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The biggest king landed aboard the Fish Doctor as of the last day in June was 19 lb. 3 oz., but that all changed on July 1, when Tony Gelardi, Jr., owner of Pro-Flo Sportfishing, caught a 26 lb. 6 oz. king on a Michigan Stinger spoon. Fishing the spoon on a Dipsy Diver, the king hit with 205 feet showing on the line counter, but it wasn't long before Capt. Ernie, heard..., 939'. Now that's a blistering run. There seems to be several distinct size classes of kings in the area now, yearlings that are in the 20" range, all but mortally hooked fish being released, 2-year olds from 6-8 lbs., 3-year olds in around 20 lbs., and a few larger fish like the 26 lb. 6 oz. king we caught on July 1st. The largest reported off Oswego has been 29 lb. 9 oz., and is now leading the Summer LOC Derby. The 26 lb. 6 oz. fish would have been in 1st place in the Salmon Division of the LOC Derby, but you gotta be in it to win it! 3 article one [ARTICLETWOa][ARTICLETWOb][ARTICLETWOc][ARTICLETWOd] [ARTICLETHREEa][ARTICLETHREEb][ARTICLETHREEc][ARTICLETHREEd] [ARTICLEFOURa][ARTICLEFOURb][ARTICLEFOURc][ARTICLEFOURd] 4 Lake Ontario salmon fishing is starting to peak now as more and more adult kings concentrate in the southeastern end of Lake Ontario as they ready for spawning runs in tributaries like the Big Salmon and Oswego. We're fileting kings onboard every day now for Fish Doctor anglers, and the adults are heavy with eggs and milt. By early Sept., these fish will be stacked up right off the mouth of spawning streams. With the conditions of the fish we've been seeing like the big male at left, caught on 8/3/09, you can expect a few kings over 35 lbs. to be caught in late August and early September. 5 The 2009 Lake Ontario fishing season is just around the corner, and there is good news for king salmon anglers. According to Jana Lantry, one of NYSDEC's finest fishery biologist and the person in charge of DEC's Lake Ontario creel census, the number of 2-year old king salmon harvested by anglers in 2008 was the 5th highest in 24 years. An estimated total of 48,963 2-year old kings were caught in 150,000 boat trips. This is the same age class of kings that will show up in 2009 as 20-30 lb. 3-year olds. More good news from fishery biologist Maureen Walsh, with the U.S. Biological Survey unit, headquartered in Oswego, NY. According to Maureen, forage trawling data collected aboard the fisheries research vessel, "Kaho", showed the index for total alewife biomass was up, primarily because of a strong 2005 year class, that presently dominates the age composition of the alewife population. The 2007 alewife year class abundance is "middle of the road", and could also contribute to alewife abundance pending the impacts of a colder-than-normal '08-'09 winter and juevenile alewife mortality. With the index for alewife adults and biomass up, let's hope good king salmon growth and survival continues. An abundant alewife forage produces heavy-bellied kings like the one, left, that was caught on May 2nd. 6 If you've got cabin fever and are looking for an excuse to get out of the house this weekend, Capt. Ernie Lantiegne will be doing a series of seminars on "Catching Derby Winning Kings", at the Cabela's store in Hamburg, PA. He'll be speaking in one of the upstairs seminar rooms on Sat. and Sun. at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM. He'll have a table on the Tackle Dept. floor of the store where you can chat with him, ask questions, and check out fishing gear. Capt. Ernie will be demonstrating the Pro-Troll flashers and Howie Flies he has used to win the $20,000 grand prize in the 2006 Fall LOC Derby and the $10,000 grand prize in the 2007 Spring LOC Derby. A Pro-Troll flasher and Howie Fly also won the grand prize for another lucky angler in the 2007 Fall LOC Derby. Check out the 38 lb. 14 oz. king, left, that won the grand prize for Jim Huftanel in August, 2006.You'll also have an opportunity to check out the unique new, actionized, mylar JitterFly that Capt. Ernie field tested during the 2007 season. It's a winner producing great catches of coho and king salmon, steelhead, and brown trout. You'll also see the all new Goby Fly, created to mimic the round goby, a major fish forage now in the Great Lakes.Hope we see you at Cabela's in Hamburg this weekend. [ARTICLETWOa][ARTICLETWOb][ARTICLETWOc][ARTICLETWOd] [ARTICLETHREEa][ARTICLETHREEb][ARTICLETHREEc][ARTICLETHREEd] [ARTICLEFOURa][ARTICLEFOURb][ARTICLEFOURc][ARTICLEFOURd] 7 Cool spring weather has produced colder than normal water temperature, delayed the inshore movement of alewives and extended the spring brown trout fishing. Although erratic weather and winds have produced some challenging spring fishing thus far in the season, when conditions are right we've enjoyed some fantastic brown trout fishing. That was the case yesterday when Dave and Pat McMahon hit it just right, tangled with 7 nice browns and boated some dandies by 6:30 AM. They finished the morning with several more browns and a rainbow they released. Dave and Pat enjoy eating spring browns and kept their limtit of 6. Recently stocked yearling browns from 8 to 12 inches were a nuisance at times, but an encouraging sign for next season. These yearling browns will weigh 3 - 4 lbs. by next spring Midlake surface water temperatures are still in the mid-40's and inshore temperatures are in the 50's. The water temperature inside Oswego Harbor is still in the low 60's. Each spring, as alewives move inshore, we catch the largest browns of the season. With peak alewife spawn normally around midJune, the next few weeks should produce some lunker fish. Normally by now browns that are chowing down on alewives are bright silver with black spots. Interestingly, we're still seeing gobies in the stomachs of some browns, and these fish, like the one held by Capt. Ernie and Chuck in the photo, right, are much brighter colored than normal. Since browns usually get much brighter colored as they approach the fall spawning season, one has to wonder just what they'll look like come late season. 8 If you were blown off by high winds today, 8/20/07, and are itching to talk about fishing, Capt. Ernie, pictured left, will be at Bass Pro Shop's Auburn store from 4:00 - 8:00 PM today. He''ll be chatting with anglers about Lake Ontario trout and salmon trolling techniques, and at 7:00 PM will be giving a seminar on "Techniques for Catching Derby Winning Kings". Capt. Ernie guided Fish Doctor angler, Jim Huftanel, to a $20,000 Grand Prize winning 38 lb. 14 oz. king salmon in the 2006 Fall LOC Derby, with 7,000 derby entrants competing for 18 days in that derby. Then he followed that win by guiding Fish Doctor angler, Jim Unkel, to a $10,000 Grand Prize winning 24 lb. 2 oz. king salmon in the 2007 Spring LOC Derby, with 4,500 entrants competing for 10 days. In tonight's "Catching Derby Kings" seminar at the Auburn Bass Pro Shop seminar, Capt. Ernie will detail the techniques he uses to select for monster, big money kings. Hope you can make it. [ARTICLETWOa][ARTICLETWOb][ARTICLETWOc][ARTICLETWOd] [ARTICLETHREEa][ARTICLETHREEb][ARTICLETHREEc][ARTICLETHREEd] [ARTICLEFOURa][ARTICLEFOURb][ARTICLEFOURc][ARTICLEFOURd] 9 The question eastern Lake Ontario anglers were asking all July and early August was, "Where are the king salmon?" Salmon fishing was slow and everybody was wondering whether the kings would show up off Oswego and in Mexico Bay. Gary and Carla Delair and their fishing partners Art and Chris have the answer, photo left. They limited out on 8/29/08, with 11 kings and 1 coho by noon. Nice catch guys! They were out there somewhere all along!One thing we all tend to forget is that Lake Ontario is 193 miles long, 53 miles wide, and 862 feet deep. The surface area is an immense 10,229 sq. miles. Sooo..., there is lots of room out there for kings to "hide", and since most New York anglers fish less than 5 miles from shore, we're only scratching the surface, you might say, when it comes to locating salmon. 10 Here's another chance to catch Capt. Ernie's seminar on "Catching Derby Winning Kings". You'll find him at Bass Pro Shop's Lake Ontario Sportfishing Showcase this weekend at the Bass Pro store in Auburn, NY. His seminars are scheduled for Friday at 7:00 PM and Saturday at 2:00 PM. In this seminar, you'll learn exactly how Fish Doctor anglers Jim Huftanel and Jim Unkel won two grand prizes for a total of $30,000 in cash fishing aboard the "Fish Doctor" in the Fall 2006 LOC Derby and the Spring 2007 LOC Derby. Capt. Ernie, left, holds the Fish Doctor king that placed in the Summer 2007 LOC. You'll learn the details about how monster kings behave, where to locate these monsters, and how to rig copper and tune trolling flies to catch these big-dollar kings. Along with Capt. Ernie, DEC's Jana Lantry wil review results of DEC's 200 the lakewide Lake Ontario creel census, and captains Mike Dumesnil, Mike McGrath, Frank Campbell, and Vinny Pierleoni will will give seminars on everything from carp fishing to trout and salmon fishing in L. Ontario. If you're looking for some fishing action this weekend, the Auburn Bass Pro Shop is where you'll find it. 11 If you've been thinking about a salmon fishing charter on Lake Ontario or maybe a salmon fishing trip in your own boat, you could not pick a better time than right now, straight out of Oswego Harbor. Late last week, the salmon bite slowed, and over the weekend strong westerly winds and a nasty midday thunderstorm made salmon fishing tough. On Monday, westerly winds kept boats off the lake. For whatever reason, rough seas and high wind usually push king salmon into the Oswego area in midJuly, and that is exactly what happened. On Tuesday, July 14, two of the boats that fished in rough seas reported limit catches of kings. On Wednesday, July 15, on a short scouting trip prior to our 7/16 charter, we found lots of fish and bait on the fish finder, dropped a rigger to them down 170 feet, and boated a nice king in less than 5 minutes. Within the next 15 minutes we caught and released two browns. Reports from other boats fishing the Oswego area, were the same...., lots of nice kings. We're guessing our charters the rest of the week and this weekend will enjoy some very hot fishing. The king salmon in the photo at left must have been hungry. It hit a "Goldie Hawn" spoon that had only been in the water 5 minutes! 12 We're back on the water and the spring brown trout fishing has been excellent. With inshore water temperatures along the lake shore as high as 49 degrees and a bit higher in Oswego Harbor the browns are feeding heavily and providing lots of action on stickbaits and small spoons fished from planer boards and downriggers. A few cohos, rainbows, lake trout and even kings are being caught. On our last two trips, Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19, our Fish Doctor anglers did well, boating plenty of good eating browns, one rainbow, and a nice lake trout. With the weather staying cooler than normal, and night time air temperatures predicted to drop into the 30's during the night this week, we could be looking at an extended season of excellent shallow water brown trout fishing. Check out the nice catch taken by the Reyell party on Saturday, 4/18. 13 It happens every time, it seems. Winter "blesses" us with lots of snow followed by early spring rains, the Oswego River water level rises and great spring fishing for browns, cohos, rainbows, and kings results. It's happening right now! In recent days, flow in the Oswego has been around 18,000 cfs, well above normal. High flow carry lots of nutrients and plankton into Oswego Harbor. It's a magnet for baitfish, and predators follow. Fishing so far this spring has been excellent for browns, cohos, and rainbows, with a few kings also being reported. Look for hot king salmon action after the first of May.On April 17, 2008, it was time for our annual spring shake down cruise, just to make sure our 28', twin engine charter boat, the Fish Doctor, was purring like a kitten and all of the electronics, riggers, and other gear was working perfectly. It was also a good time to put some trolling gear in the water to check out whether the fishing was as good as the reports.Leaving the dock in midmorning, it didn't take long to find out. The first fish was a rainbow, the next two 2-year old browns up to about 4 lbs., and the last a 4 lb. coho. It was all we needed to know to confirm the reports we had heard about the great spring fishing, and we headed back to the dock. The best area we fished was less than 5 minutes from Oswego marina. As you can see in the photo, left, the browns are in nice shape. Nice fish Capt. Carol! 14 Happy holidays from Carol and Ernie at Adirondac Goldens and Fish Doctor Charters. We wish you and your loved ones the happiest, healthiest holiday ever! We also want to thank you all for your friendship and business in 2009, one of our best seasons ever. Since we started our golden business in 1970 and our charter fishing business in 1974 we have always strived to provide you with the best, whether it was a golden retriever pup or a charter fishing trip for trout and salmon on Lake Ontario. Whether the dogs find birds or the trout and salmon cooperate, we know we

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