April 23rd - Yankee's Trek West

[Yankee Troller]

After a short delay on Friday night Saturday morning rolled around and it was time to head up to Wilson. We pulled out of the Genesee river and found out the East wind from Friday pushed the milk chocolate water right down to Braddocks. When we got to Braddock point we began setting up, but it just wasn’t fishable. The South wind was cranking, so we decided to continue our run West. As we got past Watoma shoal we saw the wind wasn’t affecting the short water and pulled in to fish.

I was unable to get 8 rods in the water from the get go. The inside board was loaded with brightly colored stickbaits, and the outside board had some natural colors. We never went shallower than 10’, and hung out in the low to mid teens for most of the trek West to Devils Nose where we would call it a day as far as fishing would go. Water temp was 43 degrees right through that stretch, and the water had plenty of color to it. We hit every cold water species with the exception of an Atlantic Salmon. A few ticks East of Sandy we hooked into another mid teens Brown Trout. It took a Rattlin’ Rogue 150’ on the outside board. Lots of great Brown Trout, a Domestic Rainbow, and even a Lake Trout fell victim to our presentations. Finally, as we pulled up on Devil’s Nose the same Rattlin’ Rogue takes off, and this one was pulling some drag. A few short minutes later, and Melanie is holding onto her first ever Chinook Salmon. We estimated it around 13-15 pounds, and put it back to fight another day just like we did with that bruiser Brown Trout.

After we got to Devil’s Nose the wind really started whipping again, and we were all hungry, so it was off to the Black North Inn. We finished the day by pulling into the Wilson Boatyard, and putting the YT3 into it’s home for the next month and a half. What a Spring it’s been! Reports of GREAT fishing up and down the South shore are coming in every day. Let’s hope it continues on for the rest of the season. Next week we are off to Port Dalhouse for the first King of the Lake event. A tourney we ALWAYS look forward to.

[KJ pluggin]

Nice job Captain, good luck on the tourney!

[GLF]

Nice job Richard. Is that rod broke in the picture with the big brown?

[Nailer]

Nice mixed bag.

[Yankee Troller]

Nice job Richard. Is that rod broke in the picture with the big brown?

Yup! I was showing off to the girls and said "this is how I did it in the bass world" as I was reeling in a 4lb BT. I got it skiing across the top of the water and tried to flip it into the boat.......SNAP! LOL.....oh well.....lesson learned!

[GLF]

I was on a charter in 2005 and one of the guys with me was up. A rigger rod fired and he grabbed it and gave it a bassmasters hookset. The captain must have been amused by this because he said, "hit em again"! So...my buddy did another bassmasters hookset. SNAP.....there went the rod and fish!

[Yankee Troller]

LOL.....funny