Kevin J Legg

Went out today with another banana packed in my lunch. Ended up catching 7 browns (released 1) and 2 ciscos and a very tiny salmon.

We caught 3 about a 2 weeks ago. One 12 and one 14 lbs. Fished there today and limited on browns but only one dink salmon.

Hit and miss now but picks up late in the summer.

I agree with Gator.

7’ med to heavy rod. I was using 12-15 lb. Mono with 20 lb fluorocarbon leader. 1-11/2 ov jigging spoons worked well as do jigs in 25-30 fow we fished.

As a side note there is a large fleet of kayakers targeting them on the old canal where we were fishing.

I believe you are correct they do appear to be ciscos not whitefish. I use to catch ciscos in Millsite Lake and they were much smaller (12-13”) then  those  I’ve caught in Lake Ontario. Thanks for educating me.😀

We caught them on plastic on jigs and jigging spoons. Actually the jigging spoons were most effective.

For a change of pace I made a run to my brothers on Cape Cod. He has a gorgeous place just past the Bourne Bridge. We fished two mornings and had a ball catching good size black sea bass. We will head home tomorrow!

Caught two my last trip on Ontario and one the trip before. Not unusual to catch them targeting browns.

  Packed my lunch and put in a banana to test the myth. We fished for browns early and caught 3 and a couple bonus whitefish in 10-25 fow off boards and 2 color leadcores.
  Things got slow and I was thinking of chucking the banana. We made a move to deeper water and set some snap weights and riggers. Around 11:30 a snap weight took a rip and we soon had our first king of the year. Shortly after the rigger fired and it was another king on the cheater. Missed another good one after having on for quite a while and missed a few other hits and caught another brown and a small king.. By 2:00 the bite slowed and although we trolled another hour had no more hits.

 We ended up with a nice mix on a beautiful day and saw very few boats out. Best of all I even got to eat the banana!
 

  I was working a Tom and hen out around 250 yards with a cheap hen decoy moving in the wind about 10 yards away. I heard a sound of wings and caught movement as a large hawk swooped down and nailed my decoy!

  It knocked the decoy off the stake and didn’t want to let go. It then jumped off and stood next to it and then moved 5 feet away and stared some more before flying off. 
  Unfortunately the photos and video I took didn’t turn out due to the brush. The real turkeys moved off and when I checked the decoy there were talon holes in it.

Bite has been phenomenal the last 2 weeks.

Had a very eventful hunt this morning. set up in a blind and had 5 birds come into the field out 400 yards shortly joined by 8 more birds. I could see 3 long beards fanned up and several others chasing. It took a while but when they saw my moving strutter decoy they headed my way.
  Once they got to 10oz yards I knew they were coming. The dominant Tom ran in the last 75 yards and I shot him at 15 yards 
  The rest stayed in the field for over an hour and had a Jake come into the decoys two more times. There were 3 long beards, 3 jakes, and 2 bearded hens in the group and I got some video as well.
  Tom was likely dominate bird as it had 1” spurs, 9 1/2” beard, and weighed 20.2 lbs.

It’s close!

We drove to NJ yesterday morning during the snow. We saw around 8 flocks of turkeys totally over 50

birds on our short drive from home to Watertown but only 2 birds the rest of the trip. Looks like I live in a decent spot for turkey hunting compared to more to

our south.

I’m going away for a week and won’t return home till 5 days before opener. Since I’m hunting the same farm  I’ve hunted for years I decided to put up 4 pop up blinds early without much scouting. (I have seen plenty of birds on the farm).  They generally roost in same areas yearly so I’m confident where I set them up and birds will have plenty of time to get use to them.

I’ll have a few days to scout before season opens to determine which I want to

hunt first but I’ve killed multiple  birds at all 4 locations previously. 

Crushed them today. One 14”.

Yep definitely grubby. 
Don’t believe they would harm you when cooked but there is a yuck factor. Seem prevalent in some bodies of water.

I think most launches are open. I know Grasse Point, Krings Point and Goose Bay are all good. Keewayden isn’t open yet.

First time I’ve tried the perch this year and they didn’t disappoint. Lots of smalls and mediums with some larges mixed in. Not a bad afternoon. Minnows we’re what they wanted.

We picked up 8 all small.

Often use Mexico but also Port Ontario, 

Latter I use Stony and Henderson closer to my home.

No just canned.

You think gobies give them orange color?

  I’ve notice variation in the brown trouts meat color from a deep orange to a grey ,

whitish color. The cause is the amount of carotene in their diet which gives the meat its orange color. My investigation seems to indicate that eating eggs, krill, shrimp, and insects tends to lead to the the orange color whereas a fish diet leads to lighter color. My thought is possibly eggs, insects, and fresh water shrimp are the cause in Lake Ontario browns. 

  I’ve personally not noticed a difference in flavor. I know the bright orange coloration is usually preferred  however white salmon are often considered desirable in Alaska. Any thoughts?

Pretty much like canned salmon.

When we left my house temperature was 14 degrees. Fortunately the wind wasn’t to bad. Had to do some searching but when we found the right water we hit them pretty good. Caught 13 and kept our limit. I have 7 pints in my canner.