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That was sad. Had a friend get to Capt Cove to find that out. Guy probably read this report....backfired on me. Thanks for the help though!

checked cabelas and they did have the reg and lighted j-plug, but no jointed j-plugs...I might be smokin something but I dont think they have those. Can anyone post a link?

Anyone have or know where to purchase jointed J-Plugs? Cant find them anywhere! Thanks

Trolled Carelton Island forever without a walleye bite. Did one nice northern in 40 FOW. Moved over to an underwater point off of Wolfe Island and caught one 21" walleye on a purple taildancer 150' back on a board 200ft out. Marked quite a few fish on the Mud Bay side of Dablon Pt with no takers. Talked to one fellow and he said bucktails tipped with a worm are producing in the late evening off of Carelton.

If my memory serves me right around $55 for the conservatioist option. Which means you will not be able to keep a full stringer.

Fishtails, waterlogged, and crew, Thanks a bunch for getting me onboard as your observer and taking me out prefishing Friday. Had a great time learning the tricks of the salmon trade. Definately got the salmon bug now! Eugene

Thanks all, Great opinions! Knew I would get some top-notch thoughts on the subject from LOU folks.

Thanks! J.D. I am on board with that suggestion.

I am looking for a new boat, but need to fish a wide range of tactics with it. I need a boat that will handle winter fishing the Niagara, spring, fall, and winter walleyes in waters like the Black River, and summer salmon and walleye in Lake Ontario. I am looking for a model that can incorporate big john planers, downriggers, a kicker motor, walkthrough windshield, bow mounted trolling motor, and a bimini top. I know I am asking alot from one boat and will be sacrificing a little bit in each catergory but, does anyone own or know of a make/model they prefer over others? Any help is appreciated!

I would love to do that...Please let me know if you still need someone My name is Eugene Nichols Contact me at 315-778-9887 [email protected]

I'd sell you one but they have walleye on them right now I have to unhook

PENN Power Stick 10' Line 15-30lb Lure wt. 1-5oz. Model # PSS 1530S10 Lived on Long Island last year and bought it for 110$+ Fished bucktails, topwater, eels, and other live bait. Good all around pole.

If you have a boat Guffin Creek is really a great spot right now, just be very careful entering the creek b/c it gets shallow fast. If you do not have a boat the Chaumont boat launch and Mud Bay Marinas are a good bet right now.

This guys a real rookie, but he sure can fish.

Those puppies are ancient. I had one pull my rod off a dock fishing with a minnow and bobber at the Yacht Club (Sandy Creek, Hamlin) off the shore. I left the dock to get a closer look at a german shepard sized beaver. I heard a splash and got the line back after the bobber surfaced.

Started the addiction I'm sure...Wilson Bay is the most relaxing place on earth if your not tied up with a world class smallmouth.

Yesterday I was reading the Watertown newspaper and they had a picture of a kid who caught a pending NYS record walleye 33.5 inches and ~17lbs out of Chaumont Bay on March 10 this year. Can't find a link.

I went April 1 in Chaumont Bay and Three Mile Bay and did not catch a bullhead. Only a couple of dinky perch. I dont imagine this cold weather is helping to bring them in either. This weekend I plan to try for some bullhead/catfish in Guffin Creek. Ill post if they are hitting good.

Forgot to mention...I lost a walleye at the shore this weekend running a mepps 3 for steelhead on sunday at the Black...Pray for cold temps

Here is my take on the Black River, however I am a rookie. The presence of spring walleye is dependant upon water temperatures. The sooner the water temps are right the female will spawn and high tail it to the open water of Black River Bay to meet up with the schools of suspended baitfish that are on their way to their spawning grounds. By the time opening day/mother's day is around with a average temp year the males are the most available in the river/river mouth and the females are suspended in the bay where the schools of bait are. The river bite is best with crawler harnesses, berkely salamanders texas rigged, or a nice bottom bouncing crankbait. This is especially true for the mouth. Running planer boards with smithwicks rogues and the such catch the open water hog females. Experimenting with weird colors can pay off. Since last year was unseasonally warm the walleye were WAY ahead of traditioanl opening day tactics. I think that the round gobies are making Black River walleyes more unpredictable as well. Last year was tough!

Hey gokudl3, I'd like to buy the 20# line that you got on those reels. I'm offering 50cents and fishing lesson.

This was strange....I was fishing a bass pond on a golf course and using a spinnerbait. Right when the spinnerbait hit the water a huge splash erupted. I set the hook and started reeling in whatever made the splash, it was fighting like a tire. After about ten minutes of slowly cranking this dead weight I get a glimpse. A huge snapping turtle and once I dragged it up to shore I realize it only has the skirt in its mouth and no hook. Once he was on the shore he just let go, turned around, and swam away. :?

I lived on Long Island for the year of 2005 and I can tell you right now that striper fishing is super addictive so be careful! It is very different from anything in the freshwater. I could go on and on about techniques, but I'm on lunch break so I will sum it up. I was a surfcaster without a boat, but that didnt keep me from getting my limits. The stripers and blue fish have a unique relationship. The bluefish demolish the bait schools and the slob stripers clean up the chunks that fall to the bottom. You find the bluefish by following the terns that are hitting the bait from the top. I would cast huge topwater for the bluefish, where out my arm then cast a chunk of fish, clam bellies, or a eel to the bottom and wait for the stripers that follow the blues. Thats one example. My most productive times came during Sept, Oct, Nov. I would cast 1.5-2 oz white/yellow bucktail jigs tipped with a large red pork tail (strike king, uncle josh) at moriches inlet and montauk. Dragging the jig across the bottom with short pops off the bottom. Lots of people use storm shads, but I had better luck with bucktail jigs. I caught the biggest and most stripers at Moriches Inlet out on the jetties with my special eel rig on the outgoing tide. The tides have everything to do with your success rate. The outgoing at Moriches and Shinnecock are more favorable then the incoming. My best night was on Halloween at 1am on a outgoing at Moriches with a full moon. So much to say not enough time. The charters drift eels up and down the inlets and are successful. Check noreast.com (very helpful)

Nice female American redstart, you bill him for a half day?

ReelDiel/Sluggo NY, Thanks alot for the advice, I will rig up a kwikfish. I also use a mepps 3 silver on a three-way rig and have had great results. A bit unheard of I know, but in the current it does produce. I will certainly have my emerald shiners, brown trout sacks, and hot coffee ready to go. I have been fishing Mud Bay all year as well as Bayfiled Bay on the Canadian side of Wolf adjacent to Carlton, particularly in the spring. During the summer I hit the deep water with few results. My spring results were dissappointing as well. The consesus was that they spawned out too early and got a move on well before the opener and all I was doing was chasing them behind schedule. During the summer I think I showed such little results because the walleye were too full on gobies to bother with chasing my lures or jigs(besides the gobies slammed my jigs before the walleye could anyhow). In the past my fishing pal and I would smoke large hogs at night trolling J-11 clown rapalas tipped with worms in Mud Bay. This year I caught sheephead and that is about a zero on the fun scale. I dont mind the occasional channel cat, but sheephead are just embarrassing. I started fishing the Black River in early September for Chinnoks and did really well with the small walleyes as well. I haven't strayed far from that river since, because as the salmon faded the walleyes kept getting bigger. I haven't given up on Mud Bay and will keep the board posted with any results. A prediction on my part: the walleye fishing on the Black River this March is going to be outstanding. See you guys there!