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Fishstix

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  1. Fisherdude take a few pictures at Sampson if you would please. With the new ownership do they let you launch now?  I was checking my gear and found this wear spot on a downrigger ball. I must have towed it a lot to wear like that. Looking at the colors it was probably one from years ago when I painted them all different colors to see witch color caught the most fish.

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  2. Im covidcaptive so I took a ride up to check out the launch. I did not measure the water depth but i would guess a couple ft deep.I did measure from the center of the bridge to top of the water it was 9 1/2 ft.  There was some skim ice That I think you would get into turning the boat around.      Years ago up at Hughes I launched into skim ice and knocked the transducers off the back of the boat.

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  3.  I am old school.Back when I started in the fingerlakes old timers used to say on overcast days run black and purple.  Silver copper, silver gold, brass, white or green on days when the sun is high depending on water color.  That being said I have dodgers , rota-tors that I have painted up black and purple . My thought if it works on overcast low light days it should work deep.   It does...I also will run copper gold deep.

          As for ROYGBIV  I  run red trebles. But its really hard to tell if it makes a difference. I think red hooks look good.

     

     

     

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  4.  I usually do not give out my flasher fly information however.I am covid landlocked and bored . I see other guys givin out info so I  will give out a little of what works for me. Its very different than anyone else.The rainbow in the picture is a Cayuga lake rainbow. It was caught on a atommic fly on 40lb test andie mono line pulled behind a 11"  Hot Spot flasher . Off a Mag dipsey  with wire line. You need the heavy line to the fly to get the fly whippin to trigger strikes. You don't get many bites but when you do its usually a dandy. 

     

    Color, length of leads, speed all depends on time of day,, water color , time of year, and mostly luck ;)..  experiment

  5. If you have a test light Ground one end connect the light end to either S or I in the diagram above . Have someone hold the key in the start position. You should get voltage to either the S or I when you turn the key off and on [start position]  I think its the I terminal its one or the other.If you get voltage to it and the solenoid does not Click you have a bad solenoid.  If you get no voltage to the S or I terminals you have half split the problem .The problem is forward of the solenoid. Fuse , switch,wire anything  . neutral safety switch.  Good luck.....

  6. Just got my flier in the mail. Its still on with a $10,000 grand prize. May 29, 30 and 31.  I did not see on the flier a place to sign up online.If there is one please correct me.  I know its a little tough fishing but your odds are better there on winning  than in that damm casino.We look forward to it every year. 

    315 789 5520  is the number to call for info.   Good luck to all.

     

    Sign up everyone.

  7. Fished out of Deans this morning with Reel Doc. The laker bite is still as good as it has been.  Wire divers with paddle , green or white flies did most of the damage.Just a few fish on rigger spoons.Probably around a dozen fish . Fished close to four hours.The launch at Deans is real shallow. WE did not run any top lines.There was a stout west wind. Here is the best one released to fight another day.

    Thanks for the trip Reel Doc ..

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  8. When I was up at Hughes for about 20yrs we would go round and round about atlantics and browns.The two rows of teeth was the true identifier. [Thanks Skateopedia]    Im not just throwing this out there. The guy that caught it was a diary {sp} keeper. Long time fisherman knows his fish. Wrote it down as a salmon first and after close inspection changed it to brown.

     

      

     

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