TheToadHunter

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No. I'm a minimalist at the moment. I use a navigation chart on one sonar for speed/direction/waypoints and use the other to fish the marks. Fish were spread out from 50'-125'. 50' and 75' had the most active fish for us. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Last evening we hit the same locations we marked fish in the morning, but after a couple hours and only a few marks we headed in early. No takers. Started in the same area this morning (145-160), but after an hour of seeing few fish and no takers, we headed East with the wind for new water. (Same water depth) Shortly after trolling East with the wind, we started taking hits from steelhead on spoons (50'-60') on the riggers, and mature kings on a dipsey/FF out 200' on a 2 setting. There was one hot rod, spin doctor fly combo, that took hit after hit while the others did nothing for the longest time. Of course, that was the only Spin Doctor in that color, and every other flasher and SD we put out did NOT take a fish. Same rigs, same presentation, but no hits. UV Glow Frog took a few steelhead and landed my 5 year old daughter's first Ontario fish, which was an 11lb Atlantic. The Spin Doctor was clear with a green top edge and silver tape on the back. The fly was olive pearl. Ended up 4/15 in that half mile stretch, passing 3 times. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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We rolled into town around 4pm and managed to fish from 5-9 and had 40’+ water out of the chute to ourselves. Upon setting up in 130’ of water on the marks from last weekend, the spin doctors and flies started firing, and we also took some hits on spoons as well. No giants came to the boat, but we did manage a 23lb male. White/Mtn dew SD and olive/white flies were still top gun. Coming through the chute around 9:45pm we saw blue lights start flashing and a boat slowly turning toward us. We hear “Have you ever been boarded by the U.S. Coast Guard?”. My reply was “No, but I think I’m going to be!” They never boarded us, but gave a very polite and courteous safety inspection. I’d assume it went better than average because I double up on life jackets, sound devices, flares, and extinguishers etc.... The officials answered a few questions of mine, we talked for a bit, and went on our way. Side note and FYI - I never carried an anchor on my boat before (on Ontario) until someone on this forum said it was USCG required. So I threw in a 20lb anchor with 300’ of line attached . The four officers that night said an anchor was NOT required, and they never heard of it before. I think I’ll still keep it on! Sunday was a blow out for my boat, so we hit Seneca on the way home and were disappointed as always. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Thank you. I will definitely miss fishing the lake with her, but a safer boat for the children is necessary at this point. Fleas weren’t too bad, and only had a couple times they needed to be cleared while fighting a fish. Sunday on Cayuga....now that was a different story 🤮 Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

The wife and I had our baby last Monday, so she told me to go fishing and buy a larger boat for the family. We started in 30’ as I explained to my buddy how to set up the rods and riggers. After 2 hours, we had 5 rods out. lol. Saw many bait balls from 50-140’, but 100-130 had the majority of salmon. We marked/caught fish from 40’-90’. All FF except one steelhead on a 300’ core pulling a Dreamweaver spoon. Had several releases on other spoons, but never kept a hook in. The salmon were only 12-15lbs, and pulled 15’ of line at most. Highly disappointing fights for my buddy who never caught one before. Ran back into town for food and checked out some local boats before getting back out on the lake around 5:45. We tried for Browns until 7ish before running out to the schools of salmon we found earlier in 100-130’. FF bite was still on fire. Not a touch on the spoons. Managed a few decent fish, and broke a few off before it became too dark. I was happy he finally experienced a fish screaming out 400’ of line. The coolest part of the day was during a mid morning break, a school of alewives swarmed the boat and hung around for half and hour. The school stretched from a few feet below the surface down to about 30’ on the sonar. Once in awhile, you could see what appeared to be 5-6lb steelhead coming from below and chasing them. Absolutely amazing! It reminded me of Blues chasing schools of menhaden. Mike Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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Anyone throw live baits to it for Mahi? Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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As with most foods, proper preparation from the start. For canning fish, immediately after landing them, bleed them out. When dragging fish during the bleed-out process, shake the rope to keep the blood flowing out the gills. Depending on the species and laws, we will fillet them on the boat or just place them on ice. IMHO, the most important part in processing any fish is to cut out all of the dark lateral line meat. Usually, a simple V cut along the entire line does the trick. If you fillet the meat off too close to the skin, the entire skin side of the fillet may be covered in dark meat. Take it off. Sacrifice a little meat to save the rest. After that, it’s stupid easy. Cut the fillets into 1/2” - 1 1/2” cubes, pack them into canning jars with the DRY seasoning of choice, and pressure can them for about 90 minutes. That’s it. Old Bay, Dill and Lemon Pepper are our favorites. We layer the fish/seasonings, but shaking the cubes and seasoning in a bag works too (like pork chops). If your job of clearing the lateral line meat was up to par, there won’t be a fish taste like canned tuna 🤮 , and you won’t have to buy canned tuna ever again. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

20” laker in a grill fish basket, excellent. Can them with Old Bay and you darn near have MD blue crabs. And of course, smoking them is excellent too. If you head to the beach, laker bellies are the best shark bait I’ve found [emoji1305]. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

The laker fishing out of Sodus in late March through early May is usually good. I never specifically targeted them from June on, but have only caught one 14” in the last 6 years (using the same setups through the same areas). I agree with the other guy about Cayuga. You can catch as many lakers as you want, and they are generally not too picky. Plenty of big boys around too! Launch out of Taughannock and head whatever direction you like. I prefer straight down the middle in 300’+ for the bigger fish, but tend to get the bigger bows and lls around the 150’ drops. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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Nobody was criticizing on this post, only correcting. Stand up guys in my opinion. John, all the high marks we saw on the sonar were good fish, but didn’t bite. Though, the two biggest lakers we caught were up high too, so who knows what the marks were. We never had any lines in the top 20’, and never fished in less than 40’. Surface temps varied between 36.5 and 39.5. Mike Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app