labonz

Took our small finger lakes, 17.5 Alumacraft boat to the Oak yesterday to take advantage of this boards hot recent posts. We had a late start, 9AM and reports from incoming was today was no wheres near as good as yesterday. We went where the boats were, about 3 miles east of port in 120 ft. We caught two nice steelhead, 10 and 12 lbs there, for two hours of fishing. We motored north to 270 in there and in front of port and caught a 12lb salmon out front, then we motored out to the 27 line and fished a blank screen between 26,5 and 28 with no fish for an hour. Another big boat out there never raised a net. We then went back in to 300ft this time, 3 miles west of port and fished into 170 and caught a 13 lb laker and saw some very small pods of bait. It turned 3:30pm on the clock so we decided to finish the day where we started, 3 miles east of port, and hooked three more salmon, landed two in 90 to 100 ft. That spot east of port was the only good graph we had all day , bait pods and lots of smaller fish and a few sallmon marks . We caught the salmon because of a bit of luck. My son popped a dipsy and was reeling it in to check for weeds (lots of debris floating here and there) and a big salmon hit it about 50 ft behind the boat, No drag, steel line, ...destroyed the snubber and broke off 20lb leader. But it was some site to see, explosive, like a marlin hitting! We then raised our dipsys from our standard 150 and 200 to 90 and 120 for two more hookups, Simple program we run, part timers that we are, two wire rods with big dipsies. All bites were on green mag spoons, flasher flys never got a touch, nor did smaller spoons. we took advantage of the calm waters to buzz around looking, but seems we should have stayed where we started, fished higher up and shallower. bait pods into 80ft. thanks for all the reports, we had a great day on the water, even though it wasn't easy.

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Happy birthday

My brother and I are born one day apart and we try to do a fun outdoor event together every year to celebrate. We had birthdays thurs and fri of last week and because he turned sixty we decided to try something challenging, a marathon fishing trip for Walleys at night and then salmon the next morning. The weather finally allowed Sunday night/Monday mornning.so we went walley fishing Sunday night on Erie and then after we quit we headed straight up to Wilson for some salmon fishing. The winds on Erie were supposed to calm down at 11PM but the ride from Dunkirk harbor was challenging to say the least, but the fishing was good. Caught some nice walleyes but the bite was later than usual, I think the full moon took Water some time to get used to. Things got prettiy hot between one and two AM when I actually got two walleyes on the same plug and my brother got one on his rod at the same time for our first ever two plug tripple! For those of you thinking of going out, the green snot weed is getting to be an issue so the days for this type of fishing are numbered. Salmon fishing at Wilson was great the next morning. We got a 21 ib salmon within 15 minutes of putting down, ( wire dipsy purple with chartruese mag spoon). The bite was steady and we landed 4 kings, 22 lb the biggest and one coho. We lost three screamer kings as well and headed back to harbor at 10:30. The walleyes came in 6 ft of water on rapallas and the salmon at 80 ft down, green and yellow mag spoons mainly, only two hits on the spin doctor flies.,The wire dipsy or downrigger pretty even. Never marked a fish, most bites around 180 ft deep NE of harbor. If you do this marathon make sure your well rested ahead of time, I was the driver and took a marathon nap sunday afternoon and my brother took cat naps on the ride and in the boat just in case I need a sub driving home. All in all one unique and memorable trip; two great fishing trips on, two great lakes back to back: where else you gonna do something like that. If your a sportsman, you got to love Western New York.

Fishing Report Tom / Trophy: ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):8-7-12 Time on Water:8-4 Weather/Temp: Wind Speed/Direction:sw 10-15 Waves: 1.5 Surface Temp: 76 Location:Olcott and east LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): 27n =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 13 Total Boated:7 Species Breakdown:3 kings four steelhead Hot Lure: chartreus dipsy, moutain du spin doc yellow green fly Trolling Speed: 2-3 Down Speed: 2.2-2.6 Boat Depth: 250-500 Lure Depth: 70-90 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS hit one locomotive that busted offhttp://www.lakeontariounited.com/fis ... post&f=14#, 25lb and 20 and 17 lb kings, bite 10-2 or by the time we got deep enough, spoons hit one early salmon then rest steelies, spin docs and flyes for 6 of 7 salmon greens and chartrues, not much on blues and purples shut right off after two. lost two nice matures, nothing on cheaters all fish down 70 to 90 on the thermocline ====================

Went out yesterday afternoon 7 29, caught 6 skippers , (2 to 3 lb kings) and one decent one about 13 lbs. the small fish all came off a cheater rig with a mag green and gold, the almost legit king came off a white spin doctor with a green and white fly 75 ft down. Fished from 1 to 4 pm, imagine it would have been better in the morning or evening but the big storms south of there kept us home in the am and had obligations in the evening. Did not have a down speed and temp on my friends small boat but marked some nice fish and bait pods 70 down in 180 ft , east of the red can to 4 mile, most of the small fish where near the can. No fleas or weeds, not many marks deeper than 200 first chance to get out since spring, things seem to have improved a lot since then First post on this board, very grateful for the all I am learning here, eager to contribute but I am still pretty much depending on luck and it was so so yesterday labonz