Open Water 2006 Reports Part II

[CNYFrank]

Tim is all talk . . .we all know he plays miniture golf

[CNY Tim]

Well I can't top that Franky the resident stud master and all keeper of the frenzy but ideserve that for not burning up Lee's cell phone minutes. I'll take the heat as usually but I'm cooled by Northshore's wonderfull slam below. Well done Greg the 26" and 22" are fat and sassy!

[insurance guy]

QUICK, somebody call Greenpeace, we have some beached whales on the lawn

[cnypanfisher]

Hey that was 3 before midnight, and 3 after midnight right? I always wondered how that works, especially during the spring all nighters when the crappies are running in the Oneida River lol.

Excelent mess of fish my grandpa would say, any1 got any bread crumbs or some beer batter handy??

TO Tim

[north shore]

Thats right! Knowing that I couldn't fish tonight I decided to stick it out in the wind and the snow and catch a limit after 12. I guess that you have to be there at the right time and also brave the elements.So many guys are done waiting for ice but there is always something to catch even if it is a cold. Had a blast even when you do have to throw them back.May hit the water later with the Rogue Kid and make a few casts.Thanks again Tim for posting the pics.

[north shore]

Arrived at the bar with the Rogue Kid at 1150 and no one on the point. A bump on the first cast and a couple throw backs before midnight then the action started.Managed to put six in the bucket in about 45 min with another 26 1/2" and a couple 22+. All off the preacher box. Guess that I wont have to attend church on sun. 14 fish total for the evening. No one around at all. A great time with the Rogue kid it was.!!! Tim: Sending you pics again. Still havent figured this new camera out yet.!

[CNY Tim]

HOLY dump!!!!! You slammed em again! OMG and I won't be able to post the pics till I get home form work... This is fricked up... Your killing me Campbell.

Well Done!

The solunar table has been on absolute fire late, check it out...

Heather leaves later today for a week in Italy for her Architecture trip she's so excited...

[north shore]

I know,I know, this is almost like a broken record. but then it just keeps playin and playin and playin.Want to fish tonight but if so it will be a after 12 trip.

[CNYFrank]

Got out of Apacolypto around midnight last night, and again . . . .thought about a trip to the bar. I see I would not have been alone, but was afraid someone would report me and take away my security clearance. Great job and NS don't forget to put something in the offering.

[insurance guy]

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Arrived at the bar with the Rogue Kid at 1150 and no one on the point. A bump on the first cast and a couple throw backs before midnight then the action started.Managed to put six in the bucket in about 45 min with another 26 1/2" and a couple 22+. All off the preacher box. Guess that I wont have to attend church on sun.

14 fish total for the evening. No one around at all. A great time with the Rogue kid it was.!!!

Tim: Sending you pics again. Still havent figured this new camera out yet.!

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Wow, nice job on the eyes again. I couldn't stay up that late to fish and still function at the office in the morning I'm gonnna just work a half day today and take the boat out this afternoon into the evening at the local lake here and see if I can't catch me a walleye or two or three This warm weather is like the energizer bunny, it just keeps going and going and going and the way the walleyes keep biting, who's complaining

[CNYFrank]

BTW, showed Tim a little handy work on a number 4 wolfram jig . . .will post over to the ice fishing area this afternoon . . .Jay you will appreciate.

[CNY Tim]

Insurance Guy - Us shoreline guys are a strange nocturnal breed Good luck today!

[insurance guy]

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Insurance Guy - Us shoreline guys are a strange nocturnal breed

Good luck today!

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Thanks Timmy. I think Sunday night we "might" be doing a little night trolling at the lake with the big perch we fished with Robb a month or two ago. I got a feeling that we could tie into a big girl down there now once the sun sets pulling those big Rogues. The weeds should have died back quite a bit now making trolling shallow a little easier. I'll let ya know how it turns out if we go.

[north shore]

Arrived at the bar early with Hendo to get a good spot @330. A little chop until dark then it died down.The fishin was quite slow as we hit a few and CNY Frank hit a few also. The highlight of the evening was when I hooked a 40"+ northern on 6lb mono and had a blast.The area between the pt and the manor was hot as was Vassil pt.Hendo managed to get his likmit and I well got my exercise. Good luck on the lake Tim.

[CNYFrank]

You should have seen the look on Hendo and my face when North Shore said the northern hit way out . . .yeah like 10 feet way out. Between the three of us we looked like we were fishing for salmon . . NS ducking under my line and Hendo and me casting for its brother! Not many fish but at least we got some fresh air. My 30 minutes late was as expected but this morning all is well. Was cleaning fish at midnight and thought . . just thought about coming back out.

[BigJohnnyIce]

North Shore,

Great job again....another 26 1/2 incher...all I can say is Amen brother. From the preacher's box, too. Amen again.

[insurance guy]

What a great night of trolling last night out in the Lund. I picked up my first eye at 4:40 and then nothing until about 6:15 and then I quickly got 4 hookups and boated 3 of those and then about 6:45 CNYTim calls me on my cell and not 30 seconds into the call, BANG, my 5th eye rips into the Tiger Roan Put that one into the livewell and capped of my limit and then called Timmy back to talk a little. Gotta love it. Surface temps down to about 38 now but the bite just keeps getting better and better. All fish were between 17" and just under 22". 3 males, 2 females. Nice calm night out with plenty of moonlight to make it a little easier to watch the rods. I've got the Lund still hooked up to the truck and I'm going back tonight after work for a couple hours to try again I think tomorrow and Sunday I'm fishing for lakers as I have things to do both nights in the early evening so I can't stay out late enough for eyes but I don't mind catching lakers either. They're hitting real good right now too.

[north shore]

Thanks Johnny; Always a blast to catch fish so late in the season. The northern last night was a great hookup and you could of warmed your hands off my drag. It was SMOKIN. If it had been a eye it was definately a wall hanger.Thanks to Frank and Hendo they give me the shore to land it. Oops my doorbell is ringing. Oh its just Hendo picking me up for another walleye slaughter. Will report later.

[HENDO542]

Thanks for the ride today had fun . The fish for lunch so great. Will drop you a land line later to see whata up CNYTim hope you had a good day on the lake.

[Dark Cloud]

Dad and I hit the river here this afternoon. Another slow pick - we ended up with 7 keeper eyes and 2 perch. Threw back about the same number of short eyes. Chilly but a nice day on the water...

[north shore]

A slow night at the bar with only one fish caught by Hendo. Not much traffic and not many fish either .Wind was out of the east and it was a bit chilly. Oh well always great to fish with great company.

[CNY Tim]

Okay guys like Dark Cloud said it was a grind out there yesterday... Lloyd, Steve and I left the launch about 7 a.m. in the morning with no guarantees but a good time on probably the last boat open water trip of the season. Well it didn't take us long to get the first fish of the day.... try 3 p.m. when Steve hooked up with a tooth pick grass rat. We had like a NNE wind around 7-10 during the day which flipped to a 10-15 east wind in the late evening. 3 p.m. first fish?? as you can see it was a long day but we knew with the chop we still had time to grind it out and make something happen late, hoping....

Sandwiched in the middle of the day was a wonderful lunch prepared by Lloyd's wife Mary absolutely excellent sandwiches and firehouse cookies for desert.. Lloyd and Steve did a little shopping in the Manor while at lunch and we ran into Bob G off Lewis Pt.. and we ran into him again at the Manor, he was nice enough to get some photo's of us below after lunch and as we were going out for afternoon/evening run, thanks Bob!

LLoyd, Steve and Tim..

Off the Manor and view to the lake.. I love this pic...

Okay Guys after slugging and not marking many at all we rested are hopes of salvaging a succesful trip on a good night run. Lesser fisher would have chalked it up to a bad day and cashed in ther chips to play again. But as we know the Overtime Gang plays to win... Well basically here's the way it went in a nut shell. We fished Marion Manor to Little Lewis Pt. drift and we caught our limits but it was no slaughter fish were 15" to 22" and sassy as usual.. Plugs that worked well were mostly Frankies Frenzy and Lloyd and I managed two lose both alter on. Lloyd some how came undone from his duo lock snap and mine was fighting what I believe would have been the big boy of the day but I was on a rock shoal with 6lb. P-Line and was kicking myself for not retying on the last fish, lesson learned. It was a slammer too Lloyd yelled "Steve! Get the net! Timmy's rods doubled over!" We caught 1 eye on a challenger jr. minnow, 6 on Frenzy's and two on (drum roll please, dah dah dah..... Walmart minnow those beautiful $1.99 minnows took the last two keeps. So CNY Frank and Fishin Phils babies did the job for us, but it was a long sling to get to 9. We finished up a little before 11 p.m. where I believe the bite was picking up because we did well on our last drift. I was so exhauseted afterword, sorry didn't have time to post when I got home. Felt sorry for Steve and Lloyd they still had a 2.5 to 3 hour drive home. Well I saw this off the manor guys and I had to get a picture of it here's 7 guys all lined up and we saw an 8th guy arrive a little later.

Steve and I with a couple of keeps and Steve kept throwing Lloyd's fish in the livewell before I could snap a pic

It was nice to meet Steve's ice fishing partner and good friend Lloyd, excellent fella and look forward to spending a day with them guys ice fishing this winter. Steve., always a pleasure sir and I want to thank you for running the trolling motor all night long stiff winds., sore back you worked that motor magnificently under pretty harsh shoal conditions with wind. Really the only down thing that happened was after we finished with our limit I believe we ran out of battery power to turn over the Merc and had to come in on the Minn Kota. Great time was had by all but I'm sure Steve is paying for it today. Overtime is appropriate I think. Thanks for coming up from Newburgh guys!

[north shore]

Hard core I guess. Thats what you call putting the time on the water. Good you got your limits.Tim: Thanks for posting the pic of the northern in my past report a page back. Have caught a bunch of northerns but none of this size. Getting a little snow here on the east end of Oneida at this time.

[insurance guy]

Oh man, they were really biting good last night Had the Lund out again and it was pretty cold, surface temps were down to 37 but I got my 5 fish limit in just under an hour and a half. All nice fish between 17" and 21". The Tiger Roan rides again Here's a couple of em with my self timer "bow shot"

Not sure if it's okay to post this one but here's a neat livewell shot I took also.

Note from admin Natural Environment please

[CNY Tim]

Way to go John - man this walleye run has been something else. Went to pull the drain plug on the Lund after we loaded up last night and no water came out Looked at Steve and he said "That's because there's ice in the bottom" Talked to North Shore a couple minutes ago and the bar is back into slam form tonight!