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  1. Awesome!! I've done it from an inner tube but never neck deep!
  2. Great story! I must be thinking of another fish... or else it was a tall tale, but the story I heard was a guy fishing for bass saw the brown in shallow water, dropped a jig on it's head, and wham fish on. Also weighed in just before closing. Maybe it was a smaller (but still winning) brown in 18 fow? That jogs a bit of memory.
  3. Going to try but am getting a new tow vehicle, might not have it by then. Hope so!
  4. Hey guys yeah knowing all the weights would be cool and if someone has the data somewhere I'd be happy to plug it in but I don't get to Geneva often. That brown in '98 and the two sub-10 lb lakers the following years are real outliers. A pic would be nice! I remember another brown ~18 lbs a bass guy brought to the scales at the Red Cross maybe 8, 9 years ago? Great fish, must have been footballs. (I didn't see that one either.) Sk8man is right though about the fishing, the number of fish that would have won previous derbies was amazing. I wasn't there but the numbers don't lie... sounds like a stellar weekend all around!
  5. Hey glad you like it! Not an engineer although almost at one point. I, uh, do this for fun. Here's a version with a 2 factor polynomial and a 5 year moving average. Both clearly show the good fishing in the 60s and again recently. Definitely some of the best fish in the last 40 years! Edit: changed graph trend titles
  6. Got curious so I plotted the weights of the winners over the years. Some real nice fish in the 60s, and an anomalously large brown in the late 90s are the things that pop out to me. A nice trend upward over the past 10 years or so, with the average winner of the last 5 years being larger than any other period since the 60s. Interestingly the huge winners from the 60's still skew the overall trend line down despite the recent turnaround. (The trend from 1975 to the present is upwards however.) I did include this year's current leader in the graph, which obviously may change. Hope some of you find it interesting! Edit: pic got hammered by compression on upload, if anyone wants a higher-res image of this PM me. Edit 2: Some real heavies this year! The below is going off the 4 PM Sunday postings so it should get even more impressive. BRIANBOB93's 13.44 lb lake trout is in 5th place. (I'm guessing that's you b/c of your post and the leaderboard.) In 33/49 derbies that would have been the grand prize winner! If you take that to 10 places, the "lightest" fish is a 12.58 laker. That would have been a grand prize winner in 19 derbies!
  7. SO... this topic is now over a year old but I can add to the story. Yesterday, I finally get a chance to get the boat wet this year. A good month after I wanted, but hey that's how it goes sometimes. Turned out to be a beautiful afternoon after the foggy damp morning. Anyway... I back the boat in, put it in park and step on the parking brake. Feel something pop and the pedal is stuck to the floor. Okay I blew my parking brake, could be worse. NOPE! All brakes are gone... again! Launch the boat and proceed to float around with a couple of friends for a few hours in the south end. (There was no fishing involved.) Get back and deal with the truck. So it's pretty much the same story as this original post... first trip of the year, blow out brakes at the ramp! I called U-Haul to rent a truck, got AAA to take mine to the shop. I had to use a box truck for pulling the boat out but I spent a few years driving one so that was fine. The ONLY two times I've ever blown my brakes, sheesh! Maybe next year I'll start by launching somewhere else, ha. Thought you guys might get a kick out of this story. Oh and I've never owned a vehicle where the parking brake is tied to the regular brakes... my last 5 trucks were all independent systems. This doesn't seem like the best way of doing it- lose one lose them all? What if you're at speed, there's not many options. Hey anyone want to buy a truck?
  8. Beauty brown! Thanks for the updates guys! Some nice fish up there already.
  9. Follow the boats.... big derby this weekend, also probably why you won't get too much help right now. But there should be lakers right out front of Sampson and points north. Often good pike fishing right around there too. But i'd go out the chute and immediately start looking in 60-100' on the shelf, you can take an inner tube out from Sampson and catch lakers. If they aren't there look deeper just off the shelf or try a bit further north. Use white/chartreuse/glow for the lakers.
  10. Carp spod. http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/0/2/1/1/6/6/webimg/500188836_o.jpg Used for baiting up an area at a distance, unusual find for the USA though.
  11. Well that sucks, last I heard they thought things were improving. It does mention that in the article but overall it can't be good. But then part of their plan to fix it was capping it with clay(?) so it's not too surprising the mercury is sneaking out. Hope the eagles make out okay.
  12. Looks dangerous! Stay safe out there this weekend Ed! And everyone!
  13. I know Rudd have been in NY since 1936 but I don't know how long they've been in the Finger Lakes. They've been here as long as I remember which is only 12 years of fishing or so, I'm sure they've been around a lot longer than that. I read up on them at one point but forgot most of it, I think they can hybridize with Golden Shiners. They can't be good but there's much worse invasives on the way.
  14. I've only had one boat but it takes a regular drain plug like you mention, goes in from the outside. Never had an issue or even thought about it coming out, most of the time the water is trying to push the plug into the boat anyway. I do replace them regularly when they get harder to tighten but that's about it. I've taken it out on purpose while on the water but that's another topic!
  15. Huh I'll take a look next time I'm at the Asian market. I don't think I'll be buying any though. Thought it was pretty cool this guy was fishing for them even before NY made the announcement they were here. He said they're native where he's from.
  16. Hey all, been doing my usual May carp fishing a little. Started slow just as everything else did, several weeks ago it was 0 or 1 bites per 2-3 hr trip. Last week it picked up a bit and now things are starting to get going, at least until they start spawning. No monsters yet, I might need to mix things up a bit. Biggest was 25.5 lbs from last week. This has actually been pretty good shoulder rehab as long as I'm careful, the slow ramping up of the bite has been perfect. I'm just thankful I can do any kind of fishing, and it's fantastic to be outside after that long winter! Today was the best morning so far, landing 6 and losing one wrapped around a log. I had hooked up on one rod and was fighting that fish. Got it in close and it appeared to tangle with the other rod and start taking line. After a minute it became apparent the second rod had a fish on! Not tangled at all, but by the time someone grabbed that rod (I got help) it had wrapped up and I had to break it off. First double take of the year! Man it's great when that drag starts singing. Zzz zz zzzzzzzzzzzzzz! Loving a new rod, I put together a carp rod over the winter with a Shimano Baitrunner (the newer cheaper model) and a Daiwa Mission X carp rod I got at a great deal. I've been wanting a Baitrunner for a while for drifting sawbellies in the summer and having two uses for it was good enough to get one. I like the reel a lot but wish the main drag could be set a hair lighter. If a good carp has several hundred feet of line out it can really pull in the water and a few times I've wished I could dial it back just a little more. It's still well suited and has caught 80% of the fish so far. The rod is great too and can bomb several ounces out of sight (okay not quite). This combo will also allow me to cast over the weedbeds in the lake and hopefully I can figure out a good pattern for carping all summer. Maybe! Today I weighed one at 19.5 lbs, the next was in the low 20's (didn't weigh it) and the rest were in the mid teens. Good fish but not the bruisers I'm looking for! Lots of Rudd/Roach around, the differences between the two are slight and I'm not sure which I'm seeing, I'll have to learn and check the telltales. Could be both I guess. Dang bait thieves. Haven't gotten any goldfish yet. One fish I cast out and as soon as it hit the water it got picked up. I was trying to set it down and it was bucking in my hands! Great fun. Been using corn, works pretty good at first but they wise up to it after a while and with lots of people using it. Could be the reason I'm not getting big ones, I'll start bringing some other baits along now. Oh interesting side note, was talking to an Eastern European gentleman about carp fishing and the topic of Gobies came up… he said for the past few years he's gone to Taughannock and purposefully been fishing for the gobies, I guess he eats them like smelt, whole and fried. Anyone heard of that? Not that it'll keep them from spreading but go for it man! Edit: Ithaca area
  17. Another station in the Ithaca area now has E-free, the Valero in Jacksonville on rt. 96 near Taughannock State Park. Great news though it's not a 24 hour place. The only other one in Ithaca I know of is downtown at rt. 13 and Buffalo St.
  18. Okay I looked this up in the state code because it's good to know, definition here: http://www.dec.ny.gov/regs/42172.html#42178 It says all stages of life including eggs count as a frog. Also apparently there is some misinformation out there, on the online regulations page it says no night hunting, while both the printed regulations booklet and the state code say night hunting is okay, just no guns. So I'd imagine that's correct. Alrighty then back to the fishing...
  19. They don't specify a distinction and since it's a baby frog and the same species, I'm going to guess it's against regulations. The idea is probably to let them reproduce. Just my take
  20. TROUTMAN87 is correct, frogs are only allowed to be taken June 15 through September 30. Also no salamanders. (Edited to remove incorrect information.)
  21. Sometimes it works in your favor. I have a Rebel stick that had two small trebles on it. I took the front one off and put a larger one on the rear. Now instead of just vibrating, it vibrates like normal but also slashes back and forth like it's behind a dodger. Catches a lot of fish and there have been several days it's the only lure to take fish. So now I'll often play with the hooks, sometimes they're okay to switch around sometimes not. I'll always take the front treble off of sticks with 3.
  22. They do limit some of the species you can take in what follows "5 in combination", so if they wanted the limit on lakers to be less than 5 I think it would be spelled out like the other fish. "No more than..."
  23. What slow rollin said, do it so you're not touching the lead all the time. If they're still shiny paint them right up it'll stick fine.
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