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    Cheaters?

    in Tackle and Techniques

    Posted · Edited by Tim Bromund

    They also give you a feel for the mood of the fish that day, since they are short leads. If you are getting a lot of slider bites, that should be an indication that you might want to tighten up your leads on the main line.

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    Cheaters?

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    I like free sliders. They account for quite a few additional bites over the course of a season. It's usually easy to tell if it's a slider bite because the rod really pounds before releasing from the fish pulling on the belly of the line. You just have to remember to reel like a mofo to pick up the slack when it fires and get tight to the fish as quickly as possible.

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    just getting into the trout salmon fishing.

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    Like out 16 lines or 19 lines

     Those are in reference to either the minutes of latitude or longitude on the GPS. 

     

    When someone says they are fishing at the 25 line, that is the minutes of latitude, which is the middle set of numbers. a Minute of Latitude is approximately 1 mile in this part of the world so if you are fishing say, out of Olcott, the marina is at the 20 line (the pierheads are at the 20.4 line), so if you hear someone saying they are fishing the 25 line, they are approx 4.5-5 miles out.  Works the same with Longitude, though if I remember correctly, each minute of longitude is approx 3/4 of a mile.

     

    Tim

    Dipsey set ups

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    I've been impressed with the power pro super slick, I think the coating on the line has something to do with it's ability to shed fleas. Give it a try, and like les said, it's way more versatile than wire is.

    But it doesn't catch fish like wire divers do. At least on my boat it doesn't. I run both when fleas allow and over quite a few years now, the wire takes about 3X the shots that the braid divers do. Doesn't matter where I run em or what I run on em.

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    Time for the NYSDEC and OMNR to increase Chinook numbers

    in Open Lake Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Tim Bromund

    Unfortunately, they can't just arbitrarily decide to stock more kings.  The stocking numbers for both NY and Ontario are set by an international joint commission between NY and Canada and the numbers are revisited every 5 years.  I'm not sure when the next time is that they go though that process.

     

    They did stock surplus kings this year at the various ports to make up for low coho stocking numbers dues to poor eye up at the hatchery.  I believe the only place that got coho this year was the Salmon River to ensure enough returns to the hatchery for brood stock.

     

    Tim

    Olcott Saturday 7-9

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

    Posted · Edited by Tim Bromund

    Earlier this year, I donated a fishing trip for a benefit, before I discovered the rotten stringers in my boat.  Since I'm still not in the water this year with all of the rebuilding, I asked Adam Gierach to help me out for  the trip.  We took the winners of the trip out today on Diversion II out of Olcott.  Took a quick look inside and not seeing anything interesting, we picked up and ran offshore.  Set down in 375 fow and started trolling north as we set lines.  Caught fish from 400 all the way to 500 fow.

    Rods set were riggers at 45 and 55, divers at 155 and 135 200 copper and 10 color.  

    Had a good day with around 20 bites, a mix of kings and steelhead.  The 10 color was the hot rod with a jawbreaker stinger stingray taking nearly half the shots.  Unfortunately, our landing percentage sucked on that rod today, but we did manage to put 7 fish in the box for the guys, plus one undersize steelie that was released.  

    One nice mature king at 22-23 lbs plus a teenager, really nice class of steelhead with one 12 lbs and 2 others landed over 10, plus we lost several similar sized fish.

    The big king came on the 135 diver on an NK28 Hawg Wild.

    Many, many thanks to Adam, the guys had a good time and went home with a cooler full.

    Beauty of a day out there
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    Tim

    Thoughts running though my head.

    in Open Lake Discussion

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    You can give back by donating time to the Pen Rearing projects or simply cleaning up the public fishing access spots.  It suprised me this spring how many guys DO NOT help out in the pen rearing projects.  I ran the schedule for the Sandy Creek pen project and could not believe how hard it was to get people to give 20 minutes of their time to feed the fish that they will be beating up in the future. Most of the people that volunteered were the same names and some did not even fish trout and salmon.  Without volunteers and certain clubs, where would the fishery be? 

    Totally agree Brian,

     

    I'm heavily involved with the Olcott Pen Project and have been since we started it.  The first couple years, we had all kinds of volunteers signing up to feed, but once the novelty wore off, that completely collapsed.  Of the 3 weeks of feedings, 5 times a day, If I get a dozen time slots filled by volunteers (at least those that sign up via the feeding calendar on the LOTSA website) that's a lot.  I know that people just show up without signing up, but quite honestly, if it wasn't for the dedication of the Town of Newfane Marina Staff feeding the fish when no one is there, Our pen project couldn't exist.

    Best weight retrievers

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    The Cannons don't work if you have riggers that have an autostop mechanism in line like the Scottys with the autostop beads or big jons with the autostop magnets on the cable.

    The Traxstech planer tow line retriever pullys I mentioned have a large enough gap in them that the beads fit through them.

    Tim

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    Kings...what's up this year?

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    I don't necessarily think we lost a year class, what I think happened is the weather and therefore, the lake on the west end has been so unsettled and unstable this year, that the big slug of fish that normally park themselves off our shoreline every summer kept moving til they found stable water. The east end seemed to not be as radically affected as the west end did, so that's where they ended up. From the reports all summer, it sure sounds like they've had much better early summer king fishing than they normally do.

    What that tells me is the migratory kings that we normally have access to for most of the summer before they start heading east after the second week in August, are already home and they aren't going anywhere at this point in the season, so the guys on the west end are only fishing for the resident fish that will be running the local streams this fall.

    Then again, this may just be s SFT on my part (Stupid Fish Theory).

    Tim

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    cabelas buffalo

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    Posted · Edited by Tim Bromund

    I was there on Monday evening.  Cool to walk through, but not someplace I'll be spending a lot of time or money in.  I've spend many thousands of dollars at Cabela's over the years but there was nothing interesting enough at that store to make we want to deal with the traffic and crowds that will flood the place for at least the first couple months.  As far as lures for what we do, any of the local mom and pops have a much better selection than they did, at least initially.  Perhaps they might eventually tailor their inventory to the local scene, but I doubt it.

     

    Tim

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