Lake Ontario, Sept 9th...Fun Morning!

[ch312]

Hit the north shore of the west end of the lake to see if I could get into my first lake O salmon and I ended up having one heck of a morning.

Hit the water at 730-745 am and had the lines down around 8 am and it didn't take long to realize that the fish gods were on my side that day as I had 4 double headers and tons of action from 8 am until 1 pm or so. The wind started to die down around that time and it was like someone hit a switch because the fish just turned off and it didn't take long for the 10-12 other boats to clear the area.

I believe I ended up going 14 for 25 with very acrobatic bows up to 9 lbs, a bunch of smaller fish (i'm guessing coho and chinook?) ranging from 3-8 lbs, and a 14 lb chinook that put up one heck of a fight. I did hook into a beast of a fish that fired the rigger and made a very fast and powerful run near bottom from behind the boat and just screamed past the boat before breaking the split ring after a brief fight. All fish came on spoons on the riggers at 3-3.5 mph in 50-75 FOW. I was running one rigger 30 ft down and the other 45ft down all day with cheaters on each, which took 3/4 of the fish. NBK was the hot spoon of the day with pinks and blues taking the rest of the fish. The big salmon took an orange monkey puke 2 ft off the deeper rigger.

Tons of bait out there and it was my first time experiencing the rods bouncing from the lines hitting all the alewives down there and I even managed to snag a 6 incher, which I later realized I should have used for bait as the big salmons stomach was crammed full of them! I made a Sabiki rig last night and will be trying to catch some bait to use on Friday.

I didn't get pics of all the fish as the camera died. I then started using the cell phone, but that died too!

Spoon's tail is slightly bent after the big fish I lost had some fun with it!

Argh matey

Didn't want to keep the two bows and would have preferred keeping a couple small ones, but each one lost an eye to the spoon and couldn't be revived.

[NAW]

That is one heck of a morning in deed!

[fishnsled]

Awesome day on the water!!

[fishhunter]

Nice

[fishindevil]

you did great out there for sure !!! the NBK is one of my fav spoons of all time....

[Joeytier]

The monkey puke strikes again! Thats a great morning of riggin'

[captpierre]

those bows are phsyco suicidal.

 

sucks to lose a big fish when a 5 cent piece of tackle fails

[davey buoy]

Amazing,great fishing for sure,what a day!!!!!!!