Today we were joined by Ted, Harry, Dave, and Brian for another trip out on beautiful Lake Ontario.

We went out on Saturday morning and found a few marks and some bait NW of port in front of the silos in 325-500FOW.  We worked really hard for what little we managed to scrape outta there.  The majors that we're all looking for just aren't there in any sort of numbers yet, but the word on the street is that there were a few 30+ Lb Kings taken off of Oswego on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, so hopefully they're starting to show up!

There were some small hooks up around 90-110' and we threw everything at them including the proverbial kitchen sink.  The only set-up that we could really get to go was a simple white spinny/white crinkle Sigg's fly fished off of our 110' rigger.  That set-up took 80% of our hits for the day.  The other set-up that got bit was a chartreuse pro-chip/Sigg's Mountain Dew Pulse fly that we had down 135' on another rigger.  We didn't have a single spoon bite all day long, and we didn't have a touch on any of our 4 wire divers.  We moved 'em up out of temp, down into the middle of the temp, and down in the ice water and we couldn't trigger a bite.  We sped up, slowed down, messed with colors, lead lengths, direction of troll, you name it.  It just wasn't gonna be our day no matter what we did.  We managed a few bites and had a still managed to have a great day despite the slow fishing.  Here's the shots of what action we did manage to find:









The good news is that I talked to Andy Bliss from Cold Steel several times over the course of the morning on Saturday and they continue to light up the browns east of Oswego in 100-115FOW.  His best spoons were the same ones he's been using all week:  Stinger Frogs, Tuxedo's and the Mongoose.  Andy said that they had consistent bait and hooks in there and they've been getting some fat browns up to 12 lbs or so.  I ventured in to 100-120FOW east of Fair Haven and we definitely don't have the same screen that they do East of Oswego for the browns.  In just over an hour's time in there I saw exactly one bait pod and one fish.  Needless to say we couldn't get it to go in there either.

I didn't fish on Sunday but I did talk to a few guys that went out of FH and it sounded like more of the same...lots of two and three fish boxes, with a few intermittent majors reported.  Shade Tree dropped three or four majors this morning so he's at least feeling like maybe they're starting to show up here and there.  I sure hope he's right...we'll be fishing every day from the 16th-25th and I could use a good dose of BIG Kings to get me out of the fish funk I'm in.

Thanks to Ted, Harry, Dave, and Brian for making today's trip enjoyable even though the fish didn't cooperate as well as we would have liked.  I hope to see you guys again back up here on the Big "O".

We'll be out every day from the 16th-25th of August LOC Derby fishing.  I'll do my best to post reports daily here, so keep checking back for the very latest on the fishing scene out of Fair Haven.  BTW, we still have the morning of Monday, August 18th open for a charter.

Until Next Time,
Fish On!!

~Capt. Bill