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Gator

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  1. I'm saving my load for the shootout on Sunday Somebody should be real happy with those reels...they are fantastic. Gator
  2. Agreed. We added two to the arsenal this year and will likely box out our set over the next couple seasons.
  3. Hi Bruce, I'll take them for $120 apiece if you want to move them. Just an offer. Gator
  4. Okay, the guy's abusive and everyone wishes he would cut the crap. BUT...this board is not for posting threats, as innocuous or joke-like as they may be. Remember: #1. Family website, #2. Law enforcement is watching. 'Nuff said.
  5. I assume you mean fill up on Ho-hos and take a drive down in the Mustang
  6. You know, this is what makes derby fishing interesting...it's not just whether you can catch fish, but do you make the right decisions? Since it's a level playing field, everybody's in the same boat (npi). In the Pro-Am, how long do you chase poundage before trying to box out with skippy? For this event, do you bump a 20 lb salmon for a 16 lb brown? Give up four lbs for a shot at the big brown prize? Tough choice. One that I'd love to be making come the 22nd though I like it. Gator
  7. I'd love to bring the smokepole and embarrass myself! Just post whether it's a go or no-go. Gator
  8. Congratulations on a great morning! I may have to start fishing solo, cause "Team K-squared" (nod to Jerry here) struck out last nite. We started in shallow and worked slow out to over 400'. Sounds like we should have stuck it out inside. Gator
  9. You mention pros and cons of several notable boats, but I think that one of the best aluminum boats out there is Lund. I own a Mr. Pike 17' for Finger Lakes fishing and if I were to purchase an aluminum boat for Lake Ontario I'd certainly consider a Lund such as the 24' Baron Magnum (not in production currently, I think) with an I/O and integrated kicker. While an outboard is more versatile, I like how clean the back of the boat is with an I/O. Good luck. Gator
  10. Hey Jeff, That is some great stuff out West in the spring, isn't it? I think I saw more guys this year than in any past, and I think that the enthusiasm is building. The Finger Lakes are consistently good for vertical presentations...I grew up there and nobody fished vertical except with sawbellies back in the '70s and '80s...or I just wasn't in the loop If you happen to post any video online, throw us the link please, either salt or fresh. :Thanks. Gator
  11. Nice! This seems to be building as we get closer. Good times! Gator
  12. Another spoon that's great on Keuka is a Deadly Dick, but it's harder to keep jigging spoons vertical on windy days than it is plastic/jighead combos.
  13. I like sliders, too, but at times we've had the "extra" lure on the line gravitate toward the wire dipsey, and of course you have to stop to unhook the slider if the fish is on the lower rig, so I think that it makes landing fish more difficult. That having been said, it's much easier to deploy sliders, and we haven't (until recently) run stackers in probably the last six years. Remember the old "down and out" trick with the small dipseys on a stacker rod? What's old could be new again...
  14. Hey Zach, I grew up fishing Waneta and the musky can be tough there, but they get big. And by big I mean BIG...scary big. Saw several over 40 lbs caught by others during the '80s. What exactly is a "homemade double 10"? And how does it run in the top 5-10 feet with 6 oz of weight in front of it? Not being a d-bag, just curious...I'm not a real musky fisherman (I don't even play one on TV) and I don't know the lingo. You should set up a camcorder in the front of your boat to make a YouTube video. I'd love to see the waves and lightning with you fighting a twenty pound muskie amidst it all. Now that would be cool! Gator
  15. Hey Tank, A real buddy would have let you leave the riggers down while he towed you in It's good to have folks like Jay and Jerry around. Gator
  16. This is a great idea and it should be a blast, particularly the picnic! I hear that you tried hard to keep chicken off the menu, but with little success
  17. You might want to check out the Sanders website for threads on this topic or look at some of my past posts for tips. Jigging lake trout in the Finger Lakes has been popularized recently by John Gaulke, a guide out of Ithaca, and you could try a half day with him to get some pointers. Jigging in L. Ontario is a different beast, though. In the Finger Lakes it's not unusual to jig at depths of 150' using a PowerPro/flourocarbon combo and a 1oz plastic or diamond-type spoon. In L. Ontario, on the other hand, the currents kill you. Even when there's no wind or if you use an electric to maintain position, you still have to deal with currents that make maintaining contact with bottom and feeling hits a real bear. Not saying it can't be done, just that the native conditions make it less amenable to the technique. Except of course the Bar in the Spring... and that's a whole 'nother story. Good luck! If you give it a try, post results. Gator
  18. Good to hear you guys are still putting the whack on them. After two days, I'm pretty certain that most of my fish here on L. George are going to consist of 10-14" smallmouth. I can't get a decent shallow water bite going (water temps are in the mid-80s) and the 15-20 fow rock piles off the points are producing generally small fish. There was a big tournament the day we got here and it didn't sound like many guys were finding big fish...in fact, there were lots of 2lb fish floating yesterday at the North end, presumably because the weigh-in site is at the shallowest, hence hottest, portion of the lake. For all the dead fish, there wasn't a 4-lber to be seen. Still, it beats...well, you know. Good luck on L.O.; keep them worked up for when I get back. Gator
  19. Post the pricing here, if you would. Thanks. Gator
  20. It's an unfortunate situation, but the reality is that once the clock hits 3pm it's all over. I think that the rule about being "in line before 3pm" is rightly construed as "in line by 3pm--with your fish"...otherwise, one guy could race over and get in line while his teammates take care of the boat, the fish and whatever else needs to be done. Not saying that there was any intention to break the rules, but I'd personally be ticked off if someone bumped me out of the money in a situation like yours. Particularly if I'd quit half and hour earlier on a hot bite to get to the weigh in with time to spare. I guess this proves that time IS money. Keep chasing the big ones! Gator
  21. Cool! This means I can take the 100s of green taped silver NKs with the good finish that I have from the '80s and hit them with an airbrush....voila, Gator! Everybody knows that those "old" colors won't work anymore
  22. We saw the debris field this weekend...any idea where it came from? Keith and I were throwing around the idea that some sort of upwelling had raised detritus from the bottom, since there were so many small sticks and such floating around, but not many "weeds". Pine needles, too. Gator
  23. It was great fishing out there this weekend! We came in by you on Monday morning and immediately popped ~5 small kings, so when Brian called and said he had some quality fish we made the run over by him. We set down in 220' and again we were into fish immediately...a better class of skippy, that is. Not the quality I'm hearing about from West of here, but fun nonetheless. We must have had over 100 releases the four times we fished but only two fish over 15 lbs all weekend. Still, rods a poppin'. I'm at L. George for the next two weekends but I'm sure Keith H. will be out there putting the smackdown on skippy. Gator
  24. Yup, special sauce or no, the 20 lb Flea Flicker line we used this past weekend was clean even when the wire lines were collecting a foot of fleas after being in the water for <30 minutes. Good stuff. I wouldn't have believed it myself until switching just this year...the remainder of the 3000 yard spool is being strung up this week. Gator
  25. Ray, you are one strange dude. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Great fish your brother caught, Steve...hope you get him out again before he returns home. Gator
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