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    Olcott 8/15

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    Great-ish night. Setup in 200 on a full screen and started trolling into em against a heavy west wind. Screen looked fantastic. Bait. Hooks. the whole 9. Finally got the program out. Fish were holding 80-90down in 54-57° water. Popped one on the rigger and that's actually when things went south. I realized my father was not going to be able to handle the rollers (3-4's). After a hectic landing we got him his biggest king ever. My son was extatic but I was very nervous as I thought my dad was gonna fall over. Took our pic, dismantled the giant lamprey ( also made my son happy ) and turned to troll with em. I finally made my turn and decided that it wasn't the night to grind it out in the chop. Pulled lines and took a nice cruise back. But, it's been a goal of mine to get 3 generations on the boat and bring in a king. Check. Fish came on the 90 rigger with a mountain dew / crushed paddle with a minion meat head.
     
    On a side note, my minion meat heads are gonna need new hooks soon. I can't keep them in the water and they have brought me more kings this year than anything else. Glad I got turned on to them. Not affiliated at all, just wanna share that these things work ! Not sure why, but I get better hook sets than other heads. Seems they always have 3 trebles buried in them Vs the other brands I use. Look em up, u won't be disappointed. 84205.thumb.jpeg.c295b3ea5a28348ee73e9322e782b922.jpeg84210.thumb.jpeg.a7e54254f0e9d12b51a8ae6334e305e2.jpeg
     
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    Awesome on that pic! Way to go it was so dang bouncy out there yesterday... I'm gonna look up those meat head rigs too. Thanks and great work!

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    Little rough out of sandy

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    Got out solo from 3-6 tonight public launch at Sandy. I'm always reminded how awesome lake O can be and how much respect I need to pay her.. A mile from the launch I was only in 40 foot of water and the waves started turning white on top. The boat was bouncing all around and I was crawling north but I was determined to get to 100 feet. After forever I somehow got there. I only saw one other boat much further out. Only spoons today, I dropped a copper straight back and two dipsys on both sides. On about my third pass in rough water, my dipsy with the watermelon striker went off.. Somehow I managed to keep the fish out of the other lines.. I scrambled to get the net..waves were so big I almost fell... got the net stuck and quickly dropped to the floor, finally got it unhooked with my left hand and kept pressure on the fish with my right.. I really should have lost him since I must have bruised his face from stabbing at him three or four tries with the net.. When it was over the whole boat was a mess but I managed a selfie with this 9 lb steeley.. Lol that's my game face. Guess that made me 1 for 1 this afternoon with two nice fillets brining for the smoker. For record I marked many fish this afternoon from 100 to 150 and spotted a bunch of bait balls in the 130ft range. IMAG1665.jpg

     

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    Plywood out of Sandy

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    Probably a dozen boats out of Sandy already when I met my buddy at 6 am. Noticed right away waves were larger than I expected...The guy in this picture I know was a little sceptical about how our vessel would handle in the rollers. We made it to 100ft and set up 1 copper, and two dipsies . First fish came off bottom in 120ft on copper rig w blue and silver spoon.. Fish came off before we saw him though... Lip dragging we continued on. Ten minutes later, 120 ft depth, this 12 lb king took a watermelon stinger spoon about 75 feet down on our dipsy. Awesome high fives as we got this one in the boat! Guess that made us 1 for 2. Great trip. 19970.jpeg

     

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    Bronte July 31 2018

    in Ontario, CA Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (North Shore)

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    I like the last picture, makes me hungry. Much like Vanilla Ice, sometimes it’s time to go solo.


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    Great pics from up in the big CA! I fish on the south shore near Rochester NY but I also use a smoker, big chief lure Jensen. Any possibility you might share your brine recipe? Or any tips to achieve that final color! I usually brine mine in one quarter cup salt and sugar overnight...

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    Couple morning pics from Sandy in Hamlin

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    That’s got to fill you with pride? There are dam few people around that could build a boat by hand these days and even fewer that would not only complete it but use it as a daily driver. That’s great!! I do have a question.
    How much trouble did you have getting your boat numbers???
    I’d love to build a boat someday.


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    Thanks for kind words! To get the numbers you call sheriff office, they send inspector out to look it over and issue boat identification numbers.

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    Couple morning pics from Sandy in Hamlin

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    X2! And learn about how she was built.


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    Well you asked for it so here goes... I Built this boat in 2014. Took six months to complete and launch. Studied wooden boat magazine and you tube for a while and decided to try it for myself. Dimensions:14' 1/2 ft length, 6 foot beam. Five ribbings for skeleton frame constructed of oak. Chines and gunwales of maple. Transom of oak. Plywood from Lowe's 3/8". Covered in six ounces of fibreglass wet thoroughly with epoxy resin. All joints are screwed and glued w epoxy and stainless fasteners. Wood, fasteners, epoxy resin,and cloth all totalled around $800. The greater expenses really became the trailer and new Merc 9.9 which totalled another $3300. Still having launched this boat nearly a hundred voyages, the experiences and time have been completely worthwhile. Someday when I get tired of repairing it's aging hull, probably have a campfire and build a better one! Screenshot_20180720-204919.pngScreenshot_20180720-205021.pngScreenshot_20180720-204951.pngScreenshot_20180720-205230.png

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    Sandy this morning

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    So my buddy and I took my plywood boat out of Sandy early. My buddy pulled this nice 4.5 brown at 715 am in 58 feet of water. Took him on a watermelon striker spoon down 50 ft on a dipsy.. Around 930 the down rigger went off and this nice 8lb Steeley put on a great acrobatic show before finally finding our net. The trout was landed in 70 ft of water 50ft down. That made us 2 for 2.Not bad for two guys running two or maybe three lines most Of The morning! We marked huge bait balls and many fish near them in the 50-60 foot range.

     

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