6/25 & 6/26 Yankee from the Oak

[Yankee Troller]

6/25

We pushed off from the dock about 6am with absolutely no information. So, we took a slight NW heading out to 100fow and gave it a scan. The picture was bleak, so we pushed it out to about 175fow and shut her down and began trolling when we saw a few marks on our Humminbird fish finder. We put down a simple spread consisting of three riggers, two wire divers, and a few junk lines fished off our otter boats.

It didn’t take long and we were into a few fish, and it became a steady pick for most of t he morning. No true giants fell victim to our spread, but some real quality Salmon in the low to mid teens. On our corner riggers we pulled Northern King Sea Sick Waddlers and Dreamweaver Glow Frogs. The middle rigger had a mix of everything throughout the day. A Dreamweaver Green Eyed Ghost, Dreamweaver Bloody Death, Dreamweaver Shiznit, and a few others, but no real MVP’s. The corner riggers did most of our fish on the two spoons listed above. Behind our Walker Deeper Divers we pulled a few paddle fly combos, but only one took a fish, however it was our largest fish of the morning. That combo was the Albino Gator pulling an A-TOM-MIK glow Pro-Am fly. Our ten color seemed to be another good presentation pulling a Stinger Stingray Black Widow. It took a very nice Steelhead late in the morning.

We ended the trip around noon with a nice box of fish, and two very happy kids who have never caught more than a few bluegill off the docks. Their grandpa is doing a great job of getting them involved in the outdoors at a young age.

6/26

We left the dock about 6:30am looking to go out and just fun fish. We grabbed our father and a buddy who has never been on Lake Ontario nor has he ever tied into a Salmon. On our way in around noon yesterday it sounded like some guys found a nice pod of fish on the inside with a wicked current, so we figured we would give that a go before heading out deeper.

We weren’t able to get all the rods in the water when the 150’ Walker Deeper Diver pulling a Green Smartfish/A-TOM-MIK Misery fly starts to explode. I handed the rod off to the newbie, and we watch him get taken for a ride. Love seeing that! We ended up boating that fish, which was a mid teens fish, and his first fish ever (other than a few small Bluegills). We put that rod back out and a few minutes later it takes off again, and my brothers girlfriend is tied into a screamer. That one hits the deck and we guesstimated it to be just under 20lbs. Put that rod back out, and a few minutes later its throbbing again with a King Salmon shredding line off the reel. We had a seven rod spread out there and one rod was giving us all the action. The morning would slow a bit after 4 or 5 Salmon in the first few hours, so we pointed the boat East and zigged and zagged from 125’ out to 175’ down to the Glass House. The screen got better the further East we went, and right before the Flats we started to light them up. All the big guys would take that Walker Deeper Diver pulling the Green SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK Misery fly, which we had to slide out from 150’ in the morning to 175’ later to entice strikes. We finally got a few rigger bites pulling Dreamweaver Moon Crickets and Salmon Slappers.

The afternoon ended as good as the morning started for us, and by 11:00am we were dialing in or new Auto-Pilot, and then headed for some lunch. The current was wicked strong. When we turned the boat to troll back West we had our surface speed at 1.1 and our ball speed at 2.4.-2.6. Later on in the afternoon we jumped on a buddies boat and headed out for a little derby fishing. It seemed the current had settled, and the picture was not as good as it was when we left it. However, that same diver combo would go on to take 3 nice Salmon when everything else we threw down took skippers, and other species.

[Priority1]

Rich, Lake O is on my bucket list. Your pics and reports are getting me by until I can fulfill my dream. Keep the pics and reports coming.

[Yankee Troller]

Come on over Frank! When you do give me a shout, and I can tell you where you'll need to be!