Chinook1981

I'll be staying on Chaumont next week if anyone is looking to do some fishing. Someone knowledgable of the area would be preferred.

Nowadays I only fish where I have a chance to catch a trophy.

I've been told that you have to troll real slow 1.5 mph or so for Oneida walleye. I don't bother with trolling because I have great success jigging but i'm told that trolling deep diving sticks is very popular at Chaumont. Do you have to troll that slow for Ontario walleye? I'll be staying on Chaumont Bay for a week at the end of the month and i'm starting to figure out a game plan. If i drag two small buckets my boat will do 1.8-2.0 mph, but not any slower. Any advice would be appreciated.

I might go Saturday if the weather is decent.

That's how the ordeal started to unfold. The big boat running towards shore that would not change course forced us to turn into water under 80. Two of my lines were set at that depth. The secondary problem is that the two guys with me have never fought a fish over 5 pounds...

When you have to pull a 180 degree turn with 4 dipseys out...

It's nice to have a photo to go with the memory.

Who snapped the photo of us?

Slow day. Fished 150 in to 90, dropped 2 including a beast that took us out to 600. Would have been manageable except a boat running perpendicular refused to move at all and told us " I can't steer, get out of the way". Had to pull a uturn with a fish out 500 and 3 dipseys out. Anyway we had all lines in and were able to chase the fish as it ran under two other boats and ended up tangling in lines from the Water Wolf. The guys were real gracious, untangled the line, gave us back our gear and were genuinely a class act. At that point it was 1145 and the sun was poking through so we ended on a good note and hit Rudy's for lunch. Both fish were on spoons, nbk and glow frog. It is refreshing to deal with a charter boat and guys like that. Thanks again!

Is it just me or is it dead out now?

Good stuff. I'll be out there tomorrow!

Woops. Ya meant 300 feet! Your arm would fall off fighting a salmon out 300 yards!!

A bit off topic... I have Magda 20's that I use for browns. A king might take you for a ride on a 20 if you have 300 yards out...unless you have skills I've had trouble with low teens browns out 175.

Don't feel like spending any more dough this year... Was considering saddling up a pair of 6'3" Guide Series musky rods to run my inside dipseys. They are medium heavy action, rated for 40# test and 4 oz lures. Thoughts???

My buddy was at Wrights at 6 am and said it was 4s and 5s...

I saw some decent ones in the southern end of Sodus Bay last August. They were chasing my senkos. The day I got there i talked to the guys at the tackle shop and they acted like no one fishes for them and there aren't many around... I also saw several dead 2-3 footers.