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Emeralds are in short supply now. Sent from my SCH-I405 using Lake Ontario United mobile app -
Three 29 inch walleyes today along with a 28 & a 27 pincher. Stick baits and harnesses on 4color leadcore and inline boards along with sixty foot dipseys. Started at 70 foot and out to 85 foot. Back into 60 foot off Silver Creek. Reef Runners and Renoskys were good. Sent from my SCH-I405 using Lake Ontario United mobile app -
The past week has been good perch fishing in 56 foot of water NW of the Angola Water Tower. The wife and I took 48 keepers Friday in two and a quarter hours. It took longer to clean them. We ran out of bait and our two other boats had 60 and 46 perch in the AM. Today one boat had a perch on as soon as the lines hit the bottom, one line only could be handled. Half the perch caught are ten to thirteen inches.
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With a single operator aboard and half a tank of fuel, your engine will redline out at full throttle, and you have the right propeller chosen. The four blade propeller is for more power at low RPMs. Top end speed is lost but hole shots are faster as for waterski stuff.
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http://www.surpluscenter.com/item.asp?catname=&qty=1&item=5-1794-a Here is a good priced rig.
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Expansion of the volume of gasoline in the tank due to temperature changes from 80+ degrees to -10 degrees in the winter brings outside air into the tank and waterfront air has high humidity. The condensation of water from this air exchange in the tank is the source of your water. -
Why do you want a rigger in the middle? With sideplaners and dipseys out there,you should have enough lines out. There are a lot of boats now without downriggers. -
There is a relead additive available and we used it in my old Marinette with a Chrysler 440. Try West Marine for it.
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Lake Erie is at its lowest level in seventy years so its flow into the Welland Canal and Niagara River is like three foot off the top so do not think this statement will help. Probably the evaporation amount of water from Lake Ontario is three foot a year so where do you think the water will come from? The sky, maybe but do not count on it.
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"Irish Company" in Buffalo.
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Your VHF radio will reach another radio through "line of sight" distances in good weather conditions. With eight foot antennas on each boat you are good for about thirty miles most of the time. Coast Guard stations have higher mounted antennas that reach almost everywhere. Cell phone coverage is almost good but there are dead areas. The USA system usually has three mile cell tower coverage but the Canadian systems are higher powered. A charging port for cell phone use is a very good idea. Your cell phone can be "pinged" to locate you. Your VHF radio can be traced with Radio Direction finders on most Coast Guard and Police rescue vessels. The newer VHF radios have GPS coordination to find you. It is important to only use your Marine VHF radio for boating safety and navigation use, it is illegal to use it for "chatting" about personal issues.
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Sturgeon Point Marina is to open May 15, due to dredging from low water and siltation issues.
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Bow and Stern Marine, North Tonawanda, equipped my friends new Mercury motors, 150 and 9.9hp engines, with a solid rod with quick release couplings on the front of the engines. Easy and professionally installed. The 9.9 engine has a strap that holds the free swinging engine solid when disconnected from the main engine.
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This is just natures way of returning nutrients to the lake from which they came. Critters on the bottom will feed on the carcasses creating more food for others. It is not a criminal act as some "do gooders" would like to alarm the public over.
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Your voltage regulator puts out voltage according to your battery condition and load it is carrying. A fully charged battery should read about 12.5 volts and it has a 1.5 volt resistance internally. Your voltmeter will read 14 volts with the engine running and higher voltages like 14.7 volts to charge and carry the load you have connected to it. This may be where you see the increased reading on your gauges.
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Evangola park had 45 boats yesterday. 20 boats today all anchored up together. Limit catches reported. Wind picked up now.
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After the rains Lake Erie is seven inches below last year at this time and Lake Ontatio is five inches lower. Put the heavy hitters in the bow of the boat and you can save some prop repair costs. Projected level rises for Erie are two inches and Ontario four inches in the next thirty days.
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With surface water temperatures below 65 degrees F. walleye can be taken near shore and off shore suspended in the top of the water column. After it gets warmer off shore fishing will produce if you are using side planers to move your lures and worm harnesses farther away from the boat. As the boat passes by, the fish herd out farther away and that is where your lures will be on the side planer boards. Trouble is the salmon and trout will have to be dealt with also. Riggers will pull them off the bottom where the big gals lay looking up for passing smelt and alewives. The preferred bottom water temperatures are where the thermocline meets the bottom, also the preferred area for brown trout. Dipsey divers will take your lures out and down to these big ones. Deep water fishing is best with worm harnesses. Walleye are considered "eating fish" and with all the Heath Department scares usually they are underutilized by the sport fishing groups but there are bigger walleye in Lake Ontario than Lake Erie. -
Albany suits are trying to shove a 2.2 billion dollar power line project from Labrador Power Dams to send electricity to New York on to the locals. Lately the media has reported all bad deals about coal burning and the benefits of wind power. These reports are generated by lobbyists for their masters selling the power change to the public which we would be burdened with for the rest of eternity. Meanwhile our local economy will take a dump with the loss of jobs and tax revenues. Do not fall for the deal that Albany and the investment community is foisting on us. Whether the coal is burned here or India or China, it still is one world and we will take the hit for this foolishness. -
Southtowns Walleye Club, June 8-16, 2013, Perch Tournament, May 18, 2013, www.southtownswalleye.org Amer-Can Tournament, Dunkirk, NY, July13-14, 2013, 716 875 8148 Other tournaments are reported to be sold out already
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I now use the threaded rod connector available from West Marine. It has releases at each end making it easier to disconnect the kicker engine from your main engine. You do not have to hang over the transom to disconect it. When you drop the EZ Steer rod in the drink and replace it, it really hurts your wallet. I learned this after dropping a couple and now I am happy with the threaded rod deal. -
It is sensible to put a fuse near the battery in the positive feed line to your terminal block as that wire can start a fire when it wears or is crushed by something. Happened to me when a cannonball wore down the insulation and the bare wire shorted to the metal hull. After it happened I read the instructions and there was the warning. If you smell wires burning, they probably are.
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The early cold water fishery brings every thing close to the nearshore warm waters to feast upon the bait fish congregating there. Boards and floating stickbaits in shallow water will catch every thing including Kings, Lakers, browns, cohos and Atlantics. This is the best time of year now. The higher sun drives some fish off shore but colored waters shelter them and evening low sun brings them back in.
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Great Lakes regulations ar supposed to be similar in all Great Lakes waters. Ohio has a four walleye limit in an early season fishery and New York never reaches their sport fishing quota so there is no reason to restrict walleye fishing on the Great Lakes except some bean counter who wants to keep the regulation book cheaper to print every two years and regulations that take a year to change instead of quickly as needed.