adesalvo

Good Job Dan! Those kings will rip up your gear.. 

I have caught 4 so far this year which is my PB!  Is anyone seeing an increase in Atlantics 

Nice Trip! 
 

captian songin stated in one of his reports that the bigger ones are off shore 

8 minutes ago, Bassin Bob said:

May I ask your Speed? 

Thanks for the info.

2.2 to 2.5 all day 

Lines in about 530am we were the first boat out in  100 fow west of the Genny. It’s amazing what a week makes as the 50 degree temp was at 55 feet down! 

Set on an east troll with riggers set at 50 feet with a green hulk 8in spin doctor with a fly and the other rigger at 55 with my go to green night and a gold NBK free slider. 

Dipseys were parked at 30 and 55 feet down. 

We caught all our silvers  above 55 feet and the only laker on the bottom at 130.   Laker was on green jeans glow flasher with an alien glow gambler spin n glow.  

Mostly a rigger and dipsey bite for us but did get 1 king  on the 7 color and an Atlantic on a 150 copper. 

Went 10 for 13 with a couple doubles and almost a triple.  8 kings, 1 laker and an Atlantic back at the dock by 1030am

The chinook diver #3 and the hulk flasher fly Matt brought  took most of the fish! Thanks @Hickel24 for bringing some gear!! 

Best depth was 110 to 150 fow.  We were able to get away from the pack and after we found some good bait we just circled them all morning for a nice steady pick!  
 

https://www.facebook.com/anthony.desalvo/videos/566667299003886/?mibextid=DcJ9fc

41 minutes ago, Bo Hunter said:

Very nice report Anthony. I like your wire basket idea for you boards. We'll have to get together on big O for a fish one of these days.

 

Thanks !! You name the date and I will make it happen Scott!! 

I took a 1/2 day Friday and fished with my college student who’s home for the summer and a buddy Matt out of Braddocks.

After getting through the channel where the depth was just about 2 feet in one small section we headed west and setup in 70 feet and headed northwest.  

In the first 45 min we landed a nice chunky laker down 50 on moonshine green knight that went back and then a nice screaming king that went in the cooler on a 5 color you can’t afford it.

From there we just covered a lot of water from 90 to 140 fow and most of the water column running a 9 rod spread.  We only marked a small pod of bait in 100 fow.

We caught a few more lakers on the wire slide diver out 180 on a 2 setting running a custom painted reel rage brown town on a mag copper smashed northern king. We also caught a nice steelhead that went into the box on the same slide diver while setting it on the way down!  This custom brown town setup has been one of our best laker producers in the spring! 

We lost a few,  my son lost a silver on the green knight 80 down on the rigger and we lost a couple more on the rigger with no one home after the release.  

We boated a couple small kings and gently put them back to grow up. 
 

went 7 for 9 back at the dock by 7pm and home by 745 with a stop at abbots for some of the chocolate almond goodness 

Just got around to posting pics of the stick and spoons 

8 hours ago, troutman10 said:

Nice report and congrats on the new boat. What did you end up getting? 

I got a 2002 trophy WA from a member of the FLTA club who’s the second owner. It’s always lived on a trailer, never salt and was re powered with a evinrude e tech.  
 

she was great in the rough water too!!  
 

I am planning on bringing her down to for the canadaigua lake trout derby this year for the weekend and staying in the cuddy for the weekend.

We’re you planning on being there?

anthony 

Shakedown Trip on the new to me whip!  If you have been following my reports over the last few years you would of seen my recreational boat turned into a fishing boat.  Sunday I was lucky enough to purchase a legit fishing boat from a friend of the FLTA before it was even listed!  

Got out on the big lake about 6pm and trolled into the stiff breeze in about 30 feet of water right before shipbuilders creek. As soon as we slid into 17 feet  we doubled up on some spring kings that gave a show but never made it into the boat.  One broke off and the other came loose. One was on a custom blue and red hammered spoon the other on a stingray size NBK.  

We turned around at Webster park and headed with the eastern breeze and boated a nice Atlantic and 2 browns pretty quickly.  

Over all we had a good shakedown and got 4 in the boat and lost 4.  

Best setup was a perch styled stick bait and 80 foot weighted steel right on the bottom running a NBK and the blue and red hammered custom seen In the pics.  

Also thanks to the guy who picked up my planer and actually called the number to return it.  

Thanks for the report 

My buddy talked me into taking a 1/2 day to go after them brownies.  Wind was stiff just out of the south west but mostly west so there was a considerable chop. .  We launched out of iBay but if I had a Time Machine I would of  launched at the Genny and started at Braddocks and then back to iBay.

Lines in at 7am 

It seemed sticks with orange bellies were the best baits.  I am guessing the rattle in them helped  the fish locate the bait since the water is still super dirty. We fished from iBay to Webster park and picked up 4 browns and then jumped to Durand and fished back to iBay and landed another 2. Lost 2 

You can’t afford it and NBK glow also brought fish.  Chinook at 10ft also had 3 

Flat lines with sticks and one colors with spoons took all spoon bites 

Best water temp was 47 in 10foot of water 
 

wrapped up the morning at dons original for burgers and fries.  
 

looking forward to our first FLTA club tournament this weekend on canadaigua with the same setup.. mostly 

5 hours ago, troutman10 said:

 

It didn't seem real busy. Saw maybe less than 10 boats. Everyone seemed scattered. Got away from the crowd east of webster park then headed back west. Kept picking at them.

 

I'm told that same dipsy presentation works on the fingers. A bit reluctant to try it but I think I might sooner or later.

I will be on canadaigua Sunday targeting browns and will give it a try. 

We saw you guys pop in when we were getting ready to depart!  We were in the most recreational fishing boat out yesterday. (Glasstron) 
 

nice boat and great fish! 
 

we had a couple kings hit the rigger on the caddy shack but couldn’t get ‘em to the boat.  

Nice Haul! We had luck at about 10 to 15 ft yesterday!  

Nice Report and thanks for posting the pics!  
 

was it busy today? Yesterday there was about 4 boats out.  
 

I love the chinook divers, Inwonder if they work for browns on the finger lakes?

As many mentioned before between the wind and rain the rochester basin is all chocolate milk. I have even read that it’s all chocolate from oak orchard all the way to Hedges!  
 

Heading out Sunday morning at 28 degrees I didn’t have high hopes! 

On Saturday night the lake finally died down letting some of the sediment to fall out of the water. 

We launched out of iBay and went right over to Forrest Lawn and while the water was still too dirty to see my prop it was better than the chocolate milk in front of iBay.

Air Temp was cold this morning at 28 putting some ice on the back deck of the boat but the lake being  glass and sunny conditions made it manageable! Water color and temp seemed to improve the farther we went east.  

Larger brighter color spoons with green and yellow produced specifically the you can’t afford it stingray size.  A few secret customs also produced with orange, white, blue yellow pattern.  

Nothing on the mixed veggies, or orange tuxedo Uvs .  

One color led cores took most of the fish which seems to get under the dirty water.  Flatlines with sticks with the same green and chartreuse colors did well.  

All poles in the water caught fish from chinook diver set at 10feet , riggers, and in-line boards. 

Once 10am hit blues and chartreuse colors produced like the blue dolphin.  

Water temp really improved and spiked in-between ship builders and Webster park at 44.  41 seemed to be the normal temp 

Anthony @flx_adventures 

4 hours ago, Reel Doc said:

Email sent.  Let me know if not received or unable to open the pdf

Got it thanks!! 

Thanks so much for posting. I just saved the ones on the DEC site for later reading.

[email protected] is my address if you don’t mind sending the more detailed report.

I hope they don’t stop stocking brownies in canadaigua.

https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/27875.html
 

Great Job and way to keep it going late in the season! 
 

if your interested once April 1st hits Lake Ontario browns are fire right off Irondequoit bay! 

FWIW my I/O did the same thing after I changed the lower units oil. The crusher seal I used needed to be replaced. This was the only time west marine has had a part I needed.. 

The wife and I ran into some friends docked off Summerville pier and noticed that the water coming in from offshore looked like sewage run off.  It’s not coming from the river but from off shore. 
 

can tanker’s legally dump waste water in the lake?

3 hours ago, ANGLERSS said:

HOW BAD ARE THE FLEAS?

Only had a few on my line Thursday morning otherwise free and clear 

9 hours ago, sawbelliesam said:

Thanks for a nice report. Do you have any thoughts on the bait fish situation? Reading much bait? Any sawbellies or ciscos in their bellies?

I spotted the DEC Wednesday pulling up some nets close to shore and went over and found out they were doing a perch survey.  Just looking at the nets and the dec’s initial reaction the perch are doing great.  
 

I did mark a few bait pods this year by the bluff but nothing like last year.  
 

The lakers remain small which leads me to

believe that bait is still a problem until the DEC starts stocking baitfish.  
 

It’s hard to imagine that I have been coming to Keuka lake for family  vacation for 37 years. This was the 4th bringing my fishing boat. 

Last year 5 color and brown towns and NK watermelon UV  were on fire boating the majority of our fish. 25 and 35 were go to depths and runny cowbells on the bottom. 

 This year 7 color and the can’t afford it and lances 2 face has been the go to.  Best depths on riggers have been 50 feet down. 3 color has taken a handful of lakers at our best average weight.  I think the bigger lakers may have learned that the baits up high even though the water temp at 15 feet is 62 degrees. 5 color took no laker hits this year.  

Our go to spread was 3 and 7 colors on the right and 2x 7 colors on the left. Riggers at 55 with cheaters pinned to 45 

50 feet is 54 degrees and 35 feet is about 60.  

Sunday it was already 75 degrees at 5am. We fished the bluff and didn’t mark any bait. Picked up a few on the riggers nothing on 5 color and 1 on the 3 color.  

Fished Hammondsport on Monday on the east side  we started about  2 miles from the end.  Best depth was 100 fow boating a handful of lakers. We then headed over by the boat launch and marked a ton of fish in front of the creek but non were interested in what we had.  Boated a beautiful rainbow that didn’t make it so we had it for breakfast. 

Wednesday fished shallow to start at 5:45am in 60 feet with planers out at 3,5,7 colors and riggers at 45.  Went on the east bluff side fished the points down to camp Iroquois. Got 2 big hits on 7 color and some jumps probably bass that never made it to the boat.   Slid out to 80 feet and started marking what looked more like lakers.  Slid out to 100 feet and marked bait and took a few on the riggers at 50 and more on the 7 color.  Turnaround at Iroquois and went across lake to camp aery and noticed a scum line coming right from the runoff from eggelston Glenn and immediately marked bait and took fish north of the point.  I buzzed the point and then turned around and buzzed it again with no luck until again I was north of the point in the scum line and took a handful more.   Home by 9am. 

Thursday we tried to hit north of aery again and it was a ghost town.  As soon as we got south ithe point it was game on boating a bunch of lakers and a nice smally. Lakers were on 7 color smally was on a 5 color.  Had another laker on a 3 color as well In 62 degree water. Home by 830am.