Today my sister Katrina and her husband Chris joined Dad & I for a family fun day of sensational salmon fishing on beautiful Lake Ontario.  Kate & Chris are from Lexington, KY, and Chris had never done this type of fishing before.  Dad & I did manage to drag Chris out for a really cold, wet day of steelhead fishing one winter day a few years ago, but that's a story for another day.  Today was all about big, open-water Kings.
We headed out at 5:30am and set up out in 150 FOW.  We barely had all the rods set when the 135ft. rigger fires and Chris is hooked up with his first-ever King.  Just seconds after Chris is hooked up, Dad is into a King of his own that took our Green Spin Dr/Siggs Rigs Green Hypnotist fly set up on a wire diver at 350' on a #2 setting.  After a nice battle and some sore forearms, Chris landed this beauty that took our Dalmatian Spin Dr./Siggs Rigs Blue Dolphin set-up:



We found lots of bait and marks out between 140-190 FOW and our Depth Raider showed a nice temperature break down at 125ft.  We found our best down speed to be between 2.4 and 2.6mph.  We settled into a very steady pick and boated several more Kings, all taken on Spin Dr./Siggs Rigs flys.  We had spoons in the water all day long, but didn't have a touch on them, and for the first time in two weeks, we also didn't have a touch on our copper rig.  The Dalmatian/Blue Dolphin was easily our hottest set-up, but we also had good luck and lots of action on the White Spin Dr./White Crinkle Siggs Rigs fly, as well as the Green Spin Dr./Green Hypnotist Siggs Rigs fly.  Fish came off of our Cannon downriggers (down 120, 125, and 135) and off of our dipsy divers set out 330' and 350' on a #2 setting.

Chris boated the biggest King of the day at just over 22lbs, again taken on the Dalmatian Spinny/Blue Dolphin on the wire:



We were just starting to pull rods to head in when the 135' rigger fired again, and I got to fight a King of my own:



We ended up keeping these three Kings for Chris and Kate to take home for their friends in KY: 



I think Chris is now officially hooked on Salmon fishing, and I hope he & Kate can get back to NY again next year for another trip out with us on the Billy V II.  We couldn't have asked for better weather, or for better company.  Thanks for making today a great day on the water for me guys!  I wish we could spend more time like this together...

We'll be super-busy with the charter schedule from here on out, so look for lots of reports in the coming weeks.

Until next time, Fish On!

~Capt. Bill