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This motor runs like new. I have fished with it. 

Not sure what you mean by numbers but if your running 4 riggers on a small boat you want to set your deeper riggers first. Keep the boat going straight. Best of luck bud.

Nice morning. 

Stock more salmon. Done.

On 6/22/2025 at 6:53 PM, Fishmaster196 said:

Having trouble with my berts tracks end caps stripping out.What do you guys do for a easy fix i would like to know.Thanks in advance

You mean the screw threads are stripping out?

I'm retired for 2 yrs from running Charters out of the Little Salmon and haven't heard anything good from my friends fishing the Bay. Best I can do Bud. You might want to go north or west. If I was fishing I would run west.

On 6/3/2025 at 7:23 AM, Sk8man said:

Although Canandaigua Lake has produced some impressive trout over the years they are few and far between. The number of fish caught and present in Canandaigua Lake has been constantly reducing for many years now. I have fished it since the late 1960"s and the amount of bait present, the number of fish present has radically diminished. In the seventies and eighties bait could be seen stacked up over a hundred feet high for hundreds of yards. There were also large schools of Rainbow Smelt present in addition to the sawbellies. On the graph many fish were noted both on bottom , suspended, and mixed in or near huge bait pods. Now days bait pods are very much scattered and much smaller although there is still noticeable bait present in some areas. There is still a strong contingent of naturally produced rainbows present and strong year classes of smaller ones quite active. In the 1960's through the early 2000's there were a lot of Lake Trout across the range of sizes. Lately, there seems to be the occasional large one caught, but nowhere near the presence of small to medium sized ones that used to be caught. Although the occasional large Brown Trout is caught and mostly during derbies routine trolling does not turn up many and some of this is related to their habits which used to be exploited by night fishing for them and which is seldom seen anymore.

 Canandaigua Lake is VERY heavily used recreationally (e.g. ski boats, cigar boats, sailboats, and jet skiis) so during the summer given the crowded congested launch and parking lot, narrow navigation channel, and heavy concentration of people unfamiliar with fishing concerns or even boating courtesy it can be daunting. Luckily, the derby is early in the season when recreational boat traffic is lighter. 

The folks that caught winning fish in this years derby really earned them as the wind and weather was pretty brutal for trollers as you had very little control of speed/direction etc. because of the extreme WNW wind.

Did you look at the weights on that board? Few and far between is not what thats showing.

Unscrew the cap and look in there if you can't replace the gauge and don't want to buy a new tank. Simple.

On 5/28/2025 at 2:51 PM, cuttermag said:

Does anyone just sell the locking cleat? Do you have to buy complete package?

what brand might be helpful.

On 5/25/2025 at 2:40 AM, Big Ernie said:

Hello my name is BIG Ernie just wondering if anyone hot glues there rings on there dipsy divers. Tia 

No. When one of the 3 or 4 tabs break or ware out, spend 2 bucks and replace it. There is a reason they break and ware out. If you try to prevent that it will cost you more money in the long run. Also you have the option to change ring colors for different water conditions.

On 5/21/2025 at 7:21 AM, Captsmate said:

Mexico area

 

From the reports I'm getting friom friends, Brown fishing in the bay is very spotty. The guys out of Oswego are fishing west and doing pretty good. I chartered out of the little salmon for about 15 yrs (retired now) and I would run west if I wanted to catch Browns. Things can change over night though depending on the winds. Good luck.

I've run SS on my scottys since 1994. Never found any reason to try braid.

1 hour ago, Gator said:

 

Who cares? FYI, Republican here. Let's get back to talking about how (or whether) to support our fisheries.

I've read your previous posts. You may claim to be a republican but you are not a conservative. STFU. With all due respect.

Thanks guys. Love my baby z's for light line and lures.

Anybody know the name of the company that bought the old Z-board inline planer board company? I got a couple old sets of baby z's and have a few friends that would like to get them.

LOL. I just read this post.

Set your drag correctly. Good quality fluorocarbon leaders in relativity clear water will get you a couple more bites.

3 hours ago, Eugene juart said:

I was wondering what the wave action would be like with a north, north,west wind at 10 mph.   I'll  be launching out of Ollocot. Going for a brown for my buddies wall . I know I'm 6 days ahead and the weather more and likely change by then. 

The weather/wind report will change three or four times by then bud. Out of Olcott a NW wind shouldn't be too bad. Good luck though.

Just remember. Folks have to take much more extensive training and tests to get a drivers license. Hows that working out. LOL

8 minutes ago, dreamsteelie said:

Folks,

Let's all keep the discussion in check and related to this, please.  I reached out to my contact at the GLFC this week to clarify some of the good discussion topics on the other thread and to get some up to date information on how things have been done recently and or in the past. See the answers below: Some of this was not known to myself, so it was good to get some clarifications-because things to change.  Some of this information ties into what several of you posted, like seeing some CND DFO folks on the US side in one particular instance.

 

Not sure how many took the time to reach out to their congressman via email or written but we did so in PA.  Will it help?  It cannot hurt.

 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) conducts stream treatments on behalf of the GLFC in U.S. tributaries and waters of the Great Lakes. Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) conducts stream treatments on behalf of the GLFC in Canadian tributaries and waters of the Great Lakes. A wrinkle is that DFO also conducts some stream treatments in the U.S. – mainly on U.S. tributaries to Lake Ontario

 

See answer to 1. above. Also, the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assists the GLFC in some aspects of sea lamprey control (quality assurance testing and regulatory agency compliance for lampricides and construction and maintenance of sea lamprey barriers, respectively). We also partner with many State, Tribal, and First Nation entities on various aspects of sea lamprey control as well.

 

Trout or salmon kills associated with stream treatments are rare. I am not aware of any recent ones in Lake Ontario tributaries on either side of the border. These rare incidents typically occur with chinook salmon and only when treatments overlap spawning runs when fish are already stressed and near death.

 

I have attached last year’s treatment schedule. These are posted on the GLFC website (www.glfc.org) when available (usually during the spring of each year). They are usually under the “Hot Topics” portion of the website.

 

12 permanent employees were fired. 6 were tasked with stream treatments; 5 were tasked with larval assessment surveys that are used to guide stream treatments; 1 was tasked with sea lamprey barrier work. We also lost 5 additional permanent employees to the Deferred Resignation Program. We have not been able to backfill any of these positions. These 17 employees account for 20% of permanent staff. Additionally, a hiring freeze prevented the timely hiring of 25 seasonal staff needed to fill out sea lamprey control crews. The hiring freeze has since been lifted and we are proceeding with hiring these staff, however, the delay will result in these staff not being available at the start of the field season. As things stand now, we are going to lose about a third of our capacity to control sea lamprey during 2025

 

We are still waiting for a transmitter that is small enough to insert into sea lamprey without affecting their behavior. Research is ongoing and I believe some will be tagged with transmitters this year, but this will mostly be to see how the lamprey behave with the transmitter in them (compared to those without a transmitter). We have other ways of finding spawning streams too.

 

. www.sealamprey.org will get you a lot of information about sea lamprey control.

 

Captain Pete

Vision Quest Sport Fishing

12 minutes ago, whaler1 said:

Hopefully we’ll be fishing soon. The election is over. Get over it. 

Great advice. You had your boat out yet? I still got 12 to 16" of ice on my local ponds. It will be awhile.

3 hours ago, Tradman said:

 Just took this off of used downrigger I bought according to the counter. There is 288 feet of coated cable for a depth raider or a sub troll. There is also an antenna. I ran all the cable through my hand and found one very small bad spot at about 250 feet coming off the spool.  Cover whatever it cost me to mail it to you and it’s yours. Also includes cable terminator

Very nice gesture.

Thanks for that

1 hour ago, RiggerRob said:

Lucky the Boogie man 'under the bed' was deterred by reciprocal tariiffs.  Where the Boogie man resides, 'under the bed' brings another increase in carbon taxes on April 1st.

LOL. Anybody that believes the US couldn't fold the Canadian economy isn't very bright. I love my Canadian friends and don;t wish any harm to them. When your country is run by liberal idiots it;s the citizens that pay. Not to be meant political just stating facts. Take it as you wish.

Yes theres a difference. Torpedoes or sharks will give you the least amount of blow back period. Sharks are expensive but the best. I've always run 13 lb torpedoes down to 200 ft.

More good info that I was not aware of. Thanks

2 minutes ago, dreamsteelie said:

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission is working diligently to contest this and make the Administration aware of the importance of the program and what can be lost.  I am involved as a sport fishing advisor to the State of PA and am being informed of the progress.  I know it is underway.   Support letter writing was requested and has begun, I copied Joe Yaeger from LOTSA on some things.   It may help if individuals or groups contact their representatives and senators ASAP on this matter and ask the Administration to come up with the proper funding to continue the treatments.  The majority of the cuts involved the field staff that applies the treatments (this is what I was told).  There is discussion of calling on use of local volunteers to help (if needed). To help with the grunt work.  

 

I cannot dispute CUTS were needed in many things.  However, I am sure that is the tree is shook hard, our Administration will go back and look at this again.  I remain hopeful.  Shake some trees. Voicing our opinion on a thread is one thing, making the time to contact your politicians, write letters, seek a meeting will take it to the next level.  A common man once said. "doing nothing gets one nothing"

 

EXCELLENT watch here: Amazon or Apple TV 

 

This is the history of the Lamprey Eel, salmon and how the treatments came to fruition. 

 

 www.thefishthief.com

 

Captain Pete 

Vision Quest Sport Fishing

 

Thanks for the information.