Olcott - Lake Ontario - Labor Day 9-1-08

[Tim Bromund]

Great day to be on the lake, dead calm and the steelhead were biting offshore. After hearing the radio chatter suggesting not much happening inside, Dad and I elected to run right out to the offshore zone. Set up at the 27.5 line in 440 fow and started trolling north.

We worked the 28-31 lines and ended up 14/17, doubling up twice, fun with only 2 of us on board, three cheers for autopilot.

1 mature king salmon on a mono dipsy diver, metalic purple diver and fire tiger #4 J plug back 150. 15 or so lb hen, released.

The rest were all steelhead up to 10.5 lbs. fish were fairly high. All rods took fish but the hot rod for the day was the 55' rigger with an NK28 blue thunder with a crushed glow ladder, took 5 fish and 2 hit and runs. Other than that, most of the other bites were on various R&R spoons (frog, lemon lime, green/chart)

Carmel Dolphin SD/Atommik CrazyB!tch fly on the wire diver took 1 shot back 140 on a 3.

55' rigger, 35' rigger, (and sliders), 5 color core, mono and wire divers all took fish.

Unfortunately had to keep 4 of the steelhead because they beat themselves up so bad we couldn't release them, including the 10.5 lb. Bled all over my boat.

Here's a few pics from today

flat lake for 11 miles offshore

the big steelie of the day

Tim

 

[Thudpucker]

boy that's a good looking steel head. It's a Buck and his nose hasnt turned down yet.
At first glance I thought it was a Silver Salmon.
Nice boat too. Eleven miles in a Hurricane wouldn't be bad in that boat.

 

[Tim Bromund]

Thanks, we've had some pretty steelhead on the boat this year. The weather has been strange this summer and the summer salmon fishing never set up like it is supposed to. The past 5 or 6 years, we could go out to 60-150 fow off of Olcott and catch Kings all summer long. Lots of strange winds had the lake all tore up all summer and water temps never stabilized, so that never developed. As a result, we've done a lot more of the offshore steelhead fishing than we have in recent years. Fun, just burn a lot more gas.

Here's another nice one from back in July, this one was 11 lb 7 oz on a certified tournament scale (Summer Trout & Salmon Derby was going on and this fish was on the leader board for a couple weeks).

I love how chunky this fish is.

Yeah, that boat handles big water really well for a 24 footer, but a lake like glass is always a treat.

Tim