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The Summer Lake Ontario Counties (LOC) Trout, Salmon and Walleye Derby was held during the entire month of July (less one day). With its completion comes ...

“We were fishing the bottom in 164 feet of water with a watermelon spin-n-glo behind cow bells when I was in the process of dropping the lure back down. Overall, it was a team effort and everyone on the boat deserves some credit.” There was a fish ahead of Polovick on the leaderboard, but they didn’t save the fish as the rules require for the top fish. “I couldn’t see the fish in the water because it stayed down,” O’Brien said. He was fishing with Kevin Eletto, of Irondequoit, aboard O’Brien’s “Unreel” boat, a 25-foot Pursuit. The next event on the derby docket is the Fall LOC contest slated for Aug. 19 thru Sept. 5. Some big lake trout were caught in the summer contest, too. Fishing with his father William Snook, of Sterling, and Rod Fortune, of Saratoga Springs, on their 29-foot Tiara named “Silver Rush,” the younger Snook battled the fish for a half-hour before they finally netted the winning king salmon. Second-place steelhead went to Marty Polovick, of Lockport, with a 13-pound, 6-ounce fish he caught off Olcott on a Mixed Veggies Michigan Stinger spoon, 55-feet down on a rigger over 500 feet of water. As I grabbed the rod, the release on the planer board line went off and I needed to reel as fast as I could to gain as much line as possible.” The diver went off at 11 a.m., and they had their winning fish in the boat 10 minutes later. There’s more to the story. Unfortunately, the steelhead was in the bottom of the cooler looking very flat.