Decoy Hound

2 minutes ago, Hooked Up said:

By far it seemed like the later morning this weekend was a very good bite. Friday and Saturday we never had a bit till after 830 then is was game on. Thursday we left dock at 3pm and were back to dock just before 6 with are limit. Cant beat 3 days fishing and limited every day within 4 hrs. 

Yeah it's a great fishery, wish it wasn't a 4 hour drive. It really spoiled me and finding it hard to want to fish Erie anymore.                       Saturday for us the early bite was great we had 10 fish by 8:00 then took 2 more hours to get the last 2. Sunday we became impatient and expected the same results as Saturday.

22 hours ago, FishingFool34 said:

why bother driving all the way to Gander and pay half price when you can just go to classifieds here and pay full price from other people that went to Gander?

Lol, that's funny stuff!!

Just now, Char_Master said:

Thanks! If we had more time I'd have gone out further and tried to find bait, but even taking rods out at 9:00 I didn't get home until almost 7:00 last night.

Yeah we rolled back in to Ohio at 1:30 this morning, rough getting up for work today, I'm beat. I don't know how the Charters do it, it's a tough job!

Those are all great fish guys, nice to see some are coming in closer. That run out to 500 feet out of Olcott sucks.

On 8/13/2017 at 10:47 AM, ifishy said:

What's the make and model of that? Looks like a nice rig for towing

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The boat is an Alumaweld Intruder made in Oregon. All quarter inch welded aluminum, no wood, no rivets, Built like a tank with a custom hardtop, 175 gallon fuel capacity. I've owned fiberglass and tin boats both in the past, just sold my Thompson 260 Fisherman. Can it tow, yeah, pulled a 35 foot fiberglass boat in once that broke down and ripped out one of his cleats in the process, mine handled it no problem. Do I miss a bigger boat, sure, I do have a lot of tackle and it's hard to fit it all on a small boat. 

Awesome report, you guys did great! Sunday was a tough bite and we spent a lot of the day searching for bait.

Awesome report, great job! We spent too much time searching Sunday.

My buddy's catch! Live and learn, I never was a very patient person. Definitely should of stayed!

Sunday was definitely a challenge, took a lot longer to get to the 30 line. It was really blowing in the morning but we finally made it. Some bait around but not many marks, spent some time searching and finally setup in about 450 feet and trolled with the waves. Picked up a few steelhead and coho, no real size, heard the bar was having a king bite, so we made the long run, took quite a while with the waves coming at you! But it was pretty much over by the time we arrived, just a few shakers. So we decided to do a little more searching, headed back east and trolled between 200 and 250 feet of water. Finally found great bait in 240-260 feet just west of Wilson, picked up a few teenage kings in a small area. Kind of surprising with down temps in the mid 60's, 80-100 down. But I said it before, it seems this year if you find bait you'll  find the kings no matter the temperature. My buddy didn't make the run with us to the bar, instead decided to keep working the 27-28 line and did great with a limit of teenage kings by noon. So I made the wrong move by not being  patient and giving it some time, it's always a tough decision to leave fish hoping to find better fish. Still had an awesome time on my favorite Great Lake! I'd trade you guys Erie in a heartbeat, I think I'm done with smalleyes till November when they become walleyes again! I'll be back in two weeks. 

1 hour ago, dry net said:

Just curious Decoy Hound, how big is the boat that you are fishing from. Alot of talk this year about fishing over 500 feet of water. I'm only fishing from an 18 footer and concerned about the run. Thanks

My boat is 22 foot, it's not a lot of fun fishing in the rough stuff, but we were committed. We already had our motel reservations and a guy took a couple vacation days from work. This is my boat.

16 minutes ago, Gill-T said:

Love the office chair on deck.  LOL.

Yeah we needed something for the guys that just don't have sea legs.

24 minutes ago, garrymny said:

Thanks for the report. Do you run the spoons behind spin doctors, or paddles, or do you just run a spoon? 

Just the spoon, never tried running an attractor ahead of a spoon but have heard that it works. 

Over the years I've owned and used them all, some are better than others. But i learned you get what you pay for, some reels will only last a year or two if you fish a lot. You can buy a cheaper reel and just plan on replacing it every couple years or buy a higher end reel, take good care of it, reel cover, keep it oiled, etc. and it will last for years. I know they are expensive but you don't have to buy them all at once. Most of my tekota reels have the green line counter numbers which they haven't made for a numbers of years and they all still work perfectly.

10 hours ago, bigted said:

Hey shorelunch, you need some help there fella.  I got Captain Paul's point from the get-go.  He's merely making an observation as to something that he disagrees with and does not like.    That's similar to what you've done !

 

The difference is you've now slandered multiple businesses basically unprovoked.

Just what everyone needs in light of the current financial state of the region.

 

Maybe you should drag your grumpy butt down to the businesses in question and tell them yourselves what you think of them instead of dragging them through the mud here.

 

BTW - I've seen COUNTLESS kings caught, handled carefully, REVIVED and released back into the lake,  All spring and early summer long.

We catch them with hook marks on them all of the time.

Seems like you are describing your own bush-league way of handling them and projecting on others.....

Very well said! I think Scott and the whole crew that keep the Olcott launch running is doing a fantastic job! Ok now that's all I have to say.

Olcott - Saturday 12th

Another fantastic day fishing the greatest fishery! We ran out to 450 feet of water and setup on a north troll straight north of Olcott. We found clusters of bait on and off the whole way. It was pretty fast action and had ten fish by 8:00 am but then slowed down a bit and took a couple more hours to box out. Mostly kings with a couple big steelhead. Spoons on the riggers and flasher/flies on the divers, didn't have time to put the coppers out, it was hard to keep all the lines in with several doubles and even a triple on at once. It was a little rough out but very fishable. Be back at it in the morning!

You can bad mouth Olcott all you want, but in the Ohio guys eyes it's the best and cleanest launch on the south shore of Lake O! At least a dozen Ohio boats using it this weekend and not one complaint! Still the greatest fishery! That's all I have to say!

That's great news!!

Thanks for the report guys, heading up Thursday morning, good luck everyone!

That's incredible, it's been at least five years since I've fished out of Muskegon, might have to go back! Awesome fish!

Awesome pictures and very nice fish!!

Awesome pictures and fish!!!

Prayers sent!

I don't what to be out of line answering for someone but I'm picking both the probe and reel this up Thursday.

Nice! Glad it worked out!

Wow that is really sad, I feel for those people, they must feel helpless.