Skippers Trophy 01

Way to go get them, thanks for the report.

Thats a reel smokin fish right there! Congrats to you and dad.

Welcome Sean. Post a pic or two of your rig and we'll critique it for ya. I would think if you pick your days by watching the weather reports you would be able to get out there.

Weird thing is, we could not buy a hit on the spin/fly until I changed it out a few times to the short lead (approx. 20"), and increased the speed to 2.5 down speed from 2.2. Rigged front hole, and fly on the fins (less action). Camera fixed to weight, spinny was about 5 ft. behind weight.

We are running the GoPro, and we have heard it will only transmit 20 Ft. in water.

At this time we are unable to watch live, but are looking into it. We are hoping that everyone can learn along with us from these videos, and encourage members to comment on what they think the fish are doing and why. After two days of no hits on the Spin/Fly behind the camera, we tried a faster troll (2.5 down speed) and that produced 3 hits (unfortunately two came after the battery died). The fish seem less interested when the speed is lower, but we will try more speed changes while on camera to see what the results are.

Good job guys. I prefer the chocolate twinkies myself.

Blowback appears to be slightly more than with the probe rigger. We are currently using 10 Lb. Herbies, would like to go heavier, but not until upgrading or rebuilding the old Big Jons. Its a tough grind at times getting these up and out of the water.

65 is the deepest we've tried, depends on the water clarity and light, but maybe deeper. Blowback is a problem too.

It can, but a very short distance under water, I think 20 feet. We are looking onto it.We leave it down till the battery dies (about 2 hours) then bring it up and watch it.

Good catch & happy that nobody died. Had me scared for a minute.

Fishing Report ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date: 6/15/12 Waves: 1-2 Surface Temp: 62 Location: Sodus =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 12 Total Boated: 8 Species Breakdown: Kings,BT & Steel Hot Lure: darker colors Trolling Speed: 2.9 SOG Down Speed: 2.5 Boat Depth: 175 -250 Lure Depth: 30 - 75 ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== We felt like we had them dialed in after outings Monday & Thursday. Mayhem early in the morning as steelhead were taking shallow run spoons and hitting the air, most of the time spitting our lures back at us. Later in the morning the bite moved a bit deeper and the Kings got involved. Brown down 65 over 220. Dark SS spoon, Midnight Special(?) I think its called Steelhead down 65 over 190. Dark green spin and custom dark fly. King from dipsy out 175 - Pic from Thurs. Good video of King hitting the fly, and us landing it. Great to get out with dad for an early fathers day trip.

Nick were you getting fleas on you wires? We could not buy a dipsy hit until we started cleaning them every 30 mins, then they did half our fish today. Shorter as well - 175 and less. [ Post made via iPhone ]

Nick, we are out in 190, lots of action but no majors yet. [ Post made via iPhone ]

Way to go guys, very nice Atlantic there.

Gotta make your own like we did, or take Daves advice and get a trollpro housing.

We get 2 hours out of a battery when its in 45 degree water. We made the clamp out of aluminum. Dipsy cam - we'll leave that one to you to invent, too funny, Nick.

Nice vids. Could not have been easy, handlining in that screamer!

Go Pro

Was around 50 feet down. 24" leader to fly.

Sounds like you did an excellent job! Just add some fish pics next time

For a minute I was confused at the 3 & 1/2, and thought you might be fishing salt water... Goog thing that hook didnt find anything more painful to rest in. Looks like you had a good day for it.

I am really a dodger guy, dont run the Doctors much, what should I change, or try? Open to all suggestions, thx.

Date(s): 5/19 Weather/Temp: hot, sunny Wind Speed/Direction: NE 5 Waves: 0 - 2 Surface Temp: 51 Location: Sodus =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 4 Total Boated: 3 Species Breakdown: LT & Kings ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Tried alot of different water, could not find any mature fish. The only good rip of the day was on a dipsy/spoon, but broke the leader because I forgot to loosen the drag after cinching it down to retrieve some plastic garbage caught on the wire just before. Got some agile youngsters on camera chasing our Spinny/Fly:

We are off Sodus right now. [ Post made via iPhone ]