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Thanks for the responses guys. Alot of really good information there. I love how well informed everyone is on here! I knew that there was a small degree of natural reproduction with kings, but my experience in the last 2 years flies totally in the face of what I had seen for about a decade before that. I have always beleived that the steelies, browns and lakers do a pretty good job of naturally reproducing, but our rivers are not the cold gravel bottom rivers that salmon crave. I guess I was taking a bit of a cynical angle on the whole thing.... I can just ee the politicians saying "look at all these unclipped fish, they must be doing fine on their own so I guess we dont have to stock them anymore". With NYS being as broke as they are, I put nothing past them.

The fishing definitely picked up once the wind did. Drifting at 0.7-0.9 was best [ Post made via Android ]

OK, I think we may have covered this earlier this year, but i just wanted to see what you all thought. Yesterday at the Sodus Proam weigh in there were a suspicious number of unclipped/untagged salmon. A comment I heard several times is that they "must be naturally reproduced". I have been fishing/mating for about 10 years, and I dont ever remember seeing this many unclipped fish. I find it highly unlikely that after 30 years of stocking they would suddenly get a foot hold and have natural reproduction that would amount to this many fish. Matter of fact, I didnt catch any salmon that were clipped this this weekend (and I caught 8 salmon)... Am I missing something? Do they clip the fingerling pen raised fish? Or are we just looking for some budget cuts? I'd be interested to hear other peoples thoughts.

I was marking stuff (bait mostly) high in the 60-90 range, getting my hits much deeper than that. I bet your FF is just fine Tim...

Me and a buddy fished today out of Godfrey pt. We got there at 7:30, launched the boat, got one rod in the water and I saw lightning... sooooooo I pulled up the radar on my phone and saw there was plenty more of that to come, so we went and had breakfast. We finally got back out 9:30-10, and fished all around Shakelton Shoals. We tried deep first, nothing to show for it though (no takers on harnesses, jigs, sonars or stickbaits). We did mark alot of fish out deep. Finally did get some action when we moved onto shallower water near the shoals. On every shoal there was bait and fish, and we caught everything on the high side of the shoal, usually 14-19 FOW. Harnesses did all the damage today, they wouldnt take anything else. Ended up with 4 keeper walleye, 3 shob sunnies, 1 perch and 4-5 Sheephead. The walleye meat out of Oneida is just plain beautiful! Finally starting to figure out how to catch walleye, especially on this lake...

Just did one about 17-18 down 90 in 190 [ Post made via Android ]

How deep.are you? [ Post made via Android ]

Hey Tim, what are those pretty silver fish in that picture? Looks an aweful lot like the baby chinooks I have been catching.... hope there are more of them around next week.... god I need to catch a king bad [ Post made via Android ]

Your Name / Boat Name: Continuity/Fish Doctor Date(s): 6/27/11 Time on Water: 6:15-10 am Weather/Temp: warm, sunny Wind Speed/Direction: light and variable Waves: none Surface Temp: 62-65 Total Hits: 5 Total Boated:4 Species Breakdown: mixed bag- a brown, a steelie, a laker, a skipper king and rip on the dipsey that was probably a bigger king Hot Lure: all spoons took one fish, a shot on a kelly green prochip with atomik green fly Boat Depth: 60-180 Lure Depth: 30-70 down ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Did another short morning before work today- I went to bed last night with visions of big brownies dancing in my head, only to not find any takers in tight.... The screen actually looked decent in there, mostly bait with a few fish too, but it was really calm and bright from the start. At about 8 am (after hearing some bleak reports in tight), I worked out to over 100, where the screen still had alot of bait but also a bunch of fish. They were mostly high, consistently 30-70 down. After progressively moving all my stuff higher, I finally got a go at 8:30 on a 180 dipsey with dodger/fly, a good rip that was likely a teen king (but who knows really). Then it was a brown on a 60 rigger on a mag NK watermelon, followed by a skipper king on a DW reg green gator slider on the 55 rigger. After that, we got a big fat steelhead on a 55 rigger mainline with a silver/gold NK with a big red eye. On the troll back in, I noticed a BUNCH of big hooks on the bottom just west of the channel in 100-120 FOW, and dropped a rigger with a NK mag seasick waddler down to 112, which immediately took a nice laker. If I had more time, we could have annhilated lakers I am sure... Absoletly no pattern to anything today. No rig took more than one fish, and I caught fish in 120, 140, 160, 140 and 110 FOW from Boller to the channel. I think they may start setting up soon, and the screen did look quite nice. Better days to come (at least on the king front). Hope this helps, and good luck to all. Abe

Good fishing , nice brown and nice report. Hope it stays near the top of the board. [ Post made via Android ]

Your Name / Boat Name: Continuity/Fish Doctor Date(s): 6/19/11 Time on Water: 6:30-9:30 Weather/Temp: NE wind 10+, cool Waves: 2+ Surface Temp: 61 Total Hits: 5 Total Boated:4 Species Breakdown: skippy kings, one steelie Hot Lure: Black/Copper with a purple and glow ladder, purple gator Boat Depth: 30-200 Lure Depth: 20-70 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Did a very short (late) morning with my father, just the two of us. Started in tight to work the browns over, but they werent having anything to do with us today. Of note, the bait really wasnt there like it had been. I heard of some brown action in really tight, but with the wind and waves (and only 2 of us) I didnt dare chance it. Anyways, trolled out deeper and we did find some action out 140-200, down 30-70. They were mostly skipper kings, we did lose one nice steelie that jumped us off. Overall, a nice day with dad. Hope to find some better quality when I am out next tuesday. I really hate maiming those little kings, hard to get away from them sometimes. Why do they always have to have all 3 trebles in them? See you out there, good luck to all! Abe

Well done man. Glad to hear they ate still there! [ Post made via Android ]

Gander Lander/Tim- wont be out again this week, have to work on saturday. BTW, there is still a good steelie bite out over 200, but I didnt even try the boards because I only had 4 rods to work with. Should be good fishing the rest of the week. Bobsboy- there were very few fish marks down deep (but a crapload of bait!). I did see a few marks 80-110 down from 90-120, and I ran mags and a dodger through them with nothing to show. There were a few VERY deep down 150 or so in 170-200. If you are looking for salmon, they are still very sparse out of sodus. Magic did a major (I think) 80 down over 150, but that was the only salmon I heard of. Kinda frustrating considering I was killing salmon last June in Sodus. Good thing there are 3 other varieties snapping good to occupy us until they show

There are no hot spinnies right now. Mostly a small spoon bite.

Your Name / Boat Name: Continuity/Fish Doctor ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s): 6/16/11 Time on Water: 6-12 Weather/Temp: NW wind 10+, sunny Waves: 2+ subsiding to 1 Surface Temp: 61 Location: The old lighthouse west to Freedom Hill Total Hits: 9 Total Boated: 5 Species Breakdown: 2 lakers, 1 skipper king, the rest browns Hot Lure: Flounder pounder, green/silver small stingers, black NK with glow/purple ladder back Trolling Speed: who knows- 1.8-3.5 depending on the wave... Boat Depth: 40-70 FOW, then over 200 FOW Lure Depth: 25-36 down, 45-110 dipseys ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Started the morning in close for browns, and actually had a nice steady pick of a nice class of browns from 40 to 70 FOW down 20-36. Initially it was all glows, then the stingers kicked by 8 AM. We did one really nice brown >10 lbs today. It was a slow pick, and we had the dropsies BAD (we were 1 for our first 5..... yikes)- the light hits seemed to be prevalent today though. By 10:00, the brown bite had died, so I pointed her north. Once we got to 200 FOW, we very quickly did 2 fatty lakers down 25, and by then it was go time. From what I gather, there was also a decent brown bite from 20 to 40, but that sure didnt work for me. Also, I did hear of one major down 80 over 150 FOW. Again, what a nice quality class of lakers out deep about 20-30 down. The friggin wind made finding the right speed a challenge. It did calm down as the day went on though. Here are the 4 best ones. Good luck everyone Abe

What's with all the freakin lakers on the surface lately? Not that I am complaining.... [ Post made via Android ]

I know you can catch pig smallies fishing for walleye with worm harnesses around shackelton shoals.... like 3-4 pounders. At least that was the case last weekend. [ Post made via Android ]

Thanks man. Were you out zebedee? [ Post made via Android ]

Your Name / Boat Name: Continuity/Fish Doctor Date(s): 6/11/11 Time on Water: 6-10:30 Weather/Temp: Nice, calm, cool Wind Speed/Direction: NE 5 Waves: none Surface Temp: 61 in close, dropping to 51 out deep Total Hits: 8 Total Boated:6 Species Breakdown: a skippy king, 2 steelies, the rest lakers Hot Lure: anything red on top, purple gator and dirty white boy on riggers 20-30 down Boat Depth: 80-290 Lure Depth: top 30 FOW ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Did a short day out of Sodus today. Started in tight, screen looked awefully good 80-110 FOW, from 40 to the bottom with bait and fish, but all we pulled out of there were skippies.... I heard there was a break out deep, so I trolled out there. It was 61 on top in close and slowly tapered to 56, but in 270 FOW it abruptly changed to 51.7 F, and immediately rods started popping. Riggers down 20-30 were the best, did a few decent steelies on top as well. I had stuff to do today, so I had to go in early with rods still moving. Action on the break was pretty good, did 6 fish in just over an hour. We were about 2 miles west of the channel. Kept 4 good ones:

To me, finding the fish, going the right speed, putting the right lure down at the right depth, and getting the friggin fish to hit is the exciting part. I personally love seeing other people catch fish, especially people who havent caught them before or kids. That is where it is at. The mental game is what I enjoy most. You would think it would be stressful, but I always come off the water feeling refreshed and relaxed. I too enjoy the fight, but that is such a small part of it...

The damages today. Pan fried goodness.

A buddy and I fished Oneida today- started on the north end, then the north end of shackleton, with basically nothing to show for it. When we moved to the south east end, things started to heat up a bit. We ended up with 4 eyes, 2 keepers, one that was 15 inches that we released, and one just short. Those were my first eyes in Oneida, which was kinda cool. We also did 6 HUGE sunnies and 6 nice perch (and 2 big smallmouth and a sheephead). Best action was from 8 to 18 foot down, we did do one eye in 25 FOW. EVERYTHING was on worm harnesses, I couldnt get a hit on anything else (stickbaits, sonars, jigs, plastics). For you guys that fish there- I hear wonderful things about sonars, so I got a few. How do you guys work them? slow retrieve, or jig, or a combination? They sure as hell didnt work for me today... Interestingly, most of our eyes were caught in 8 FOW when it was sunny..... Weird.

Hey zebedee I was fishing 2 relatively small areas on my GPS on saturday, beat the two areas up pretty hard for the action I had. This time of year I have become dependent on that GPS to keep me right on the fish. And yes, it was definitely a steelie bite, probably 7 of my hits were in the top 10 foot down. I am out of sodus almost every weekend, usually hang out on channel 8 or 68 if you ever want to talk (or u can call my cell if you want to PM me). Never hurts to have more people to talk with out there. Tim- you may find me out in that 300 FOW on saturday, I am hungry for some kings... Give me a call on saturday if you are out Abe

lol I found the salmon... Well I didnt, but the proam teams sure did. At least 1600 of them were in Wilson/Olcott this weekend. Gives me hope that they will soon be in Sodus now that the warm weather is here! What a freaking spectacle to see all those fish weighed in this weekend.

A decent steelie. He has been working hard, check out the tail!