The Great Lake Adventures 2015 Report page

What a pig nice fish and report Tuna!

Congrats on a successful 2015 maiden voyage on Lake O.

That is a PIG

Great fish tuna I hope you pointed it in the direction of the river. It be awesome to hook into that on the fly.

Yup great time had tuna!!!

A football with a tail....I'd say 15lb...

Just got back from a long strange trip.. We , family and friends were supposed to arrive thurs eve but just way to much stuff got in the way so we departed from home with camper to Selkirk shores at 8am..
Day-1
Arrived to a mostly packed campground around noon.. Got set up and took the wife and grandkids out to do a little fishing on a slight chop.. We went out about 4 miles and had 1 rod fire but nobody home.. Kids got bored of that long slow troll pretty quick.. Grandson (4) wanted like heck to use his Spiderman rod but I was the bad guy.. Quit around 5:30.. Get back to a now PACKED campgrounds with a nitwit who put up a tent right on our site... Nah, that wasn't gonna fly by me so it got moved..  Friends arrived and we hung by fire till dusk ..
Day-2
Got picked up at 7am and out we went.. Headed straight to the nuke plant(where all the boats were) and trolled, trolled and trolled for about 5-6 hrs and never moved a rod.. Seen some good marks and bait but no takers..
since the weather was gorgeous we shut the boat down and had a fabulous feast of marinated pork chops and some kind of wild rice.. The chef is outta this world !! After lunch I was first to jump in out in 160fow.. A shock at first , 64 degs but got acclimated .. Time to have some fun and I strapped on the skis ...

Been a very long time since I was skimming across the water but was up on the second try...Buzzed around for awhile before I dumped off , rested then went again... Fun stuff as it was chief engineers turn.. He was much better and while buzzing around started to take one ski off, kind freaked me out so I dumped him..lol
After that we flew up towards sandy pond and trolled back.. Trolled and trolled for another good 3 hrs.. Big ZIP !!!
Back to camp and get read for the spectacular fireworks ALL around the lake.. It was great ending of the day sitting on the pier at Selkirk :)
Day-3
Back at it 7am this morning with another idea, program in mind.. Shallow, 30fow for browns with stickbaits and spoons 10' down on riggers.. Again trolled, trolled and not a sniff.. Seen another boat hook up but we blanked out..
So that's the Independence Day report for the Great Lake Adventure..
 
Myself and crew will be backat it again next Friday-weekend.. I think we are going to back out deep and look for kings again.. Hope something happens SOOOOOOON !!!
 
Fare thee well:
Peace & Tuna
 

Here is the report from 7/10-12:
The workday on Friday started out rough.. got a call at 6am that my son had been injured at work and was heading to the hospital.. A high pressure air hose had come apart and blasted his skin .. When I arrived at work I got news he was in Albany medical and being held overnight for observation.. After my day was complete I went to hospital and seen what damage high pressure air can actually do.. It looked like severe frost bite , the area he was hit (wrist) was complete black skin.. Thankfully there was no foreign debris or air bubbles in his bloodstream and was doing fine so off I headed to the Great Lake Ontario:
 
day-1
we went out around 8am (yea we are late movers) to a west wind and about 2' chop.. We headed the 9 miles out to the plant with the rest of the fleet and started our trolling program in 160fow.. Troll, troll and trolled some more without a sniff.. The radio was busy from other boats that were catching fish, just not us.. After another killer breakfast aboard the Daisy, we gave it another 2 hrs and decided to head back to the dock and take a break and fuel up the boat..  Around 2 pm we went back out to a flat lake and plenty of bright sunshine so we headed 6 miles in the opposite direction up to Sandy Pond area..    Gave it a go for an hr or so while we were treated to another delicious lunch of BBQ chicken and baked beans :)
Enough fishing and time to have fun so we broke out the tube and began to play... The water was significantly warmer then the past week at 68-69 degs and felt awesome.. Tubing was much easier the skiing so that was our afternoon:
 
Returned to the dock around 6 and went to play miniature golf for the evening.. There was a huge party going on at the chicken shack across the street and at dusk till 10:30 we were treated to an AWESOME fireworks display aboard the Daisy:
 
day-2
Another 8am start to a pretty flat lake.. The day before I noticed a lot of fish in the 125fow out towards the plant so off we went..
Set up our program with spin doc's down 100' and stackers up 30'. The stacker rod with a spoon fired and my buddy landed a nice 10# king..
 
Wasn't long after the deep rod fires and we had em' then lost em'
We stuck in that area the rest of the day and picked up another 20# king on a spin doc 100' down..

Fished until around 3 pm then headed in to put the boat to rest for a few weeks (for me) ..
 
So what I'm seeing/learned is that there was a good west wind prior and while we were there and it helped bring some fish into the eastern basin.. From the reports (chatter) on the radio, it seemed there were quite a few fish being caught and the vast majority were in the 20# or less range.. Lets hope it's a start and LOTS more and the bigguns will be showing up soon :)
We smoked 1/2 of the small fish last night and it was delicious :)
I am heading to Rhode Island to do some clamming and wont return to the Great Lake until 7/31 but my crew is going back this weekend to try their luck..
I can hardly wait to hear and hope the fishing is outta sight this weekend :
 
Be back with another report in 3 weeks :)

Clams got feet?

Yup, I'm loving the lazy part by them , me too .. And ohhhh they taste soooo gooood :)
Great weather out here

pafisher

hot tuna
Yup, I'm loving the lazy part by them , me too .. And ohhhh they taste soooo gooood :)
Great weather out here

WHAT......no pictures?????

Well jack , pictures are few and far as I misplaced my good waterproof camera sometime last year and been relying on my phone for pics lately . Thing is , my lens is cracked on phone so I'm pretty much relying on others and storing my memories in my empty skull ..
I will get something posted when I return home..
Weather has been perfect and crowds light. Would expect it will get busy this afternoon - Sunday though.
Lots of guys have been fishing in the breech way but I haven't seen any catching going on. Thought I seen Fichy way out there waist deep on a sand bar but then realized it was just another spin fisher .
Fun times indeed but I can't wait to return to the Great Lake adventures in 2 weeks :)

Tuna awesome stuff man!!!

I'm still in the westerly area rg, great sun nice surf and light pressure . Stuffed ourselves with fresh surf & turf ..
My 3 rd favorite hang out !!!

I have vacationed in Narragansett Pier for the last twenty plus years.  Love what the area has to offer.  I even caught a striper or two fishing the surf off the town beach and blues in the pond between Wheeler and the lighthouse. Surf, sun, fishing and seafood are a great combination to recharge the batteries.  Golf too at Weekapaug and Exeter CC's.
   

I like the waters were the Narrow River enters on the eastern end of Narragansett Town Beach.  I've seen many a striper landed by surf fishermen using sand fleas (sand crabs).  Lace two or three on the hook and send it out into the surf.  The stripers cruising back and forth while picking off the sand eels are more than happy for the free meal provided the dogfish don't beat them to the punch.