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Corps of Engineers forecast for this year is water levels for Lake Ontario will be up a few inches from last year but still one to eight inches below its historical averages.

Is it possible the bait forage numbers are so high that the salmon do not need to atack your lures? The average weights are OK but not outstanding.

Sunday report- The lake is flooded from the rains and thaw. Access to the ice is best by boat. Water is muddy. Lake has risen several feet.

Operating a hatchery could fail because a couple days the "volunteers" do not show up and everything worked and paid for would go down the drain.

Eighty per cent of NY residents have a gun in their home. They may not be hunters, gun radicals, shooters or anything special. Just people who have a gun in their home and want to keep it there. New York residents are fed up to here with taxes and any new hairbrained scheme by desparate New York politicians to keep the gravy train flowing results in rejection by the public. The bicycle license plate scheme would not result in enough money to fund administering the program. How many police and prisons would be needed to put all of the people in prison for not complying with this stupidity?

Info I picked up at the State of the Lake indicated we may be using emerald shiners caught locally and transporting them in our vehicles in nearby corridors along the lake. The earliest date we could possibly expect this to happen is late June??? There were a lot of retirements at top offices in the DEC and the new guys are trying to catch up with the loose ends they inherited. At least we have some fresh thinkers working there now. The bad news is the promotions were not replaced and a manpower shortage will really affect hatchery operations. The good news is they are a lot of wild hatched Chinooks in the lake.

In Switzerland, gasoline costs $15 a gallon. People ride electric trains everywhere, they show up every 20 minutes. If you own a car, you use it once a week and it gets 35 MPG. Most boats are row boats or sailboats. Things are changing over here, get ready.

The energy from 10 gallons of ethanol is equal to the energy from 6 gallons of gasoline. You pay the same price and get just after halfway there. Why do we have elections when the people we send to Washington become more stupid?

Yesterday Alaskan Oil was $114 a barrel.

The oil refiners are suing Obama for this 15% thing. Seems they do not want to lose sales of their product to the farmers and distillers.

Careful you do not get disinherited for suing your father.

14 foot boat/ 55 hp motor? that is a problem.

I had an old Starcraft 21 footer that leaked. After pulling the floorboards, I filled her up with some water. Water was weeping from many places. I chiseled off the old rivets, picked up new larger rivets. I drilled out the old holes to fit the new rivets. I made a piece of steel up with a hole drilled in it to receive the tail of the rivet.With a helper we pounded the aluminum to tighten up the rivet so it would not spin in its hole. Then we peened it over. I thought I would replace 12 rivets but when we were done, it was 268 rivets replaced. The boat was tight again but a couple years later the transom brace cracked and my outboard was flopping around. I gave up on the boat. I bought a Lund, it was fine for 18 years but rivets leaked where the trailers roller bolt cracked and the hull had a dent. I now have a Crestliner welded aluminum hull, no rivets.

Fur prices are up at this time of year, food is tough to get and they respond better to calls at this time of year, gunshots in the spring and summer, especially at night cause the DEC a lot of unnecessary responses and gets the residents upset.

When the wind is from the East, fish bite the least, and you can end up in Ohio.

http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/in ... msg1846862 Looks bad after the east winds from the past couple days.

http://www.windsun.com/Batteries/Battery_FAQ.htm

With 12 volt DC systems, the shortest wire run from the battery is best. Running your wires from the battery, usually in the stern near your engine, to the bow, then back to the stern is not a good idea. Set up a separate system from the battery for your riggers. I burned up a rigger feed wire once when a cannon ball wore through the wire in the tray while in heavy weather and some fool was pounding his way out to catch the dawn bite and shorted it out. Smelled like "wires burning". They sell a four fuse holder that has separate fuses for each rigger and the smaller fuses are better for safety sake.

A Syracuse PHD Biologist gave a presentation on coyotes the other night in Hamburg. Some of the main points she made is that they are here in New York. They eat fawns, get that, our deer hunting success will change in the future. Guns, traps and poisons failed to kill off the coyotes out west. Do your best to keep them out of your hunting grounds and neighborhoods. Get your kids involved in trapping NOW.

With all the coyotes around, you do not need to follow a blood trail. There will be bones left for you when you get to your deer. When the deer seasons were originally set , it was for gun hunters who could use the snow to aid in tracking deer, the bowhunters got their special seasons and now we have what we have. Maybe bowhunting should start after the gun season, not before.

Late summer, high water temperatures, on Lake Erie in deeper waters, 80 feet or better, we sometimes add 3 ounces of lead to the leadcore to get to the big smelt eating walleyes lying on the bottom of the lake.

Promarine makes battery chargers and has good info at their site.

http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/in ... =13702.360

Last year at the Cuba Lake Ice Fishing Contests, they took all the prizes except the Northern Pike. You must use 4# test, a light split shot and a minnow hooked behind the the dorsal fin to keep it swimming in distress. Set the depth with a clip on sinker, remove it and drop it backdown. So far this year they have also taken Northerns, a norlunge and a 5# walleye.