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If one of your New Years Resolutions is to be more successful catching Salmon & Trout in 2010, you might want to consider attending the Best Chance Too Super Salmon Clinic on Saturday February 27th. This 6 hour clinic, taught by Captains Dave Engel and Bill Bale will focus on the detailed techniques they use to become the winningest Salmon and Trout Tournament team on the Great Lakes. Best Chance Too, featured as the cover story in the April 2009 issue of Great Lakes Angler magazine, has accepted LOTSA’s invite to put on their Super Salmon Clinic for the first time in New York State.

Captains Dave and Bill are experienced Fishing educators and will present a very much “hands on†Clinic including a significant amount of time answering questions on their techniques. The Clinic will also include a tackle “goodie bag†and a buffet lunch. So, besides being on a beach in Florida, where else would you rather be on a cold day in February than at this Clinic, learning from the best, mingling with 100 fellow Lake Ontario fishermen, receiving a tackle goodie bag worth the price of admission and getting a free lunch!

A limited number of seats remain and when they are gone we’re full due to our room capacity and can’t take anyone else. So, if you’re thinking of it as part of your New Year’s Resolutions, signup now before the last seats are gone. You can signup for a seat and see all of the details on this Clinic, Best Chance Too and, the 2010 LOTSA Fishing Expo the next day (Sunday February 28th) at the LOTSA web site www.lotsa.org

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Here's a classic for you to enjoy

http://www.kewego.com/video/iLyROoafYtDe.html

Tim

I go to the home page and click on the new posts.

Aye, same here.

Tim

I'm a Thompson guy, but I believe you have to throw Penn Yan into the mix as well. I know quite a few guys here on Lake O with 245 Contenders (24' Penn Yan HT) and they are awesome fishing machines.

Tim

How many pics ya want???

Lots of em here in Lake Ontario.

Tim

here's a couple pics that are in my photobucket account at the moment:

24.5 on July 18 2009

here's a couple fropm a week later, father and son both got 20+ fish that day

John's 22

Joey's 20.5

here's a 2 man NY limit Dad and I got a couple years ago, weights were 18, 21, 24.5, 27, 28 and 30

Here's Dad holding up the 30 (his first)

Here's a 32 lb from 1998

Tim

I had this pic e-mailed to me from a friend. I don't know the guy that caught it. 44 lbs on a spring type scale (not certified), caught up by the dam on 9-21-09. Imagine if it was a hen

That's 2 40 lbers Niagara County has produced so far this year. This one is probably one of our Olcott Pen Reared fish (4YO from the 2005 Pen)

Tim

Dad and I started out the morning fishing for perch in the harbor by the boat. A few fish in there, but not in heavy yet, we got 4 or 5 fish. At 0800 we hopped in the boat and headed out.

Nothing happening inside, so we pointed the boat North and started trolling offshore, found a nice pocket of active fish between the 24 line and the 26 line, ended up 4/6 with 2 nice teenage kings and 2 steelhead landed. Kings were around 12 and 14-15 lbs and one nice chunky steelhead around 6-7 lbs. Nice to catch silver kings this time of year.

All rigger/spoon bite steelie stomper stinger took both kings on the 60' rigger and lazer spooked NK28 blue thunder took both steelies on the 50' rigger.

Temps were crazy, we had 65deg down 50 feet and still 64 deg at 100 feet, the teenage kings were way up out of temp in the 65 deg water.

The steelie had a right pectoral fin clip. I thought the only steelhead the DEC was fin clipping were the skamanias, but this fish was clearly not a skam, looked more like a domestic bow. Interesting coloration on the bow, very, very lightly spotted.

Dad with the 15 lb teenager

The steelhead/bow

East wind kicked up and made it a little snotty out there, but all in all, not a bad day for us, it sounded on the radio like most struggled out there today.

Tim

and if no one weighs in a fish of a particular species, that 100 carries over to the next day. I believe there was a heck of a pot in the brown trout division that went uncollected at the end of the derby.

Tim

Nice... by the way.... that fish she's holding in the first pic is a coho

Tim

yuck, he just ruined that perch by taking the skin off. no thanks

Tim

I had my friend John and his son Joe out with me today out of Olcott. we had a good day. Set down in 50 FOW and immediately had a great picture so we started trolling North west and setting lines. Trolled all the way out to 270 and took 1 nice steelhead on a slider on the 50 foot rigger, ss nbk. At 270 we turned back in and started trolling SW back towards the red barn. Shortly after completing the turn, nice mature on a stingray NBK on the wire diver, 100 back on a 2. Ended up working a N and S troll all day ending up a little East of the Microwave.

We ended up with 14 or 15 fish landed of 20 bites. Boxed a mix of mature and teenage kings, some nice coho in the 7-8 lb range and a couple steelies. Released a number of other steelhead.

John's son Joe got his first 20+ lb king today.

Early on, the NBK spoons were on fire, but they dried up fairly quickly. As the sun came up, flashers and flies started taking over mountain dew SD with green crinkle howie took 6 hits on the probe rigger down 70. Wire diver back 160 with various flashers took a number of hits and the 400 foot copper took hits both with a green 8" hot spot flasher and green crinkle fly and green double crush glow SD and Atommik T86 Packer Fly.

Pretty much anything green got bit today, NK28 watermelon took multiple hits on the rigger at 50 and 40 feet.

Fleas were absolutely brutal.

here's a few pics

John with the first mature, 22 lbs

Joe with his 20.5 lb king

we had a hitchhiker for a while today

Today's box

Tim

Years ago, Luhr Jensen used to make a size 2, which were killer for browns. I don't think they've made them in years other than by special order.

Tim

Hold onto them Craig,worth their weight in productive waypoints :cool:

Thx for the history lesson Tim,never knew it was Rip & Roc that made the old Pirate spoons:grin:

Joe's Pirate Spoons were created by Joe and Shirley Riefer, who used to operate a charter out of Oak Orchard, NY. They are now retired and run the www.attheoak.com website. A number of years ago, they sold out Pirate Spoons to Renosky, who still produces them.

Pirates have always been and continue to be very popular on lake Ontatio.

Tim

Started tribbin on 18 Mile Creek in Hamburg, NY in 1978.

Tim

True Blue Tour ‘09:

Dave Genz headlines winter-long celebration of ice fishing revolution

Tour stop set for Lake Ontario Trout and Salmon Association’s monthly meeting

December 11, 2008

Clam, the company that led the modern ice fishing revolution, has organized a winter-long celebration featuring personal appearances by Dave Genz and other members of its new Team True Blue pro staff.

True Blue Tour ’09 is making stops at towns across the Ice Belt, bringing the latest multimedia seminar, along with time for you to ask questions of the pros who drove the ice revolution.

At 6 p.m. on Dec. 11, 2008, Dave Genz will bring a True Blue Tour stop to the Lake Ontario Trout and Salmon Association’s monthly meeting at the 4-H Building of the Cornell Cooperative Extension at 4487 Lake Avenue (Route 78), Lockport, NY. Plan to come out and meet Genz in person. He loves to talk ice fishing with anyone interested in learning the new way.

For a full hour from 6-7 p.m., Genz will be available to talk fishing. At 7 o’clock, the seminar begins. There will be time following the seminar for more questions.

In the event that any changes are made to the time or location, check the Tour calendar at www.trueblueicefishing.com , by clicking the Tour button on the home page.

Win a Chance to Fish with Genz!

While you’re at the event, you can enter free for a chance to go ice fishing with Dave Genz this winter! Details and entry forms will be available.

The energy of a live event is impossible to duplicate, and that’s why True Blue Tour was created, to bring the ice fishing revolution to life.

“It’s all about you catching fish,†says Genz. “The new system is nothing like the old days. Come out and see for yourself.â€

Even after the tour rolls down the road, Clam’s Team True Blue is dedicated to helping you. For ongoing help with any aspect of modern ice fishing, go to trueblueicefishing.com and you’ll discover the true center of the ice fishing universe!

I'm real partial to scotty releases, which are pinch pad style releases. No false releases and the way they make them with nice long tethers, even shakers are clearly telegraphed to the rod so you're not dragging them around.

Tim

Awww heck Skeiner, that ain't nuthin' compared to Oswego County NY a couple years ago. Something like 14 ft of lake effect in a 10 day period

Tim

Alpena Diamonds, LJ flutterspoons, Evil Eye Monarchs also still catch fish like crazy.

Tim

Not to mention the fleas.

Besides, it just wouldn't feel right without the rigger cables singing.

Tim

I didn't take a ton of pictures this year, but here's a couple really pretty steelhead from this summer:

Dad with a nice 10.5 lber from labor day, this one was one half of 2 double headers that day (lots of fun with 2 of us in the boat, gotta love autopilot

here's a nice thick bodied steelie from back in July, this one weighted 11 lb 7 oz on the derby scale. Stayed on the leaderboard of the Summer LOC derby here on Lake O until 3 days from the end.

Tim

Yes, that would be the minutes of lattitude (middle set of numbers: xx.XX.xxx)

since the south shore generally runs SW-NE how far that is offshore depends on what port you are fishing out of. At Olcott (my home port), port is approximately at the xx.20.3xx or so line, so 26-27 would be 6-7 miles offshore.

As you head East, those numbers get far closer to shore.

Tim

Wow. Tall rack on that guy. Thanksfor posting that.

Tim

On Thursday May 8th at 7pm the Lake Ontario Trout &

Salmon Association (LOTSA) will be sponsoring a Lake

Ontario fishing seminar given by Captain Tom Kilmer

on Spring Niagara Bar Kings. Captain Tom is a very

experienced on fishing Kings on the Niagara Bar area

and will share the techniques he utilizes to

consistently hook up Kings for his Charter customers.

This meeting, held in the middle of the Spring LOC

Derby, is a must attend for anyone fishing this Derby

as the current fishing conditions will be shared with

all at the meeting.

LOTSA is a group of mainly weekend recreational

fishermen who are dedicated to the enhancement of the

Lake Ontario Sport-Fishery including the pen rearing

project at Olcott. Each meeting also features a

sharing of information the current fishing conditions.

So come join us and become more successful at fishing

Lake Ontario!

The seminar will be held at the Cornell Cooperative

Extension, 4487 Lake Avenue (Route 78 two miles north

of Lockport), Lockport, NY 14094. The seminar is open

to the public with a $5 charge for non-members. Call

636-0519 with any questions.

I'm in.

Tim