October 14-16
weather we had last weekend. That point was further brought home with a
forecast for Friday and Saturday that called for sustained wind over 35 mph, with
possible gusts to 60; 100% chance of rain; 1-2" of rain "possible"; and temps
in the upper 40's to low 50's. Yikes!
But, we decided to forge on anyway, so Gary, Brian, Mark, Doug, Jack and I packed
up and headed back over to Chautauqua Lake after work Friday. And it rained.
Hard.
So we hung out and laughed a lot, watched the Sabres on TV and hoped that the
fact it wasn't going to be as windy as they had called for, and the fact that the rain
had stopped at 11 pm would bode well for Saturday. It didn't. And did I mention
it rained. Hard.
A few of the guys tried fishing off the dock in the morning, and some of us did it again in the afternoon. We probably got over 100 fish, mostly small perch.
Got up this morning and it didn't look too bad, so we got the boats in and headed across. Learned
very quickly that it was still much windier on the east shore. And it rained again. Unfortunately,
not a whole lot of cooperative fish either.
But at least we still had a great time!
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Hoping to have a few stream reports coming in the next few weeks.......
October 7, 8 and 9
Headed over this weekend with my brother, son and a friend to do some
fishing on Chautauqua Lake. Each day the fishing got better, and we probably
boated a couple hundred perch, sunnies and other fish, but never really got into the
keepers.
Could not have asked for better weather, though, and as usual, ate like pigs!
Nice way to spend a few days, for sure.
October 2
"Times Two" out of the water for the season a few days earlier than we had hoped.
Saturday and Sunday brought us the Fall like weather (45-50 degree daytime highs)
and lots of showers that had been forecast, so in retrospect we made the right call.
2011 for the most part, brought us lots of great fishing! We did have a few clunkers, but
thankfully they were few and far between. Whew!
Our "fishing" season started this year on Chautauqua Lake over Mother's Day weekend, fishing
for perch. We really hit it just right and boated loads of fish over the two days we were there.
From there, we moved onto French River, Ontario for our annual pike trip. That too was awesome
again.
We finally got on to Lake Erie in early June, and Jack and I got our first walleye of the season
on our first trip out. After a few more days doing that, it was on to South Carolina for some
family R & R (and of course, some fishing too).
Our July was real busy, with lots of charters sandwiched around the Ameracan Derby, a trip to
Moon River, and then in early August, the Con Club tournament. Then we had the engine issues,
and our trip to the Oak, before winding out the walleye charters and doing some perch fishing to
round out our season.
Again this year, we had really great groups on board, and very much enjoyed the fun days with you when we really got into the fish, and appreciate those of you that hung in there with us on those tough days!
We were honored to be affiliated again in 2011 with some great companies....Dreamweaver Lures, Okuma rods and reels, Gamma Line, and Zman Chattersticks! Their great products makes our days on the lake that much better!
Coming up, we've got some perch fishing lined up on Chautauqua Lake; a least a trip or two up to the Oak to do some fall king fishing; and maybe even some steelheading in PA. We'll post it as we do it!
We SINCERELY APPRECIATE your business and support, and hope you enjoyed your day(s) with us! And we hope you enjoy our journal too!!
Hope to see you all soon!
Capt. John
September 25
After catching (and cleaning) lots of perch the last few days, I wanted to take one
more shot at trying to get a walleye. You can imagine that idea was not met favorably
my my perch king son. But, utimately, I had the keys, so off we went.....
Unfortunately, the plan was way better than the result 
We got one smallmouth, and a small perch and generally trolled a blank screen for
the couple of hours we gave it. And of course, they nailed the perch again......
September 24
Headed out this morning with my son, Capt. Gary (Kongo Charters) and his daughter
Zoya to try our luck. Capt. Bud and Gramps were already getting a few and they
told us to head over their way.
Didn't take long until we got into them as well. We boated 81 beauties before
it started to slow down. Same deal...65 fow with minnows.
I think the weatherman got it right for the first time all year! Beautiful morning!
September 22
So far, its been a pretty good week to be me as far as fishing goes......
First it was the awesome wall fishing at the Oak with Get Hooked Sportfishing (see
September 18th post); and now tonight I had an awesome evening of perch fishing
with my son and Capt. Bud (Alibi).
I don't do that much perch fishing on Lake Erie, so to land 76 beauties in just over
2 hours was awesome! A couple of them were 14", and were the biggest perch that
I have ever seen!!
65 fow, just east of the harbor with live minnows did it for us!
What a beautiful evening to be on the lake.....might not be to many more of these for this season!
Great idea, Bud!
September 21
I was down at the marina tonight with my son watching the storm front approach. Lots of
far off thunder and lightening. Lake was flat, with no wind ahead. Very wierd look; almost
looked like smoke blowing in.
Sept 18 at the Oak
Headed out about 6:20 or so, and Capt. Mick started setting the rods as we cleared the breakwall. It didn't take very long to get that first bite, about a 12lber.
We ended up landing 7 out of 8, with the biggest pushing about 25lbs.
Got the last one in the net as we turned to head up the chute at about 9 am.
Fished tight to the wall, and slightly west, in 10-15 fow, JPlugs and J-13 rapala's long lined and off
the riggers. Capt. Mick and Jack did a great job, and both Bud and I would recommend that you contact them if you'd like to get into this fish!
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Also had another awesome time at the Black North Inn, our home away from home! Thanks Jenna,
Beanie, Tracy and Steve!!!
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Hope to have a report from the Oak coming soon........
September 11
First and foremost, on this 10th Anniversary of the September 11 attacks....
THANK YOU to the firemen, police and those in the armed services for all
you do! Watching some of the shows in the last few days, it still is really
unbelievable to see the towers get hit, and fall, and all of the effort that took
place afterwards.
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The clunk you may have heard about noon today was the walleye fishing hitting
rock bottom. What a horrible, horrible 2 days.
We dodged a t-storm to start the day, before setting up in 70 fow. Pretty
good screen, some fish up higher and the down temp came back 6 degrees
from yesterday. Unfortunately, that was as good as it was going to get.
The walleye bite was non-existant, a theme that was repeated when speaking
to a couple of others at the dock.
We packed it in at noon and saved it for another day.
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Done with the charters for this season, but we're planning on keeping "Times
Two" in for a few more weeks yet. Maybe we'll get one more shot at it....
