Fishstix

Hey No Promises I know what it came on. It will cost you 6 cases of beer and two cartons of smokes to find out. Not cheap beer either,Winston cigs....... Actually Im sworn to secrecy.A $ 4,500 an hr . govenor buster could not get it out of me.

I dont remember what the mfg of the floro was. Occasionally Brn fishing Ill get ahold of a rippin jumping bow or a salmon. Why take a chance with the extra knots? To me its the same as buying cheap snap swivels. Here is what happens. Your trolling the shoreline for brns. Pick up a couple bass or dink brns . Sun starts to get high in the sky and you have clear water. So you head out to deeper water with your brn setup. A rifleshot crack reliece,big bow up out of the water,Bye bye floro. I do run floro on my fly setups. 40lb. test. The above story is true and no animals were harmed .

I know" No Promises" from this board has a picture . I dont know if you can get a cell phone picture downloaded to the computer. In the move I lost my camera to computer cable . So im outa business for awhile. I also lost my camera charging cable. Still have boxes everywhere.

Used to use floro leaders. Now back to what ever lb. test line Ive got on the rods. Only difference I seen was more breakoffs.

It was porkey ,I thought it was a king at first it was shaped just like a king.

Fished in a little derby out of Sodus. For the temps and water color we had West of Sodus we should have killed em. But we didnt ,a frustrating weekend.3 fish Fri 5 fish Sat If you caught a fish an a certain spoon or color you should have just thrown it away . Nothing worked more than once. In 2 days we spent 22hrs on the water. FRi we found a pocket of stained water 54 degrees. So stained you could not see the downrigger cables 1 ft down It was surrounded by 47 degree water. It should have been loaded with fish BUT it was fishless. Big fish of derby fri was a 14lb king BIG FISH SAT .....DRUM ROLL PLEASE.... A 28 LB laker not a misprint I seen the fish a real trophy. When he opened up the cooler I thought it was a king. He is going to have it mounted. Wildman and Colsie caught it on the Cosighner boat. Yea that boat is out of Hughes but they werent fishing out of Hughes they headed West . Biggest laker Ive ever seen.

I own Yamahas . Let me get that out of the way. Only thing Ive heard about the Etechs is they dont like to Idle down and troll for long periods. That is second hand infromation to me. I have not had any first hand experience with the E tecks. This year I will get some first hand experience. A buddy of mine just bought a 08 Arima with twin Etecks. 150"s

silver orange,copper orange.... Seems more of the big boys come on spoons rather than sticks. Be sure to run your boards right on the shore line a lot of times they will be in less than 1ft of water.

Stinger , it was our intention to downsize . But we ended up going bigger. Kinda like 2ft ides I just cant explain it. We been talking about doing the Barney derby the end of next month.Ole Willie Fish wants to get his Michigan Stingers going in the fingerlakes. Wildman {the one that had the tackle shop in Ithaca} Put a camper next to mine up at Hughes. A real wealth of info. there. A lot of beer drinking to do also." Cosighner" from the fingerlakes set up there also. Derby winners all around me , could be my turn this year.

I cant hear well .So after going around to different places that sell vhf radios I picked a ICOM 602. Great tone quality on the speaker. VHF is line of sight so the higher you get your antenna the farther you get out. The 602 has a lot of features . I like to scan several channels when the fishings slow.If you have ever listened to the coast guard on a rescue,those guys are sharp...

Due to selling my house and buying another Ill be off line for awhile. Closeing this FRI. Ill be fishing the Sodus Derby next month and the LOU derby in the summer.Not sure when or if Ill get back to computers. Mid life crisis or something but Im trying to decide if life was better before computers or after. Im also thinking about throwing my cellphone in the lake.Cable TV may go by the wayside also. Still the same fishstix just want to simplify life somewhat. Its been a brutal hard winter ,maybe Ill soften up when I get some fishing in. BTW I did my boat trailer last weekend . Its a 2001 shorelander with disc brakes and bearing buddies. Regular marine grease mixes with water synthetic grease doesn"t. Synthetic costs more but I havent changed a pin or a ujoint in anything since I switched over to it. Been a couple years now. Good luck to all and look for my name on the leaderboards........

Anyone thinking about a kicker. I put on a 8hp kicker last yr. I installed a hr meter on each engine. Last yr fishing lakeontario I put seven hrs on the kicker for every hr I put on the main motor. I never did the gallon per hr thing but I probably will this year. Both engines pull from the same gas tank. Just a guess would be 75% less gas. A kicker is also a great safety item if your main motor konks out. Its also a great way to explain the purchase to the wife. I also think there is something to the quietness and stealth.

Did the Sunday drive thing. Stopped at Bass pro for their spring fishing extravaganza. Plucked 4 good spoons out of their discount bin.[red nk vampires] Drove on up to Sodus point lots of guys out icefishing but I didnt ask anyone how they were doing. Stopped at Abes tackle shop. He bought the restaurant bar across the road and was working on fixing the place up. I sure hope he stays in the tackle business. Drove by Maxwell creek there was 4 or 5 cars there and their seemed to be a good flow of water. Went on down to Hughes to check my camper .Things looked good Stopped by the office and they had a pic. of a nice 15lb northern caught last fall. The lake level looked good,good color out to about 100ft from shore. Im startin to get the itch.

The one thing I see no one talks about much is the lack of gas station competion. Used to be 4 or 5 stations of different brands trying to get your business now [at least in our area ] the same couple guys own them all. As for diesel at $3.89 if they tried that 20 yrs ago the independent truckers would have shut the highways down. Now its company drivers . I used to know probably 15 independents back then .Now I know one and hes working for me... My gas milege is all over the place. 10 below is about the lower limit for the diesel fuel Having a awful time with chainsaws. But for one dollar I can get a hotdog and 16oz. fountain drink with a fillup.

You could just put the rodholders in the desired position then drill a couple holes thru the mount and rail. Then get some good stainless locknuts and bolts. Crank em tight. I tried a couple pieces of PVC in the gap once ,it didnt last. Best option is get some that fit.

I was at Cargill salt friday afternoon and the canal end was frozen about 50 ft or so out into the lake.

A few years back I switched my 115 Yamaha to synthetic motor oil. The reason I did it is at 100hrs.the regular oil appeared to be beatup and drained out like water. Yamaha does not recomend synthetic in their engines. Well so far [3yrs] so good the engine runs quieter ,seems to burn less fuel.(dont know for sure} and at 100 hrs when I drain the oil it still looks like oil. Last yr I added a new Yamaha HT8 kicker put about 400hrs on it. I started this motor out with synthetic oil, Ive changed it 4 times and it drains out almost like "new oil". I want everyone to know Yamaha DOES NOT RECOMEND synthetic motor oil. But Ive got to say it works for me. I use synthetic gear oil in my truck transmissions and rears . Since I switched no tranny or rear problems. And my stuff gets abused.{log trucks} The reason behind this post is I agonized a long time before switching to synthetic. The stuffs expensive and so are boat motors.But I think its worth it. No Im not a oil salesmen. But it is the time of year to think about your motor oil. reducing friction = better milege. I do not use synthetic in my p/up or car but if gas keeps going up Im going to give it a try.Probably shortly. Im hearing 4bucks a gallon by summer.

Wow another optimiser got mentioned! Also the Sept spoon. I take it were talkin salmon here. I usually dont start fishing for salmon till August, Spring early summer about everything has their day. 1. Black purple optimiser 2. Fishlander shark (last yr)

Ill take bows over Kings. Gamblers right about the propwash bite. It usually only happens a few times a year. 10 plus lb brns will give you a pretty good scrap also.

30lb pink ande. No florocarbon for me.

A professional set of pinking shears,so I can scallop my tape. Had a smokin yr last yr, not changing much.

Another plug for Big Jons. Ive fished on other boats with Cannons,Scotties,Penns etc. Ive rebuilt my big Johns twice now .Ive had em 20yrs and they were used when I got them. I to think there is something to that long flexable arm out to the side when your rockin and rollin. New gears ,bearings ,spools bushings and switches.Parts for both came to about $240 bucks but they are new again. Big jon has several models Im talking about the ES 1000 model. Top of Big Jons line. I also have a couple of the new captains packs and they are not the rigger the ES 1000"s are.I had a spool break in half last yr bringing a 12lb ball with the temp probe hooked to it' I didnt lose the probe but I now keep a pair of leather gloves handy. If I was to buy new I would go with the upper model I think they are now called a "speed rigger". With the big jons everything is out in the open and easy to get to. I call it the" beauty of simplicity"

Im still lookin....

After the last couple yrs. Im starting to think "Less is better" Meaning I don't catch any more fish with a couple rods out than 6 or 8. If the fish are biteing two rods are enough.If their not biteing two are to many. In the spring when they are on top I like to run as many rods as I legally can. But mid summer I do better with two cannonballs down w/4 rigger rods. Two rods per rigger.I run down and outs stacked on the top rigger rods. Its a bit of a pain stacking rods on a rigger line but it seems to pay off when the bite is slow.Most everyone catches fish when they are biteing,not many do when they arent. I use the adjustabe dime dipseys.

Ray ,grab some of his purple glows.