All Activity

Troll east/west. If you're on the bar, and you troll north to south, you're gunna have a bad time. Fish will tell you baits and depth, but you will most likely be running spoon and meat. If you launch out of the river, head towards red buoy, then troll east. If you are out of Wilson, choice is yours to head north and troll to Bar or motor.

Pipe benders electrician's use are made for pipe, tubing is different size's than pipe. Tubing is measured by outside diameter and pipe is measured by inside diameter, or visa versa

I’ve been experimenting with different setups each time out and have caught fish each time. So far it is one rod that takes the most hits on each trip. One day it was a planer board flat line with crank bait, next time was a 1 color with a spoon, and last time out was the downrigger but over deeper water which makes sense. The one constant is that I have been running every line on one side of the boat instead of spreading them over a larger area.

In shallow water it usually is a bit tricky with only 3 lines. As the boat goes over the quite close bottom the fish tend to move sideways away from perceived danger of a big dark thing just above them. This makes the straight line behind the boat less succesful, unless it is a long way behind the boat. Trolling in a curve, so that the lines go to the side of the boat instead of right behind does help. I often work with small dipsy divers on a 3 setting to get the lures away to the side of the boat

Another point to be aware of for Mercury 4-stroke outboards is Mercury specifically recommends lower viscosity oil during cold weather operation. I learned the hard way with my 2019 Mercury 25 EFT 4-stroke. I fish year around here on my home port on Lake Anna Virginia and last winter (January 2023) we headed out on a 35 degree day and before we ever left the slip the engine alarmed and shut down. Fortunately the engine shut down before any real damage…took the boat to my dealer…and he fired up the motor inside his maintenance bay (68 degrees) and no issues. Then he checked the oil change history and eureka the oil was the higher viscosity warm weather oil. So I learned a valuable lesson…read the owners manual wrt different operating conditions and different oil viscosity.

Green hornet interesting thought . Kind of curious on answers to this

Looking to fish the Niagara Bar for the first time within the next few weeks. Any info on what baits to use, depth, starting point, trolling direction, etc..? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, and tight lines

Ended up going 2 coldwater high speeds all new reels and wire for this year. Hopefully be smoother this year . Have had a lot of problems with wire divers and fish break offs . Hopefully new equipment will help

What r the details for these interested?

I got tohatsu when I had carb problems it filled the crank case with gas. Like you said pulled dip stick milky oil poor out carb rebuild oil change x 2 was all set. I don't under stand how a stuck open thermostat would flood the crankcase if it's water in the crankcase like others have said you might have issues with the block or head good luck.

I really hope not