mid oct report

Good deal! Payback for all that leaf removal.  Doesn't sound poor at all.  What was your weapon of choice?
 

Charlie the first day was Kings for the most part with the 11.5 ft Switch and 10 lb leader- kept breaking at the hook.
Second day was mostly Steel, went with a 9 ft 10 wt Triple Fork and heavier leader-shoulda been doing it just the opposite but ya never know what species is gonna be there lol.-
Using a #8 blue or purple fly with orange heads  and/or bodies and some sparkle in the hackle -have found that to be very effective on Kings as well as Steel and sometimes Hos. 
Kind of an all round choice for me.
 Kings were a nice mix of fresh and older fish. Some were surprisingly aggressive considering the time of year and how far up they were. Think many may have made it up there with little harassment considering the limited  numbers of fisher folks around. Have rarely found them so cooperative. Some of the male Kings were real respectable fish.
See PM
Sent to you and 2BOB.

Bob- I was shocked at Kiddie with so few guys around- only drove by once with a dozen or so.
Is it the fish or the time of year- Kind of always fish right through Nov and was under the impression of more guys that that being the norm.
Heck- see more guys there in Feb.

Goin nuts and gotta get back up very soon----
Also startin to clear the house for the sale-
Next year fewer trips but more fishing time, no chores when you are at motel and eating out   lol.
IMHO there about 2 things now for kings--Deep holes full of line shy fish and folks casting away or a few here and there in transition requiring lots of jumping around to find them.
Either way GOOD LUCK.
Steel are where ya find them now and frankly didn't  notice any Hos last week -but hoping.

They did the same- for the post part- last year too.
Used to find them into Nov up where I like to go but even in those couple of 'big run' years they seemed to stay low and then disappear. More cookies too.
A few years back there were fresh dead Hos in Kiddie in February.
The Lake conditions aint helping----

Thanks for the insight rg. I hope Fichy and uglyfish find that few willing.
I'm not pointing fingers or disputing others views but I still stand by the things I have been saying all summer from my insight of the lake.
If this is what has held true. Things will not change instantly, it will take time and seasons.
It will not deter me from spending another season every week on the Great Lake Adventure, it will though change my fishing. I will target lakers more and try to establish a jigging program for them

We got alittle water logged but had a great time as always. We did find some players

Good to Ug.
The weather had Lucky and I put the trip back by a day.
Hope springs eternal!

Ours were coho numbers no steel players. Saw a steel landed but was foul hooked.

Why we didn't go on Wednesday, the forecast sounded like a time we walked to lower clay and then had Fred show up to tell us they were closing due to the winds.  I still have the pass he gave me, my legs cramp up every time I look at it.  Thurs started nice, there were some fish in town, but then we got an encore of Wednesday,  Cold blowing wind and heavy rain.  2bob was not satisfied that his outfit was sufficiently water proof, so he put it to the total immersion test, where it preformed admirably at hindering his resurrection from the baptismal waters, as it had been filled to overflowing!  This got us to Mike's early and limited 2bob's afternoon excursion to the wall, where boots are not absolutely necessary.  I went down and watched 2 or three hooked in the Unemployment, then about 1/2 hour later, a guy on the island that forms from the middle bridge support of the 52 bridge hit three in short order, another 1/2 hour and there were some hookups in the riffs and then about three o'clock the church hole lit up. Thy were mostly 7-8 lbers, with the occasional huge pig, and the wall was the wrong side of the river, although I did have one come up to a wet in the surface film, and slash but felt no take. A pod of maybe a hundred or so chromers, we were hoping this was the "first big wave" of fall 2015, but yesterday, there was not much around again.  Definitely an off year so far.
 
The Browns are lbs, if you are at the mouths of the little streams at just the right time, they stack up, but this was the first time I timed it right in a few years, and I live within 5 miles, and got a phone call telling me they were there.  I would have brought the bigger one home, but I quit using eggs except in the finger lakes in the spring.
 
The genny is blown right out again, so no prospecting this weekend.  But the forecast is shaping up to be great for end of the week, so Wed Thurs Fri, I'll be an Oswego County resident again

Sometimes I get really f'in discouraged and doubt my abilities to fish; despite the decades of trial and error I've put in. And this is peculiar to the GL tribs, I have a goodly amount of confidence on other waters. Thanks for being honest and putting things in perspective. At least you were  "saved",  as Lucky did make mention of the baptismal waters. . Most get dunked in the summer or in a pool.  May count for more points at the gate.
Me, I'd take the 30 pieces of silver, or chrome, as the case may be. 

I will be out and about Monday........
Going to Oswego tomorrow to scope that out too.

Just tied 4 dozen sacs for Oswego. I took a slight dunking last year with Charlie. I think it was hovering right around 0

fichy
Sometimes I get really f'in discouraged and doubt my abilities to fish; despite the decades of trial and error I've put in. 

Fichy join the club.
Feels like I have been doing this forever and every year I start thinking I have lost it........until the first real grab and fight.

 
Guess its just me
Been reading a bunch of pro reports and everything is just fine on the SR with GREAT fishing for most all species.
Reminds me of  'back to the future' re runs.