Out of Town Work – provides Out of Town Play, July 2, 2012

Rich and co-worker Roger were up from California to work in Ontario for a little over a month on a decommissioning project in Solar power industry. Rich and I were back-and-forth trying to fit this into our schedules where he was working long hours and some weekends to bring the project to a close and then fly home.

With only a week left to stay, it was finally time to “Play”, and it was all about time spent catching fish on Lake Ontario.

The weather forecast was calling for hot temperatures and the lake was flat with little to no wind. We motored out of the marina heading out the North East and settled in water a little shallower to start the morning. I was curious to see if the bait was concentrated in shallower when we head east of Grimsby.

It was minutes into the troll and we caught our first fish in 70 FOW. We caught and kept the Rainbow Trout and kept trolling the 70-80 ft depths going through giant schools of alewife. It was a steady pick of rainbows and the odd Chinook salmon until we got to in front of Beamsville where we discovered a pod of fish that kept the rods moving for nearly an hour on Salmon. We lost a good salmon on a wire diver and Yeck 88 NBK. A nice surprise was this Brown Trout that also took the Yeck 88 NBK spoon on a wire diver out 140 on 3 seting.

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Then the bite slowed and we headed for deeper water and then trolled back towards the west to in front of Grimsby.

The SONAR was blank for about 2 hours as we trolled in the 100 to 140 FOW between Beamsville and Grimsby. Then like a light switch the bait was all over the screen and the fishing got hot along with the temperatures on a flat lake.

We started catching Rainbow and smaller salmon, one after another for the last 2 hours of the trip. By noon it was time to pack it in and come back to dock. At the same time they had reached full limits while we were clearing lines. It’s always fun to clear line with biting fish rather then pulling them out themselves.

When you are out-of-town for work, can also mean you can be out-of-town for play. Why not play with some hard fighting, high jumping and drag burning salmon and trout on Lake Ontario?

Shane Thombs www.FINtasticSportfishing.com