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  • Birthday 08/19/1967

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Rush, NY
  • Interests
    Besides hunting and fishing? Volleyball, rod building and sci-fi/fantasy. Oh, and I do a little science on the side...
  • Home Port
    Sandy Creek
  • Boat Name
    Nothing But Net

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  1. Gator
    Here's a story from the past: Unnamed buddy of mine and I were fishing Sandy out of the canoe when he had a bad case of "now bowels". The porta-john had been tipped over, but he had no choice. We righted it, and in he went. Only to come out a minute later, pants around his ankles, covered in unsavory stuff, and swatting madly around himself, yelling "Bees!!" Imma pretend I didn't split my sides laughing.
  2. Gator
    Agreed. Having a little fun zooming around on dirt bikes is one thing, vandalizing property and preventing others from using the resource is another entirely. Time to have a little chat with these kids' parents. Anybody got a name? PM me.
  3. Gator
    So long as they replace them, that's a great deal. Eventually, even with free sharpening you're going to lose metal, and eventually the knife is going to be so thin as to be unusable. Ask me how I know lol. But if that nets you a new knife, then hats off to Cutco. I buy Darn Tough socks because they'll replace them for life. I usually get about five or six years out of a pair, then back they go. I send a bunch of them back in batches to save on shipping costs. But I digress.
  4. Gator
    Dexter is a good utilitarian choice with some nice grip options. Match the size to the fish you expect to fillet, of course. I like Victorinox myself, with Cutco being a close second.
  5. Gator
    Thanks guys. I saw that the Sovereign site was down, but I can give Nathan a call. I've heard that you can MacGyver a solution using either Walker or Big Jon, but before I go that route figured I'd check here. If anybody finds something, just pm me. Thanks again!!
  6. Gator
    Just figured I'd put it out there. One of the manual Proos on my Lund needs a new depth counter assembly with spring. I've heard that I may be able to retrofit a Walkers or Big Jon assembly, but before spending the $ to find out it isn't really compatible, let's try this. Thanks!
  7. Gator
    So cool to be able to watch their progress in real time. Now if only the NOAA server for satellite imagery wouldn't go down so often...I've found that NASA Worldview accesses their imagery more reliably than their own website, for what it's worth.
  8. Gator
    Amazing stuff. Great to see them doing such a fantastic job with public relations. This is the stuff we need more of
  9. Gator
    That's our exact boat and year...Nothing But Net is now 23 years old with over 2500 hours on the Yamaha 200 hp 4-stroke, and fingers crossed has been a blessing to fish out of for all that time. It does help to have the best boat mechanic this side of L. Ontario babying her. Thanks, Tommy!
  10. Gator
    Interested in hearing reports, albeit useless once everything changes tomorrow. My report is that I watched from my kayak as both a deer and a bear swam across the South end of Hemlock. I'd have been hard pressed to paddle faster than the bear could swim...but I could beat the deer lol.
  11. Gator
    I think that lots of folks have smaller friend groups on other forums where they share intel with a select few; this may be due to having been burnt previously, plus the advent of tournament fishing. It's also important to remember that June being a transition month, any intel is good for about 45 minutes lol. The best way to get information is to develop a network and to provide information yourself IMHO. April and May were so hot as to be unbelievable, all up and down the South shore. Yesterday, we rotted out of Sandy with only one decent fish and a couple skips. We fished 50 feet to 350 feet. Any other details from our trip would be useless, like telling a drowning man how not to float.
  12. Gator
    We were on Erie today, and the complete lack of wind made the bugs atrocious!
  13. Gator
    Got to admit, it's impossible to argue effectively with someone who thinks that they have all the answers and that anybody who says differently is lying to them. And when you admit that you could be wrong, they use it as ammunition to claim that you've never been right. So much for intellectual humility. But hey, different strokes and all. Meliora.
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    lol Please cite your sources. I don't recall a single scientific publication saying we'd all be dead from climate change and that Florida would be under water in 12 years. LMFAO. Keep it coming! It's interesting that when scientists admit they can be wrong....which is absolutely true!!!...there's a certain type that takes that to mean that nothing can be trusted. When in fact, what it means is that the information is MORE trustworthy. Anybody who can't admit they might be wrong should never, ever be trusted. Ever.
  15. Gator
    For those interested in science-based decision making and how research informs the process, the latest issue of On The Water magazine, Northeast coastal edition, contains a great article on management of bluefin tuna stocks. Some of the new findings regarding where and when these fish spawn is fascinating.
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