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    I-Bay to Genny 07/18 AM

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

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    Ok.. this is a late post but wanted to share since my more experienced friends keep asking me if I am in the LOC derby - didn’t know what that was until this weekend.

     

    We didn’t get out until late morning, headed from I-bay to just west of the River. Checked temperature on TD at 150 FOW, good break at 90 feet. Trolled north for a bit with no hits, so spun back around for south troll. Temp break was still good at 90 feet, but was marking suspended fish around 60, so we raised the lines. Hooked up with a screamer at 75 feet DR on green FF combo. Helped my 10 and 14 year old nephews reel it in - they had a blast.

     

    While releasing, got another hit on green/chrome FF at same depth. This one ran to 450 feet of line. Tried to let the nephews pull it in, but wanted to get her on the boat ASAP once she broke the surface. Threw the boat in neutral for the last 150 feet.

     

    Landed the second fish, it was a monster. Practically swallowed the hook. It took me a minute to get it out and was unable to revive her afterwards. We were not planning on keeping any fish so we did not have the proper ice/cooler.. we cut the trip short and ran back to port to get the fish on ice.

     

    Weighed the second fish once we got back to the house.. 29.3 lbs.

     

    (Same fish in both pictures)

     

    Thanks for everyone who suggested heading towards Braddocks. I don’t know if I’ll spend much time fishing East of the bay this year.

     

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    I-Bay AM 07/05

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

    Posted

    About the same story for us, we set down at one of our waypoints from Friday, in 185 fow, and hit a small king before our second line was set. We thought we might have good action,  as our three waypoints in 185-210 still showed fish, but couldn't really get them to go.
     
    Ended up with a good sized laker ( about 15 lbs), and 3-4 lbs steelie and king for the morning.  Fished from 6-10.
    Hope to find another screamer in the morning tomorrow. 
    If anyone is wondering,  the fleas are pretty bad.  If you're not checking lines and cleaning them off fairly regularly, you could get bound up and it could cost you a fish.
     
    Good luck all.

    Thanks for letting me know it’s not just me. Absolutely about the fleas, we realized pretty early that we needed to rotate lines.


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    I-Bay AM 07/05

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

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    Went Northeast out of the channel, got set up in 150 FOW around 8 AM. Temperature break looked great at 80. Screen looked promising too. Tried 150-250 but couldn’t get any takers.

     

    Got frustrating after a couple hours, so we went back to 100 FOW for lakers. Trolled west back to port along 100 line, since screen showed them at the bottom. Ended with 3 lakers, all on green spotted spin doctor FF, DR along the bottom.

     

    Where the heck are the silver fish?IMG_9293.JPGIMG_9297.JPG

     

     

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