King Slammin

I like that fish master plecos. Starcrafts are hard to beat

I have some double handles from size 20 magdas. Not sure if they will work but you can have them. Still in plastic

I think I'll be concentrating my efforts on Erie walleye until you two show me some pics of kings. Lol

We decided to head a little west of our home port of olcott this morning, hoping to find warmer water since the last week or so of never ending east winds. We launched at about 5:15 and found some 50 degree water out front but temp started dropping fast after 40 FOW. We setup heading Northwest in 80' and immediately hooked a laker on the port rigger while setting our third rod. We picked up a few more while heading out to deeper water trying to locate some kings. After awhile without any action and a blank screen we turned southwest in 185 FOW. Once we hit 115 FOW we found some more lakers. Still heading southwest, our port rigger fired again but this time she was screaming to Canada. My buddy had on some black and green Big Jon spoon and a feisty king smacked it. He ran out 125' of line on the first run. Almost as soon as we had him turned he came unbuttoned. Damn!! We picked away at the lakers for another hour or so but a breeze kicked up out of the east and seemed to shut things down. I saw a couple fish on the surface today and ran a stickbait for about an hour with no luck until I was pulling lines. As soon as I pulled the board off, I felt a fish grab the stickbait. Ended up being a nice skinny steelhead fresh out of the tribs. Great day on the water but man am I getting sick of the Lakers.

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I have used Monel single strand stainless wire. How does it compare to this Torpedo material?

Totally different animal. I use the torpedo 19 strand wire on my divers which is more user friendly than the Monel or the 7 strand malin but is not weighted. This new stuff is supposed to substitute for weighted copper lines with more resistance to kinking than the soft copper.

http://www.lakeontarioproam.net/

May 20th- 22nd. It's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Cost to register is $135 each day but we will split that 3 ways. Maybe a few bucks more for gas. I'm looking to add another semi experienced, local guy that wants to get their feet wet in the tourney format.

I'm looking for a third person to join my buddy and I for all three days of the Niagara pro am. We will fish the amateur division, out of my 19 1/2' Starcraft superfisherman.

Both are great shops. Greg at ASB has a ton of lures. Wes at slippery sinker usually has some good info too

The best time on the west end is now until June. Browns are nearshore, Spring kings will be more plentiful with each day, and the lake trout bite is hot right now.

North woods outlet in pinconning, Michigan. If it's not on website you can order on the phone. Best prices I've found and quick service

#1 and mag size black luhr Jensen dipsey divers for me. Hear good things about chinook divers too.

Black and silver NK, Die Hard, Nbk, white/ raspberry NK mag, and FLT Frog.

He gets a discount

For what it's worth I ran main power from the battery switch to a fuse panel (Bluesea) at the rear of the boat using #6 wire. The panel has a main fuse with 6 individual 30 amp fuses which I hooked one rigger to each fuse using #10 wire. The size wire depends on the length of run. Definitely use plugs on each rigger so you can take them off if you want to. Mine I rewired using trolling motor harnesses.

I did something similar. No switch on my boat but I ran 6 ga from pos and neg to a fuse block and ran each rigger off the block. There's a 30 amp inline fuse on pos lead to block as well. Plus I have 8 fused places left to attach other accessories with out cluttering the battery terminals.

I also strongly agree on the track. Get as much as you can afford. I'm a multi species guy now with my new boat and I can take the equipment off in less than 5 minutes if needed.

what was your leader length from spinny to spin n glow? and how fast were you trolling? I have never used spin n glows that way. thanks!

We were fishing "off the cuff" so to speak. My buddy had the spin n glow heads and we just slipped them on to some atomik flies and added a few beads. I had one lake troll/ cowbell that ended up taking a third of the fish on a diver. I fish for kings but we weren't having any luck so we adapted. Speed was 1.8-2.2

I ended up going with interstates group 27. My buddy found them for $96 each and that's what was in the boat before. The old interstates were from 2008 so I guess they last.

For drifting, you will drift from the deep river channel up the ledge and onto the bar by the green can. Three way rigs with quick fish or live shiners for lake trout. It is hard to find the right drift with the river current and a bow mount trolling motor with at least 80 lbs is a must. Do this when the bait fish (smelt) are holding on the bar.

Welcome. I live in Newfane and fish olcott often. Fishing is hot right now and only going to get better.

Good stuff King...... We fished your port Sunday and did a bunch of lakers and our first king..... Like the launch there too.....

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Good to hear you got a king bud!!! That's what we were missing. Heading back to Erie for perch on Monday!!!

I had spoons, bay rats and challengers out on boards targeting the same water (45-60 down) and could not get bit. That frustrated me but we were busy enough for two people with the wires and riggers so it was probably a good thing. We were looking for one or two good kings and just didn't happen. Soon enough though

I don't usually fish for them. I had one lake troll on board and my flashers. My buddy had some spin n glows. We modified some atomik flies with the spin n glows to run behind the white green dot flashers and made it work. It's all about adapting and figuring out what works. That goes for any kind of fishing. Couldn't get bit on spoons

It is my new boat. Finally starting to get used to things on it and it's catching fish. Gonna be a great year

I've tried to like them but the texture is off and the taste is worse. Caught 40 of them today and threw every one of them back. If you find a way to make them tasty, please let us know. I'm speaking of Lake Ontario lakers. FL might be better

The sunrise cruising through the pier heads in the morning never gets old.

We headed out to 70 FOW and headed north west. Got our spread in and as soon as we hit 85', wires were on fire pulling glow goby lake troll with spin n glows and white green dot spinnie with spin n glow. We tried spoons on the riggers with fixed and free sliders but couldn't get them to fire so we went with more white green dots and spin n glows. And immediately doubled on a rigger and a wire. The 58' rigger would not stay down for longer than 2 minutes without taking a fish at times. We left spoons and sticks on boards with 2 to 6 oz of drop weights and various leads with no success. No bait and only a few marks today but we finished 40 out of 45 bites. All lakers up to 18 lbs. 6 doubles, 2 triples, and a quad with just my buddy Steelie1975 and I aboard. I have to say, the new boat catches fish and I LOVE the autopilot on my minn kota.