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I drive truck. NYS DOT has gotten real pickey. Its not about safety anymore its all about money.Fines run up in the thousands.I would not dare chance it.

This is just a post to get some board action going. Its been kinda quiet lately. I was out fishing with Holy Mackerel a couple weeks ago. We were just yacking. Ive known him probably 10yrs or so. Well he brings up the story of the state record Atlantic salmon. Caught on his boat by a guy he took out fishing. This is a true story. I camp right next to him . Sit around the campfire evenings. Drink a few blue and silvers . fish together and he never mentioned it till the other day. If a state record salmon was caught in my boat I would have it plastered all over the place. Im not sure what yr it was caught he told me but the blue and silver blurs the memory. Anyone who thinks they are a good fisherman should go out fishing with this guy. Every little detail , every rattle, every gust of wind , is taken into account. When the fish are biteing its easy. Everyone catches a coolerful. When they are not biteing and no one is catching fish. Mackerel still catches.Occasionaly Ill kick his ass fishing but its usually the other way around. We are useing his boat for the Sodus Pro Am. Amature division.Im looking forward to a strong finish.

I forgot to mention the lakers in my post. Been getting a few off the boards. The color "rasberry" is a term you dont hear on the computer boards much. You must be a ole Hughes fisherman. Stop by my camper next time your up . 1st road up the hill 2nd camper on the left. Also we run channel 68. Sunday I was just inside you in 210FOW.

My plan last weekend was to get the wires going.Last year we caught kings all during the spring derby this year has been a different story. I wont complain about the steelhead action thou. Fri nite managed to pull a small brown out of 30ft of clear water. Sat ran the wires all day out deeper 190 to 400 fow. They rotted in the water. All fish we caught Sat came off the top including a laker. Broke the ice Sunday Had a couple extra guys in the boat so I could run 8 rods. Two fish off the wires a nice steelie and a nice Coho.Finally got the wires going a little. Greens workin,copper orange stopped.Also I plucked about a 10lb king 20 down so they are finally starting to show up . Lots of bait up high. Next weekend should be a smoker. Cant wait.

Im not a florocarbon fan. But that boardname"aquaholic"has got to be the best one ever.

I usually run a cheater on my dodger fly setups.I have taken some pretty good fish on them with no problems. My cheaters are 4 ft. They do get wrapped around the dodger but its just a matter of a couple wraps or so.Definately not the tangled up mess you would think you would get.I was leary before I tried it but its routine now.

I didnt fish the Seneca derby this year. Gas prices were the main reason.I have a economy car I drive back and forth to LO. How ever the yr. I caught the big laker in the Seneca derby it came off the top in 15fow.Off a sutton spoon . w/ 30lb test line. It took awhile for me to figure it out but now I awalys run a lure in the propwash.Swing a rigger around so its right in the bubbles. I talked to Wildman Sat nite he put in a 3rd place fish this yr. Said they didnt catch as many as they usually do. They are deep water guys. I now wish I would have fished the derby after reading NO Clues post. I recognized the shoreline those fish were right up my alley. If you can get the right surface temps. [i look for 50] and the suns not to bright the agressive lakers will be in the top 20 fow. You can go fast to cover a lot of water. Better yet if there is a bughatch going on the insides of their mouths will be loaded with small black spots where they are on top eating bugs. Look for swallows flying close to the surface. Ive had lakers jump many times, thought I had the biggest rainbow in the lake. When they are on top and on the feed it a whole different ballgame. The Sodus pt. buckeye. spoon is a Michigan Stinger .Brass and red /w some crinkle tape on it. Abes has em hanging on the wall or at least he did. Ray as far as posting pictures I take with my camera I lost my camera download program . If I want to post a picture I have to burn a disk each time.

Nice Job Yankee.

Fisgo... Sometimes the riggers work and the wires wont fire.Try runnig you stuff closer to the ball....... Like 5 ft or less.

Well the big fish seem to be gone . Didnt really mark any salmon either. Caught some small cohos and steelhead thats about it. I think we need a good strong westerly blow to set things up.I probably should have stayed in tight and worked on the browns but its hard to do with the great steelhead fishery we have had lately. Someone ,somewhere around the lake has a school of big steelhead.I hope they go easy on it. I had flat water,perfict temps but the fish were scattered. Catch one and put in a weigh point by the time you got back around the fish were gone. Best lure was [ for two weeks now] a stinger "Sodus Point Buckeye".That a stinger rep gave me. I havent bought another one .I know if I load up with em they will stop working ,

Looks like you had a great time. Thanks for taking the time to post pictures.That grape dot watermellon has probably been my best spoon 2 yrs in a row. Seemed strange to see one in someone elses pictures.

Wow ..no junk ones out there. I figured there would be a lot of em.

Thanks Splitshot,good thinkin.

This time of year dont hesitate to run some smaller stuff. C4 nks, little stingers, alpina diamonds, bugs etc. in your favorite color patterns. Works at my port.... Add 2 big splitshot in big waves....

Anuone got any that dont work? Mine sounds like its slipping inside again.Looking for a cheap one for parts.

Im not done yet. Ive got a few trophy ideas.

Never have run squid in the fingers. However I did dedicate one day to pulling cutbait behind a rotator and never moved a rod. I would imagine the squid should work.As for color probably blk/purple. Ray your amazing. We call that dodger a John Deere.

Me, Holymackerel,and Postman are teaming up to fish the amature division . Anyone else on this board sighning up?

Simplegreen Marine. Our local NAPA store sells it.Only place Ive ever seen it. Cuts right thru the blood stains, coffee stains etc. This is something that Ive thought about a lot. Which boat catches more fish ? A clean one or a dirty one. After you wash down your hull are you you leaving a scent trail from the chemicals behind the boat? Most likely you are. Can the fish detect it? probably. But I still wash every thing down before I leave Sunday nite.

Rainbows are still the predomate species on my boat anyway. Cohos a close second and the last couple weeks I dont know what happened to my brn trout program.I plucked a few brns but I had better luck hooking bottom. Did mark some good fish 30ft down ran a fly down and caught a teenage king. All fish back in the drink hopefully getting bigger. Probably could have weighed in a couple of the rainbows but it seems like once you weigh them you probably should keep them . They dont seem to durable once you lift them out of the water. Interesting note.... Had a beeper call Sat afternoon from Stingray He was in that 10ft of clear water . Looking for brns. Well catching brns. He weighed in 2 Sat afternoon. Top lure ... Watermellon Fly was Atomic green crinkle Dodger .. Trash can line... 12lb stren [ to light for LO] After I use it up going back to 17. Im am about ready to wager this yr is going to be a banner yr for fishing LO . There seems to be good numbers of everything out there. I hope the currents,temps and whatever else holds the fish in place stays the same.

Watermellon,silver yellow. silver orange.Ive only done a few fish on green and that was late in the day.

To bad you didnt get into them. Ive been talking to the Hughes crew all week and they are still catching fish.Last Sunday there was a .3 degree break running North and South. You would not think .3 would be enough of a break to hold fish but it worked for me.Ill be back up Fri. nite.I see Willie weighed in a brown and Larry weighed in a bow this week so there are a few good fish around.Youngstown seems to be where the bigger fish are now.

Hey Hermit ,its time for plan B.