries but all within ounces.

26 king, 28 Laker, 16 brown

I think I saw this property featured on a show about herring. I think it was a Wildfed episode.

After you just completed your alewife trawls, aren’t you sick of staring at herring??

From Captain Pete Alex’s page.