Today we were joined by our buddies Rich and Eric, who are Lake Ontario regulars from the Binghamton area.  We left the dock at 4:30am in search of the early brown trout bite.  As luck would have it, we found the browns that have been missing all season long and also played with a few nice Kings.  We worked 30-45 FOW first thing in the morning and played with 6 or 7 big browns, the highlight of which was this brown that currently sits in 4th place in the Summer LOC Derby at 12.09lbs:




Every one of the browns took a Dreamweaver Super Slim Area 51 spoon fished off of our riggers behind a chrome Shark.  We ran riggers and short cores for the browns, and we couldn't buy a bite on the cores, but they sure did seem to like that Area 51 behind a Shark.  Best down speed was 2.4mph, and the best riggers were set at 15 and 16ft.

After the brown action dried up, we headed out to deeper water and started targeting Kings.  We hooked up with several nice kings, and wouldn't you know it,  the Kings also took that Area 51 spoon fished off of the riggers.  110'ft down over 120-135FOW seemed to be the best rigger for us, but we also hooked up off of our 95' and 50' riggers.  We tried like mad to get a flasher/fly to fire, but we couldn't make one go today.  The Area 51 was the only thing to get bit on our boat today.  One of the other charter boats was at the gas dock right after we came in and had several Kings that he took off of a flasher/fly combo.  He didn't have a single spoon fire.  Go figure!  2.5 - 2.7 mph down speed was our best speed for the silvers and we found 56 degree water down 110' out over 130FOW with a surface temp of 60 degrees.




The highlight of the King action was this 20.09 lb King that was sitting in 15th place after we weighed in at Screwy Louies:




The screen was a LOT better looking than last weekend.  Let's hope it stays that way and that things from here on out are at least as good as or better than today was.  If we can manage that. we're in for a great second half to the season.

Thanks go to Rich and Eric for great work on the rods today.  Especially that King when it saw the back of the boat!  You guys worked hard to land that fish.  Well done!!

Until Next Time,
Fish On!!

~Capt. Bill