Evening Cruise

Carolynne and I took a short boat ride this evening after work and decided to try to fish for a couple of hours. We set up in about 150 foot of water and began trolling north. In 200 fow we found a good temperature break and as soon as we crossed into 49 degree water the planer board rod went off and a small coho surfaced. I grabbed the rod and began fighting the fish, when suddenly the rigger went off and a heavy fish took line. Carolynne grabbed that rod and battled a good fish that hit a slider with a small pink spoon on it. When I got the small coho to the side of the boat, a fish hit the opposite planer rod and immediately was on the surface. I knew I had a good steelhead and Carolynne was locked into something big. We battled our fish and got my 11 pound steelhead and Carolynne's 13 pound laker into the net. We took pictures, reset the lines, and began to troll towards where we had caught the three fish. Again, when we crossed the temperature break the planer rod went off. This time it was a real nice steelhead (a little over 14 lbs). We trolled a couple more minutes and hooked up with another small coho before we had to pull the lines and go in. A great two hours of fishing on the lake.

Spring Derby Weekend One

This past weekend was the opening of the Spring Loc Derby. The derby snuck up on me this year and we still had some bugs to work out on the boat at the onset of the derby. Our original plan was to fish out west again and hit the water near the Niagara River. However, the unusually cold water in that area had the king fishing behind schedule and most of the fish caught out that way were lakers. So, we made the decision to fish the only colored water we could find... of the Genesee River. We launched out of the River on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On the first two days, the water and weather were beautiful. On Sunday, the wind picked up out of the northeast and messed up the fishing and only allowed us to fish for about an hour. The fishing can be best described as a slow-pick overall. We caught browns, coho, rainbows, and kings with the best fish coming on Friday and the most numbers coming on Saturday. The best area seemed to be the warmest, colored water between the river and Irondequoit Bay in 20- 50 feet of water. We had limited success out deeper, but the majority of our fish came in close off the boards or riggers set just below the surface. The highlight of the weekend had to be the 17 pound king on Friday. Our hottest lures were black and silver smithwicks and blue and gold bombers.