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May 22, 2007
Fished 100—230 fow just west of Wilson, water temp 48-50 degrees. Slight east wind, building, west bound current, cloudy.
Once again started the morning by dropping the Pink Vampire deep to 110’, and another rigger at 90’ and the 42 second spoon at 27. Again the deep rig was the first to pop — a Coho, then the SSW (high while we were letting it out), then a few more on the deep riggers.
The fish that were hitting deep were screaming for the surface and were not staying on, so I tightened the releases and the next fish, a 2-3yr old king got the hook buried deep in his jaw.
A big salmon hit the deep rig once more and quickly ran several hundred feet of line off then wrapped up in the planer board and broke off. While re-tying, I dropped the port rigger with a DW metallic glow frog down to 121’ and within seconds another big king was screaming, the fish got some slack and was gone. Moments later the new Vampire was sent down and on the very next pass, whack another screamer, another broken line — frayed from the planer board, I simply didn’t take enough line from the reel before re-tying. In just half an hour we had lost 3 good king and 4 (mupped) Pink Vampires.
In the meantime the dipsy were both working the port dipsy was 110’ out and catching kings on a NBK stinger the starboard dipsy was 250’ and taking Cohos on a green/glow Spin Dr with a pickled sunshine fly. By now 9 AM we were down to just 6 rods and still fishing strong.
At 10:00 we put the 14th fish on ice (we had already released 4 legal fish) and at 10:10 released the fish that would have made the limit. The guys wanted one spot for a big king in case we caught one. At 10:30 the wind began to pick up out of the East and our fish were gone, no more on the screen, no more on the lines.
East wind means go with yellow so I rigged up some M & M and put them out at 40’, a red & yellow slider above it then DW’s glow M & M down 110’. We took a couple of coho on the high rigger, began cleaning fish around noon and just as the last fish made it to the cleaning board the deep DW popped and began to scream with the 18 pounder below. This was fish 15 so onto the fillet board it went and before it was filleted the same rod popped again with a 12 pound king also below, this fish was promptly released after the photo.
This was the kind of day that makes memories for even an experienced skipper, we ended the day with more than 20 fish boated and more than 40 hits, that an average of a hit every 12 minutes. This kind of action is what fishing during the month of May on Lake Ontario is all about!
Keys to our success: We never went more than .5 miles from the first 2 fish that hit Speed of 2.7 mph Fishing Deep (click here for details)
Hot lures Red & White Honeybee slider on 27’ rigger 42 second spoon 27’ M&M 27’ Kevorkian 40’ Pink Vampire 110’ DW M & M 107’ DW Metallic Glow Frog 121’ White flasher no-see-um SSW (600’ copper) Green/white Spin Dr, Pickled Sunshine 250’ dipsy NBK purple dipsy 110’
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