Lake Ontario - Olcott 8-13-11

[Tim Bromund]

Dad and I headed out Saturday morning and found a big pack of boats working the inside water so we motored out to 80 fow and set up. We worked the inside for a while and despite a reasonable temp profile (55 deg down 60) and a great picture on the graph with lots of bait and hooks, we couldn't get anything going other than a 3 lb brown out in 150 fow. Radio chatter seemed to suggest that most of the boats were experiencing the same, great screen but not a lot of action so after a couple hours, we pulled lines and ran offshore. Set up at the 28 line and trolled north.

We worked the 28-31 lines and had a mix of mostly decent steelhead and a couple shaker kings, with one nice mature king of 23 lbs.

By 11:30 the wind, which had shifted to the E-SE had started to build the offshore seas to 2+ out of the east and that started to make the N-S troll a little uncomfortable, so we pulled lines and called it a morning.

I wasn't really keeping track but we probably caught 15-16 fish (mostly all released, kept the mature king and a couple bleeder steelies) and lost quite a few more. (Action included 1 triple header, lots of fun with 2 of us on board)

Temps were higher offshore, we had 48 deg down 45.

The mature king took a white/green dot SD and hammer fly on the wire diver back 140, took a couple shots on a lemon drop DW plug (J-plug style ) on the 160 diver, the rest were on the riggers at 35 and 45 on a variety of green spoons.

Dad with the 23 lber

Tim

 

[btoran]

very nice!

 

[LarryC]

Tim,
We'll be at Oak Orchard on Wednesday afternoon through Sunday mornning. Can't wait. Your reports sure do fire us up.

 

[MikeeH]

Very nice. My last experience fishing Lake O was as a kid in the 1950's. My Uncle had a place on the lake (NY side) and used to laugh at my attempts since there were really no fish in those waters then. Today Lake Ontario is an ecological success story.

 

[Tim Bromund]

Thanks guys, it's been a fun summer.

Larry, the Oak has been fishing very well lately, you guys should have a good time, a 42 lb king came out of there last weekend. I'll be in Vermilion OH perch/walleye fishing during that same time period. Please post a report on how you do.

Tim

 

[LarryC]

Tim,
We are real greenhorns at this. Our next salmon will be our first. Looking forward to it though - been reading all the reports I can find and trying to recall all the stuff that worked on the charters we've been on. Learned a lot from Rich Hajecki and Bill Ruth over the last several years and hope some of that pays off.

 

[Tim Bromund]

Yes, I know both Rich and Bill, great guys and good ones to learn from. I'm sure you'll be fine. The Oak is probably the best port for a rookie to fish from, it is by far the port with the most open sharing of information on the entire lake and the fishing usually pretty uncomplicated there. You are far enough down the lake that you don't get some of the severe subsurface currents we have closer to the Niagara River Outflow, so the water is a bit more stable.

Tim