Today my good friend Jerry Felluca of Rebel Charters and I were joined by Matt, Jeremy, Tori, and Michael for a 6 hour trip out of Sandy Creek.  The lake was dead-flat when we left port so we decided to try our luck off-shore today.  We pointed the boat NW out of port and after a short run we set up in 340FOW.  We had a steady pick of fish today, but the best depths for us were 460-480 FOW, and we found our temp from 60-80 feet down.  Our best down speed was 2.0-2.1mph on our Depth Raider.  We ran a mixture of DW spoons & Spin Dr/Sigg's Rigs Flys on both downwriggers and wire divers.  Our best spoon pattern was the SuperSlim DW Gator fished at a variety of depths, and our best spinny combo was a white double crush glow Spin Dr/Sigg's Rigs Glow Ghost fished off our our 80' rigger.  We also had multiple bites on both a Wonderbread Spinny/Sigg's Rigs Wonderbread UV Glow fly and a Green Dot Spinny/Sigg's Rigs Green Hypnotist fly combo. 

Today was mostly a steelhead bite for us, although we did manage a couple of kings, one of which was a 27lb bruiser that took a SS Gator spoon fished off of a 65' rigger out over 460 FOW:



Tori and Michael both got to tussle with several steelhead today too, with Tori taking Top Honors for the biggest steelhead of the day for us:





Jerry and I had a great time fishing with Matt and his crew today, and we both particularly enjoyed seeing the kids locked up with some Lake Ontario chrome.  I think we have two more kids hooked on this fishery; they both said that they want to come back again reaalllllly soon.  Good call bringing them with you Uncle Matt!



Many thanks to Jerry for inviting me to run today's trip on his boat.  It felt good to be back on a Cannon downrigger boat (Jerry has SIX of them!), and it was fun to pit my spinny/fly program against Jerry's spoon program.  I didn't keep track , but if I had to guess I'd say it was a draw...pretty much everything we put in the water got bit today!  Thanks again Jerry, I thoroughly enjoyed fishing with you.

If you haven't been up to Lake Ontario yet this year, NOW is the time.  The weather is at its best, and the fishing has been on fire!

Until Next Time,
FIsh On!!

~Capt. Bill