Jimmyfishny

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Fished Sat out of Oswego and got out before all the big guns came out for the tournament. We started in 150 fow west of the river. I set my second rigger down 65ft and within a minute of being down the rigger popped ,15 min later boated a 17 pound king. Bait was everywhere in close but not the marks. We trolled all the way out to 450fow with only picking up a laker 80 ft down. Not a lot of bait out there. Did mark some good bait from 150-280fow, but again no fish around them. Both fish came off a DW alewive spoon. We trolled back and we didn't pick up another fish. We fished from 6am-11am. went 2-4 with two knock offs. I'm hoping this big blow mid-week will bring some marks in for the weekend... Side note: Came in at 11am not many boats had brought fish back to the docks. However one charter captain did have 8 browns and a laker so the browns are in there to target until the kings show up. Good luck out there! Jimmy

Kevin, Thank you for providing me more information on this topic. I guess most of my information is based on heasay, I should be more informed about the topic before I offer my opinion on a public form. The lake trout population is extremely high on that lake with a lot of cookie cutter sized fish. My hopes is that the lake will be better managed so we can see the rainbow and brown populations continue to thrive. We have been fishing the bass tournament for 24 years. (We call it the bass tournament because it always falls on the weekend bass season opens). Our first 10 years were spent on Otisco lake but we saw a significant decline in trout population on that lake so we switch over to Owasco. My understanding is the walleye population on Otisco exploded which lead to the decline in the trout population. Again I do not have all my facts since I was just a young kid in those years. Kevin, do you have link to Dan Bishops research that I can better educate myself on the issue? @alex1young- it was a pleasure to meet you on Sunday. Congrats on your win and what a beautiful brown! Look forward to seeing you at the tournament next year! Some additional information that might help other anglers- our spoon leads were 30-40ft off the ball which seemed to work the best Also I lost three fish on dispeys running 10 pound test from the dispey to the spoon. I will never again run 10 pound test off a dispey again. Even ran a snubber with the 10 pound test and still has break offs. 20 pound didn't seem to make a difference on the amount of hook ups and didn't have the line break. -Jimmy Page

Just got back from the Owasco Bass Tournament. We couldn't ask for better weather or a better time on the water. We were going in a little blind this year since most of our focus the last few years has been on the big pond. We all took a half day Friday to prefish in order to find out where the the thermocline was set up and see if we could mark some fish. We found the best bait over 130 fow anywhere from 20-120 down. The bait was few and far between but we did mark a good amount in the middle of the lake so we decide to start there Saturday morning. Saturday was a slow start for us we only hit 3 fish in the first 4 hours a little frustrating but being able to put out 9 rods really helped us dial in what they wanted. Our set up included 3 dispeys, 2 riggers, 2 stackers, a copper and a side planner with around an oz of weight. (The side planner was not hit the entire two todays, we are thinking of getting into the lead-core game) Around 11am we starting marking much more bait and it was game on. I can tell you green did not work. It is usually our go to but for us I only moved 3 rods the entire trip with green. Rigger, Stackers, and dispeys all produced. Most fish came from 40ft down to 60ft. Best down speed was 2.0-2.3. We found a good amount of bait at 11am and just worked that area for 3 hours mid-day! We landed 10 fish in those 3 hours and lost another 5-6. We were picking through laker trout after lake trout mainly in the 3-6 pound range which we knew would not hold up so all were released. Then around 12:30 the lower rigger fired and 10 seconds later I saw a beautiful rainbow jumping behind the boat. It was a great fight with her jumping 5-6 times and finally hitting the deck. We boxed her and fished for another 30 min but wanted to get her weighted asap. Took a little break and went back out to the same area. We hit another 10 fish from 4pm-6pm, nothing of size until the stacker released and same story. Another great bow giving us a aerobatic show. Sunday we ran to the same spot and same story plenty of bows, smaller lakers, but nothing of size. All released hit another 15 fish in the morning. Fishing was good but we had to pick up at 9am to get my brother on his flight home. Went back out at 11am and only hit a small laker. It was mainly a spoon bit for us with only 2-3 hits coming off the flasher/fly combo. All in all it was a great weekend lots of fish and we ended up taking 1st and 2nd in the bow division. Great competition out there and congrats to the winners in the other divisions. 11 pound 4 oz pike took home the lunker! It was great to see quality fish coming out of the lake. Several great browns came out, winner I believe was 9 pounds 4 oz. Last year the biggest brown came out of the inlet at 18in. Good to see stopping the walleye stocking is getting our trout to have a chance to grow! Specials Thanks to Jack at the South Shore Marina for putting together a great tournament year in and year out. Can't wait to get back at it next year. Hope the information helps!

Same patterns worked for us on Sat of last week. We noticed when we slid out to 25-35 fow we had more hits. Tiger, monkey puke, and smithwicks took our fish. When we slid out mostly lakers hit. Lakers weren't on the bottom, they were cruising throughout the water column. We went 8/10 mix of lakers, browns, and a mid teen king. Lakers were all 7-8 pound range, browns were smaller. Hope to get out this weekend. Thanks for the report! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Great report! We'll be getting the boat wet for the first time this weekend! (weather permitting)