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2025 Great Lakes Trolling School

The 2025 Great Lakes Trolling School will be held March 15 and 16, 2025 in Pulaski, NY. Students will have option to attend Day 1 or Day 2 or both-see information below

 

 Greetings fellow anglers: Captains Casey, Rob and Pete will be back again for the 2025 East End Salmon and Trout School. Together, they have over 80 years of experience, countless tournament wins and top 5 finishes. Their experience and knowledge is lake-wide and extensive. This year, we will break the school down in to 2 days to allow us to cover a wide range of topics and species. Many anglers had an interest in learning at  how to be more successful at catching fish in general, not just king salmon.  So we added a second day.  That Sunday class will focus on multi species fishing and tactics.  


Keep it  as local as it gets! The 3 named Captain's are teaching you based on their experience and conditions on about Lake Ontario, after all you fish Lake Ontario as well.  They have a vast amount of experience from east to west and north to south on Ontario. This value cannot be matched from captains from other Great Lakes.  


The Great Lakes Trolling School is open to beginners, seasoned and professional anglers. The primary focus will be location, tactics, lure choice, programs, your mindset and how varying conditions play into our decisions. Our intention is to help you become a better overall angler, make you think about your decisions, and share our many years of Great Lakes experience. Captain Casey Prisco, Captain Rob Westcott, and Captain Pete Alex bring over 80 years of combined experience on Lake Ontario and look forward to sharing their knowledge with you. Those that attended last year, know that we did not hold back any information.


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Great Lakes Trolling School 2025

 Second annual trolling school held in Pulaski, NY March 15th and 16th.  School is broken down into 2 days.  Salmon Saturday and Multi Specie Sunday.  Folks have the option to attend both days $250 or either day $135.  Raffles, prizes, lunch and a lot of learning provided by Captain Pete Alex, Casey Prisco and Rob Westcott. 

OUR SPEAKERS

Captain Casey Prisco - Dirty Goose Sportfishing

Captain Casey owns and operates the Dirty Goose charter fleet.  He has been charter and tournament fishing for years and has fished with some of the best anglers on Lake Ontario.  He purchased his own first "big" boat the Dirty Goose in 2014. Since then, he has purchased 3 more 31 foot boats and now runs a full time charter operation.  Casey's home port is the east end of Lake Ontario but travels to the west end for nearly 5 weeks to target spring kings and coho.  His season starts in March, by targeting shallow water browns and concludes after the fall salmon run has occurred.  Known for his "meat game" Captain Casey also is very diverse with his spoon and fly presentations and will bring that knowledge to you this March.  His passion for fishing and people will be evident after you have spent a full day with him.  Casey invites you down to "his waters" to spend a day with him to learn and have fun.

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Captain Rob Westcott - Legacy Sportfishing

Captain Rob owns and operates Legacy Sportfishing out of the port of Bald Eagle in Kendall, NY. Rob not only is an experienced and excellent captain, he also maintains an active role in the fishery as part of a multitude of fishing organizations including being an IGFA captain, president of the Lake Ontario Charter Boat Association, Sandy Creek Pen Rearing Coordinator, and Sandy Creek Shootout tournament committee director. Captain Rob loves the spirit of competition and has been fishing tournaments for about ten years now. With a handful of wins and numerous top 10's, this captain has earned the name, Mr. Consistency.  Rob also has a normal job, like most of you and has learned how to "figure it out" like many of you have to.  Rob will explain what he's been doing for years to do just that.  Rob loves to talk fishing and share his knowledge with other anglers and is excited to bring that to you this coming March.

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Captain Pete Alex - Vision Quest Sportfishing

Captain Pete of Vision Quest Sport Fishing has been a charter captain since 1988 on Lake Erie and began chartering on Lake Ontario in 1990. He has fished Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and spends a lot of time on Lake Erie.  He has traveled to 10 different ports to fish tournaments and has well over 150 top 10 finishes and numerous 1st place wins, including the May Big Boys, 2nd place Niagara Pro Am, Wilson Harbor UMS Challenge, Orleans County Open, Wilson Trout and Salmon Slam and the G.L.S.E. Lakewide Overall Championship.  He considers himself a diverse angler on Lake Ontario and loves to target all salmonid and trout species.  Like most anglers he started out the hard way, by watching others consistently catch more fish than him but he was determined at an early age to "figure it out" and has never looked back since doing so.  One of the things he loves about fishing and "fish" is the challenges of locating and catching them with changing conditions, depths and tactics.  He looks forward to bringing his lake wide experience to you this spring. He says, "anyone can catch em when its easy out there, its when it's tough that you earn your stripes in my book".  Pete also loves to talk fishing and says were never to old to continue to learn.

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ACCOMODATIONS

The Tailwater Lodge

The Tailwater Lodge  is located at 52 Pulaski Street in Altmar, New York.  It boasts amenities including a restaurant and lunge, indoor pool outdoor hot tub, spa, and various indoor and outdoor activities.


All participants of the 2025 Salmon School will receive a group rate of $149.00 per night.  Guests can reserve their room by March 7th, 2025 by visiting the link below and using group code SRS325 or by calling (315) 298-3434.


Click here for downloadable reservation instructions.

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Class will be limited to 100 participants per day.

Saturday Agenda: Will be focused mostly on king salmon (90%) and coho salmon (10%)


  • Targets: Spring kings and coho, summer kings, fall kings and cohos
  • Topics: Hot lures of 2024, boat setup, rod and reel setup, electronic basics-including Panoptics, how to use varying winds and weather to your advantage, meat presentation, lure presentation overall angler mind set and more…


                                                  Sunday Agenda: How to successfully target multi species throughout the year. This day is all about improving your                    ability as an angler and improving your overall fish catching skills. You will learn how we move rods for our customers all season long, take those bonus fish in tournaments and do more catching and less boat riding.

  • Targets: Spring brown trout and lake trout, summer brown trout and lake trout, offshore coho and steelhead, fall brown trout and steelhead. 
  • Topics: Lure choices by the season and species, how we use our electronic to find the right water and targets, how weather dictates fish location, offshore and inshore tactics and rod spreads, what dictates our decisions, tips and tricks and more…


Each day, there will be a minimum of $2,500 in raffles and all attendees will receive unique discount coupons from various tackle stores.
Coffee and donuts will be served in the morning and a buffet style lunch. 

Location

Saturday and/or Sunday schedule

Saturday and/or Sunday schedule

This years event will be held at the:


Fairway's and Dream's

6916 State Route 3

Pulaski, NY  13142

Saturday and/or Sunday schedule

Saturday and/or Sunday schedule

Saturday and/or Sunday schedule

8:00 am - 3:00 pm 

(Doors open at 7:00 am to register and  enjoy a cup of coffee and donut)


Students can attend either day or both-see registration page


$135 day or $250 for both days

What is included each day

Saturday and/or Sunday schedule

What is included each day

Coffee, donuts, and lunch 


Daily Raffles of $2,500.00 each day


Participants will receive exclusive coupons to tackle stores and more!


Check back for discount hotel accommodations.


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