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Nice Scott. I'm going to try to make it out for some winter Landlocks with the little boat a couple times this year. Will be in touch. Hope your dad is doing well. tell him I said hello. Glen

We run Jplugs on our boat Stan. Never ran the others. No reason to. We do just fine on the J's. Glen

If your getting bit your fine. If your over fish and nothings happening you need to experiment a little with your speed. Glen

Tim hit the nail on the head with his speed advice. It's the single most important consideration. Glen

Food Saver Game Saver Turbo. Pretty sure I got it through Cabelas Bill. Glen

Our thoughts ands prayers are with you. Very sorry to hear of your loss. Glen and Kelly

There were alot of fish in front of the Salmon river last weekend. 30 - 50 fow was best. Alot can change in a week but thats probably your best bet. Good luck getting the boy a fish or two. I'll be out this weekend in front of the river so give me a shout on 78 if your around. "Spoonfed" The Salmon river is loaded with fish from what I am hearing. Glen

Thanks Chris. Might take you up on that. You ever fish Skaneatles in the fall? I'll be fishing this weekend if your interested. Got one guy but theres always room for ya. Glen

Man I miss those Fall days and those fall bows on the fingers. Nice fish. Glen

LOL. Looking at past results Jan I would have to give that one a big ole NO. Sell it to Scott. I'm pretty sure my bad day was caused by the inconsistant speed. I had to run north and south with the rest of the fleet and we were taking them broadside. The rods on the down wind side of the boat were going to fast and the rods on the up wind side of the boat were just kinda hanging there going to slow. The Charter boats are alot heavier than mine so they didn't have as much of a problem. All three of the captains I talked to that did real well said their speed was critical that day. The only fish I did connect with was when I went past the fleet, trolled out and back in with the chop. I was able to maintain a somewhat consistant speed. Probably should have stuck with that troll but there wasn't no where near as many fish there so I went back in to the pack. But thanks for the advice. LOL Glen

Jeff. Jeff that coho rig will still work good. Got to upsize the flys and then give them a try. Only Bananas on the boat was me going there watching those fish steak away from my spread. There was enough fish in there, and not Cohos, I should of been able to take a half dozen by accident. Glen

Well there are plenty of Salmon in the Bay now. No shortage of boats either. Saturday morning I went way up north looking for fish because of the number of boats that were in the Bay. Vistied a couple of my productive spots from past years and was pretty dissapointed with the results. Very few fish in them and we only ended up with 3 Kings and a Rainbow. Coming back to port I stopped short and set some rods. We were marking alot of fish but didn't have time to work them because my buddy had some plans I had to get him back in for. Went to bed seeing slamming rods and screaming drags for early Sunday morning. Even called my friend Kremer01 who was fishing with me today and asked him if he could show up earlier than planned because it was going to be a blood bath and we would be done early. Oh boy, did I end up eating those words. We started out were I had planned and the friggin screen was blank. That particular area was stacked with fish Sat. afternoon. Fished for awhile and pulled rods and started heading further North. Within a couple miles we found them and set back up. Went over fish after fish after fish with no takers. Plenty of interest but no comittment. Swapped lures, changed colors, changed speeds and did nothing. Man was I getting pissed out there. I just plain sucked today. Boats all around us were taking fish and I couldn't get connected. Well after about 5 hours with only one nice King to the back of the boat I even knocked that one off with the net. Just wasn't meant to be I guess. LOL. Anyway there are alot of fish in the Bay and I even left you my share today. It was good to have you back onboard Rod. Feel bad about the results though. Happy fishing Glen

Nice job Dave. Good to see the Little Salmon River guys getting it done. See you out there. Congratulations. Glen

Chowder. Thanks for the Arrrgh. Jeff. See you in the spring. Duane. I would go for a 9:00 pm dead line if it could be done without losing weigh stations. If I remember correctly this was the issue in the past. Ray. I caught them big strippers and I prefere the battle of a big ole King. Also hate the maintanence involved with the whole saltwater thing. Rodney you got a pm. Heres a picture of a happy brother-in-law with the fish just out of the water.

Chowder, Just might be the best weekend of the season so far. From what I saw last week the fish are running late this year. Go for it. There were fish but no where near what there should have been. Glen

No problem Jeff. I saw what happened to you and had Kelly turn away to port when I saw you had a fish on. Nice job on your LOC fish too. Why didn't you zip in to the salmon river and weigh at the light house? It sucks about not weighing in but those are the rules. Everybodys on the same clock. I got to get it done earlier next year. LOL. See you up there. Glen

Yes. The rules state the fish must be weighed the day it was caught. Glen

Heres a picture of the Salmon we took Saturday night August 31st. The fish hit a wire rod running a Chartruse e-chip and ultra green glow Atomic fly at just about 7:30 pm. We had 150 feet of wire out and was just about 600 feet after his first run. We gained about 3 1/2 cranks of the reel and he went another 150 or so. Needless to say it was a rather long battle and we netted him at 7:45. We were about 4 miles out and there was no way we could make it to any weigh station by 8:00. When I saw the fish about 30 feet of the back of the boat my heart went up into my throat and I told my brother in law, who was on the rod, thats just a baby for christ sakes bring him to the boat so I can net him. That completely put my brother in law at ease and he got him through the spread without any incidents. When I got the net around the fish I told him Holy _hit wait till you see the size of this fish. Anyway he was thrilled and could hardly talk when I brought that net into the boat. I hung him from the 30 lb Boga and it bottomed right out. I then put him on my digital and it was bouncing between between 33 lbs 8 ounces and 35 lbs 8 oz. Fish went into the box and we headed in. At the dock I weighed him on the digital again and it was bouncing between 33 lbs 15 oz and 34 lbs 1 oz. Thats the most accurate weight we got on the fish before he went under the knife. Sure was depressing cutting that fish up knowing he would have been leading the derby at that point but he gave up a couple nice fillets. Heres a picture of the brute. Glen

Hi Richard, I've been up at the lake the last 9 days. Went by the camper a couple times but didn't see you around. I'll be up every weekend until the salmon are done. Hope to run into you. Glen

Early season Rod? If you want to get out in the bay some weekend drop me a line. glen

Throw salt in the wound Paul. LOL. In fact there were some fish around. Not alot by any means but enough to do some damage if I could have got them going. They where just plain not biting. By the way fine looking first mate you got there. Happy fishing. Glen

Don't get to mad at least as far as the fishing goes. The probes another matter. I have alot of time on the big pond and the fishing sucked for me as well last weekend. I was in the Bay. I also have a few friends that been fishing that area full time for decades and the fishing sucked for them as well. Be gratefull you didn't have a boat load of paying customers on board. get um next time. Thats fishing. Glen

Nice job Mark. Glen

Glad everything went well for you Richard. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did. I brought the awning frame and antenna over to your campsight this morning. I see you already got a deck. LOL Didn't waste any time. Glen

Years ago on my 90 merc I put on a Happy Troller. The only problem I had was I forgot to pop it up and took off after fishing. Bent the plate pretty bad. I found a replacement plate for it made by Dyco Marine. It was spring loaded and hinged in the middle and it was sweet. Huge improvement. You could actually get up to about 3500 RPM without damaging anything. Didn't have any steering issues though. Glen