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Any time. My suggestion would be to buy a 1000 yd spool of stealth core and look for 47h Diawia reels online used. We run leadcores all year long of all lengths. For the next month mostly 2 and 3 colors. We find that our fishing the next month will be done in the top 30 ft. Try going to where everyone fishes at night and run your cores in 25 to 35 ft sometimes slightly closer sometimes out a little further. I'll take a picture of a drawing of my spread. Usually eight rods. It will help. Just be careful on turns you can loose a lot of gear fishing like this. My name is Ron and I fish mostly out of Dunkirk were my boat is docked. "Dances with Fish".

Any time. My suggestion would be to buy a 1000 yd spool of stealth core and look for 47h Diawia reels online used. We run leadcores all year long of all lengths. For the next month mostly 2 and 3 colors. We find that our fishing the next month will be done in the top 30 ft. Try going to where everyone fishes at night and run your cores in 25 to 35 ft sometimes slightly closer sometimes out a little further. I'll take a picture of a drawing of my spread. Usually eight rods. It will help. Just be careful on turns you can loose a lot of gear fishing like this. My name is Ron and I fish mostly out of Dunkirk were my boat is docked. "Dances with Fish".

Short cores and stick baits. Two and three color segmented lead cores. We started doing this brown trout fishing four or five years ago. I started marking fish once we swung out deeper down in the bottom off the reef edges. Slowed it down and started catching Walleye. We will be out maybe tomorrow but several times this week. I'll share my info.

You all can catch them same exact fish during the day.

one thing that is a struggle in the locations on this end is the structure. If you are going to troll segmented cores in tight and you want to catch these fish. Prepare yourself to loose some gear. We do catch em on deep husky jerks on mono but a two or three color with your stick just off the bottom on you're turns can be frustrating. We always giggle we are coming in while the night time guys are going out.

on the speed question. We troll faster then most of the time. This time of year I like around two mph. We also catch plenty of bass Lakers and Browns.

Dunkirk NY. I'm sure you can do it off any reef in NY. It's just that the old school way of thinking is that those fish feed during the night and that the water is to cold or something. Most ny guys start fishing in late May and bitch about water temp or waiting for fish to swim from Ohio. They are just miss informed.

We catch all the eyes we want just off the reefs in the day time and we are all alone. Move out to 20 to 30 ft and run two and three colors with sticks. They are usually glued to the bottom. We do a lot of s patterns in our trolling pattern dropping the baits to there face.

We keep our leads 15 to 20 ft and use stealth core with flouro carbon leaders as light as possible. I switched to stealth core and love it. I think it makes a differences. One of the plus to stealth core is the 1000 yard bulk spools. If we are trying to be stealthy we run a rainbow of neon colors through the water column. We even tie our sticks directly to the stick using a rapala knot.

Yesterday went trolling for walleye out of Dunkirk to west. Got three eyes 75 ft give or take a few. All marks on bottom. Lots of marks. Took kids out thinking perch were there and they were. 72 ft off canadaway. Marked perch schools a few miles long. Didn't kill em but with salted shiners did ok. They are big ones to. If you want some perch they are deep. Caught most a foot off bottom. Good luck can't miss em just don't think most have went that deep. Hoping to see boats on em and then I can just look for birds. Ron

Mostly Musky. I fish walleye out of Dunkirk a 60 times plus a year. I did well a few years ago off purina three or four miles inside the line little earlier then this. Assuming fish transitioning back west. I have a late spring program dialed in off Dunkirk as the fish transition off the reefs. Not to many other guys do it. Going to try same program next week same area. Wondering if the Donley wall bite is the same now as say a mid to late May bite. Gonna break the three colors back out get in tight and slow it down. I tried this same technique twice last year no walleye but Browns, Lakers, bass and rainbows but I stayed in front of canadaway creek to the reef off shore wood. Gonna venture further west on trench but in tight. Its not spring but I get a chuckle of all the folks waiting for the water to warm. Old school thinking. Our fish would bite in March same as they do in Ohio our folks just aren't accustom to it yet. I'll report how I do. let me know if the same areas you target eyes in mid May is the same areas you would target them now. Thanks for sharing info. Ron

Fishing has been good out of Dunkirk. 15 eyes Tuesday afternoon and a steelie. Today 4 eyes and a steelie in three hrs. Braid diver back 200 with a black silver chatter stick was good. Any worm setup you put down around 65 produced both days. Fishing is good from 70 ft to 85 ft. In shallow there is more bottom oriented smaller fish. In 85 ft there is some big boys suspended between 50 and 70 ft. The fishing will remain good till late September into early October. The fish are there it's the fisherman whom leave. Other boats out of Dunkirk also had strong days. Pink Salmon was caught today around 3 lbs, so neat to see. good luck Ron

Yep fishing was good in tight on the bottom to the east. 75 ft on the bottom. Fish are everywhere. As far as the migration being on I'm skeptical that the fish we are catching nearshore in Dunkirk are from Ohio. Considering there has been a real good in tight bite since mid May. It has just moved out a little further. They have just became more aggressive and merged with some of the offshore fish. I also believe that the fish inside are mostly bottom oriented which makes them easier to target once located.

We have been catching perch on 7 and 8 colors off Van buren in 75ft for a few months now. I see some tight to the bottom but I think the perch are suspended and they are hard to catch like that.

Fish have stayed up high in Dunkirk all year. Last year I was catching them 80 ft down over a 100 ft. Now the same area seven and eight color have been our best setup.

There scattered find a pocket and circle. You'll see em on the graph.

Fishing east of center rd is like squirrel hunting during deer season. Fish in between Dunkirk and Barcelona. You honestly can't go wrong. Fish are scattered everywhere. 40 plus eyes last two days in bad conditions.

Wire divers and lead core with snap weights will do the trick.

Yep either or. I been out deeper looking for larger fish but you can drag bottom of vanburen to Barcelona inside sixty ft and usually catch fish till October. Bigger eyes have moved deeper suspended. The smaller eyes will hang on that structure all summer.

It's been good there since May 15th.

Any size to the fish Pequod? Lots and Lots off Dunkirk but size has been a struggle.

We fish out of Dunkirk and got 2nd in Rob Ray tourney. We were leading after day one and just couldn't get that last 7lber to win it. We fished off the trench in front of Portland towers. Friday we caught a bunch on 5 color with harness and a bunch off divers set back on 3, 180 ft back. Saturday same deal did around 15 eyes five biggest being 30.8 lbs. With conditions thought we would be in the running but not 1st. 2nd day rough as hell and fished same area and the fish moved down deeper with ten color being most productive. Pink purple Rynowsky's and watermelon harnesses did trick in 65 to 75 ft of water. We were the bridesmaid. Hopefully the sunset nay shootout will be our day. Fish are scattered throughout water column with no set pattern setting up. There are fish from top to bottom.