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    The Lund is ready to roll, and my buddy who I fish with off the Cape is coming over from Boston on Thursday night. Unfortunately, it looks like the persistent NE winds they're forecasting could spoil our jigging party. We may end up trolling out of Nothing But Net or even, if the lake is rocking, fishing bass in the Finger Lakes. But maybe the wind won't be as bad as they're predicting...
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    Haven't the two of you put enough salmon on the board lol!?!
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    Way to go! The temperatures have set up all over the West end for a great brown bite. And I'll take family time over derby fishing any day.
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    Sounds like a familiar story. A buddy of mine in Boston had major issues with his Jeep Grand Cherokee while towing his boat...he had to abandon the boat and have it towed to his marina...and even though the Jeep was under warrantee, the shop told him that they couldn't even look at it for six weeks. He will never deal with Chrysler again. In fact, he bought an F150 the next week and sold the Jeep as soon as it was fixed. It does seem like a theme though - you're covered, but timing isn't guaranteed.
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    How close did you have to get in there to find them? I had a buddy who brought his grandson out and got blanked in 45' (mostly).
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    Dang. I was on the water fishing bass at 4:30 am at the North end. I wouldn't have wanted to have him get too close kayaking, but it would have been cool to see.
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    That's some good eating there!!! lol I heard from a buddy that he did three Atlantics in that same area yesterday, which is two more than he'd ever done previously in a single day. Maybe a good year for them?
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    We had about a dozen bites fishing two guys on board and got a few quality kings and steelhead, plus the requisite skips. The current in the 100-200 foot range was insane; we estimated a 0.75 mph surface current running to the East.
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    But by the time anyone actually makes it out, they will should have been there yesterday lol. Good luck guys! And thanks for the ride, Jim. I had eighteen walleye on my grocery list, and you delivered!
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    We have never come close to filling our DMP tags, even with the fellows who hunt my properties encouraged to take as many doe as they want. We can get four DMP apiece! That's a bunch of meat. Even the guy we nicknamed "Killah" only takes four or five doe a year lol - maybe every other year he has to have a DMP signed over to him. And yes, the meat is well utilized. The doe are really vulnerable when they start to herd up in the early winter. With the holiday hunt, there's some real damage that can be done. I'm all for a healthy herd, but this could result in local "doe deserts".
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    I'd have waved at you. Those other guys at East Fork, though, they're a bunch of degenerates. Which might be why I like them.
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    Between Frank and Tommy, I don't think you have to worry. Although there was that one boat that went down a year or two ago...it was cursed. True story: it sank twice on exactly the same day, a year apart, after being sold in-between. I'd love to know where it is now and who owns it.
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    Did she make the splash?
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    FYI. 58 million acres. The scope of this order is mind boggling, agree or disagree. https://apnews.com/article/logging-national-forests-0607a77e0ab812ea6fa609034fbb20d9 Arguments to be made on both sides. Is roadless land really benefiting the American public? IMHO, it's good for the soul to know that there are places untouched by development. But practically? I've hiked many of these remote areas. I doubt there's many that have benefited from them though. It's not much of a leap however from the $hitshow that Yellowstone has become to see what happens with unfettered access. And then there's the argument against old growth versus managed areas, habitat diversity, fire suppression (good? bad? Sequoias require fire for seed germination), economic benefits, etc.. Lots of stuff to unpack.
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    What happens at Sandy, stays at Sandy. Although I do think that some female kayakers may have photographic evidence of something hanging off the transom of Colin's boat. They seemed...excited...to see it. And the hot tub is only fair game if you're "buffy fishing".
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    Gentlemen keep their boats at Oak Orchard. This is Sandy. Welcome to the jungle!!
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    Hey Billy, you saw us hook up a screamer right next to when we passed each other in just over 200'. Jeff did a one-handed set because his other hand was...busy...too much coffee lol. It ended up being a high teens king, down 91' on an Stingray NBK. We had to scoot early so fished from 5-8:30, with half a dozen to the boat - but only the one decent. Still, much better than it's been, and the screen was loaded with bait from 100-200. The surface was loaded as usual with dead alewives as well unfortunately.
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    I had two X4D units die on me inexplicably within a year. Both were replaced without issue by Fishhawk, but when the second one went, I told them that I wanted to order a lithium as well. They threw me a discount on it, and now I have a lithium for daily use and "normal" X4D backup, unused. That having been said, I wouldn't have updated had the original not gone bad, and IMHO it's not a game changer, just a better mousetrap. I like the fact that there's no chance of water incursion or the battery holder coming loose, and it's a smaller profile. But it does all the same stuff. And much as I like it, its longevity has yet to be proven. Ask me in ten years lol. If you have a unit that's lacking temp, you might want to talk to Fishhawk and see if they'll swing you a discount to upgrade.
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    We've been using ours for a year with zero issues. Great product, great support.
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    Ouch. This undos decades of negotiations and will simply spur more lawsuits to fight whether something that was put in place to suspend all the lawsuits can itself be suspended. My head is spinning now lol.
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    Managed one from the kayak on a Finger Lake this morning that was close to six. I almost hit up Erie, but none of my buddies returned my calls last night lol.
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    I agree, old growth forests are pretty but sterile. So long as they're not high grading or some other form of mismanagement, I'm all for limited logging. In fact, I posted up above about grouse hunting - the State did some clear cutting in limited areas to provide new growth poplar for grouse when I was a kid. You get about ten years out of a stand, but during that time it was fantastic hunting.
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    Yeppers, I grew up grouse hunting down there. Duck in the morning and trompsing through heavy cover bird-dogging it for the older guys in the afternoon. We saw nobody most days. But come gun season...watch out. My comment was mostly related to the orange army.
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    Gator rig lol.
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    We saw you as we motored out. The amount of bait running alongside the boat was unreal. IMHO, these fish are stuffed to the gills with easy pickings, creek and lake both.
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