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    Yes, Fish finders should go direct to the battery. (with an in-line fuse) Are you sure you don't have an over or under voltage situation? Tom B. (LongLine)
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    WTG! Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Look at the hair on this guy! (2yrs out of school w/ a stint in the USMC. 1975. 1st salomids I ever caught. Had to go to the library to figure out they were 2 Browns & a Coho. 1979 – 15 Lb Coho off the Genny with the old ’66 PennYan 80-81. This little guy served in Iraq & can bench close to 450 Lbs now Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Me & my brother fished 1st ESLO derby out of Port bay. Dick Schyer (RIP) was a city then county employee that started it. We only caught one small lake trout but caught some great smallmouths. Only 5 or 6 salmon caught in that first derby. No one knew how to catch them. Rev. Modish from Rochester won it with a 5 Lb'r. He won a 14 ft aluminum boat which he gave to his church. Little Cleos (with the mermaid) were the hot lures back then, especially the chartreuse ones. I can remember taking brother & father out of Rochester for one of the early derbies. We counted over 350 boats off Rochester alone. It was combat fishing in the spring! This was well before the city/county had a launch and way before the I-bay launch. (even small boats had to duck to get under the I-bay bridge) We had to go way up river to the marina near the turnaround in order to launch. One trip, we waited nearly 2 hours to launch! Weigh in stations gave away a door prize to anyone that weighed in a fish. If it was legal, it could be weighed in. I won a great cooler and we got many lures with ESLO written across the tape job for 2 to 5 Lb fish. Rochester weigh in station was at an old building where the ferry terminal now stands. Parking lot was all gravel & wide open. Oak orchard was a dirt road & Sandy wasn't any better. Riviera downriggers were a popular choice. Yellowbird donut & spring releases were very popular. Black's were new on the market & pinch pads didn't exist. Temp probes were manually lowered on an independent cable. Digital stuff didn't exist. CB radios were popular. Only the largest boats had loran systems. I had an MKII Black & white fish finder. Cost 2 weeks pay but was a great unit - cathode ray tube. Bigger boats had graph units that required scrolls of paper. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    How come shout box keeps repeating? Some guys got fat fingers? Tom B. (LongLine)
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    I wondered why the bottom came up so fast about 20 ft out from the docks. Now I know (found out yesterday) Last picture shows the splash. This jerk is heaving boulders out it to the river as far as he can! Anyone else would get into a lot of trouble for that with the ACof Eng, DEC & EPA. Guess it’s a lot cheaper for the developer to heave them out there than hire trucks to haul them away. Funny how after just a couple of pix that a Monroe County Sheriff came screaming up to the launch and started giving everyone a very suspicious eye. Very suspicious activity going on there indeed! But you were looking the wrong way officer! Be careful backing out from the launch! (How much money did we taxpayers pay to have the river dredged?) Docks at launch are beautiful but that doesn't mean a developer can chuck boulders into the river! Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Dawg's got the solution. You may a loose rivet. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Take a toothpick and put a little vasiline on the prop shaft. See if it makes any difference. 2nd thought: your probe stays pretty horizontal in the water .....right? i.e. not taped so tight it can't swivel. Tom b. (LongLine)
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    Before he got makeup.... This guy has got to love the attention... Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Make sure your propeller is spinning freely. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Try a Black's release if you feel you must use braid. I like the co-poly line by Pline. A little stretch but not nearly as much as mono. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Welcome to the site. Plenty of Laker guys here. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    My advise would be to always keep one rigg'r in the water and experiment with the rest until you find what works for you. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    7 is about the least I do. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    dvd - you must have fed him some super vitamins cuz he jumped out of the water like a shark was chasing him! Tom B. (LongLine)
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    You got’ta be Kidding me! Over 150 FOW – long lead on the rigg’r & he jumped…otherwise he would have gotten dragged for a mile or so. Anyways, launched fairly early at the river. Launch is really nice. 3 lanes open. Clear and calm. Very slight S wind. River had a good current in it. Dredge barge parked in the middle of the river just N of CG station. Another tied up, just inside the Summerville pier. River surface 66F. Took a left at the mouth and went out to 75FOW to put in. Surface early was 54F but warmed to 59 by trips end Worked my way out to 250FOW. Saw a couple small bait pods, but not much else. Currents strong and temps “goofy.†Very unsettled water. Lots of small flotsam in the water, at all depths. No sign of fleas. Took 1 small bow at 175 FOW working my way back in. Surface line with a Wonderbread Bomber & 2 oz keel at 2 ¾ down speed. Wind came out of north around 11:15, so called it quits. Quite a few trailers in the lot, mostly non-fishermen though. Felt good to be back out on the water. Maybe again Sunday. Luck to all, Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Welcome to the site. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    I'd run a ground back to the battery or engine. There's a thing called "galvanic" corrosion and it'll pit aluminum rather badly. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Got that in metric? Just playing...well thought out. Good post Skipper! Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Look like 55-57 vintage
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    I raise & lower mine directly astern a rear corner, but have a swivel base & swivel it 180 deg to reach the release. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Given only one, I'd stay with the rigg'r. Bottom lure about 15ft longer than the top and about 7-10 below it. Top being a flasher/fly that matches the spoon. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Lake Ontario has some freaky currents that move the bottom of the lake, especially near shore. The waves probably won't do the damage but the lake bottom definitely will. The foundation, pilings etc will move. Just look at Port Bay outlet. It's all stones for 1/2 mile in every direction, yet every year the channel get plugged up & has to be dug out. After a storm many places will have a good size sandbar across them...next storm it'll be gone. Most people think the Great lakes are calm bodies of water but the waves are very steep compared to the ocean and this makes them very powerful when they break on the shoreline. Tom B. (LongLine)
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