steelhead'r

Nice bird. To be honest with ya I would rather turkey hunt than fish. Forget my handle and my past career. Did I just say that

Fred, glad to see ya made it out. Are you sure it was an Atlantic? I did not know you could tell a trout from a Salmon.

You doubting me? You hatchery guys can only ID trout if they're under 6 inches. Us management guys know the fish in all sizes

Hey Fred. Nice to see you out enjoying retirement and not working all the time.

You, me and Brian should hook-up sometime this season. I'm sure an old fella (I mean experienced fisherman) could teach us youngsters a trick or 2.

Good luck out there.

LTtroller

(Bob)

Sounds good to me

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name:Steelhead'r

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s):4/15

Time on Water:8:30 - 12:30

Weather/Temp:pcloudy

Wind Speed/Direction:10mph NE

Waves:<1'

Surface Temp: 41-47

Location:Webster park to Genny

LAT/LONG (GPS Cords):

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 2

Total Boated:2

Species Breakdown:6#Atlantic, 2# BT

Hot Lure:Perch & pink stickbait

Trolling Speed:

Down Speed:

Boat Depth: 7'-20'

Lure Depth:

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS boat ran great, I haven't lost it

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My computer isn't the best in the world and the middle picture is very dark. Can't make out the face. The outline of the person looks like Brian and if it is I would put the sun behind him to darken his face

6am - 10am lite east wind to strong SE 30-50fow west of port. 2 steelhead (~3 lbs) on orange stickbait. only one other boat far to the east

The small ones taste better

First time out on the big O this year. Been getting turkeys in SD. One coho on orange stick bait 14 FOW surface temp 43. Fished 7-12 Darn easwinds. But NY turkey opens tomorrow. Hot Dang!

Went to Golden Hill with My son and a friend,

went 5 for 7 on browns,

only one other boat in the water, my friend almost clipped his board by mistake.... Sorry other boater.

Anyway, fishing was great, 8-10 feet of water, 6 hits were off Orange J-9's, the other was a T-stick jr J36.

No dock made for an interesting experience for sure.....

Good times..

It's painfull trying to put pics on this site but I'll give it a try. Kept 4 in the 16-20" range for the grill this afternoon.

Good luck all.

And they think March Madness pertains to basketball

it's about time for the 24 to do something special

I hear ya!

Sounds good. I'll bring the donuts

Thanx for the Coffee and Doughnuts, but next time I would rather have a fish in the "Money". We had a good time. We had enuff action to keep it interesting. Next time I want a big Laker. Thanx to LT for getting me out, my boat picked a great time to end up in the shop. Hopefully it will be done in a few days. It was a great morning to be out, especially for those of us without the big boats. See ya Brian

Coffee and donuts? Sounds like a state worker

Thanx for the tips guys but they did not help us much. We are pretty much just running dipsey/flashers and we did not get any Salmon yesterday. We were off the State Park out to about 200 and back and put the lures down deep and shallow. We also ran lead core with no hits. We went in a little and got a couple lakers on cowbells. I need a bigger boat then maybe I'll get downtemp and speed. It was good to get out, only 2 other boats out there. The fleas were bad and there seemed to be a wicked current. It beats working.

Hey Al An's boy. It sure does beat working. This is the guy who use to work for Web, now retired. I was wondering when you were going to get out fishing. You probably were running truck loads of fish around.

Hey Guys. I was out for the first time this year in my 16 footer Sat. morning and fished 70 to 135 feet of water and managed 1 small Coho on a flasher/fly. I figured it might be a little better out deeper but it was a little too choppy for us to go out farther. The guy that went with me has never been out b4 so we were happy to get one. Hopefully these winds will switch around and the fish will come back in some. It was nice to finally get back out.

Is this one of Al An's boys er men. This is Web's retired boy. Glad to here from you on this site. Enjoying life. Lots of turkey hunting less fishing til now.

Really! I fished the shore at Russel's first lite and lost one steelie(dark). I then walked onto summerville pier (8AM) and saw 4 guys fishing - Nothing caught. Saw 5 boats on the lake. This is the last sunday in April, the weekend that the original ESLO derbies were held. There would have been many hundreds of boats out and more than a hundred anglers on the pier. I stopped turned and with atear in my eye walked off. Nothing stays the same.

The Seth Green rig was used before depth finders downriggers and temp gauges. It originated on the finger lakes for lake trout. Anglers knew the fish were somewhere deep. The only way one could affectivly troll for them was to cover as most of the water column as possible. Most rigs consisted of a heavier braided line with bead swivels every 10 feet and a heavy sinker (16 oz or more) on the bottom. The line was attached to a large spool ( some used a victrola record player) and was let out by hand. 10 to 15 leaders were attched to the swivels. Lures were generally silver flutter spoons. Usually 5 spoons were used since the then Conservation Dept law was 15 hook points ie. 5 treble hooks. Inorder to use a second rig after the first rig was set, a plastic jug was attached to it and let out a hundred feet back or so. The line went back a 100feet on the surface and then down with the lures. The second was then set and left straight down from the boat. There was no real playing with fish since it was a hand line with a heavy sinker attached. The fun of the setup was to keep all the leaders from getting tangled. History class over

Steelhead! What else?

Seneca Lake but it has to be open water. I been waiting for 25 years for the north end to freeze again. Lots of fish and big ones. Doesn't freeze much due to large size, deep and salty :?

I can see that marking fish or clipping fins could be fun to some people. However when you do this you could screw up studies by DEC and OMNR by giving them false data. Keep this in mind

Been doing that for decades. Remember they have a better chance to survive in the lake than they do in the cooler

6am - 11am. 80 - 110 FOW. Down 75' - 85'. 8 for 9. 7 BT, 1RT 4lbs - 8lbs. one on wire - 2 setting back 175' rest on riggers. all on spoons black with glow/lazer and green/pink. all catch and release

Line counters on reels and downriggers are not accurate scientific measurers. So you're fishing and you hear a report of 4 mature kings off a plaid dipsy # 2 setting, 160 feet of wire. So you put on a plaid dipsy and set it on #2 and 160 feet of wire and nothing. So you play with it awhile and you have to let out 175 feet of wire before you connect. Now you're cooking. You set up that same rod and tackle with the same settings that YOU caught your fish and go from there. The name of the game is repeatabilty of the program that works for you.

Hey C&R,

Cost of the outing - PRICELESS

Joe'

My brother was the observer in your boat yesterday that got a hook in his arm. I was fishing with Vinnie. Everything turned out fine although the hook was in a vein. The doctor said it looked nasty. He froze it and cut the hook to get it out. No stiches. We want to thank you for pulling lines early and taking him to port. We appreciate it.

BTW your team members tried to enter my brother in your catch but thru him out because the hook was not in the mouth.

Good luck fishing.

God bless them.