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The other thing I forgot to add is bring them up slowly. When they come up slower, they are easier to burp. Using cowbells will give some resistance and help bring them up slower.

My point is, they could use our observations to help put the puzzle pieces together. They do deer hunting.....

Burp them and then drop them head first into the water. When you drop them, the water pushes in and pushes the remaining air out. We get very few floaters this way.

I think it is funny that they use hunters observations to help with scientific data but when it comes to the lake fishery, our observations are not worthy!

I run the Daiwa Saltists. I have been beating them up for 5 seasons and they have not skipped a beat.

Look at the 2016-2017 dates / seasons PDF. The restrictions are back for the 2016-2017 season.......

My advice would be to get rid of the Okuma reels......

Check ebay.

IMO, this needs to be lowered. Your tournament is in the growing process. People want to win money. By putting a big minimum weight on lakers, you are not allowing people to win money. There were only 4 over 20 weighed in during the summer LOC (31 days). That tournament is way bigger and covers the entire south shore. I believe a minimum weight is necessary but 20lbs is way too high.

Is lake trout still a 20lb minimum?

Is captains cove still a weigh site?

With an East wind, cold water moves in along the shoreline and the warm water pushes offshore. It really screws up the inshore fishing until we get some west or northwest winds. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

That deep water temp is a day old. The NWS calls my work at 7:45 every morning to get the temp. The D&C publishes that temp I. The next day's paper.Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

I bleed them out and put them in ice. Filet them and get all the dark meat off the back side of the filet is also key. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

I hear ya John. It has been nice to king fish like crazy this year. We have barely fished lakers at all! The last three seasons, we beat up the lakers bad. We boated over 1200 lakers. This season, we are just over 120. We have caught more kings this season than we did the last two seasons combined! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

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Thanks guys. The steelie fought like garbage and was a shocker when it came to the net.

Thursday- We left the creek early and fished from the Nose to Braddocks Point. We worked from 70-275 and Found matures, smaller kings along with lakers and steelhead. At the end of the day, we ended up with 6 mature kings. All of our fish came on spoons. Not one hit on a flasher/fly or meat. Friday- We left the creek and fished from the pump house West past the nose. We found good numbers of kings in the 140-160 range down 65-110. Mostly spoons again but a couple shots on flasher/fly set ups. We ended the day with a decent four fish box. Saturday- We left the creek just behind the pack heading west. We set down off of Troutburg in 140' and trolled West until the wind started to blow. We had a great first couple of hours with kings, steelhead, lakers and a brown. Spoons, Flasher/flies and meat all took fish on tournament day. The bite slowed but we picked away at the fish. I was not too sure our box consisting of a 23lb king, two twin 19lb kings and a 13.44lb steelhead was enough to place. We ended up placing in the money for the fifth time in seven years. We took 9th place and big steelhead in the tournament. The steelhead was 37" and very skinny. It is a shame that it was not filled out! That fish also put us in 6th place in the LOC steelhead division. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Don't rule out colder and warmer. Lately on Lake Ontario, I have been catching more kings in 40 -42 and 65-68 degree water. Like Les said, fish the marks. When you see really deep hooks in cold water, do not assume they are lakers!