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    I feel that same way. Seeing dead alewife all over the surface and all over the bottom (on camera) was a little concerning.
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    I agree a lot of big salmon are caught on spoons. Heck, the last 30lb king to hit the floor on my boat was caught on a spoon (2013). I run about 40% of my spread with meat. If spoons are flying, I take it down to 25% meat rigs. I also have found I catch more kings on 8" paddles over 10",11" or 13" paddles with meat. Another very debatable topic!
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    I find meat has it's days. Some days it crushes kings and some days it only takes a couple. It's all about their mood. I always have a couple in the spread because it always seems to take the biggest fish of the day. The 5 fish we took in the Rt 18 Salmon Slam, 4 out of 5 came on meat. The smallest of our 5 came on a spoon.
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    Thats awesome! So many overlook the shore opportunities in the 1000 islands!
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    Constant changing of the structure, taking species out, putting them back in seems to be turning a lot of people off. I don't understand why reinventing the wheel keeps happening with the LOC. Taking out the Fall Lake trout division and the Spring steelhead division were the start of the fall of the LOC. Another big issue is the lack of weigh stations open in the evenings. I know a lot of guys that don't fish it anymore because of this issue. I don't blame the shops for not staying open since they don't make a dime off staying open late to weighing fish.
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    It has been a great one. Jon just made one with a crushed UV tape instead of Flat UV. It looks sick!
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    I am sending you a PM
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    Guys, Head over to my Facebook page and check out the raffles I am doing. My nephew has been diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer and bone cancer. We are raising money to help him with his hospital bills and other expenses. Right now we have a raffle going for a 6 hour Charter with Captain Rob Wescott of Legacy sportfishing. Next up is a Custom rod built by Keith Nehrke (GatorNY here on LOU).
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    You should have jigged walleye on that screen! Nice job Isaac!
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    Sold pending payment
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    TTT
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    I have a set of Millenium Fixed 4 rod trees that were bought this April. They are in like new condition. They are $129.99 each new. I am selling the pair for $175.00. Local pick up or I can meet you in the Greece Hilton area.
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    I fished Friday afternoon with my son and his two buddies. I had Friday, Saturday and Sunday to put my last 4 fish on the board for the All Counties Salmon Slam. WE ran out to 100' and started trolling NW. Currents were horrendous but we found a decent screen in 140' in the top 50'. I ran a slimmed down spread of two coppers, two divers and two riggers. We went 10 for 12 in 2.5 hours boating Kings, steelhead and a coho. The highlight of the night was my sons PB king at 26.06lbs. Hawks Tackle Electric Funeral Meat rig was the best producer with Rigged Cutbait. Hawks Tackle Snowflake was the best spoon of the trip. Saturday, we fished the same water and caught all kings. Same water early and then slid out to 180 late morning. Our biggest of the day was a 21.60 for the Salmon Slam. Same meat rig and a carbon 14 mag were the top producers. Rigged Meat took all of our matures. Sunday, the fish were more scattered. We worked from 160 -225 until mid morning. We went in shallower to see if there were fish inside of 140. on the troll in, we came across a boat that looked like they were jigging. When we got closer, I realized they were trolling super slow. We turned East to give them room and the 300 copper towing an Atommik UV Grinch took off screaming. After a long battle, we boated a 23.16lb king. That fish was our 4th mature of the day. Bites Sunday came deeper and colder than the previous days. Carbon 14, Snow Flake and Black Jeans spoons, Electric Funeral and UV Grinch meat heads were our top producers. We eneded up weighing the 23.16 and a 19.30 since Sunday was the last day I will be able to make it out for the Salmon Slam. I hope the 19.30 doesn't screw us in the end! We ended up with a 23.96, 26.06, 21.60, 23.16 and a 19.30 for our 5 fish box.
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    My buddy tried one. It was not good. The leftovers also turned to mush overnight!
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    It is the latitude line. Instead of using depth, guys will use latitude lines.
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    Great king! Congrats!
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    Saturday the guys off Sandy did well offshore. With those reports, we headed through the sloppy conditions and set down in 350' on a NW troll. We struggled to find any kind of screen or consistency. We ended up with four small kings to show for 4 hours of trolling around out there, We decided to head into the shallows to put Keith's son Mason on some fish before heading in. It didn't take long once we set up in 15-30. A great late morning brown bite ended up turning the day into one Mason will never forget! Our Fourth fish hit a board rod with a 1oz weight and a Stinger Stingray Black UV tuxedo and immediately started peeling line. After a long battle, we boated Mason's personal best brown at 16lbs. At 11:30, the wind switched WNW and started pushing warm water in. 62 degrees was down 7' when we started and it was down 21' when we pulled and headed for the dock. We ended up doing a bunch of browns and a very nice class of them at that, 2 of the fish we boated would have made the Summer LOC board if it was still running!
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    The length of the rod is plenty.
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    Over the years I have caught a bunch of Atlantics of all sizes. About 50% were duds. The giant I caught back in 1997 fought amazing. It seems like the males fight better than females. The top photo fish fought great. The bottom photo, the brown in photo fought way better!
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    I heard but can't confirm it's a new strain of Atlantics. Beautiful fish but not the fighters they are advertised to be. I have caught a couple bigger males that put on an areal show but the majority were lame. Give me a king, coho or steelhead any day over Atlantics.
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    I will take all the Scotty releases (both sizes). PM sent
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    90'-110' was stellar on Friday. Gone on Saturday. We caught an 8 pound Atlantic Friday and it was the worst fight I have ever seen from a Lake Ontario salmonoid.... Not saying a lot when I laker fish! The fish hit a diver pulling a Hawks Tackle Electric Funeral Meat rig. Two head shakes before I got to the rod and then nothing until it hit the floor of the boat. Then it went ballistic.
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    Not an Atommik. Atommik flies are tied on roller beads not tubes.
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    Congrats Manny!
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    Alien UV Gambler Rig behind a Froggy Hammerhead 5/0 Cowbell.
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