How are you doing,, is there any word if US REELS are going to come back ?
@BergenThompson4 күн бұрын
Jeez that’s awesome
@cody39yrs4 күн бұрын
That's insane
@robertbrink22406 күн бұрын
He was one of my menors in learning to fly fish. I loved to watch his show on video on the uss Oriskany during the Vietnam War. PS I learnedbto tie flies in Danang with the help of a young man from Oregon. I wish I remembered his name. Still tying and fly fishing today.
@UPNORTHNY6 күн бұрын
As I commented earlier - that was one of my must-see shows and I watched it religiously.
@franciscocolon26016 күн бұрын
Your video is incomplete.You didn't show the bait.You didn't show the lure.You didn't show the set up in complete video
@UPNORTHNY6 күн бұрын
You are correct on all points. Unfortunately the video was shot using a handheld camera (I think a smartphone) by the same person who also needed to control the canoe, so he had to keep shutting the camera off during the action. The footage I have is all that I have without additional commentary. That said, I am confident that the bait was a swimbait similar to the Keitech swing impact fat in either a 4.3 inch version or a 4.8 inch version rigged weedless on an EWG 5/0 worm hook. It may have been white, but I suspect it to be a yellow color. I shoot those baits myself and have shipped a supply to him so suspect it was one of mine but it could also have been an actual Keitech or some other similar commercially produced bait. This time of year in that location, the muskies tend to lie very close to the bank in wait for frogs and other food sources to jump into the water or swim by. We've found it most effective to cast within a few inches of the bank and bring the lure back along the surface with as much splashing as the tail will create.
@nickf67944 күн бұрын
Francis, you're a loser
@KennyLoose7 күн бұрын
Blue ridge mountain lake squaw ?
@UPNORTHNY7 күн бұрын
One of the tributaries of the St. Lawrence River in St. Lawrence County NY
@whatsup57917 күн бұрын
I wonder if Red Grandy took that photo. Lazy river playground on the Grasse River, World War II Photografer
@UPNORTHNY7 күн бұрын
Interesting thought. Red took a significant number of pretty well known photos during his lifetime. He was a regular customer of mine and had many conversations over the years.
@patrickkirby761210 күн бұрын
Fishing in NY water?
@UPNORTHNY10 күн бұрын
Not entirely certain which St Lawrence River Tributary this was shot in- either the Grasse or the Deere River. Both in St. Lawrence County in upstate NY
@mattyice992311 күн бұрын
Super cool, I’ve never caught one. I’m not too far from ya I live right by the bills stadium
@UPNORTHNY7 күн бұрын
You’re actually about five hours away from where this was caught but I believe there are muskies in your vicinity as well. Think they can be caught on the Niagara River.
@mattyice99235 күн бұрын
@@UPNORTHNY that’s quite a drive lol I don’t know too much about where to locate certain species. I wanna fish 18 mile creek but idk when/what runs through
@Allaroundfishin11 күн бұрын
That’s a nice fish man
@jamesdillion876511 күн бұрын
Awesome
@jamesdillion876511 күн бұрын
We don't have those here.
@UPNORTHNY7 күн бұрын
Where is here?
@drewwatkins479911 күн бұрын
He got off?
@UPNORTHNY7 күн бұрын
Think he did not get off. Unfortunately the friend running the camera had to put it down to release the fish
@JustanotherJoe-ys2vh12 күн бұрын
Wow! Amazing
@Bullshark6412 күн бұрын
This is sick! I bet that fight is awesome!
@HudsonHornet-jl7gk12 күн бұрын
What did you use to catch it?
@UPNORTHNY12 күн бұрын
Watch my other short called “The Enterprise Lure” and read comments and replies there for more info. It looks a bit like the McCoy V-Twin Spinnerbait but is not actually that bait.
@publiclandhunter389612 күн бұрын
Nice fish!!!!!
@Slingshots40413 күн бұрын
He look like my dead grandfather
@singularity528hz13 күн бұрын
Nice fish. ❤
@mathieupetit838313 күн бұрын
My aunt confirmed that Gaston was a good friend of my uncle Bill.
@Carpofamerica13 күн бұрын
Beautiful musky!!
@MidwestAmateurFishing13 күн бұрын
Awesome catch!
@UPNORTHNY13 күн бұрын
Trying to sort through the video of that particular day. While I labeled this one part 1, I'm not sure that this was not number 3 based on the camera encoding.
@mathieupetit838314 күн бұрын
Oh and I am pretty sure I was 16 so it would have been filmed in 1998 or 1999
@mathieupetit838314 күн бұрын
You just made my day Don! Thanks for sharing this video. I’m Matt! I’m Bill McCues nephew. I don’t remember where we were fishing. If it was Gouin Reservoir then it was La Pointe Aux Dores (Walleye Point) Lodge.
@squiddiethekiddie14 күн бұрын
Where did you get that lure? I’d love to fish with it
@UPNORTHNY13 күн бұрын
Asked Don this morning about the lure. Interestingly, he got it at an Ollie’s- buying the last one at that store. After having success with it he went back and asked them about it. They were unable to tell him what it was really called or even where they got it. Go figure. Best I can determine is that it is a form of spinner bait with two small side spinners rather than a single spinner
@squiddiethekiddie13 күн бұрын
@@UPNORTHNY Thank you so much! I’m pretty new to fishing so i want to get gear with high success rates. I’ll definitely try to find one like that.
@KyleKarnes-nb1jl12 күн бұрын
Search Tackle Warehouse online in the spinnerbait section. Pretty sure they’ll have something that will work.
@justinraffloer362414 күн бұрын
Best place ever
@UPNORTHNY7 күн бұрын
Many people have no idea how great the St. Lawrence fishery is.
@jamescarney114014 күн бұрын
Grasse
@slaphappy195114 күн бұрын
Nice
@cpogto419914 күн бұрын
had that Musky strike happen a lot as a kid on the St, Regis. Also love the home town hero's hat.
@cpogto419915 күн бұрын
Nice catch. Assuming the Grasse?
@UPNORTHNY15 күн бұрын
You assume correctly
@roncardona255216 күн бұрын
Hi guys , when was this episode shot?
@UPNORTHNY15 күн бұрын
I don't have an exact date, but would guess that it was sometime during in 1999 or 2000. Don also does not remember exactly, but we believe it to be during that two year period. My guess would be 1999.
@cpogto419918 күн бұрын
Grew up in Brasher. My wife and I went back every year for Home town hero's to guide for Fort Drum soldiers and so sad that , that little river had that happen !
@UPNORTHNY7 күн бұрын
Heard from Don that he has been told by others that fish the river that all is not lost and that fish are still being caught there regularly
@buck1919 күн бұрын
Nailed it
@dabprod19 күн бұрын
Yeah......I've used this on Black Lake with some success.
@kylevarden612120 күн бұрын
Not 30 pounds but damn def a MONSTER you don’t catch um like that everyday
@coryroedl333725 күн бұрын
Hey so im going to catuga next week.. how deep was the water u were at and how far down were u jigging? Id really like to try and get on some like this
@UPNORTHNY23 күн бұрын
That particular day we were fishing mostly between 50' and 90', but last night we found them between 80' and 110'. I only started in the 80' range last night because I was seeing some baitfish on the screen as I was passing over the 80' mark on my way to 100' and decided to give it a try. Caught 1 at that depth and lost another as well as a couple of fish on briefly, then caught another at just about 100. For more information watch: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pamIssSEorO7c9o.html.
@UPNORTHNY23 күн бұрын
Should have added that most of the fish are hugging the bottom so you'll need to drop the jig all the way and just start reeling up. If you've jigged for other species, you need to forget everything you know in that sense - in the three years I've been focused on jigging lakers, I have only seen one fish caught by jigging the lure up and down. The rest almost always follow the bait for some distance before they hit. I've had some that I watched follow the bait all the way from 100' down to 20 to 30' before they hit. If you want to talk further, you can email me - not going to type the address correctly, but you should be able to figure it out - trying to avoid robots recognizing it and sending me a bunch of junk. dswanson at upnorthny .com. Just change the at to the symbol and drop the spaces.
@duffmeister648019 күн бұрын
As I’m getting older, I like your setup on that pontoon boat, looks comfortable and easy. Do you trailer it or keep it docked ? I know wind is an issue there, how does it handle rougher conditions ? Thanks Dave, nice work.
@UPNORTHNY17 күн бұрын
Hi Duffmeister6480, I keep it docked from late April (as soon as they raise the lake level) to around November 1 (when they typically lower the level), and you are correct about wind being an issue here. I'm on the west side of the lake and the topography protects me as it pertains to WSW winds through NNE winds. Anything from NE through SW does create complications in getting in and out of the hoist (dents in parts of the screen can attest to that). I can normally manage winds up to about 9 mph from the problem directions but don't really enjoy winds of over 11 or 12 for fishing (most of the time I'm spot locked, so the heavier winds (~12) make it kind of bouncy but not unmanageable. My fallback in case of winds coming up too aggressively while out on the water is to head to Dean's Cove boat launch on the west side about four miles south of me - a very protected cove that I could dock at during almost any kind of weather. Have not needed to resort to that so far. As for the set up, yes it seem to work find, but I have had issues with the Ulterra trolling motor (which is off of the boat at the moment) because it started shutting down after less than 15 seconds of operating time (second time it has happened). I bought a Terrova with lift assist as a backup and have been using that for the past month. The Ulterra worked well when it worked, but the Terrova is almost as good. Ulterra is now 4 years old and Terrova is 3.
@buck1928 күн бұрын
All ive been tossing this year is a 1/16 - 1/32 oz ball jigs with either a tube or grub in yellow / white. Ill drift fishbit off the bottom. Ive found those size jigs dont hang up on rocks like an 1/8oz jig does. Its been a banger year on micro tackle. Im talking 24" rainbows, 4lbs smallies, 10" pumpkon seed. All on the same grub.
@buck1928 күн бұрын
That was a crazy day We got about 2 inches in 20 minutes in saranac lake. I went chasing eyes after.
@buck19Ай бұрын
Never has it been an issue before. But this year ive come across about half a dozen cartop launch sites with people camping in them. Ive found a couple rough trailer launches where people are legitimately pitching a tent on the only wayer access fo the body of water. Or taking up a 2 trailer wide launch with one minivan to launch and load their canoe, when theres a canoe launch 30 feet away, with a sign that says canoe launch. Also have found people camping ON dams owned by niagra mohawk.
@bengreeley5681Ай бұрын
Absolutely agree. No conservation efforts or cleanup at all! Shame but if it makes it harder to fish less competition I hope.
@duffmeister6480Ай бұрын
I looked for this walk way and couldn’t find it ?
@UPNORTHNYАй бұрын
maps.app.goo.gl/5oB6su1NKVXCE3P57. Think this is trail Don was talking about
@duffmeister6480Ай бұрын
@@UPNORTHNY thanks, I guess parking might have been the issue. Maybe next time. 👍🏻
@wildbrookiesАй бұрын
Very good advice. Did a very similar day trip up a native brook trout stream in Vermont last August. Didn’t hydrate before well ,didn’t bring enough water with me and really didn’t study the topo map for distances .Extremely fatigued dehydrated and sore just like you were. You think we should know better after doing such trips in the past. But there are times I bring too much gear with me and come back to the truck with excess water and food. Planning ,planning ,planning is so essential. Love all your informative daily talks. Could definitely save someone’s life. Thx Don!
@andysponseller5941Ай бұрын
Don I just ran into your page. Dad and I loved your show years ago and always wanted to take you on south end Canandaguia for pickerel with Sutton spoons. Would love to fish with you June 19-23 while in NY to fish. Send me a message if interested.
@Cyph3rXАй бұрын
Nice catches! Get that rig on oneida lake for some walleye 😊
@MrJTimeАй бұрын
You hit the nail on the head about Black Lake. Over-harvest, lack of conservation efforts, lack of enforcement, and increasingly poor water quality from agricultural runoff. The group Jim is talking about from PA has been going to BL for Pike for decades now. They post their reports each year. If you read them, you will see a significant decline in the size and quantity of pike they are catching. It’s such a shame. BL is amazing!!! It deserves to be better taken care of.
@dvdragoАй бұрын
:) thanks for adressing my comment, I am from Philly - listening to your show everyday , I travel 6 hours every few months on the st Lawarance river.. and mostly because of you.. I just came back from your area, I was there for few days fishing was tough, fished, Mohawk reservation, waddington, grasee river.. I found this spot on grasee river, 1 feet of watter on a bend, caught like 20 bass in 1 hour, small and large , other than that.. no PIKE - and been fishing every day for 12 hours ... for 5 consecutive days.. and a lot of small mouth but only on the beds..
@1WilliamsBrianАй бұрын
I visit the finger lakes often but have never fished them. Split time between lake Ontario and Lake Erie. One of these days.....
@warbirdflyerF4UАй бұрын
Thanks for exposing the finger Lakes In best of luck catching those garbage fish lakers 😅 They're awful to eat You should put out a good show targeting land like salmon and brown trout
Пікірлер
Is there an email address that Don can be reached at?
[email protected]
St Lawrence river?
Correct
How are you doing,, is there any word if US REELS are going to come back ?
Jeez that’s awesome
That's insane
He was one of my menors in learning to fly fish. I loved to watch his show on video on the uss Oriskany during the Vietnam War. PS I learnedbto tie flies in Danang with the help of a young man from Oregon. I wish I remembered his name. Still tying and fly fishing today.
As I commented earlier - that was one of my must-see shows and I watched it religiously.
Your video is incomplete.You didn't show the bait.You didn't show the lure.You didn't show the set up in complete video
You are correct on all points. Unfortunately the video was shot using a handheld camera (I think a smartphone) by the same person who also needed to control the canoe, so he had to keep shutting the camera off during the action. The footage I have is all that I have without additional commentary. That said, I am confident that the bait was a swimbait similar to the Keitech swing impact fat in either a 4.3 inch version or a 4.8 inch version rigged weedless on an EWG 5/0 worm hook. It may have been white, but I suspect it to be a yellow color. I shoot those baits myself and have shipped a supply to him so suspect it was one of mine but it could also have been an actual Keitech or some other similar commercially produced bait. This time of year in that location, the muskies tend to lie very close to the bank in wait for frogs and other food sources to jump into the water or swim by. We've found it most effective to cast within a few inches of the bank and bring the lure back along the surface with as much splashing as the tail will create.
Francis, you're a loser
Blue ridge mountain lake squaw ?
One of the tributaries of the St. Lawrence River in St. Lawrence County NY
I wonder if Red Grandy took that photo. Lazy river playground on the Grasse River, World War II Photografer
Interesting thought. Red took a significant number of pretty well known photos during his lifetime. He was a regular customer of mine and had many conversations over the years.
Fishing in NY water?
Not entirely certain which St Lawrence River Tributary this was shot in- either the Grasse or the Deere River. Both in St. Lawrence County in upstate NY
Super cool, I’ve never caught one. I’m not too far from ya I live right by the bills stadium
You’re actually about five hours away from where this was caught but I believe there are muskies in your vicinity as well. Think they can be caught on the Niagara River.
@@UPNORTHNY that’s quite a drive lol I don’t know too much about where to locate certain species. I wanna fish 18 mile creek but idk when/what runs through
That’s a nice fish man
Awesome
We don't have those here.
Where is here?
He got off?
Think he did not get off. Unfortunately the friend running the camera had to put it down to release the fish
Wow! Amazing
This is sick! I bet that fight is awesome!
What did you use to catch it?
Watch my other short called “The Enterprise Lure” and read comments and replies there for more info. It looks a bit like the McCoy V-Twin Spinnerbait but is not actually that bait.
Nice fish!!!!!
He look like my dead grandfather
Nice fish. ❤
My aunt confirmed that Gaston was a good friend of my uncle Bill.
Beautiful musky!!
Awesome catch!
Trying to sort through the video of that particular day. While I labeled this one part 1, I'm not sure that this was not number 3 based on the camera encoding.
Oh and I am pretty sure I was 16 so it would have been filmed in 1998 or 1999
You just made my day Don! Thanks for sharing this video. I’m Matt! I’m Bill McCues nephew. I don’t remember where we were fishing. If it was Gouin Reservoir then it was La Pointe Aux Dores (Walleye Point) Lodge.
Where did you get that lure? I’d love to fish with it
Asked Don this morning about the lure. Interestingly, he got it at an Ollie’s- buying the last one at that store. After having success with it he went back and asked them about it. They were unable to tell him what it was really called or even where they got it. Go figure. Best I can determine is that it is a form of spinner bait with two small side spinners rather than a single spinner
@@UPNORTHNY Thank you so much! I’m pretty new to fishing so i want to get gear with high success rates. I’ll definitely try to find one like that.
Search Tackle Warehouse online in the spinnerbait section. Pretty sure they’ll have something that will work.
Best place ever
Many people have no idea how great the St. Lawrence fishery is.
Grasse
Nice
had that Musky strike happen a lot as a kid on the St, Regis. Also love the home town hero's hat.
Nice catch. Assuming the Grasse?
You assume correctly
Hi guys , when was this episode shot?
I don't have an exact date, but would guess that it was sometime during in 1999 or 2000. Don also does not remember exactly, but we believe it to be during that two year period. My guess would be 1999.
Grew up in Brasher. My wife and I went back every year for Home town hero's to guide for Fort Drum soldiers and so sad that , that little river had that happen !
Heard from Don that he has been told by others that fish the river that all is not lost and that fish are still being caught there regularly
Nailed it
Yeah......I've used this on Black Lake with some success.
Not 30 pounds but damn def a MONSTER you don’t catch um like that everyday
Hey so im going to catuga next week.. how deep was the water u were at and how far down were u jigging? Id really like to try and get on some like this
That particular day we were fishing mostly between 50' and 90', but last night we found them between 80' and 110'. I only started in the 80' range last night because I was seeing some baitfish on the screen as I was passing over the 80' mark on my way to 100' and decided to give it a try. Caught 1 at that depth and lost another as well as a couple of fish on briefly, then caught another at just about 100. For more information watch: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pamIssSEorO7c9o.html.
Should have added that most of the fish are hugging the bottom so you'll need to drop the jig all the way and just start reeling up. If you've jigged for other species, you need to forget everything you know in that sense - in the three years I've been focused on jigging lakers, I have only seen one fish caught by jigging the lure up and down. The rest almost always follow the bait for some distance before they hit. I've had some that I watched follow the bait all the way from 100' down to 20 to 30' before they hit. If you want to talk further, you can email me - not going to type the address correctly, but you should be able to figure it out - trying to avoid robots recognizing it and sending me a bunch of junk. dswanson at upnorthny .com. Just change the at to the symbol and drop the spaces.
As I’m getting older, I like your setup on that pontoon boat, looks comfortable and easy. Do you trailer it or keep it docked ? I know wind is an issue there, how does it handle rougher conditions ? Thanks Dave, nice work.
Hi Duffmeister6480, I keep it docked from late April (as soon as they raise the lake level) to around November 1 (when they typically lower the level), and you are correct about wind being an issue here. I'm on the west side of the lake and the topography protects me as it pertains to WSW winds through NNE winds. Anything from NE through SW does create complications in getting in and out of the hoist (dents in parts of the screen can attest to that). I can normally manage winds up to about 9 mph from the problem directions but don't really enjoy winds of over 11 or 12 for fishing (most of the time I'm spot locked, so the heavier winds (~12) make it kind of bouncy but not unmanageable. My fallback in case of winds coming up too aggressively while out on the water is to head to Dean's Cove boat launch on the west side about four miles south of me - a very protected cove that I could dock at during almost any kind of weather. Have not needed to resort to that so far. As for the set up, yes it seem to work find, but I have had issues with the Ulterra trolling motor (which is off of the boat at the moment) because it started shutting down after less than 15 seconds of operating time (second time it has happened). I bought a Terrova with lift assist as a backup and have been using that for the past month. The Ulterra worked well when it worked, but the Terrova is almost as good. Ulterra is now 4 years old and Terrova is 3.
All ive been tossing this year is a 1/16 - 1/32 oz ball jigs with either a tube or grub in yellow / white. Ill drift fishbit off the bottom. Ive found those size jigs dont hang up on rocks like an 1/8oz jig does. Its been a banger year on micro tackle. Im talking 24" rainbows, 4lbs smallies, 10" pumpkon seed. All on the same grub.
That was a crazy day We got about 2 inches in 20 minutes in saranac lake. I went chasing eyes after.
Never has it been an issue before. But this year ive come across about half a dozen cartop launch sites with people camping in them. Ive found a couple rough trailer launches where people are legitimately pitching a tent on the only wayer access fo the body of water. Or taking up a 2 trailer wide launch with one minivan to launch and load their canoe, when theres a canoe launch 30 feet away, with a sign that says canoe launch. Also have found people camping ON dams owned by niagra mohawk.
Absolutely agree. No conservation efforts or cleanup at all! Shame but if it makes it harder to fish less competition I hope.
I looked for this walk way and couldn’t find it ?
maps.app.goo.gl/5oB6su1NKVXCE3P57. Think this is trail Don was talking about
@@UPNORTHNY thanks, I guess parking might have been the issue. Maybe next time. 👍🏻
Very good advice. Did a very similar day trip up a native brook trout stream in Vermont last August. Didn’t hydrate before well ,didn’t bring enough water with me and really didn’t study the topo map for distances .Extremely fatigued dehydrated and sore just like you were. You think we should know better after doing such trips in the past. But there are times I bring too much gear with me and come back to the truck with excess water and food. Planning ,planning ,planning is so essential. Love all your informative daily talks. Could definitely save someone’s life. Thx Don!
Don I just ran into your page. Dad and I loved your show years ago and always wanted to take you on south end Canandaguia for pickerel with Sutton spoons. Would love to fish with you June 19-23 while in NY to fish. Send me a message if interested.
Nice catches! Get that rig on oneida lake for some walleye 😊
You hit the nail on the head about Black Lake. Over-harvest, lack of conservation efforts, lack of enforcement, and increasingly poor water quality from agricultural runoff. The group Jim is talking about from PA has been going to BL for Pike for decades now. They post their reports each year. If you read them, you will see a significant decline in the size and quantity of pike they are catching. It’s such a shame. BL is amazing!!! It deserves to be better taken care of.
:) thanks for adressing my comment, I am from Philly - listening to your show everyday , I travel 6 hours every few months on the st Lawarance river.. and mostly because of you.. I just came back from your area, I was there for few days fishing was tough, fished, Mohawk reservation, waddington, grasee river.. I found this spot on grasee river, 1 feet of watter on a bend, caught like 20 bass in 1 hour, small and large , other than that.. no PIKE - and been fishing every day for 12 hours ... for 5 consecutive days.. and a lot of small mouth but only on the beds..
I visit the finger lakes often but have never fished them. Split time between lake Ontario and Lake Erie. One of these days.....
Thanks for exposing the finger Lakes In best of luck catching those garbage fish lakers 😅 They're awful to eat You should put out a good show targeting land like salmon and brown trout