Dan P

Haven’t been over there yet this year. Good luck!

Trolled south end, 6:00-11:00. 1 for 3 on bows. Landed 23”, lost big one by the boat, put on quite the show, leapt a couple feet up about 15 feet behind the boat, then broke the line after wrapping around a rigger cable, should have pulled it up. 2 of them came on 100 copper, 1 on 200 copper. Pink and watermelon spoons were the color, they wouldn’t touch all silver today. Picked up 1 LT on our deepest rigger set at 55ft. Great morning to be out there before the rain came in. 

This time to the bar found some fish and way less boats during the week. Monday night picked up a king. Tuesday morning pick up 3 nice coho.  Nothing huge but some keepers. Blue moonshine spoon and green FF took all the fish.  

I could not believe the number of boats. Hundreds of them, everywhere. Our rigger ball accidentally snagged someone else’s long copper. He was understandably not happy. I can’t even imagine the number of boats that will be there this weekend. 

Yeah ran out to 120 FOW several times, just kept going back to where we were marking the fish 40 -60 

Well, we put in a lot of hours today and just one small coho. Marked tons of bait and fish 40-60 FOW. Tried about everything, meat, FF, all kinds of spoons on riggers, dipseys and copper. Apparently we needed to go out deeper (100-140 FOW) away from the bait, per a guy we talked to on our way in. The theory being you need to be away from the bait, if your to close the fish have better options than lures. Feels a bit counterintuitive as I’ve always looked for bait / fish. Anyway he had the fish to prove it.  Going to give it another go this week as I have some time off work. Any thoughts would be appreciated.  

I went out last weekend. Definitely charted most of the fish at the south end where the water was the warmest. Picked up a couple small ones about 25 ft down in 80-100 FOW. Heard reports some nice browns have been caught as well. I have the best luck with natural and silver spoons, Sutton’s of course always a good place to start. Good luck, beautiful down there!

Very helpful, appreciated it! This forum is the best

Ok, where/what is this red can?

With the favorable weather pattern going to trailer over to the bar for the first time. Normally fish out of Rochester and FInger Lakes. Any thoughts on launch, route, strategy etc for a first timer would be greatly appreciated.  

Skipped work, solo trip,  toured whole lake from north to south. Surface water temps:
43.6 north end

44.2 deep run

45.6 menteth point 

46.4 bristol harbor

49.1 south end

Took a quick look at each stop. Charted practically no fish in colder temps. At south end in warmer water charted lots up high in the water. Dropped lines there, kept them high, above lakers. Two small bows was all I could pick up. One on 100 copper, other one on rigger 20 feet down. Both on silver spoons. Beautiful morning to be on a quiet lake!

Boat claimed by owner, everyone is safe, just didn’t lock hoist

Found early this morning in front of Bristol harbor in middle. Towing over to docks at Bristol harbor. Cops on there way. Hope no one was in it. 

How deep?

Went out in the afternoon for a few hours. Some light rain passed. We were the only boat out there. Mayer’s is usable but in rough shape. Charted nothing in shallow. Best screen was 40-50 FOW. One laker prevented the skunk. 

Thanks for the report, nice fish!

Nothing shallow. Went deeper (100 FOW) picked up two lakers off bottom. 

Same here. Message me if you want to communicate 

I’ll take pic 2. PM sent

Very nice! Great time of year to be out there

Brought my daughter out this morning. Pretty cold. She had my rain pants over top of her two layers of pants to stay warm. Managed a few lakers in the boat. All 70 feet down. Water temp down there 55, at surface 60. One baby rainbow on a cheater. 

Went out few hours Tuesday afternoon. Marked boat loads of fish all over the water column. Tried everything I had, no takers. 

Slow morning. Didn’t marked much. 3 small lakers, no bows. Met adesalvo at the launch that was cool. 

After several weeks of slow fishing I hit it good today. Fished NE part of lake from 8:00-2:00. 7 bows and 2 lakers. Best bows were a 5 lb and a 6 lb. Boy were they fun. All on silver spoons except one on stick bait. Mostly downrigers but a couple on small dipseys. All 55-65 ft down in 80-120 FOW (Adesalvo, thanks for the tip they were hitting deeper). All released to keep growing. Tried to go back out at night and recreate the thrill, that didn’t work, Lol. 

Interesting about deep bows. I went out Friday for few hours. Targeted 30 to 60 feet down. Only caught one on a cheater 35 feet, silver/black Michigan stinger. It was middle of day though.