justtracytrolling

Jeff, I was out a couple nights ago and tim and i had our first skunk together and basically my first one when i was really fishing for eyes since june. Fall pattern is different for me, and as you mentioned its a night bite. Gold clown is my favorite for fall and the fish are all over the place from shore to 35 feet. It will turn on and end up a VERY productive time, but its a tough wait between summer and fall. I much prefer the summer bite as its a guarantee ill catch fish, like going to a fish market. Tim and i call it the otisco lake grocery. You can actually catch more in the fall but id rather fish in the light. I havent done the tally but I think my boat passed the 100 walleye mark, and our biggest eyes were 27-28.75 inches and weighed between 7-9 pounds and i think the biggest was 9.5 lbs. Never landed an eye on a spoon all season, but by the time we compared notes the summer pattern was about over. Ill fish some till november, then im completely rebuilding the boat. 2 more cannons, temp probe, rocket launcher, custom hard top, casting deck, rod locker, all new railings etc, and NO more carpet! Next year jeff, you, tim, and I will put it all into 1 summer program combining our programs. Anybody wanna go today/tonight? justin

Kevin, Same thing happened to me and i lost a great lease and had to sell my land when the deer herd crashed in that area. I hunted very little after that, but my son got into it and i found a great farm and havent looked back. The farm i hunt has serious crops and damage so its been great. I grew up with several farm ponds and never could aquire a taste for waterfowl. I have friends with a huge private swamp along the black river near our adirondack house and loved shooting ducks, but as i got older i found it tough to kill and not eat the kill. So now its walleyes n whitetails! If we get good late snow we have phenomenal muzzleloader hunting in heated blinds with comfy chairs, and we cant eat more than 10 or so we quit way before then. Ill keep you in mind as we try to thin as many does as possible. Our best year was 44...i take all our friends and family as we cant kill enough, but we ONLY allow does, and mature bucks. I HOPE to offer working man's hunts as soon as next year. Hunting should be more affordable if we want to pass along our heritage, and land is hard to find. Ill be taking my guide exam next month. Then i need to build a new cabin as our camp is modest at best! Justin Sent from my N9500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Les, Figuring out what to fish for thats easy! Walleyes of course! Lol. Cant wait till dinner so i can eat last nights filet. Justin Sent from my N9500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Fall is a crazy time for me too. I slowed on my fishing to get ready for archery season, but now im ready for both. Ive got 4-5 shooters patterned for evenings just need the wind to cooperate and the deer left alone and next tuesday ill be eating venison! Watched 12 bucks on tuesday and ive barely slept since. Just gotta get the house ready for winter and clean the garage out today and nothing but whitetails and walleyes till december! Justin Sent from my N9500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I made it out today and got up there early enough that i hoped for a bonus tiger for my buddy jerry as he's never caught one, but just walleyes for us. I dont catch near as many tigers in the fall as i have to slow down for the eyes when the water temps drop, and i cant not fish for eyes!! Justin Sent from my N9500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Got out with my buddy jerry about 6 and had a tough night landing fish. Had 2 misses 2 dropped at the boat and 1 nice 25 incher. Both drops were at least as big. Hits were spread out on riggers and boards with rapalas and reef runners. I ran half summer perch pattern rapalas and half fall gold clown reef runners. Fish stayed deep most between 28 to 35 temp was 65. Wont be long now and its gonna be on! Justin Sent from my N9500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Good job kevin! Been quiet lately. Hows the grandson. Glad you got out on such a nice evening. Justin Sent from my N9500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Nice fish Tim! Thought we had a slammer walleye Saturday, but turned out to be big cat. Justin

Phone died saturday. We made 1 pass around 6 and got 2 catfish 1 that was about 8 lbs and 1 22“ walleye. We made 1 more pass about 8 and fish moved up and closer to shore, and we were too tired to pursue them. I had a great time with cody just hanging out all day from the salmon river to otisco. Sammyslayer We catch tons of small browns to 17 inches, but dont target them. In the spring i lost a big brown and saw a 10 lber caught that same weekend. Justin Sent from my N9500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

The bass bite seems non existent so far but ill stick it out with my son till walleye time! Its not too nice. Justin Sent from my N9500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Just got up to the lake. We went to salmon river this morning early and it was slow so my son and i headed here. Gonna do some bass fishing first then troll. Cloudy and chop maybe we'll troll out. Justin Sent from my N9500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Thanks for the update. I tried the spoon you gave me and bought a couple, but no eyes yet. Ill be out fri night and saturday. Ill start with a deep program 22 - 32. Once it gets dark you are gonna have to move in and up. Im gonna try and fish in as tight as i dare and start real shallow on the outside rod and near the thermoclime on the inner ones as soon as it gets dark. Anyone coming out let me know if you have a radio. Its just getting started at night. Justin Sent from my N9500 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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Chris Ill keep the boat in till Halloween. Last year the first 2 weeks of September the lake flipped and was tough fishing much like the end of june was. This year seams about the same to me. The week after the 15th, my birthday, last year it turned on and we had 5-6 fish catches. Last year we couldn't catch on perch rapalas in fall at all, but the reef runners were on fire. As far as sizes go we seem to catch from 22-28 inch fish but usually they will all be 22-24 or all 24 and up. Pap keep in mind the walleyes live on the tigers too! Last year I put a quite a few under 24 inches back, but now that the whole family is really into eating walleye I haven't put 1 legal fish back all season. My freezer only has 1 package of walleye in it. If we get into them this fall like last year Id like to have a freezer full. Family threw me a nice party yesterday and everybody said they would like more walleyes. I cannot catch them fast enough. I wish I could give away the river eyes, but my family is fussy about water quality. Any of you regular posters and members feel free to pm me if you want to give it a try on my boat or your own. This weekend made 50 trips out on Otisco and gotta be close to 100 walleyes. Tim I think we beter get caught up on the angler diaries here pretty soon. Once deer season starts it will be harvest mode. On a sad note my coyote hound Lil escaped and was hit and killed Thursday night. We miss her terribly. justin

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I met Tim and Steve at 6pm and we had lines in the water before 7 and first walleye was at 715. 23" on tdd11. Ran 2 spoons that Miss em has been running all evening and got 1 brown and a white perch. Then picked up a 22" bout 930 and that was it for us. Had 1 miss that was really quite a shot...split my tdd9 tail section. Ill post the pics from my phone. justin

Single strand wire mainline. It sinks and diving lures will acheive greater depths with the same setback as it "slices" thru the water. There is a bow up in your line as it goes back to your lure, as the water is pushing up on your line while the lure is pulling down to dive. If you can use thinner line lures dive deeper. Justin Sent from my SPH-L710 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

If you plan on running with diving cranks and or clip weights instead of dipsys I would go lighter on the braid. Line diameter really affects diving depth. Im gonna go to a 4 or 6 lb diameter 15-20 lb test to run off big boards. If anybody new to this wants a crash course in trolling walleyes pm me...the precision tolling book explains a lot and I have one that you can look at. I have no where near the experience of other guys here at LOU, but I catch a few and ill share what I know. Justin Sent from my SPH-L710 using Lake Ontario United mobile app