Just Ducky

That year lower unit is very difficult to find. I know, I had to replace mine last fall. Good luck on your search.

If you do not find one, let me know if you are interested in buying a complete motor - same year. I am selling mine. It is the VRO oil injected model with tilt and trim.

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name:Just Ducky

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s): 8-3 to 8-5

Time on Water:mornings and evenings

Weather/Temp:

Wind Speed/Direction: calm to 30 mph

Waves: flat to 6'

Surface Temp: 74

Location: Olcott

LAT/LONG (GPS Cords):

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: Lots

Total Boated:

Species Breakdown: Kings and Steel

Hot Lure: Mtn Dew Spin Dr with Atomic Green Crinkle fly

Trolling Speed: 2.5

Down Speed: 2.2

Boat Depth: 430'

Lure Depth: 80-100'

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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Left home at 1:30 AM and drove to Olcott to catch the morning bite. Glad we did! Here is the mornings catch.

We started in 180 ft of water and worked north until we started marking bait. We started poping rods around the 25 line, but they were steelhead. We were looking for Kings. Made some adjustments with lures and depths and started to fire on the Kings. We found a good concentration of matures around the 26/43 line.

Here is my son's largest fish (not just salmon) ever!

We headed in for lunch and to set up camp around noon. We went back out to see of we could finish up our limit. We did with a bang! We landed two bigs Kings weighting 28 1/2 and 26 1/2 along with a beast steelhead. Headed back in well before sunset to clean fish and catch some needed sleep. Here is the 28 1/2 ponuder. It turned out to be the biggest fish of the trip.

We went back out Saturday morning and started at about the 25 line and worked north to our marks from the day before. I had just put the first rod in the water, the wire dipsie back 210' and BAM! This 22 lb king stripped 785' of wire off the spool on it's intial run.

The sunrise was beautiful!

We got chased of the lake Saturday evening by storms with 30 MPH winds leaving us 2 fish short of a limit.

We tried to fish Sunday morning. But it was rolling. We did manage to land one 21.5" King in the 4-6' waves. We had one other knock-off but didn't stay buttoned up.

Riggers were catching Kings at 80 - 100 down on Spin Doctors. The wire dipsies were on a 2 setting back 210 to 240'. Everyting was hitting on green on this trip.

It was a great trip. Can't wait until next time.

PM sent

That's a beauty for spring Nick!

Way to go!

Keep up the reports. You are killing me having to sit here in the office and read about you and your wife living the dream. You have had beautiful weather nearly every day and the fish are cooperating.

I got reports from 3 different sources that the Bar came alive this week. I had planned to fish it this weekend. But my wife blew out her knee. She just had an MRI, so I have to stay around home. Thought I would share what I herd to try and help some others.

The best king bite has been early and late. Riggers down 70' to 85' and wire dipsies back 210' to 240' on a 2 setting. All spinnies and flies fished SLOW. Green seems to be the best color. Speed between 1.4 to 1.7 over 90' to 180'. If you fished the Bar before you know that is a narrow band of water. The boat traffic is thick at that depth. Patience and courtesy is the name of the game when battle fishing. If you hook a big fish, slide out to deeper water and fight the fish away from the traffic. It will save a lot of tense moments. Especially if you have a big one run under another boat and through their rigger wires. Good luck and catch a big one for me.

Congrats! Love to see those youngsters smiles. You did a lot better than we did Sunday Tim. We started in shallow in the morning and ran out to 450' and only pulled a few.

Fished it last weekend and did well. Everyone back at the ramp had trouble catching mature fish with all the shakers. One observation I would like to pass along. If you are catching only shakers, drop your set up below the shakers. We pulled fish between 14 and 24 lbs with limited shakers. The Federal Fisheries Biologist and NY Creel Survey crew were at the dock and said we did better than anyone else they checked.

Way to go Kevin!

I herd the lake flipped late last week. How long after the lake flips does it take for the inside water to be fishable again? How long before the fish will start to stage at the river mouths? Does the water have to flip back or will the current coming out of the rivers return the inside water to a fishable temperature?

Looking for your past experience of how long it will take. It seems like every year I plan my trip to Lake O and it decides to flip right before I get there making the inside bite non-existent. I don't mind running offshore. But sure is nice to come out of the harbor and set lines within 5 minutes of getting out on the water.

Would you be willing to ship?

Great stuff guys! Thanks for all your help.

Big Dave - Yes 47LC. It's an older model, but still works great. It's just sitting on the shelf so I figured I would put it to use.

One more question though. What length rod are you all using? Just a standard 9' - 10' dipsie rod? I realize I need to change the tip. Thanks for letting me know that as well.

I have never run wire before and have a few questions.

Do I spool the entire reel (Diawa 47) with wire or do I use a backing?

I found 300' and 600' spools in both 30 lb and 45 lb. Which is best to use?

I was reading on the Cabela's site that Opti-Tackle wire is not good to use with Dipsies? Has anyone ever run this brand of wire using dipsies? Any problems?

Does anyone have a chart to show how deep wire runs with spoons only or with dipsies?

Any other tips?

Thanks!

I talked to Kevin this morning. He was still stoked about the trip. Props to you Howie for taking a couple of Ohio boys out on your home turf. Sounds like you guys had a great trip.

Thanks for the post Tim!

I'll be in Olcott on Thursday through Sunday.

I am thinking about replacing the treble hooks on my magnum spoons. I want to replace them with 4X strong. I have a bunch of different brands, Michigan Stinger, Silverstreak and NK's to name a few. What size do you think is best?

I am thinking about replacing the treble hooks on my magnum spoons. I want to replace them with 4X strong. I have a bunch of different brands, Michigan Stinger, Silverstreak and NK's to name a few. What size do you think is best?

Your hooked now

Great report Yankee

With the cooler water being pushed on shore, will the fish be higher in the water column? They have been hugging the bottom.