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Article: Lake Ontario: great fishing in transition.(Special Section: The Great Lakes)(includes related resource information, information Lake Ontario statistics, and on possible contaminants in the lake)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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SHELDON PASTERNACK, a small-lake bass angler, caught his biggest freshwater fish, a 9-pound brown trout, and netted another one more than twice that size on his first visit to Lake Ontario.
Sheldon and I were trolling with light tackle out of my 17-foot boat near Oswego when he hooked his 9-pounder. While Sheldon played his fish, I hooked a 24-pounder. Following many powerfull runs, during which time we drifted dangerous close to shore we managed to get both fish into the boat. Then we immediately hit the throttle just in time to scoot away from the rocks.
Doubleheaders and trophy fish are not an everyday occurrence on this easternmost Great Lake. But Lake ...