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Flat clam night. Ran out the last couple hours. 90/240ft was 44 degrees.  Hooked a mature king. Took a while because I was alone. But finally landed it after a long battle.  He bent my net, crossed two lines, and made a mess of my spread. Worth it. Beautiful night. 

Thanks for sharing. 

Went out tonight a little west of shipbuilders. 100-175 ft. Down about 80 ft. Bunch of small kings. Went 1 for 3 with mature kings. Lost a screamer on a flasher fly. Kevin’s girlfriend flasher with a pickle sunshine fly. The other two hit the NBK spoon. The matures were in 50-55 degrees. 4-6pm was when things turned on for us. Fun night with my son who has not been out yet this year. Good luck out there. 

Thanks for the update Tom. Seems like a lot of smaller fish lately on the reports. 

I live in Rochester. Anyone fix cannon electric downriggers? Possibly a fuse or switch

Nice night, light wind. Had the lake to ourselves. Temps deep but were not marking much. Made it out to 180 ft. Decided to head in closer. Finally started marking fish 100-120. 
Took a mature on my outside wire dipsey, out 135ft. Green and black spoon. 
Made two big major runs on me. Great night. loop

Thanks for the update. 

Thanks for the post. 

Fantastic! Looks like the weather has been nice as well. Great pics. 

My brother and I decided to pull the boat out of the Genny and head west for two days. After all the amazing stories we have heard about Niagara bar, we had to give it a try. 
We stayed at the Wilson Boatyard Marina. Rented a room (which was a very nice clean room) and rented a slip directly below the balcony of the room. It was a sweet setup. 
Other than the fact that everything in Wilson is closed on Tuesdays, bars restaurants etc, it was an A plus for location. 

We hit the boat at 530am, Tuesday Morning. Headed 7 miles west, from Wilson to the Niagara bar. Lots of boat but not enough to be an issue. Everyone was spread out well. We made our way to the red buoy, outside the Niagara river, about a mile or so out I guess. Stayed in 60-80 feet. 
The rods never stopped. I mean never stopped. Between 25 - 30 knockoffs lost two fish. It was as advertised. 
It became very interesting when we had a triple on, two dipseys and rigger popped within ten seconds. When we got the first king to the boat the net went into the lake. Gone. So we picked the rest of the fish out of the lake into the boat by hand. We were purposefully trying to tire out bigger kings so they would come in exhausted. 
The biggest was 19.5 lbs. From what we heard the bigger kings were deeper, but because we didn’t join the Wilson tournament, we didn’t care. Catching 10-15 pound salmon at such a high rate was so much fun. Nailed a nice steelhead and one laker. 
If your a casual weekend fisherman like we are, and have considered making this trip I would highly recommend it. It was the best fishing trip we have ever done by far. We met some great people, however many people seemed a little tight lipped about the fishing because the tournament was in play. Which is fine. We noticed a lot of PA and Ohio plates at the launch. Overall a great experience. 

Early May is on the calendar for next year. 

Thank you!

Thank you for the great report. Very helpful. 

Headed out of the Genny around 5pm. Headed East to ibay. Went 5 for 6. One small king and 4 browns. One nice 10 lb brown. 

Bay rat Esmerelda, green and black was hot and blue jeans spoon with 1/4 oz inline weight. 
 

Headed to Wilson next week Tuesday Wednesday Thursday for my first time. Staying at the Marina. Can’t wait. If anyone has any tips about fishing Wilson feel free to pass on. 

Hopefully the wind will cooperate 🙏

Nice job. I also got blown off the lake yesterday. 

I have a question regarding east wind in spring top line fishing. I’ve had terrible luck with kings or anything in July and August with East winds. 
Because I’m fishing so shallow at this time of year with top lines only does the east wind effect fishing like it does later in the year?

thanks

Fantastic. Thanks for the pics. 

Thx!!

Awesome. Great info. I appreciate the response. 

I have 4 WIRE diver setups

My question is when running 2 divers on the same side of the boat…

The inside Diver is a mag dipsey set on a ONE setting. 
 

The second diver…is it a mag? Is wire ok for the outside diver too?  What is a safe

setting for no tangle etc. 2,3 or all the way over. 
 
Lastly, I understand current and numerous variables are in play, but as a rule of thumb, with WIRE dipsey mags, what is the depth ratio. 3-1 ?  2-1?

I know they have the chart, but I read different opinions regarding wire depths etc. Thanks for any direction/help here. 

I’ll be up this week in oak point, a couple miles from chip bay. I troll in Rochester for salmon etc mostly, but I will be doing walleyes as well close by you on the river. I’ll be up all week. Let me know how you do and let’s keep in touch. Text or call me at 5857341383


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Wow nice fish. Thanks for the detailed report! As always.


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Beauty!


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One hit in front of ibay tonight. 111 ft down over 160. 46 degrees. Ripper. Lost it after a couple minutes. Other than that, just a calm beautiful night. Saw some other boat out deep hope they got into something.


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I was out last night same same area. I’m sure I saw you. Didn’t get a hit. Worked 180-120 feet. 80 feet down. We Did well a few days ago in same area


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Keep it up!


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