Olcott 7-21-22 and 23 - Olcott is still rockin'

[tbromund]

Had my Uncle, Cousin and their friend Marvin come in to town from Ohio to do some salmon fishing with us, so I took a few day off work and we fished Thursday, Friday and Saturday Morning.

7-21-11: Strong W/SW winds on Thursday morning with 2s building to 2-4s and then laying down in the afternoon. started inside in front of the red barn in 60 fow and trolled WNW, lots of steelhead in there but we couldn't find any kings that wanted to play. Temps were still high in the inside water and we had 42-44 deg down 40 feet in the morning. Watched the temp profile change and temp get pushed down as the day progressed with that strong SW wind.

Later in the morning with still no kings other than a couple skips we decided to head way inside and try for some browns, found the motherlode in 35 fow in front of the microwave and took a dozen brown in about an hour and a half including our boat's best brown ever of around 17 lbs, another in the 12-13 lb class and the rest mostly typical 6-8 lb cookie cutter footballs. All released except one bleeder that we had to box.

Ended the with 20+ trout (between the steelies and the browns) boated, but no kings.

Here's a pick of the big brown, sorry about the so so quality, taken on an older cell phone:

7-22-11: Friday was nice and flat and the Kings were active again. Temps were much deeper, but we fished the marks on the graph and the kings were feeding high and a little out of temp. high 50's to mid 60's) It was totally a spoon bite on riggers on Friday with the riggers parked at 40 and 50 feet. Old School NK Black and Purple continues to be a fish taker for us this season, particularly 1st thing in the morning, but once the sun came up, our better fish came on a 42 second stingray and had a big screamer on a NK 42 second that came unbuttoned 150 yds or so into it's initial run. Ended up with a 22 and a 24 in the box along with a bleeder steelhead and another bleeder brown. Fished til 12:30 and ended up the day again with over 20 bites.

7/23/11: Saturday was going to be a short day for us anyways. The marine forecast when last checked on friday evening called for light SW winds and waves 1 ft or less, but they were already 20 mph out of the NW with 2 footers and building. so I ran out to 50 fow in front of the microwave and we did an east troll with the waves. Fished 50-90 fow and again found active feeding fish up high. We fished one east pass till we reached the power plant, and in 2.5 hrs boated a dozen+ fish including 1 19 lb king and a couple 15-16 lb teenagers along with a number of skips and 2 browns. Unlike friday, all rigs were active and all six rods, both riggers (40 and 50 down),both wire divers (120 and 140 on a 2 setting), the 200 copper and 5 color core all took fish. NK Black and Purple again on the 50' diver took several shots as did the 42 second stingray on the 40' rigger, but the most action came on a white/green dot SD/Atommik Hammer Fly 120 back on the wire diver took the most shots. Albino Gator SD/White Ghost Siggs on the 200 copper took several shots as well.

All in all, fishing continues to be stellar out of Olcott.

Oh yeah, and ahhh, where have we seen THIS before

Tim

[GLF]

Nice job Tim. Looks like you had a really good 3 days.

[Rascal Trophy Fishing]

Nice to hear NY fishing is still up. And that Big Brown, wow, very impressive. Thanks for the info. and pics..

[Priority1]

Tim, GJ out there. I love that pic of the big football.

[Nailer]

Great report Tim. Nice looking Brown.

[tbromund]

Thanks guys,

We had some unsettled weather just before they arrived and then after not hooking a single king on the first day, I was starting to get worried. Trout are fun enough, but they came up to catch kings. Luckily, everything was back to normal on Friday.

Tim