Fall Browns or?

rtkman · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:28 am **Posts:** 528

Are there Browns to be had this time of year or is my best bet fishing for eyes? I've never caught browns so I don't have much of a clue.

TheLandshark · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:40 pm

target browns in the spring and eyes in the fall, the big girls will show up in A reach in a month

rtkman · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:28 am **Posts:** 528

Thanks. I gotta get out this weekend for something.

BigGene · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:36 pm

if the conditions are right and you have the boat to handle it, go east and deep.

rtkman · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:28 am **Posts:** 528

Up the reach for eyes you mean? That's what I'm thinking too.

Trannyman1 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:51 am

We are going back to the Bonnet tomorrow. One more shot in the big lake before I put the boat on the trailer for Quinte this fall.

Weather looks good for tomorrows run and temps at the Bonnet look super.

I have always done well when the surface temps are between 54 & 58 degrees on the surface and it looks like we will have that tomorrow.

Al

rtkman · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:28 am **Posts:** 528

Hmm now you have me thinking Al lol.

rtkman · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:28 am **Posts:** 528

Any tips you can share? Keep in mind I've never caught a brown in my life...

Trannyman1 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:04 pm

Out this evening. got back in from the Bonnet at 10 pm. Got a brown a Barbie Reef Runner while trolling for eyes. Brown was about 5 lbs. 2 eyes about 10 lbs on a perch husky jerk.

Sorry No Pics. Fishing alone and boat control was a bitch while landing fish.
Will have Big Gene with me tomorrow. We'll have pics provided he gets his camera fixed.

Later
Al

BigGene · **Posted:** Sat Sep 17, 2011 3:49 am

Geez, Hope you saved some for this morning. LOL!

rtkman · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:28 am **Posts:** 528

Well I ended up with about a 8lb Walleye and a 4-5 lb Rainbow. Oh well it was a good first time using planer boards overall. I do need to upgrade the front clip though as they came off a couple times. Rough ride back in my little boat this afternoon too.

Trannyman1 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 17, 2011 3:35 pm

rtkman wrote:

Well I ended up with about a 8lb Walleye and a 4-5 lb Rainbow. Oh well it was a good first time using planer boards overall. I do need to upgrade the front clip though as they came off a couple times. Rough ride back in my little boat this afternoon too.

rtkman, I take it that was you in the blue & white boat. Nice vessel.

I watched you net the eye, nice fish. Sorry, I didn't intend to get that close to you but we were committed to that troll, before I realized you put the boat in neautral. Gene and I were running cores off the in-line and we couldn't drop our speed back or would have been hooked to the rocks.

Big Gene will post a report on todays activities.

Bud, you should get yourself a VHF radio. Long drift to shore if something happens.

Good Luck
Al

rtkman · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:28 am **Posts:** 528

Ya that was me. I bought that boat never intending to hit the big lake with it. I plan on getting a bigger / deeper boat in the future. It was my fault we got that close im sure but with 1 person in the boat its hard to net a fish and steer at the same time while trying to be safe. In my boat the dammed thing will turn just by me walking to one side. I didn't get to weigh it I couldn't find my scale and I didn't want to risk the fish dying just so I could weigh it. I was going to live well it but then said screw it put her back. I got all my action on that side of the island. Im going to have a radio in the boat by spring. I have a cell phone but they don't work too good wet so a vhf is going to be a must. I would have liked to keep fishing but those rollers were getting to be a bit much to be that far from the launch by myself. It was a rough and sometimes wet ride back. I Think I got a pic of you guys fighting a fish. I'll see if its any good and post it.

rtkman · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:28 am **Posts:** 528

The pic is crappy. Dang cell phone pic. Seemed alot closer at the time.

JimW · **Posted:** Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:49 pm

Good to hear a few walleye been caught on the big lake.

I had a crappy day bass fishing, I may have to head down and try from some eyes on the big lake real soon.

Jim

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