Funny thing though is boats have gone in and out since they pulled out the railroad tracks (or at least parts of them lol). The local options are limited.
If you let folks know a day or two before you arrive at either I’m sure you could get some good intel. Let us know where or when you’re heading up.
All good info, nice to see people stepping up. Mostly Sandy guys so far but if you pick Olcott I would definitely tail one of the charter boats. Don’t get within a quarter mile of them but to not follow their lead without other intel would be silly.
Spread your spread a little. Run lures that aren’t particularly speed sensitive.
Been an interesting spring, location has been everything. Feast or famine. Don’t waste time in cold clear water.
Good news is two years ago the amount of skippy kings was insane. Felt bad pulling riggers and dipsy rods with dead skips on them. Now those same skips are 10-18 lbs and they’re out there in numbers. Never seen this kind of numbers of quality fish. Not trophies but still fun to catch. So weird to be fishing deeper than 100 foot of water in April or May, not complaining.
Out again this morning, rainy but calm.
Decent temp was 250 -350. One of those days where we dropped more than we landed but still a great day. Lakerunner who was fishing similar water crushed it including 3 Atlantics.
Can’t remember fishing water this deep so early in the year but not complaining.
It was, and fought just like they do. Lots of big jumps and swam away clean. Was happy to see that. Our big king swam away clean as well. We weren’t sure if we should weigh it in or not and chose not to. As of what’s reported at 5pm on the LOC website that might have been a mistake lol.