ChrisS

Before I got my lund, I was a kayak and canoe angler. One of my fondest memories is landing a laker and a landlocked salmon at a wilderness area lake. I didn't have electronics, downrigger, or anything other than a general idea of where the deep water was based on a NYSDEC map. A spinning rod, some spoons, and 2oz trolling sinkers ...

I've worked from home for the last 3+ years and rarely drive more than 6k miles a year. And that's mostly dragging the boat to the launch and back.

Are you or anyone else still picking up matures out there? Last weekend I spent most of my time looking for fish and taking juveniles off the line.

I wasn’t sure where to put this but it’s a report I guess. has anyone else caught a bird on a dipsey? This was on a meat rig behind a 124mm deeper diver about 80 feet down. It didn’t trip the dipsey and it definitely ate the meat and was hooked in the beak. Deader then dead when I reeled it in, felt like reeling in a wet blanket. The dipsey rod tip was acting a little weird and I wanted to check the bait so I reeled, it tripped and I couldn’t figure out what the weight was. It wasn’t pulling like a fish and I thought it was tangled in something else.

Were you seeing colored up kings out deep? I fished Oswego yesterday and was one of the few boats in close - every one else was out in 600 ft. The one mature king (20lb+) I caught was already pretty brown.

Looks like it will be a quiet week without big wind, but as we know that could change any minute. Good luck!

I got out solo in the early afternoon to take advantage of the calm top and sunny day. Traffic at Wright's is picking up and there were 20 or so boats out that I could see, but cleared out by the afternoon. Seemed like people were getting into fish. Started out in 250 FOW and worked in to 100 or so with two riggers (meat on one and a mupped spoon on the other) and a UV deeper diver on 1 1/2 with a flasher fly. Settled in with a nice column of 52F water at ~80 ft. Picked up a small atlantic on meat trailing a white spin doctor on the low rigger, then a small rainbow on a uv pickle seed on the other rigger (released both). Then not much else for a few hours. trolled S-curves out to 350 FOW and started marking a thermocline around 100-120 feet down and some bait but not much else. Around 3:30pm, just as I was turning to head back towards 100, I found a nice wad of bait in 375 to 350. As a I trolled through I picked up a good king on an RV crab face on a rigger parked at 95ft in 50F water, lost it at the boat trying to net it. Made another pass, picked up a nice 20+lb king on the meat in 48F on the other rigger and while fighting it, she crossed the diver line, I separated the rods and put diver rod on the other side of the boat, I think with the moving the diver up and down, it drew in another king who hit the diver with a UV blue veggies 1 1/2, 250 out. I landed the first one, but couldn't make the double happen. Another pass, another smaller king on the diver with with UV veggies, and landed it. Another pass and a king on the rigger with a mupped UV hulk for a limit. All told, I was 3/6 on kings in a small area between 75-100 ft down in 300-350 FOW, around 48-52F and between 3:30 and 6pm. Plus the Atlantic and rainbow made for a nice day out!