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I will take that challenge Chad. Bring your rigs to sandy and we can fish them side by side.

I would put my custom spin n glow rigs behind hammerhead cowbells up against this rig any day!

That is the reason I tie my own.

I have never had a loop fail. I buy fly bodies and tie my own with my own hooks and Seagar 50lb. floro. At the end of each season, I got through all of my flies and give them all fresh leaders.

I use a perfection loop on the fly and a very large QUALITY snap on the back of the flasher.

I use the 1" sized spin n glows. Find any glow color and it will produce. Hammer head tackle carries some colors. Go to his website and give him a call or email. They are not cheap but the out produce peanuts.

I find the opposite. Off the boards, it is in quieter water.

I have Penn 345 gti's . That is going to change soon. I'm going over to the new Daiwa Seagate reels.

Olliebugga, Buy some spin n glows too. IMO they are better than peanuts.

IT has been slow but it should pick up over the next couple of weeks.

Mine would be a 500. It has been my most productive copper the past 2 years. The 300 was a close second the past two seasons and the best 3 seasons ago. This also depends on where you are fishing. The East end a 500 is a litte too short.

No. I'm fishing on the West side of the crowd.

The Erie Canal is LOADED with carp. I fish them in the summer in Brockport, Spencerport, Greece and Fairport. I use corn and they love it. I use a 1 oz slip sinker with a hair rig 3' from the slip sinker. Stay by your rods or you will be shopping for new ones.

Last year the intake temp here at work got to 36 degrees for the low. It stayed there for 2 days. That happened in early March. This year, the low is 34 degrees and it has been 34 degrees since Jan. 11th. This temp reading is taken at the intake crib on the bottom of the lake in 50'.

I kept 2 and both of them were the skinniest pike I have seen. One had a rubber worm hook in its stomach with a large plastic (looked like a sluggo.). Keeping a couple will not hurt a thing.

I have caught pike every trip but it is slow. I have seen more on camera than normal. The one trip I saw 16 pike in 6 hours of fishing. We have not had the most favorable pike conditions this winter.

8' daiwa heartland rods with daiwa sealine 27lc's or Daiwa Saltist 20's.

Spend the $. I did not and put thousands into stringers and a transom.

I believe it is 2 tip ups OR 2 jigging rods OR 1 jigging rod and 1 tip ups on the Canadian side Vince.

I was there last Saturday and the drag was HORRIBLE. The crappie fishing has been non-exsistant this year (last year was a fluke). The gill fishing has been decent but mostly dinks and the pike fishing has been slower than usual.

Could be a bad transducer too. It happens from time to time.

I have my short cores on daiwa sea line 27 lcs.

I had some suffix lead core on my 2 and 3 colors and ended up switching back to cortland. I had issues with it fraying and breaking after very little use. I just spooled my 10 color with a spool of lead ore from Great Lakes tackle co. that I got in the goody bag from the sandy creek Shootout.

South end has a nice parking lot with a long walk to the drop off (fishable water). North end access is right near deeper water. If you fish the drop at the South end, you can get browns, rainbows, landlocks, lakers, pickerel, largemouth, smallmouth, perch, crappie, gills and seeds. You never know what you are going to catch there. If you walk from the South end, follow the trail in the woods until you hit the drop off. The south end (huge shallow weedy flat) has many spring holes. Once you get to the drop off, you will not find the spring holes.