quality time

I hope to be out Sunday. I will be on channel 68! Wes

That video on youtube was " wire line test with Capt Bill" science is boring to watch but the results are interesting. Wes

I watched a you tube video on different wire breaking strength. They tested about 5 brands of wire and they were all 30 lb test. They did three test on each wire and then averaged. The brand mentioned had some break at 20 lbs. The brand that I use broke over 30lb for 7 strand and the 19 strand was a little higher. I do not remember all the numbers but it might be worth looking up on you tube. What kind of lures do you run at that speed? Years ago I fast trolled rebel fasttracs but I do not think they make them anymore! Wes

Looks like that will be in late November the way these temps are! Wes

I've got lakers as deep as 250' I do not remember the amount of blowback but what we did was drop the rigger till it touched bottom. I'm thinking it was about 300' of cable out but that was in the spring when we run 10lb test. With flea line on the blow back would be much more. So you would think you would pull monsters out of the deep but all we got were 3 and 4 lbers. Remember the water is always moving and the fish often move with it. You have the right idea of moving until you find fish. I have a tee shirt that says "the secret to fishing is fish where the fish are". I also like to watch the water quality buoy data on Seneca and Owasco. It can give you a rough idea what is going on in Cayuga. Temp breaks and oxygen levels are often key to finding fish but fish do not read the same books we read. We did a grand slam one day with the smallest fish being 6 lbs. The water was 70 deg for all the fish but the laker. THis challenge is what makes it fun! Wes

I'm going to start by saying I have been trolling Cayuga Lake since 1980. In those days my catch was around 40% percent rainbows. We would get smelt by the pails full in the spring with tons of bait for the fish to eat. Introduce Zebra mussels, spiny water fleas, quagga mussels and now gobies and the rainbows have all but gone. If you are in the angler diary program you would see that stocking of Rainbow trout was nearly as high as lake trout but rainbows only made up over the last few years less than 2% of the catch. The last survey they made up 4% so the DEC efforts are improving the Rainbow fishery. The problem I see is that this is at a cost to the Lake Trout. The Lake trout is the native fish to the lake and they do well in the lake for a good reason. Everyone wants glamour fish and for some reason the laker does not get much credit. These fish have been in the lake since the last ice age. For the last 15 years we did not target rainbows and always released them when we could. My point is that we have a wonderful lake trout fishery even with all the invasive. If the fisherman keep screaming for more rainbows and the DEC keeps reducing Laker numbers we will be fishing in a lake with fewer and fewer fish in the boat. The Rainbow numbers are increasing and you should be happy when you get one but don't expect to get them on every trip. Wes

I've seen fish like that . It had eaten a plastic jig and could not pass it. Wes

Well its good it's not a shorted cell. Often shorted cells happen in the winter when a battery has low charge and it freezes.

Fully charged you should be over 13 volts. When charging it would be over 14 volts. You might have a shorted cell. or bad connection in the battery switch. The best way to check the battery is take it to a shop that has a load tester. Wes

I've caught lakers as deep as 250' on the finger lakes.That was not 250' of line out it was drop the rigger until it touched bottom in 250' of water. Over 300' of cable out and we had to slow way down. The funny thing was many of the fish we got were small! Wes

North end. Very little sign on fish finder, no bait at all but still found some hungry ones. Wes