Fishing Report 10/15

[Scott McKee]

My little giant brother and I called off golf this morning when we learned the site of the 1912 US Open wasn't allowing carts out.  Walk a golf course?  Why, yes we are ready to order Ma'am, we'll both just have the side salad with lo-cal dressing please, oh, and a glass of water with a lemon.  Not in this lifetime.  We decided to hit the River for bass.

When we ventured out at the crack of 10am, the bass had a case of lockjaw.  We had one little bass in a half hour of drop shotting, which is completely unacceptable.  When we drifted past everyone's favorite ex-polluting plant, I grabbed a casting rod and started chucking around my favorite Niagara Walleye D-Raider.  About halfway between the Huntley and the Mid-River Marina wall, a stout and very feisty forty incher smacked my bait up on a a long pause.

We found a bunch of bass on my second favorite rock in UN4 including two doubles, which is always fun.  We called it a day around 2:30 and after putting the baby to bed, zipped to Claudette's for a ham sandwich and a steak hoagie.  I've never had Jojo's steak hoagie, but I can assure you his ham sandwiches are really, really good.  Amazingly enough, both Bruce and I forgot to hit Joe up for cookies after crushing lunch.  Weird, huh?

Bruce and I always have a good time bass fishing, but the addition of the musky left us both feeling warm and fuzzy.

After a little break, Carrie and I decided to give her birthday present from my brother a spin; a Shimano Charter Special reel.  When we got out at 6:45pm, there was a bit of a party in the Triangle; Scott K. and Frank, and the Miller Gang sans Uncle Jerry were out.

After striking out in the Triangle, we shot to the Shipyards and trolled the bowl.  We then crawled up the Canadian shoreline to the cattails.  Nothing.

There are times when my friends speak to me when they are not present or communicating with me via a phone or semaphore flags. In this case, Joe Zolnowski's voice popped into my head, saying "fish the spot-on-the-spot".  The SOTS is a nice little happy rock in UN13 the Three Stooges (Joe Z, Mark Reichert and myself) used to catch fish off of with some consistency back when we first started fishing the River for muskies in 2000.  As soon as we approached the rock, Carrie's rod went off.  She tussled with a really scrappy 37" that went absolutely nuts boat side.  The fish hit a 10" Carpe Diem Believer, 30-feet back with a 16-ounce Jojo Ball. 

After setting the spread, we trolled up to the SOTS and my rod went off.  Prior to Carrie's fish the moon had been shy for most of the evening.  When it finally popped through the clouds, Tony's voice instructed me to fish white.  My fish, a chunky 36", hit a white D-Raider 90-feet back.

We hit the area hard and trolled for a little in front of the patch before calling it a night at 10pm.  You have to love spending almost the whole day on the water with two of the people you love most in this world.  Now if I can just convince Jojo he wants to fish tomorrow...

[Capt. Larry D. Jones]

Scott, Great report .I went to the SBH yesterday.I marked good hooks around Waverley Shoal, closed mouth.Trolled to Seneca Shoal, marked a good number of walleyes on the troll accross.Finally my first lake muskie for the year, a 39"er took a hi-fin trophy diver in niagara walleye color down 20ft on 30ft drop.Spent a good period of time at Seneca Shoal, no other hits there.Ran to north gap and trolled up
the Buffalo creek, rod went off just inside, up to the boat came a hammer handle northern pike.Crossed over to the green bouey line accross from the observation tower and turned up the 21ft edge toward Donleys wall and caught a 32"er.I had to quit by 5 pm to make the ECFAB meeting.I seen Frank's boat tolling high above the humpty dumps on my way up the freeway to SBH, looked like 4 other boats drifting triangle and think I seen you running down the east river by Strawberry Island then.Encouraging day! Back out on Thursday.

Capt Larry

[Scott Kitchen]

 

Greetings,

 2013-10-15 11:00 AM - Frank calls me to say do you want to fish tonight from say 5:30 PM till 9:30 PM.  Yes, yes I do!!

We spent the entire time in the triangle casting/jigging storm swim shads (sardine was the color of the night) with two modifications that I am currently using (I share more about that in the newsletter). 

Frank brought a V8 for me and added a little Frank’s Hot Sauce kicker, man that’s good!

About 6:45 PM I felt the thrilling sudden stop on a jerk where you just know it's not a snag and then the wonderful head shakes.  Frank! Fish!

As usual for me, the hit came at the beginning of the retrieve on a long cast so it was a few minutes before the fish was close to the boat.  Frank did a great job with the net; one shot and she was in the net.  A very clean and thick 48"er that I thought might have been 50".  I think the 49" fish from 9/29 was so thin I misjudged the length of this fish, which was so much thicker.

Unfortunately, that was it for the night and a large part of me wishes Frank had landed that fish instead of me. 

[Scott McKee]

Awesome fish Scott!  Couldn't you just feel "it" last night?  The whole River screamed "here, musky, musky,musky, musky, mussskkkyyy!"  Or maybe that was just you?

I've heard of head lamps before.  Where did you get a neck lamp?

From one fellow heart problem guy to another; the sodium level in a V8 is through the roof!  Watch out for those delicious little buggers!

Nice work fellas!

[jojo wilczewski]

Nice work boys. jojoout

[Capt. Larry D. Jones]

Scott, Congrads on a Nice Fattie! Oh Yes, Frank great job with the net too!

Capt Larry

[Frank Stachowiak]

Scott I have some low sodium V8 for you.