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Outfishin444

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  1. Fished again this morning out of stony creek and took my pops out. 3 fish. 2 over 20. All spoons. Flashers didn’t get a touch all day but I always keep a couple out to hopefully bring some fish into the spread. Best water was 120-140. Marked pretty good but don’t think it’s full on yet. Black ice took 2 and hulk took one. The one on the hulk was a mean one. Hooked on the dipsey 225 back and he hammered it. Looked down at one point and had 500+ ft out. Great day on the water. Planning on getting out one more time if the weather holds. Tight lines guys.
  2. I usually run the spoons 30-35 ft back from the ball. I run the flasher combos on dipseys. Makes tangles less frequent with a smaller boat (learned the hard way)
  3. Update from today. Trench water was pretty dirty. Was marking a lot of fish couldn’t get a bite. Moved off to cleaner water in 145 out from the point and managed a nice 24 pound king. Caught some lakers and had a couple drive bys out in the cleaner water. Black widow and purple clown spoons worked. No bites on flasher/flies or meat rigs. Fish was starting to get the hook mouth so makes sense that the other bites didn’t stick. Tight lines guys.
  4. Thanks for the info. Shame they had lockjaw for ya. Screen looks really good
  5. Know the weather has been iffy the past couple weeks and think I have a window to get out tomorrow. Any reports coming out of Henderson area? Planning to try the ledge and surrounding area with flasher flys and spoons. Based on last couple years they “should” be starting to show up in better numbers. Haven’t been out in about a month so not sure what the water is looking like. Thanks for any info gents.
  6. Sticking to the channel in stony results in about 2 ft-2.5 ft at shallower parts. It is soft bottom until you pass the boat docks when it opens up in the bay. Gets rocky after that and can cause issues if you don’t stay in the markers. Once you make it past that tricky area by those docks the channel drops to about 3.5-4 ft. Do not attempt to go on plane until you reach the very last marker unless you need a reason to tell the wife you need a new lower unit or ss prop…
  7. Did a solo trip out of stony creek on Sunday. Morning was a little rough but I set up my troll so the swell was on the transom. Ride out was slow. Marked a lot of bait and fish in 130. Fished two riggers and a dipsey all day. Caught 4 lakers and 2 kings. All spoon bites not a touch on the ff or meat rigs. Also got a late start and only caught the tail end of the morning bite. Good day all in all. Fish were caught on tuxedo, purple clown, and black widow colors. Not a touch on the greens or blues. Am going to do a trip to the Rochester area to visit a friend and take him and his son fishing. Am unfamiliar with the area and if anyone has any good launches or areas to start at please share. Would like to get them on a couple fish. Tight lines guys!
  8. I fished out of stony creek on Sunday. Trolled between 130-175 ft all morning. Only had one hit all morning and managed to land a 14 lb king. Bite came on a flasher fly 95 down on a rigger. Was alternating speeds all morning between 2.4 and 3.2 gos speed. (Sorry no fish hawk) didn’t mark much of anything a bait ball every once in awhile. think I just got lucky and ran over one. Should get better soon
  9. Lots of good info. I also fished some other waters this weekend due to the weird wind reports. Fished chaumont on Friday and had the same problem with the perch. Managed one walleye on a flicker minnow 9 in 29 ft of water. Was the only good bite all day. Fished Oneida today with my pops. We struggled all morning with jigging and trolling cranks. Switched to worm harnesses trolled at 1.0-1.3 and they hammered em. Slow and live was the go to. Was fishing near the Shackleton shoal area. Looked like there was a big bug hatch recently on Oneida based on the endless carnage of bugs on the surface. it might be like that for the next couple weeks. Definitely alot of good water around the area when the small boat guy can’t get on the big lake.
  10. Gents. I posted on a fishing reports forum. Chaumont bay is 14 square miles. I can take a little local heat but it’s funny because I live 25 minutes from the lake. I posted the ramp I launched from (only one not iced in) and I posted how I caught them. It took three years to build up to a trip this caliber. I’ve got thick skin and understand walleye54’s frustration because chaumont is a small town and there are people that take advantage of it. I post to give new guys a chance at leaning faster than I did, and the lack of reports up here other than the hardware store during ice. I’ve kept 6 walleye from chaumont this year. My family is having walleye po boys for Christmas Eve. I love this area and the multi species availability it provides. I’ve got a 16ft tiller and have limited chances at big water opportunities. I’ve said it earlier but I have met so many good fishermen here from Syracuse to guys that make the trip from northern Ontario. Fishing should be fun and a pastime that is getting more and more lost. If my post helps an out of towner catch the fish of their life then great. There is a a saying out there that says 10% of fishermen catch 90% of the fish. I used to be out of those odds and thru this forum and learning tactics thru other means I’m at least catching some fish. They may not be record breakers but I’m proud of learning things and they were the biggest eyes I’ve ever gotten to the boat.
  11. Appreciate everyone with the comments. Been living the north country about three years now and I can say everyone I’ve met out fishing has been great. This forum gave me a lot of information on techniques and how to catch some fish. This past summer especially with Ontario browns and salmon. I don’t always have great days but every time I fish Ontario I post on here. A little bit of information goes a long way and hopefully you all enjoy a good winter of fishing with family and friends. Again thanks to everyone who posts on here and happy holidays!
  12. Man you are right. Chaumont bay is such a huge secret. Must be why there are hundreds of shanties out there every weekend during ice. I will continue to post to help others learn and appreciate the fishery.
  13. Figured I would throw this up for the diehards. Fished chaumont bay out of long point on Sunday. Got 5 walleye to the boat all over 7 lbs. Biggest was 9.2. Had 11 bites. Water was 36.8. Also managed a bonus laker. Flicker minnow 9 on two color lead core in shad colors did most of the damage. Boat ramp was starting to accumulate patchy ice so probably my last trip out. Great end to the boating season!
  14. During the spring almost every single brown I caught had a lamprey on it. Scars on most of the salmon as well. Tried to do my part and return them safely to the lake without heads.
  15. Eastern basin was great for me this year. Only my second year doing the big lake fishing so I still have a lot to learn. Browns were way better this year than last in the spring. I want to say I ran about 10 trips this summer for kings. Always caught at least one or two. Have yet to have one of those epic “20 bite” days I keep hearing about lol. Either way I was extremely happy with the fishing this year. The freezer is stocked for winter, got a bunch of friends on their first kings, and started figuring out the patterns. I usually fished the Henderson/stony creek area this summer. Closer to the house and gas was stupid this summer.
  16. It wasn’t too bad. Pretty easy going until we made the turn around the point into the trench. Little windy but I generally just trolled with the wind and it was fine.I like stony. Everything is marked well, just chop some grass every so often. Nice clean ramp.
  17. Weather looked fishable in the morning so made the trip out to the trench trying to get my pops on some silver glory. As soon as we set up got hit on a mag dipsey with a uv bullfrog flasher/fly back 265. 2 other nice kings on the same rig. Also got one on a white/green dot pro troll flasher on the rigger right on the bottom. Back to the launch around 1130 before the wind kicked up. Great morning. The crestliner strikes again. Tight lines.
  18. I’m fairly new to the game too and have been going out in a 16’ crestliner. It does have a good size beam which helps but I’ve been literallly only getting hits on flasher/fly and flasher/meat rigs lately. I run the flasher/meat rigs on mag dipsey divers on a 3 setting and the flasher flies behind the downriggers. Biggest thing I do to prevent tangles is stagger the flasher on the downriggers. It all depends where I’m marking bait and fish. But I always stagger the downrigger weights 15-20ft. Last weekend I ran one at 110 and another at 90 for example. Been working for me in the small boat. I only usually run the four lines though. I’ve messed with running additional lines on planets but it’s just a lot in a 16 footer lol.
  19. On Friday went out looking for a similar production from the previous weekend. Trolled generally the same area, the ledge out of Henderson out to 150. Wasn’t marking as much bait or fish but kept trolling along. Managed a small Atlantic, couple lakers, small shaker kings. Finally landed a 17 lb long way in along the ledge way in. Bites came on flasher fly, bullfrog flasher with meat rig, and a black widow spoon mag size. Sunday went out with zero expectations with the weather. Was bored at the house so packed the rig and decided to at least try. Ride out was wet. Went out to 90 ft and started to troll in the trough of the waves. Had a nice troll despite the waves and got a couple hits. Hooks pulled. Managed a brown at the ledge and called it quits before the storms rolled in. Seems like the fish have moved. Maybe starting to stage? Anyways hopefully back out there next weekend. Tight lines gents.
  20. Trolled everywhere. The ledge up near the point, 150-180, everywhere in between. Managed 4 kings and one laker. one 17lb and the rest were smaller. Unbelievable amount of marks and bait. Had a hard time getting bites. The bites we got were on black widow spoons on dipseys and a couple on flasher flies. Nothing on meat rigs which surprised me. The fillet table revealed possibly the reason for lack of bites. All the fish had stomachs FULL of baitfish. Lost a bruiser in 150 nw of the point. All in all a good day. Tight lines!
  21. The channel is alright. There’s a couple larger charter boats that are at the end of the creek that make it out. It’s marked pretty well. If you stay in the markers shallowest you see is about 2 -2.5 ft.
  22. Left about 600 and headed out to about 130. Boated a nice 18lb king on a black widow spoon on a mag dipsey about 200 back around 7. Took a nice laker and a bunch of small kings until about 12 then decided to troll a different area. Ran out to 180 then trolled in. Took a 20 lb king in 150 on a flasher fly down 115 and a nice steelhead on a spoon down 95. Beautiful day on the water.
  23. It was a good night. Very few boats out there which was super nice opposed to the fiasco Saturday morning. At one point there was probably 20 boats trolling the same line. Better fishing was definitely Friday.
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