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Heck yeah somebody will do it. I'd guess that whatever AI model DEC uses to calculate the actual harvest will incorporate that lol. But most of us will play by the rules. Too many tasty doe around anyway.

It is known, Khaleesi. It's also known that you need to EITHER keep the head for seven days OR take a digital photo of the head to show that it was an antlerless animal and retain it for seven days. If you did neither but took the doe to a processor, you would need to provide the processor's contact information ONLY IF asked by DEC (sorry for the shouting). None of these measures requires submitting any documentation to the State, at least as of this year. There are plans to adopt a digital photo submission option into the HuntFishNY app in the future.

I'd be interested in an electric reel that shocks the guy on the rod if he screws up!

The biggest fish of the day always comes on copper for us, but as I said when we spoke this week, long coppers get run during tournaments. The rest of the time, if it's even in the water, and it usually isn't, we end up trying to get somebody else to grab the rod when it goes off. I guess if I was thirty rather than sixty it might be different. Might not, too lol. Shattered, what size weight are you running, and how far up? I have them up to 12 oz, but was uncertain whether I really wanted to attach them to the copper itself, and putting them above it then letting out even more line seems counterproductive.

A very savvy and read-in buddy of mine already cornered many of the domain names surrounding Lake of America just to prevent such a thing from happening. Not that Chad would ever even consider it. Despite my referring to Canada as Canuckistan lol, it would be a SHAME to piss off our over-the-border friends and fellow anglers over a political stunt.

Prior to the advent of the lithium probes, I had multiple failures - and FH replaced each of them without question. I suspect that they recognized there was an existing issue. However, each of the probes that they sent to replace the defective probes themselves failed, sometimes within months. Ultimately, I ended up purchasing the new lithium probe, thinking that the issues might be power-related as the probes failed completely. Now, after about two years, I've had my lithium probe start to act up. It's been losing signal, with one of the three readings going haywire about every other update. I sent multiple videos to a FH customer service representative Mario. Since this isn't my first rodeo, I went through all the normal troubleshooting prior to contacting him, but of course he didn't know that, so it took a few interactions. Ultimately, he asked me to send the unit back. We agreed that I could wait until after the season to do so, because having something on board to measure speed and temp is better than having nothing. I have no idea whether they will honor the warrantee, as I was literally at the very end of the two year mark when I contacted him earlier in the summer, but I do know that a $500 piece of equipment is not a consumable. Fingers crossed. Sigh.

What he said.

We spent several years vacationing near where you will be staying, mainly in July, when my daughter was young. My best luck was with the smallmouth, particularly in the evening. There are quite a few inlets on the Northwest side that have great contours held bass all day, but toward dusk it seems like the shorelines in that area came alive. If you have sideview or perspective view sonar, you might try to find the rockpiles and old rock walls that extend into the lake. Those are real hotspots. But even blind casting topwater toward shore at dark is also productive. I had a 16.5 foot Lund at the time and had no issues, and this part of the lake is narrower so didn't seem to be impacted as much by the wind as the wide open shallower Southern portion. Unfortunately, we didn't really dunk worms with the kid, so no advice there. I'm guessing since you're in the deep part of the lake that the fish should be there this time of year. Good luck!

I recall finding a patch like that off Braddock's years ago in 200 feet. My buddies referred to it a a "barbed wire fence"...and it was just like you describe, fish after fish after fish. I suspect the lack of 2 year olds is due to the staging conditions. We also haven't seen as many young fish this year, but did run into them last weekend offshore further, and Brian said the offshore guys were pounding them earlier in the year. I hope they're plentiful and ready to rumble next year!

Why would you say that? The posting looks like it's from a legitimate member who's posted previously, albeit infrequently, over the course of a few years. The pick up location is local. I don't see any red flags.

This sounds like a very odd experience. Fishing for browns when the king bite is on fire? Strange choice. And simply reeling the fish in, as if there's no fight? That sounds like walleye fishing to me lol. Anyway, all of the above, ditto - I wouldn't expect a captain to routinely let new clients set rods, and maybe they'd even be reluctant to let them set the hook on a strike (particularly on a slow day where every bite counts), but reeling the fish in most of the way is unheard of. I know there's some captains who fill a limit as quickly as possible, but it's not grocery shopping (unless you're fishing walleye, again lol). I'd ALWAYS talk to a captain about their philosophy and your expectations prior to booking.