reeltrout

Wow! Great day. 

Out of Ibay started east at 9:00 got into a few browns quickly but slowed down as the day went on. Finished with 7 browns of the water at 1:30 beautiful day out there. Stick baits of boards and spoons on riggers took a couple of fish.

That's a great day! Planning to go out of Ibay tomorrow for first time this year. Thanks for the report.

17 hours ago, Sk8man said:

My son had a lesson about having a gaff handy awhile back fishing on Keuka for perch. He caught a 42 inch northern on his 4 lb test jigging rod. I was beyond hearing range from him in the wind when he struggled to land a huge pike without a gaff. He paid for it too. Got all cut up on his hands and then got infected requiring antibiotics. He released the fish (which was probably thinking he got the best of the situation)

Well atleast he caught the fish!! Thats a beauty.

I shot this heavy 6 point in Pennsalvania last week after he came out in the field trailing a doe. Havn't had any luck in NY yet hopefully muzzleloader season will be better.

7 hours ago, whaler1 said:

Had the pleasure of finding a tick imbedded in my stomach this morning yuk. Guess I need to go to the Dr’s tomorrow and get doxycycline. WTF

I pulled one out of my side last weekend, I didn't do anything about it, maybe I shoulda......

Remington model 700, 7MM mag

Traditions Vortex .50 cal muzzeloader

Martin, Bengal compound bow

Stryker crossbow

Remington 1100 12 guage

pump 12 guage ( don't remember model)

Bear compound bow

Thompson center .50 caliber muzzleloader

Fawns with discbine when mowing alfafa 

Top 4 is my current lineup

No very few marks or bait. The few marks we seen were in the 30 to 50 ft. down

Out of Braddocks today, fished 9:45- 2:15 decent conditions out there today just enough of a chop from the north that I didn't feel like making a run ofshore. Started of good with a king hitting the dipsie with meat rig while letting it out, lost him behind the boat though. Soon after we got 18# king on other dipsie with spoon out 110 over 195. Rest of the day was a drag with only 2 shakers. fished 100-220 fow best was about 200  cold water, had 45 degree down about 40 to 45

Some nice fish there! I'm planning to head out of Braddocks or Sandy tomorrow. Has anyone been ofshore lately?  Wondering if thats still the best fishing, I would consider running out a ways tomorrow if it's nice.

I have fished out of a 16 ft. for quite a few years and now a 19.5 ft. I dont look as much at the wave forecast as much as i used to, just a few different weather forecasts, I like to look at the hourly forecast, south 10 mph or less, any other direction about 6 or 7 mph or less. Another thing to keep in mind is if it was windy the day before it could still be rolling, the web cam on here is very helpful to take a look at current conditions. As mentioned before the waves look smaller on the camara. Pick your days and you'll be fine. some weeks you don't get any calm days or you get 3-4 nice days in a row.

To braddocks today with a few buddys, one who was never on the ontario before. Started 8:30 quit 1:45 was a little slow finished 5/6 with a highlight 22 lb king on the dipsie with meat rig 160 fow, took my buddy 35 min to get him in. 2 browns @7 lbs 1 laker and 1 small brown all in 90-100 fow. Had another good rip on dipsie in there but it come of. Haven't  been out much yet this year, only the second time now.

Found the part at Bert's custom tackle. Got it fixed and ready to go fishing again!

Does anyone know where I can get parts for elec walker downrigger? I need the plastic gear, Part # WF30237 / DSA-1

Nice going! We seen you out there. We were out for the first time this year. No kings for us, did manage 2 browns on the riggers with spoons in 20 fow.

34 minutes ago, woody 184 said:

How is Fort. Myers’s recovering from the Hurricane….

Still a lot of work to do. There is building going on everywhere. The charter captain said there is money there they will build it back better than before. Older boats that were left in water where piled up on shore. Kinda hard to comprehend the damage till you drive through and see it.

A little late on the report here. I booked a charter with Ft Myers fishing Charters out of Ft Myers beach (captain Joe Greco) he also does charters on lake George in adirondacks in the summer. Had booked for Feb 13 but there was a cold front the 2 days before an it was still rolling to much to get out , he was open the 14th so luckly we were able to push it of and get offshore. Was still a little choppy but not bad, he took us to a spot above a reef 18 mile ride (10 miles offshore) We didnt catch anything big but we caught plenty. Grunts, Red snapper, Sheepshead, 1 Snook, 1 small red grouper. Also hooked a few goliath on light tackle but were'nt able to move them ended up cutting the line. He had a big rod out for the goliath but it never got touched. Beautiful weather down there!

8 hours ago, GAMBLER said:

Go to Stuart Florida and fish with Chew On This Charters.  He specializes in Goliath Grouper.  My buddy went and it was a blast!  

Nice! That looks like a good one to.

1 hour ago, sherman brown said:

one thing to remember is the goliath grouper is catch and release only unless the rules change for 2023 as far as i know. but i haven't been down in a few yrs. but if you're just fishing for fun they are a hoot to catch. if you want good eating fish see how the red snapper fishing is over there. i didn't really care for king mackerel to eat but they do put up a fight. i have never caught or eat the cobia but my bil that lived down there said they were great catching and eating fish. so good luck and most of all be safe and have lots of fun. then report back on your trip.

Yeah, catch and release on goliath grouper. I think red grouper might be open, but I don't think they get very big. Hopefully the weather is calm and I have a few pics to post on here.

Thanks guys. I ended up booking a 6 hr charter out of Fort Myers. He said grouper, maybe cobia and kingfish. He did mention depending on weather we could go after goliath grouper which has been good lately. Either way it should be fun and a different type of fishing for me.

Hi all, One more week of muzzleloader hunting for me, still looking for a good buck. Not sure if this is the place to ask about Flordia fishing, Starting to plan a Flordia trip in middle February and I'm looking for a fishing charter within a few hours of Sarasota probably offshore. Anyone  have any reccomendations?

16 minutes ago, tenatureboy said:

Whaler

 

i used your info from the other week about the kings out of temp!  I didn’t want to try to get out any deeper with the waves so 100 fow it was. It worked out!

 

2 screamers in 2+ hrs makes a fun night!

 

what is the trick with the Braddocks channel?  Trim up the lower unit and pray?

Way to go on the big fish! We bottomed out in the channel to a few times. Had other guys sit on front of boat on way in, that seemed to help.

Out of Braddocks today fished 9 30 - 12 30 went 1-3 one small king. Had 2 hits on the 300 copper first one broke the mono the other one came unbuttoned after a bit.  Fished 90-170 fow.

Nice! That sounds better again. Hoping to get out another time.

1 hour ago, turkeykiller2 said:

The charter Sunday was mine..   we did have a great day.  slow for a bit in the morning.  Broke 700 foot of water and game on.   We went 10 for 18.   6 salmon in the upper teens to 25+ for the big one and 1 nice steelhead and the rest were small kings.   As the day went we moved in and still were catching fish all the way into 500 feet or just under that.    everything was 80 to 95 feet down.    Seemed to be a flasher fly bite for the most part.  the smaller kings were on spoons but the majority were on dipseys out 300 on a 3 setting with flasher flys.  

Nice! Thats some quality fish! Sounds like ofshore is the place to be.