Tony G

1 hour ago, reeltrout said:

Some nice fish there! I'm planning to head out of Braddocks or Sandy tomorrow. Has anyone been ofshore lately?  Wondering if thats still the best fishing, I would consider running out a ways tomorrow if it's nice.

Yes I hear they are banging them good out there along the border.

The close fish "stagers" usually are not feeding and do not hit, yes you see them on the graph but if you want to catch and not just troll you need to find deep water fish that are eating.

1 hour ago, BreakingBass said:

Hey Buster.  I was out of I-Bay this morning, trolled from 180-530 fow about 30 deg NE of the bay outlet.  I marked 2 fish in 266' and maybe another 4 from 380 to 500'.  I ran FF, a meat rig, and spoons.  Never had a hit.  Had 2 releases on the meat rig but suspect they were just the current.  I agree with the temp breaks you saw.  Disappointing morning.  I saw a couple boats out way deeper, I'm sure 600' plus.  Would be interested to hear how things were out there.

Guys are WAY out there around the 30 line and doing well.

On 8/15/2023 at 2:41 PM, 180ccf said:

Nice, catches for everyone. Being out of IBay myself. How deep were you for that big boy. I did pretty good Sunday 90/150. Between the river and the IBay light. 

Way out there, he said between the 29-31 line was where he was fishing, he had a graph picture at 529'....

Another friend hit them good today in the 500' area.  

I always stacked 20' apart, if you are talking about sliders/cheaters of the same rod you cannot run a cheater on a rod with a flasher it will tangle badly.

I see everyday from the charter/tournament guys that the fishing is off the hook, my results a couple weeks ago back that up, but I hear most everyone saying the bite is offshore, slip N a little.....

I am hearing of some near shore upwelling with temps mixed up all over the place, I also hear offshore temps are stable.

When I saw you had a boatload I felt bad that the kids did  ot get to see what Lady O is about. Karma comes back.....

Went out about 6-11, went 13 for 15 all Kings, all over 13lbs, green hammer flies behind 8" Lances 2 face, Marv's, and a meat market all took shots, a Hawk's Black Ice mag got a couple, a white/green dot spinny with a glo green meat rig caught our only meat fish, 250'-400', 50'-90' down, 350'@300' coppers, dipseys on 140@170. It was a fun day. Tried to get Whaler 1 dailed in but he called as the bite was winding down.

Anyone going to weigh one in???   Half the fleet must be pounding the shallows for that huge fish of the day payday.....

Are you guys changing copper rods lures/baits and swapping out copper lengths looking for a bite or are they parked until they fire???

On 6/19/2022 at 4:08 PM, bobfish said:

Great supply, great advice, great price. I just bought a Cannon Mag 5 from Bass Pro for $469.99 

, I find out now Jon had it for $439.99. A pre-Biden deal. A great store!

We cancelled our Bass Pro order and got 2 Mag 5's from Jon@Tara.

I could do Oswego, message me if you still need a guy.

On 5/30/2021 at 5:14 PM, whaler1 said:

I plan on getting skunked in the morning.
Figure I’ll strike out on Browns for a couple hours in close and then blank on Kings out deeper.
Wish Gambler had sheepshead rigs, would love to give them a shot.



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Why wouldn't you head offshore where the Kings are and try for them when they are biting??

As long of leader as you can handle. I have never used a slide diver. My diver rods have a flasher/fly on them 95% of the time.  

Looks like Mag spoons "match the hatch"

3 hours ago, Beagler said:

I'm probably 3-1 the other way.

I would bet this is a result of what we both have confidence in and what we run the most.

Guys from late May to early August what are you feeling your Flasher/Fly/Meat vs Spoon catch ratio is?? I feel like our boat is 3/1 going to the flasher.

TDR'S

Extra CV30DS reel, what to do?? I have 3,5,7,9 Leadcores, and 250',300',350', 400' Copper setups. With that extra 30 size reel do want a 1 color, or 2 color, or something different like a 10 color??

52 minutes ago, GAMBLER said:

I heard through the grape vine that boom removal will start this Thursday!  

Won't make much of a difference, going to be ice free by next week with or without boom removal. 

I've been doing this trout and salmon trolling thing since the 80's, just thinking today while looking over my rods how far things have come. Originally downriggers where the hot ticket with some bigger boats having 5 riggers. Planers got popular but really only for spring fishing. Zebra Mussels became a thing and tactics needed to change with long leads, coppers, big boards, leadcores, all this became the norm. Downriggers while most boats still have them are far less of the program. Long line stealth approaches that some of our Grandfathers used in the finger lakes are now the goto's, the more things change the more they stay the same.

Always did best with FF  on the Kings there in spring. I would not be afraid to run the meat rigs either.

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