Trolling Bronte on Lake Ontario

[Aaron Shirley]

I had the pleasure of having Greg Klatt and his son Mitch out on Lake Ontario yesterday. It was a beautiful day out to enjoy some trolling. Mitch had never caught a salmon before, so my goal was to get him into a nice king or two. We started in 50 fow and marked very little until we got into 75 fow, but not much to hold us there. We ended up in 150 fow quickly, as the picture on the sonar looked best. We got a lake trout right away down deep on a Coyote flasher and fly off the rigger 140 feet down. I believe Greg has that photo. We then got another hit shortly after. This time it was a king down deep on the same set-up and same depth and Greg got to tangle with it.

 

 

It got slow after that as we got out a bit late for Lake Ontario kings, but we kept at it and got rewarded. We got several cohos up higher, but I don't think we got any or many photos of them. If we did, Greg has those as well.

 

We marked a lot of hooks 40 to 80 feet down over the deeper water, but for some reason they had lock jaw. The bait balls were deep hugging bottom but very few hooks down deep. Even though the picture looked good, we moved shallower as we were not hitting kings. When we got into about 83 fow we marked some great bait balls, and not all hugging bottom.

 

 

Shortly after trolling by this bait ball, the 300 copper reel starting singing as the in-line board got rocked back. This time an SD fly did the trick and Mitch boated his first ever king!

 

 

Mitch was happy with this bad boy

 

We got into some more cohos without photos, then we had to take a photo of Greg and this fish. It also hit the same set-up off 300 copper.

 

 

 

I was so busy on the boat, I didn't notice it was such a nice bow until I saw the photo lol.

 

The same copper set-up fired again with a crazy king cart-wheeling far behind the boat taking Mitch to task. It proved to get the better of him though as he did a long-line release lol. Unfortunately, we only got another coho after that to wrap it up off a 400 copper in over 100 fow. We called it a day late afternoon. We didn't tag a lot of kings, but we had some fun on the water with some cohos and a nice bow to keep our interest.

 

I was a pleasure to have the guys out for something they don't normally get to do. Great company on the boat, and I'm sure Mitch was happy to boat the biggest king. It was a nice first king

 

We found white and black green to be our best colours. All flashers and flies. Spoons and meat didn't fire once. The fish seem to be really scattered in the west end of the lake. Hopefully that changes soon and we light them up!

 

Hopefully Greg has a few photos to add.

 

Good fishing!

 

Aaron

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[fishindevil]

Awesome guys !!!! Great day on the water for sure !!!! Fish were wanting to play and the weather was great !!!!! Cheers

[davey buoy]

Awesome day by the look of it!!!!!Great pics as well!WTG!

[Roy]

An excellent day for sure. Congrats to all three of you and thanks for sharing.

[Fisherpete]

Nice fish. Can't wait - getting out sometime next week to chase some silver.

[BFSC Kevin]

Great report Aaron. It looks like it was beautiful out there.

[Moosebunk]

Looked like a mint day on Lady O. Yeah... would like to sometime boat my first open water king too.

[alphaalpha]

Great report, thanks for posting. I was out last weekend and fishing from 60' out to 300fow. best picture was anywhere from 70-85fow tho with lots of bait balls on bottom but very few hooks. that was out of pickering. Hopefully the weather starts stabilizing a bit more and things get better soon.

 

cheers,

 

-AA.

[mattyk]

Cool report!

[corvette1]

great day on the water Aaron congrats