Eastern Basin St Lawrence August 12 -15 trip questions

[mediummike]

I think I may be prepared with tackle to try to catch pike walleye salmon. I know that conditions are far off for any specific advice. I will be camping at the Cedar Point St Pk. Plan on fishing for walleye with yellow jigs and nightcrawers and pike and maybe even catch a musky with some Super D's and other jointed large lures. I am taking a couple friends aboard my 17.5 I/O ft runabout.

It would be most satisfying to have my buddies do well on this trip. I am used to doing poorly and could be happy if they had a good time catching some memories.

I don't know how many more times I can do this as I am getting a little older and it's getting harder to just go up on the lake anymore.

We will trailer the boat down to Henderson Harbor boat launch (conditions permitting) and hopefully get out past Galloo Island. I have a drift anchor and small downriggers. trolling flies, spoons, flashers, divers and dodgers. I have a GPS and I have a crappy depth finder but I can't rely on it for much more than how deep the water is. I may spot some fish. This isn't my first time out on Lake Ontario. Been there a dozen times out of Oak Orchard and back in the 80's I was up in Pulaski river and out trolling for salmon in the fall with success. I am getting too much information looking around the forum, so I decided to post and follow my own topic.

Any advice for this time of year Aug 12-15 2013 and tips would be appreciated. Thank you kindly, Mike

 

[mediummike]

187 views but no replies so far? Less than a week to go. I have checked weather and fishing 10 day forecasts and things are looking very good. I know things can change quickly but getting out and fishing just before sunrise until late morning looks best. Hopefully we will have some luck. Still planning on using some small echip flashers and green - blue trolling flies off of 10 lb balls to start things off when we get out past Galloo Island. Any tips in this area would be greatly appreciated.

I would like to see my crew do well. I'll hopefully be able to post a success story in follow-up to help others at some point. Thank you.

[FleetTracker]

Hi Mike - I have a camp in Henderson with the same size boat.  West Winds in excess of 10MPH from thursday - monday will make for some pretty rough water early in your trip out of Henderson with a 17.5' boat.  If you can't make it past Galloo island due to waves, stick inside between the Island and Stoney Point anywhere from 50-70 fow early in the am and 80-100fow by noon for Browns.  Seasick waddler and natural born killer spoons will do the trick anywhere from 15-30' up from the bottom depth.  skate out to 110-130fow with cowbells and a peanut right on the bottom for lakers.

 

Not sure what to tell you about walleye/pike/musky... sorry

 

I hope you have a good trip and are able to put your friends on some fish!

[Miss em]

We will be camping at Cedar Point from the 10th to the 13th.  I will be targeting walleyes while I am up there.  Feel free to stop in at Site 4 and I will let you know if I have anything going on.

[mediummike]

FleetTracker thank you very much for your tips, never used cowbells and can't be sure what a peanut is but the Sea sick waddler and natural born killers I can identify.

Miss em I will be over to your campsite shortly after arrival on Monday the 12th in the afternoon and see if you are around. Thank you for your friendly help.

[mediummike]

Monday 12th before sunset til 10 PM - Fished with jigs with crawlers around the south of Carlton Island in front of the Lighthouse in 35 to 40 FOW. Marked fish - none caught.

 

Tuesday 13th  7 AM til 1 PM - Went out into the trench along the wall in 130 FOW 80 and 90 ft down with flies spindoctors white flashers and that natural born killer, plus used cowbells and a glow peanut closer to the bottom. 2.7 MPH and it was unbelievable rough and rainy. No fish caught.

 

Wednesday 14th most of the day trolling and jigging Charmont Bay and we did get a Northern and a very nice smallmouth in the boat. This was the only calm enough water we could find to fish on with any hope of getting any good fish. Not exactly great but better than being at work.

 

Thursday 15th morning til 1:00 PM we trolled out of Henderson Harbor boat launch toward the bridges and let the wind blow us at 1 mph across the harbor. Jigging and trying all sorts of stuff to catch something across a very flat 35 to 40 foot bottom. NOTHING! But just a boat length in front of us a very large brown trout jumped out of the water to let us know that he wanted to look and see who was in the boat, How weird is that? If I had been the only one who had seen it, I wouldn't have said a word because the guys wouldn't have believed me but two of us were watching a sailboat comeing toward us and there it was.

 

My friends made the trip very worthwhile. Good sports about the whole thing and we still had a great time. I could probably give a better local restaraunt review than fish report.

 

I did also meet Miss em as mentioned above and he was very pleasant at site no 4 at Cedar point st park. Thank you!