Just booked my first fishing charter

stokes said:

Good luck. My friends and I had been talking about doing Lake Ontario for years til we finally got it together 3 yrs ago,I got one booked for mid June out of Sodus Point. Have been doing one or two trips each year for the past 3 yrs. This is our 2nd trip with this Capt. Theother trips were all out of Oswego. Will likely book another in the later season as well. King salmon are some of the best fighting fish I ever caught. What hours do you do on a night trip? We like the 6 hour trip from 2 til 8pm. Havent seen any boats that go out later.

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stokes said:

My first one was a similar size, 26lbs, took a half hour to get him in the boat. The reels had line counters, hit the line out about 600 ft and every time I'd get him under 100 ft he'd run back out to 500 or so feet. Really tired me out, first time in my life I felt like the fish was gonna win, and I've caught a lot of similar sized stripers, no comparison, the salmon was a killer. I was really impressed when fish half that size put up similar fights. We've used 3 different Capts and every one was a home run, limited out every time except last fall, we had 3 guys and 2 of us limited, my friend Mike was one short. When we did our first trip, it was supposed to be a one time, bucket list kinda thing, we had been talking about it for years and after that first salmon, we were hooked. I was especially impressed with the mates on these trips, they got 7 lines out all the time and we never had a tangle.

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FP1201 said:

I've been on a few Charters out of Oswego (with Syracuse Friends) and out of Henderson Harbor (9 miles from my house) with locals...They all fish "the Trench" which is a deep water channel the Trout species really like...sometimes you hammer the fish, sometimes you just get hammered.
When you got out in that deep water with multiple people you want as big a Boat as you can get...Ontario is a fickle bitch and she'll change conditions on you quick.
Growing up we always had Boats of every size and shape: I still catch myself reading Boat for Sale ads, then remember it's still cheaper to rent one.
"If it floats, Flies, or fucks; rent it!"

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stokes said:

The boat we're going out on is a 36' but I still wouldnt do it with more than 3 people. My friend Rob runs a charter out of Bklyn in Marine Park. He's got a 40'er and he would take a group of us out from work a couple times a year. Even on that boat 6 people was crowded.

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stokes said:

Yeah, they all say 6 people, I wouldnt do more than 3, could do 4 but cant be no fat guys in the crowd.

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holdover said:

Ive done walleye charter before it was a blast I want to do one this year out of small boat harbor buffalo anybody got a reference?

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stokes said:

Once you go and find you like the boat/Capt and want to book another you just call the Capt and book directly. Fishing booker keeps the deposit as a fee for the Capt to use the service. So the boat charges $600, the deposit is $60, the Capt only gets $540. From what I understand the mate doesnt get paid much but relies on tips so dont be cheap. All the boats I've gone on the mates were fantastic and really earn the tips.

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stokes said:

They all troll when it comes to salmonids. If they've been at for a long time, they know where the fish are. Every trip we did the 2 to 8pm trip. What this Capt does is for the first couple hours he'll hit a spot that has recent reports of fish just to see, they dont want you to limit out in the first hour. Each time he knew that we'd start hitting them around 5 pm, and told us so. He trolls around a couple hours and slowly makes his way back to his "hot spot" and its game on. The limit is 3 fish in any combo, trout, laker and browns and salmon. Dont know about you, but at my age 3 fish this big is just about enough. September is an ideal time for salmon, they are as big as can be and start to congregate near the tribs for the spawn. You should do well.

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stokes said:

Any of the boats I fished with have at least 4 rods in the water. Two in the back on downriggers and one on each side on dipsy divers I believe they are called, they keep the lines out to the side and down at a predetermined depth. Sometimes they'll have as many as seven rods out. Three across the back on downriggers and 2 on each side. We have 2 or 3 guys on the boat, just take turns, you get first strike, you get second etc. If ya lose a fish before we can see it, you go again, miss a second and you're thru till your next turn comes up. This trip we had 4 of the fish we caught on the same rod, so it isnt really fair to assign rods. We do a pool for biggest fish, $100 a man. Then we just divvy up the filets, we have the filets cut into 3 pieces each filet, about 6" to 8" each. These fish yield thick filets 2+ inches or so. I dont eat fish, but my son and his wife eat a lot of fish, they tell me that once you skin and cook them, you cant tell the dif between salmon and trout, they get all my fish.

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stokes said:

I would think the size of the boat isnt the main factor. The smallest boat we have been on was the one using 7 rods. This boat we now use varied, sometimes 4 sometimes 6. I dont know how old the kids are but if they are very young one big salmon may be all they want to deal with, lol. The kids land a couple of these you can bet they wont want to go crappie fishing no more. I'm old, and I can tell you that if I had to land one and grab a pole right after, that second one may very well beat me. Need at least a beer and a butt between fights. September is a hot time for these fish, on our Sept trip we often were up fighting at the same time with 2 fish on at the same time. We had 3 guys fishing so we always got a bit of a rest between fish.

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stokes said:

Ok, not kids, young men. They'll have a blast. That age they can pull em in all day. One thing I dont care for is that the mates will grab the rod first and set the hook then hand you the rod, at least on the boats I've been on. I guess they dont want to take the chance of some wahoo grabbing the rod out of the holder and getting it ripped from their hands.

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