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Mike Stark last years derby winner and FLTA club member turned me on to them. I need to put in a new order. Thanks Les, fishing in the new to me boat has really helped me expand my options.

Great Work on the brownie!

Jeremy and I fished the Canandaigua Lake Trout Derby this Saturday and Sunday and had a blast bring over 50 fish into the boat but couldn’t get anything larger than an 8.2 lake and a 5.1 Rainbow. The fish population in Canandaigua is GREAT once you find the ones willing to bite! I heard from a few guys that stayed on the west side that the bite was tough. We launched out of the north and fished the east side all weekend with a lot of fish to keep us busy! We marked bait in super tight about 30 feet but those fish weren’t biting for us as the best depth for us was 50 – 180 fow, all fish coming in the top 50 foot of the water column. MVP of the weekend was a custom spoons that need a repaint after brining in at least ½ of our fish that I have been sworn to secrecy. The Elmer Hinckley 777 on a 3 color was a solid second place. We caught no fish on Flasher flies or Divers. Only long lines on the boards and a few on the riggers.

Took my dad and uncle out today and picked up about 10 browns and nice 15 lb king. We headed east and then decided to continue past Webster park and ran into a ton of debris. I lost a planer board on a floating tree. We also saw a 20 foot floating tree in 30 foot of water in front of iBay. thanks @Missdemeanor for the report yesterday. The eyeball man UV on the chinook took 3 king hits.

Thanks Scott! All those lakers were caught at the same spot we won the fall tournament a few years ago.

Had a great day at the first club tournament of the year with @Hickel24. Check out the report for the spoons and flasher flys that were good for us today

Took the big-er boat out today for it's first trip in 2024 with @Bo Hunter and Brian from the FLTA and had a blast! Thanks @Bo Hunter for lunch after!

Good To See you Today! Great Report

Great Job Les! I am more curious on how you took those leaders off solo and still got the fish to the boat! what pound weight did you use on the end of your rigs?

Thanks Les! I really owe it to the boards, flta club members and the folks like you who share the knowledge! I am just trying to pay it forward.. to be honest I do keep secrets close to the chest that guys tell me are secrets. All my reports are really things you can find anywhere on the internets or by following other captains on YouTube!

Hope this helps! Owasco Lake September 2023 Summer Fishing Report https://youtu.be/L1T0F5szH5g

Lots of stagers in 80 ft west of the genny tonight. Moonshine RV green ladder backs picked up 2. We only fished from 7pm to sun down.

Go to the Irondequoit pier before sun up and see what other people are doing.

Out deep or in shore?

to be clear though I am running 10lb 15 foot leaders off the back of the 30lb.

I have been running the blood run seaflea 30# all year and haven’t had many on those rods all year.

here is my slide diver setup.

I left the hooks that came with them

Nice Job! There is still a lot of fishing left in the lake before winter!

Awesome Report! Love that brown town pattern!!

I have found them at mitchels in rochester and on their website. The purple uv dr death however is proving to be elusive.. http://www.warriorlures.com/FishingSpoonDisplay.aspx?ID=355 http://www.warriorlures.com/uveliteseries.aspx

I really like my slide divers and I am running the mag rings with the standard weight not the upgraded weight! I find on a 1 setting it’s 1 foot down for every 2 feet out using wire dipsy line! when running divers I push my led cores way out on planers to avoid tangles. I have a fishawk TD that I have used to better understand that line to depth ratio! I haven’t done it on a 2 setting yet only the 1 setting that’s a 1 foot down for every 2 feet of line. I also run 50 feet of 30lb mono on the slide diver proper and tie the wire and mono via a nice barrel swivel that will feed into me rod and reels level wide guides. hope this helps!