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    Cayuga 7/10

    in Finger Lakes Discussion

    Posted

    Andy you'll only see my boat slick once, maybe twice a season when my wife decides it's time to do the wine tour. Just remember,....I can do anything I want as long as it's OK with her :worried: .

     

    Ya know Scott, I'll let you in on my secret on dealing with the fleas, but you have to keep it between us. :lipssealed:  .............I rub K9 Advantix on my line once a month and no flea problem. It's that simple . I really don't want to let to many people know about that `cause Cortland & Blood Run need to make a living also.

     

    Cayuga 7/10

    in Finger Lakes Discussion

    Posted

    Launched out of Long Point Sunday  @ about noon and limited out with some real nice ones in the box. Went straight over to Goose Watch and picked up 3 keepers. Two whites & a red. I used 3 one dollar bills for bait at the tasting table. Didn't take long to zero in. Grabbed my 3 bottles & the better half picked up a T shirt for good luck. From there we went down to Kidders for a couple cold ones :beer:  and their shrimp Po-Boy. That didn't take to long and off to Thristy Owl to try our luck there. Used the same bait which was still working at 4:30 and had 2 nice reds in short order and another T shirt of course. The dipsey bonus of the day was a double dip at Toads on the way home . My best color for lures that day was GR$$N.

     

     

    All in all it was a great day even thou I never put a line in the water . That non fishing day paid my dues for this season :makeup: . Hopefully I can catch some of those grill size fish like you guys do the rest of this season. :hi:

     

    .....till my next report... :*

    Outboard mercury problem

    in This Old Boat

    Posted

    I have a 2002 Merc 115 4 stroke EFI. Twice threw the years I had a intermittent rough running condition. Like you I changed the fuel filters with out curing the problem. Both times the cure was a new set of plugs and presto.............runs like new. The plugs are pretty pricey,..... Cabela's had them the cheapest. I now keep a spare set of new plugs on hand and the next sign of a rough condition the plugs will be the first thing I change.

     

    Hope that works for you guys. :nod:

    shark weights

    in Tackle and Techniques

    Posted

    Like the others I've been running attractors behind the sharks with good results I think, :mmm: ......I'm catching fish anyway :smirk: . If anything I would think that more attraction is better especially in the deeper darker waters. Kinda like a peanut behind a laketroll. :wondering:

    Lamprey eels

    in Open Lake Discussion

    Posted

    Wrong info??? We are making up all these stories? Not. 

     

    ...from post #27

     "Preliminary results of recent electrofishing surveys in the Inlet indicate the numbers of juvenile lampreys produced in 2007 and 2011 were likely not large enough to require a lampricide treatment. Electrofishing surveys in Cayuga Inlet will continue in an effort to monitor the distribution and growth of juvenile lampreys produced in 2007 and 2011 and others that may follow."

     

    ...who needs electrofishing when you have this method:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a8FbHPVvwY#t=1  (as posted by Ray on 9/15/2013)

     

    How many more pics will it take to see what we are -itching about.

    Lamprey eels

    in Open Lake Discussion

    Posted

    The last lampricide treatment (4 or 5 years ago) was missed because of high water (so we are told), and that is what caused this massive lamprey eel infestation. Years of growing one of the finger lakes best fisheries was destroyed in less than two years ( my opinion ). Remember each adult lamprey will kill 40 or more lbs of fish. That’s a lot of fish. Those beautiful 12 to 15 lb tournament winning lake trout that we used to catch are few and far between if at all now. Our trout and salmon fishing has also suffered. Look at the tournament leader boards for the last couple years and you’ll see the decline of quality fish. The last couple tournaments in 2013 were won by fish that would normally be bumped off the board in years past. A lake trout can live up to 20 years and Cayuga Lake can support that longevity.

    Eel traps is one way to curb the eel population. I’m sure that DEC would get enough volunteers to help man the traps. Look at all the pen rearing projects on Ontario. Maybe even sell the eels to help fund the program. The traps would get the adults before they spawn. Not after the ammocoets are in the creeks and maybe killed with lampricide every 4 years if the water conditions are right and if DEC has the manpower and if New York will spend the money. Every dead adult will take hundreds of future eels out of the life cycle and remember each eel returning to the lake as an adult will take out 40+ lbs of fish. All the stocking programs we have are useless if all we are doing is feeding the lamprey eels because our lampricide program is on a hope and a prayer.

    OK,.. I got that rant off my chest,..... but I don’t feel any better.

    Lamprey eels

    in Open Lake Discussion

    Posted

    This is from NYS DEC web site. Even though the study is in Lake Champlain you can ditto it for Cayuga.

    "Studies on the Great Lakes show a 40 to 60 percent mortality rate for fish attacked by sea lamprey. Other studies found that a single sea lamprey can kill 40 or more pounds of fish during its adult life."   this is from http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/6998.html  

     

    There have been many fish on Cayuga caught in the last year and a half with more than one eel attachment. Actually we where catching dead fish and the fish just didn't know it yet.  I wish I had pictures to show you of the eels attached to the lower unit of my main engine and the back of my transom while trolling. I sure RustyRat and many others can attest to that.

    Lamprey eels

    in Open Lake Discussion

    Posted · Edited by stinger

    I think you have to follow the grant $$ in some of this research Pap. The longer they can draw out a research program the more money they get.  Ya think?

     

    ....and yes fathobbit, Cayuga lake is in a major collapse from the lampreys,....we have been getting major attachments on our boats and downrigger balls as well as on the fish since mid 2012.

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    Best Rigger Weights.

    in Tackle and Techniques

    Posted

    I have been using 12# Sharks for the last few years without any issues. They are pricey :cash:  but seem to fish good. Deepest I run them is about 120'-130'. I don't really buy all the manufactures hype about the fish attracting abilities they have but the Sharks track well and blow back is definitely better than balls & fish weights.  Haven't run the torpedo's so no opinion on them.

     

    http://www.sharkcannonballs.com/superstore.html

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