Yankee's Sodus Post Pro/Am Report

[Yankee Troller]

7/18 - Friday Pre-Tournament - Well, we left the dock about 5:30am and headed out to practice for the Wayne County Pro-Am. We stopped in the short water around 50 foot to check out the screen. We saw bait and fish so we dropped our lines. It wasn't long before we had our first Brown Trout in the boat. A healthy lb brown that took an Orange Yeck Frog off a rigger. We would end up taking one more Brown Trout heading out to check the Salmon waters. We get out to 150fow and the Salmon rigs start firing. Mostly a SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK fly bite with white and green being the colors of choice. 400 and 600 coppers, wires, and riggers would all take fish. We pulled lines around 1pm with a good box. When we weighed our fish we had 3 fish for 57lbs. That totaled 87 points and was good for fourth in the pre tourney.

Currently we are learning how to smile!

7/19 (Day 1 Sodus Pro/Am) - We passed up the Brown Trout water and headed right for the Salmon waters. We had no idea what we were in store for! It took us 15 minutes before we took our first shot, but it was a good one and we couldn't turn him on the wire dipsey. Eventually he won and we were back looking for our first fish. Next rod to fire was our 80 rigger with a Dreamweaver SS Glow Frog. This was our hottest rig the whole day and would take many fish. Our 400 fired with a Chrome Frog Spin Doctor pulling an A-TOM-MIK Packer fly. We dropped that screamer within the first minute of him striking. The 600 went with a Green SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Ultra green glow fly and we drop that screamer within the first few minutes. The wires were pulling Chrome E-Chip's with A-TOM-MIK Big Fin flies, or White SmartFish with A-TOM-MIK Ultra green glow flies. What a disappointing day as we ended it by going Brown Trout fishing to scrounge up a few quick keepers. We boxed 5 Salmon, lost 5 screamers, threw back 6 short Salmon, and went 1 for 2 on the Brown Trout. After everyone in the tourney weighed in we sat just out of the money. I can say we lost the leading box without a doubt, but as they say "That's why they call if Fishing and not Catching!" The leading boxes were all Brown Trout boxes. Not many people were targeting Kings this weekend. Our box for the day scored 107 points.

7/20 (Day 2 Sodus Pro/Am) - The decision to go right back out to the waters we had fished the prior two days was an easy one. When we sat down and dropped lines the screen looked good, but the fish had lock jaw! It wasn't long before the screen would disappear and we would be in search mode. We trolled around till 11am without a single strike! We traveled out to over 300' and the screen just never looked promising. Our team made the decision to hit up the Brown Trout waters, so we pulled lines and ran in. Finished setting rods and the corner downrigger fires and we have our first fish on. We stuck it out in there pulling in 4 Brown Trout. 3 of the 4 took a Stinger Penguin, and the other took a Stinger Gin and juice. Our score for the day was just under 70 points and we finished the tourney in 16th place out of 37 Pro teams.

[slipknot]

Ughhh... what a killer. I can feel your pain losing those big kings. That stinks for sure. You had way better luck than us on the kings though. In the four hours we fished for them we got only one little shaker! Then, like you said, we headed for brown trout depths. Definitely worked for the fish this weekend! Sorry to hear of all your drops... we had four or five nice browns we dropped too. Would have really helped to get them. I just heard today that we missed biggest comeback by one point. Went from 18th on Sat to 3rd on Sunday.

Good luck out there.

[GLF]

Nice job Rich!

[Priority1]

GJ Rich. As far as lost fish, they do that for a living, and we are all rookies in their world. If we never lost any, there wouldn't be a challenge.

[Yankee Troller]

GJ Rich. As far as lost fish, they do that for a living, and we are all rookies in their world. If we never lost any, there wouldn't be a challenge.

I hear that!

[coldsteel]

Don't see anything in your report about the stink bomb in my cooler??? LOL

Your mad at Andy & Ricky & take it out on my cooler? If you come to Oswego for Kings keep your eyes open!!

Tight Lines,

Brother

[Yankee Troller]

Brother Tom! I have to say I had nothing to do with it. I'm out there to fish! My brother on the other hand is the culprit.