FISHINMAN

Ladybluegill ou never know when it might come up for sale :shock:

Guess it ended up being a decent fish at 6:30am when you woke me :x Glad to hear you got some fish you deserved it after the past couple of weeks for you! Missed your call yesterday you probably wanted me on the phone to help "dial" in another king

Thanks guys! Looks and works great, it was nice to have warm ears last fall and this spring Shade name, address and number are : Robert Hayes 6897 E. William St. Ext. Bath NY 14810 607-776-2357 You'll probably need to leave a message.

Hayes canvas works in Bath! He's the best and very very very reasonable!! I can get you the number if interested. He did my Top, Side curtains, Drop curtains and added 6 inches in hight and this little canvas piece for blocking off the walk through for around $750.00. Here's some pics of mine

Glad to hear Dad's doing well my friend Even more glad to hear that your lips are sealed :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Billy I tried to log into your blog and it said server not found?

bspicer you need to get a speed and temp. unit that hangs above your downrigger ball. There are a few models you can buy, Sub Troll, Cannon Fish Hawk and Depth Raider to name a few. Price wise I think they are all in the same ball park of around $400.00 but if you look up in the search on this site there was a discussion on which ones people prefer. I have a Sub troll and have been on a boat that (Ray K) that uses a Fish Hawk. The temp part of the unit is great to have to find temp breaks in the water. There were times yesterday when our gps speed almost matched our down speed and times were they weren't close because of the tricky currents in the lake. It's a great thing to have on your boat. Good luck with it.

Ray I love their bills! They are great, very easy to understand and not a lot of extra mumbo jumbo in it. Just straight easy reading bills........................................................................................................... NOT :shock: The person responsible for coming up with that crap of a billing format should be taken out in a boat with me to get a hook in there finger, puked on and made to stand there and witness Ray K in the buff:x :x :x I'm thinking of opening up a restaurant and sending out the checks written like those. I'll be rich!

No Rob it's usually not :!: I just tell you all the crazy stuff that I'm sure not everyone tells about in the trips. I have fished a lot by myself over the years without to many problems :shock: Dan I would have stayed, but I need these hands to work with and I didn't want it to get infected or something like that. It was really a fluke deal I was shocked the way it even happened :shock: :roll: When I was at Park Ridge Unity Health Hospital the lady that removed the hook had done one over the weekend too :shock: . It was probably one of you guys that doesn't want to come clean about it

Hit the water with the Jax man in his boat about 6:15am. Went out to 60ft to look and see what kind of picture and temp we had. We had a few marks and a surface temp of 57 degrees with a down temp at 30ft of 57 degrees :shock: dropped it down 10 more feet and it was all the way down to 56.5 degrees :shock: :shock: . So we decided to do a NW troll out towards deeper water to look for some sort of temp break. Well we got out to 250ft and it was a whopping 52-53 degrees down to 50 - 70 feet. fought off the rain showers and continued to fish. We lost a rip on the wire at about 100ft then landed a small steelie on the inline planer back 200ft. Found some more marks out in the 180 -210ft range and got a few to fire. Did fish on the riggers down 35-45ft, the inline boards both with 2 colors and straight mono with about 1/2 ounce of split shot took a couple more and the wire back 180 took the last fish. Sticks and spoons both took fish. We ended up 6 for 8 with 4 of them being steelies (10#, 2# and two in the 4# range) and 2 kings 5# and about 8#. Can't remember what all the lures were we took fish on but one was a $2 Walmart stick in purple, one was a copper watermelon. But the biggest catch of the day ended up being what would have been worth 285pts in the pro-am, that's right one catch worth 285pts! That would be ME :!: Well when Jeremy went to grab the wire he dropped the pole he was getting ready to set, so I picked it up and placed it in a rod holder then went to grab the stick bait he dropped so we didn't step on it and get it caught in out shoes and as I stood up the last treble caught on the bottom of the seat and embedded into my middle finger way past the barb right at the first knuckle :shock: :x Didn't hurt much but was going to be a bit of trouble to try and help catch or net fish. We were gonna try the "hook removing" kit he had on board but decided that when he tried it out on someone else first then he could do my finger. We cut it off and left a piece sticking out :shock: :x So I decided to go in and have it removed at the hospital. Well 1 hour after I got there, 4 shots of novocain, 1 tetnis shot (which I am sure will feel worse than the hook in my finger did by tomorrow) and a $50 co-pay I was on my way :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x and a good day of fishing was over. Seemed like the fish liked it a little faster closer to the 2.8 - 3mph speed. One of the craziest things was the bugs in his boat. Yes the flies were bad but the carpenter ants chopping at the wood and leaving a pile of saw dust was just nuts. Never heard of this in a boat, especially a fiberglass boat :shock: Think I found out the problem with my sub troll too. brought my probe along to try it out on his boat and it worked fine and what we figured out was that I have my Scotty style antenna strapped to the metal extension arm of my downrigger with zip ties and apparently they can't touch the metal or they ground out :? :shock: :?: Hope to be out this Sunday/Monday as the MRS is going out of town for a few days To view a couple of the fish and my finger go to the Pics page.

Here's a couple of the smaller steelies (the bigger one literally jumped out of the net as we got it into the boat) Next time use the bigger/deeper net :shock: :x Here's something for you Ray: It was a funny angle and hard to take a picture of myself

MMMMMMM... Good :shock: They are some beasts! Just wondering what you do with them? You don't actually eat them do ya?

Ray that's great to hear. As you may remember my daughter had open heart surgery to remove a tumor "in" her heart last year (only the 4th such surgery ever preformed in the world) and she is doing great. Todays doctors are unbelievably talented and I am sure that as much as it sounds bad (triple bypass) it's as routine to them as it is for you to install a furnace. This is what they do and they are great at it. Keep us posted and he's in my Prayers my friend:!: P.S My wife said the same thing except she was right look who I met

Hijinks the flies were all over my boat too they were so bad that I have dead ones on the floor of the boat just from standing up to check the rods and stepping on them, but they were a lot like the fish that day for us... NOT BITING :shock:

Went out and did some small mouth fishing today on Canadaguia Lake. It was a hot day out there today, but well worth the heat with some great smallies. Green pumpkin tubes were the best bait but you had to battle the rock bass bites too :x . Did a few on baby bass colored small Rapala and Smithwick Rouge and senkos took a few also. Did a bunch of nice perch today too. Posted the pics on the pics section of the site.

Here's a few of the nice smallies a couple of friends and I caught on Canadaguia lake. It was a nice change of pace from all the rigger/wire fishing as of late. Very few of the fish we caught were under 2 Lbs and some were up to 4 Lbs Some nice perch and slab gills/sunny's too.

Keithg, it's Hamlin area west of Rochester. Nice Job Brian I was out on Thursday and came up empty :shock: :? I went out to 200 ft too and was kicking myself for not going further north a bit :x :x I had a feeling after I went back inside that I should have stayed out there a bit longer. Well learn the hard way sometimes right?

Ray my prayers are with you and your family. God Bless!!

Must be the new cannon balls!

5th? I remember being in 5th at some point of the morning like 6:05am :shock: Or was it we were in 1st boat coming out of the pier heads then dropped to 5th when we tried to get up on plane :!: Wait the number 5 is coming to me now..... It was 5 times we had to try and restart the boat when we got the rods all set and it kept stalling on us :x Wait I got it now it was the 5 trip for me back and forth down rt18 between Wilson and Olcott trying to find you guys :x :x :x :x I'm "almost" gonna miss you guys this weekend :!: I want a call!

This is true Tim, I stick my used ones right into the holder for my cannon balls. You can also use a very small down rigger release like the small ones that Scotty's sells.

Mark nice job on day 2. Sorry I didn't get to talk to ya bit for a second on Saturday had to run, but was glad to hear you got into them on Sunday. You didn't look to happy anyways Saturday but I understand, that's for sure.

bretter, you can use rubber bands too. Just half hitch them around the wire where it comes out of the spool and goes up the rod, then just pull it over the handle. When a fish hits it will break off or you might have to rip it off yourself. Just be use it's off before you reel!

Tim his name was Ed. Not sure of the guys name that he came with although Ray or Bob may know as I was " Feeling a little Poop-e" on day two and slept a bit while it was slow time on day one since I got about 1 hour of sleep if that, because a certain little polish fella snores louder than a heard of buffalo stampeeding through the trailer and they insist on sleeping with the radio on??????.

Tim, don't you mean a lot less small fish around :x That should really help out the next couple of years fishing especially with the smaller amount of salmon that were stocked this year because of disease. That was a STUPID RULE! They should have adjusted it for the first 2 Pro Ams them had it that way for the last 2. From what our observer said he was there with the guy that is in charge of the pen rearing up that way I guess and he was not happy and was going to be giving the DEC a call. That's at least what we were told. I heard it was something like 9,000lbs of fish taken :shock: . Being a "Catch and Release" fisherman I won't be fishing these Pro Ams anymore and that's a big part of why.