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Dad and I had my buddy John and his 13 YO daughter Anna out on her first fishing trip for something other than bluegills. She repeatedly upped the biggest fish of her life this morning and we almost completed the Lake Ontario Cycle today, got everything but a coho. We got a Laker, a Steelhead, an Atlantic (our first ever on the boat) kings and browns.
We started inside in 50-90 fow in front of the microwave but despite the down temp looking real nice with 47 deg down 50, it quickly became obvious that the weather this past week had moved the fish out from where we had found them last weekend. We only caught and released a small lake trout on the 200 copper on a white/ double pearl glow Becholds and A-Tom-Mik Mirage fly, 3 or 4 skipper kings and a small steelhead, all on the riggers on spoons, NK black/purple and 42 second stingray, so we pointed the boat North.
Trolled out to 175 or so, picked up another couple shakers on the riggers and divers so we decided a move was needed. We debated to run offshore or tuck way inside and chase browns.
The marine forecast was totally wrong yet again and it started off out of the NW with 1-2,s shifted to the south and calmed down then back to the NW and waves picked up again so we opted to tuck inside. As we got into about 55-60 fow the 10 color core took off and we saw the fish jumping way behind the boat. turned out to be our first ever Atlantic Salmon on the boat, a nice female that weighed 14.3 lbs.
As I set out a brown program of spoons, when we hit 40 fow and started and east troll, all hell broke loose and we were into browns continuously for the next hour and a half. Riggers at 25 and 35, and wire divers at 70 and 80 on a 2. Purple and silver R&R superlights on both main and slider on the 25 foot rigger and 42 second stingray with NK 42 second on a slider above on the 35 rigger gold spook on one diver and R&R green shad on the other. The south wind very quickly moved warm water inside and we were looking at 76 degrees at 35 down, but the browns didn't care.
No idea how many we caught but we were fishing fish more or less continually, with browns up to 13.5 lbs.
As we were making a turn to troll west, when we hit 50 fow in mid turn the 35' rigger fired with a screamer and Anna got the biggest fish of her life with a nice 20 lb king. Not sure what he was doing 35 down in 50 fow in 76 deg temps, we must have some fish just beginning to stage so I'm guessing temps will soon be meaningless out ther for the matures.
We were mostly trolling with the waves so we were almost to the power plant. Lake quickly built to 2-3+ once it shifted back to the NW so we called it a day at 11:00 and made the fun run in against the waves back to port.
Anna's first Brown Trout
the 13.5 lber
Anna's first King
Oh yeah, and where have we seen this before??
started out slow but turned into a pretty nice day for us.
Tim
We started inside in 50-90 fow in front of the microwave but despite the down temp looking real nice with 47 deg down 50, it quickly became obvious that the weather this past week had moved the fish out from where we had found them last weekend. We only caught and released a small lake trout on the 200 copper on a white/ double pearl glow Becholds and A-Tom-Mik Mirage fly, 3 or 4 skipper kings and a small steelhead, all on the riggers on spoons, NK black/purple and 42 second stingray, so we pointed the boat North.
Trolled out to 175 or so, picked up another couple shakers on the riggers and divers so we decided a move was needed. We debated to run offshore or tuck way inside and chase browns.
The marine forecast was totally wrong yet again and it started off out of the NW with 1-2,s shifted to the south and calmed down then back to the NW and waves picked up again so we opted to tuck inside. As we got into about 55-60 fow the 10 color core took off and we saw the fish jumping way behind the boat. turned out to be our first ever Atlantic Salmon on the boat, a nice female that weighed 14.3 lbs.
As I set out a brown program of spoons, when we hit 40 fow and started and east troll, all hell broke loose and we were into browns continuously for the next hour and a half. Riggers at 25 and 35, and wire divers at 70 and 80 on a 2. Purple and silver R&R superlights on both main and slider on the 25 foot rigger and 42 second stingray with NK 42 second on a slider above on the 35 rigger gold spook on one diver and R&R green shad on the other. The south wind very quickly moved warm water inside and we were looking at 76 degrees at 35 down, but the browns didn't care.
No idea how many we caught but we were fishing fish more or less continually, with browns up to 13.5 lbs.
As we were making a turn to troll west, when we hit 50 fow in mid turn the 35' rigger fired with a screamer and Anna got the biggest fish of her life with a nice 20 lb king. Not sure what he was doing 35 down in 50 fow in 76 deg temps, we must have some fish just beginning to stage so I'm guessing temps will soon be meaningless out ther for the matures.
We were mostly trolling with the waves so we were almost to the power plant. Lake quickly built to 2-3+ once it shifted back to the NW so we called it a day at 11:00 and made the fun run in against the waves back to port.
Anna's first Brown Trout
the 13.5 lber
Anna's first King
Oh yeah, and where have we seen this before??
started out slow but turned into a pretty nice day for us.
Tim
