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15 minutes ago, Apparition said:

So it did cool down?  Does the cooler water bring in kings?  Do you look for temperature breaks?  How do you adapt to that situation?

 

Lots of factors involved.  Time of year, How bad it upwelled, ect.  Cool downs sometimes fish will be in the same area sometimes they move offshore.  A full upwelling, head offshore.  

Our intake temp at work is sitting at 47 degrees right now.  It was 56 degrees Saturday before the NE wind.  Not a full upwelling but temps cooled inside.  

Congrats again Mike!  It's cool to see the kids getting older and putting in the work!  

I ordered an extra vent cover for my camper and need to get rid of the extra.  $25.00 local pick up in Hilton NY

If you placed in this past weekends Seneca Lake National Lake Trout Derby with Gambler Rigs product, head over to the Gambler Rigs Facebook page and leave a photo and a story to be entered in to a contest for some free gear!

Lots of small bait a couple weeks back.  It’s a great sign!

Sold

Rod is in good condition.  $25.00 pick up in Hilton NY.  I will not ship this rod. 
 

4 hours ago, outback kennels 2 said:

Thanks for the info would you take a few pics of it and send to me if its no problem 

thanks for the info 

I will not be back down to the boat until next week.  I will take some and send them to you. 

9 hours ago, outback kennels 2 said:

Any one have any information on installing a stea star hydraulic unit replacing a cable steer on a omc cobra sterndrive 

thanks

I just had it done by East Fork Pro Marine in Hamlin NY this spring.  Install looked pretty easy.  The pain in the butt part was bleeding the air out of the system.  

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5 hours ago, Yankee Troller said:

 

This bloater experiment has been going on for a few years now. Has anyone ever seen one in stomach contents? You can't make fish eat these when they've been conditioned to hunt down what's been there. These do not help the Salmon fishery in any way.  Which I'll say again, draws the most money/attention to this fishery.

 

You want to experiment with a species? Figure out how to make the Coho fishery better/more consistent. I haven't met an angler who doesn't love that fishery when we have good years of it.

The chances of finding bloater in a Trout or salmons stomach is next to none when their population is so low.  

Bloater are native to the Great Lakes.  The feds are all about restoring native species.  Restoring native species should be a high priority IF the species are highly successful and it doesn't disrupt the multi-million dollar fishery.   Bloater could be a positive for the fishery.  Without experimenting, they will not know.  Lakers could key in on them and put less pressure on alewife.  We all know a diverse diet is healthier for ALL the species in Lake Ontario.  It can't hurt to experiment.  I would rather see them dump money into a Bloater experiment than expanding the Atlantic program.  

On 5/20/2023 at 5:39 PM, newmike said:

Michigan stingers speed?

1.6-3.0

I have had great luck with their customer service in the past.  My probe quit well after the warranty and I sent it in to have it fixed.  It was fixed free of charge!

Speed also depends on the lures of choice.  Some spoons troll better on the slower side and some troll better with a little more speed.

It should be plenty but 20lbs will not help with fleas. 

Fish the edges (top, sides and bottom) of the bait schools.  I run more paddles and meat when there is tons of bait like this.  You have to make your rig more attractive when you are a needle in a hay stack!

I will not be out but last week, 90-110 was the best water all week!  

I just put a Raymarine Evo 150 on my 245 Contender with an I/O, 9.9 honda kicker and hydraulic steering.  I believe the EVO 200 is for Inboards and the 100 is for Outboards.  The unit worked flawless trolling into 3' waves last week with the kicker.  

Look for a slightly used X4.  There are some out there that guys bought and now are upgrading to the X4D.  

Congrats again Matt!  It’s always good to see good guys on top of the leaderboard!

8 minutes ago, Gill-T said:

I was wondering what everybody thought about the weird derby this year. Of note, where are the big browns. Did the browns spread out when the bait came in?  Did all the two year old kings around displace the browns and lakers?  Where are the three and four year old kings?  I fished from the Niagara Bar to Summerset. We caught an incredible amount of two year old kings from the trench in front of the green can out to 300’. It didn’t matter where we went. We caught one brown, one Atlantic, and only about 15 lakers. I saw bait some days that extended from Wilson to the bar suspended. I saw bait on the bottom from Olcott to the bar. A crazy weird derby. 

The amount of 2 year old kings is astonishing.  Lakers are abnormally shallow for this time of the year off Sandy.  Browns are scattered all over.  We caught browns in 15' on boards, in 40' on the surface, 50 on bottom and 90' on the bottom.  The bait showed up Monday all over the bottom in 110' or deeper.  Lots of 2"-4" alewife in the kings I cut up.  I already caught more coho than last year.  We also caught an Atlantic that was a typical beat up fish (dorsal fin and pectoral fins messed up).  

1 hour ago, cheeseyrider said:

That's probably true considering they're not far apart. where do you stay reasonably priced.? If you are ok with trailer like accommodations North of the Ridge  is the place, If there are other options out of Sandy or Bald Eagle would like to know ? Thanks

There are hotels in Brockport - 10 minutes South of Sandy.  The part that separates Sandy from the rest is the availability of species.  When the king bite isn't there, we have one of the best stretches for browns and lakers on the South shore.  From Sandy to Braddock Bay, there are multiple shoals that hold fish 

On 5/10/2023 at 6:05 PM, danjr said:

Nice report Bri! It looks like you updated the cushions etc. Is the wiring all new as well?  I know you were fighting that last time I saw the boat.   Man the boat looks great from the last time I saw it last year!

Since I bought the boat last spring I have done the following:

New Bolsters

New Vinyl and wood trim throughout the boat

New wiring

New seats

Hydraulic Steering

Autopilot

New Hummingbird Helix 7

Through hull transducer

New rod holders

New riggers

Tracks

net holders

New antenna

Cuddy rod holders

I have new window trim to install, I started running a new fuel line for the kicker yesterday and a couple more projects to get done.  Next winter I will upgrade the other fish finder and add electric plainer reels.  

Keep up the good work Manny!