Tony, Rich, and Mark joined us again today for another shot at some Lake Ontario Kings.  After the smack-down that Mother Nature put on us yesterday we were hoping for a little bit of redemption today.  We left the dock even earlier today in the hopes that we could find all of those fish that we had marked yesterday morning in a receptive mood.  We got out to our spot and we were set up and fishing at 5:30am.  The fish that we had on the screen the morning before were back again and we knew that we had a shot at them until the sun came up.  Once the sun came up yesterday they just disappeared and today was no different.  We took our first shot of the morning on a green double crush glow spinny/Sigg's Green Mist fly that was down 115' in 38 degree water.  After a brief battle we boated this nice King:



After that fish the screen went blank on us again.  We continued to work that area for a bit but had just the one fish to show for it.  Around 9:00am we got a call from a friend of ours who was several miles West of us and he had boated three fish out deep in front of Port Bay.  After two full days of frustration and blank screens East of port, we decided to pull lines and make the 20 minute run down there.  Once we hit the 250 FOW mark we finally found one small bait pod with two hooks around it and I started circling it for all I was worth.  The temp was a lot deeper out there so we had moved all of our rigs down below the break at 90'.  We hooked up with a major on our second pass and played it for 15 minutes or so before it came unbuttoned.  That fish took a chartreuse e-chip/Sigg's Mtn. Dew Pulse fly fished off of a wire diver out 300' on a #2 setting.  On about our fifth pass through this one little spot we hooked up again on that same rig and the fish threw the hook again.  Jeez, what do we have to do to keep a fish stuck?!?!?  Sharp hooks?  Check.  Stinger hooks on the flies?  Check.  Drags set right?  Check.  Sometimes these fish just manage to find ways to throw even the sharpest of hooks.

We really didn't see much of anything at all on the screen again today.  If you decide to come up and give it a try I'd suggest putting your "A" game lures down and leave them down while you cover lots of water.  If you find a little something on the screen that has some bait and hooks in it, stay on that water and work it for a while.  You're going to have to put in your time to get the fish to go.  It's definitely not like it's been the past few years where we could count on full boxes of fish on most trips out, but there are still some fish around and there are some real big ones out there.

Even though the catching wasn't fantastic, we still managed to have a good time today, and we look forward to fishing with the guys again next season.

Until Next Time,
Fish On!!

~Capt. Bill