Quick report

[Trackertroller]

Hey All,

Been awhile!
Came up late Saturday afternoon and launched outta converse at 6pm.

Water was pretty flat!! A few boats out between garden & thompsons.

We made a couple passes before dark and landed 2 small lakers.

Grabbed a mooring ball in the bay for the night.
Watched some guys bow fishing around 9pm. Pretty cool to watch!!

Sunday we followed the wind south. Starting at garden and all the way to button bay
The water temp below scotch bonnet was in the low 40’s

Above the bonnet to Thompson’s was between 50-55*

Boated 4 more lakers, had several misses. Most appeared to be lakers.

Everything fired, riggers, slide divers, jet divers, spoons, sticks.
No pattern, depth from 5’- 30’
A lot of bait on Saturday down 60’ and below.

Be back up on Thursday for the rotary.
Hope to find some silver then.

Good luck and stay safe!!
J&E

[tamiron]

JEREMY:
Thanks for sharing. Good luck to you and Effie in the Rotary!

[Dilly Worm]

Trackertroller - thanks, that was a very interesting report because I was out the day before you, and its amazing how much things changed. Saturday afternoon water in Button Bay was 62F, and it was in the mid to low 50's outside the Bay up to Scotch Bonnet. Looks like it dropped 10 degrees in a day ! water was clear, too.

I was trolling with a speedy shiner and a small silver flasher on 1 color of lead and a planer board in hopes of the off-chance there'd be salmon biting on a sunny afternoon - no luck with that. Also ran a 4 1/2 in stickbait on the other line at various depths. Only place fish were biting was around the Haystacks just south of Button Island, where I was seeing small bait clouds around 30 to 40 feet and some bigger marks. A couple lakers hit the stickbait. Twice I got the lines tangled (once again the challenge trolling from a rowboat is when I stop rowing to reel in, the boat stops moving and this time kept turning in the wind so the planer board tangled with the line with the fish on it)... managed to untagle them both times without losing either fish. Every time these fish got close to the boat they dove hard and stripped lots of line out of the drag, it took about 15 minutes to land each one. Lakers were around 8-9 pounds and very healthy looking with no lamprey marks or anything.

Button Bay seemed like a good place to fish Saturday after a week of south wind pushed the warm water and bait up against the shore, before the strong north wind picked up the next day. With the change in the wind and weather I wonder where the fish will move to next...

[Reelax]

Thanks for the reports guys... glad to hear you made it back up here Jeremey... headed out tomorrow with high hopes. They can be really active this time of year if you find good bait...

[Trackertroller]

DW- I’m guessing the strong NW wind pushed that good ol cold N.Y. over

Fields bay and the otter creek water got pushed south keeping from basin harbor north still warm

Hopefully the water stabilizes in the next few week
It’s only gonna get better!!

[Trackertroller]

JEREMY:
Thanks for sharing. Good luck to you and Effie in the Rotary!

Thank Jim!
Hope your well!!

[tamiron]

Thanks, doing very well,