Niagara County 7/22/25

[Gill-T]

The boys wanted to try for kings today and wow what a bite!  Highlight was landing a triple on majors while a freighter was bearing down on us. Hot were 68’ rigger with a stingray green glow alewives spoon, meat rig on 80’ rigger, nuclear green spinny with a hammer fly (yes, that combo from yesteryear), and a green dot echip with a hypnotist fly on divers. Would have been a hell of a tournament box with 24,23,22,21,20,19 lb matures plus a bunch of big two year olds. One strange 50 lb leader snap off occurred mid-leader on what looked like perfect 50 lb Seaguar blue label. Does fluoro go bad over time?  I had last minute pulled out some hammer flies that had stopped producing in 2014 when the lake cleared from bad winters. They have sat in my basement,in a box, out of the sun but perhaps fluoro ages?  Anyone have any similar experiences with older fluoro?

[whaler1]

That’s fantastic!  What a day. 

[steelie]

That 1st one is an awesome looking fish

[Jm1984]

With flouro one thing that can happen with it is it will essentially shatter internally from big hooksets or impacts.

 

Joe Balog a well known bass pro on Erie wrote an article about it.  I looked but I can’t find it any more.   In the article he talked about not doing snap hook sets because of this.

 

Not sure if this is what happened but could be. 

[Gill-T]

Nope, no hooksets allowed on boat lol. Just a good old wire dipsy rip with some violent head shakes. 

[Mike M]

Great catch !! What port and FOW ??

[Gill-T]

FOW = 150-175’. I will keep the port of exit to myself-derby time. 

[Gill-T]

More dropsies drivebys today but still good action. Top fish was 23.8 lbs. I lost my readers in the boat so when I weighed the fish on the boat I thought the scale read 28 lb +. Quick rack and stack to head the scales only to find out my eyes ain’t what they used to be lol 😂. The girl weighing it looked at me like I was a clown. 

[whaler1]

Pretty fish!  You’ve been doing very well. Great job!

[Gill-T]

Not bad for zero electronics. 

[whaler1]

It’s always something. 
 

[Gill-T]

Quick hitter before the winds came. Just missed the board with these two. Bonus Atlantic.  7 am start time, in the diner eating breakfast by 9 am. Crazy bite of giant browns.