ReelLaxing

Have had a similar experience on my property in Chenango County, NY. 54 acres surrounded by a couple thousand acres of state land. Have owned the property for 14 years and initially, couldn't do anything wrong and shot some nice birds but over the past few years, fewer and fewer turkeys, and this season, not even a gobble. What I have found though is a number of pictures of Fishers on my trail cams, which a local wildlife expert told me will take turkeys right off the roost at night. So, with an area with a large population of coyotes, now fishers, along with the hawks, foxes, and now martins, turkeys are not surviving and replenishing like they were several years ago. Not sure if it is the whole reason, but something has sure decimated the turkey population around me. Even the gray squirrels are gone, which use to number in the hundreds.

I had a similar problem earlier this season with the small vent hole having oil dripping from it onto my driveway, which is intented to drain water from the lower unit, not oil. The problem was with a small seal/gasket between the lower unit and the upper outdrive that ended being folded over (not seated properly) allowing the oil to get into where only water should be. Not sure if this is what your issue is, but sounds a lot like what happened to me. Fixed the gasket and the problem is gone.

Here is a forum, similar to this one, that has some good info on what's happening at the Bay of Quinte. http://forums.quintefishing.com/phpBB2/ ... f9cdf498b7 You'll need to scroll down to see the forum as they have a lot of advertisements at the top.

Signed.

Payment sent via Paypal. 2XL for me, forgot to put in Paypal transaction. Thanks Tom and have a great Christmas!

Nice bass Indymusky! The soap I belive is... http://www.defishingsoap.com/ This is used to clean smells of bait and fish from your hands, but I'm suspecting Indymusky might be using it to remove some human smell before touching his baits. Indy, only you can confirm my suspicions.

I use the Control King on my 9.9 Evinrude kicker and am very happy with the control I have. Very easy to control the speed, and easy to install. I would recommend this product. Lou

Nick, we also watched this from about 1 mile off and also wondered why no SOS. Tony is a good friend of UnkelJim's and myself and what he told us later that day is that once he realized the boat was sinking, he could not get back to the radio, easily any ways, and the Harry O Charters was already on the scene. He was more concerned at that time with getting his passengers in vests and off safely than making a call for help that was already there. If he were out there alone and needed to make a call for help, I know Tony, he'd follow the boat to the bottom to get off a mayday if he had to. The guy in the cabin was a friend of Tony's getting vests for everyone from what I understand, but got caught in there as the boat went down quicker than one would imagine. Great job and thanks to all that assisted, as we all should do when the need arises. Lou

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Gentlemen, they are sold as of last night.

Sold For sale: (2) Cannon Mag 10 Downriggers (older units): * 2' booms * Pedestal mounts for each * wiring harnesses for each * one missing terminal end on cable * Both functioning units In addition, with the 2 working units, I am including a Cannon Mag 10 with a 4' fixed boom that has a bad motor and missing circuit breaker. If you want a longer boom on one of the units above, the 4' boom can easily be swapped out with the 2' boom. This unit also has the full wire harness with it and many other good parts. I am asking $300 for the package. The units are located in Greene, NY but I'm flexible (within reason) if someone wanted to meet part way to see them. If interested, give me a PM.

Waterwalker, we use large jigs, usually Kastmasters tipped with a minnow or two. Fish them in about 25' of water about a foot off the bottom. In Canada where we were, tip ups are a rare site, most fish by jigging for them.

Planning another trip up here in the next week or two, so the invite is always open Brian. I've seen fish like these come through the ice there time and time again so good chances for more like them. The problem many times it catching the smaller "eater" size eyes. Thanks YT and Bill. Actually there's room for Landshark at the honey hole, the more the merrier. Stan, it's actually not that bad. You catch one fish through a hole in the ice and your hooked. Add in the social aspect of it, the beer, venison steaks with peppers and onions and it's even better. And... it helps pass the winter months away until we can get out boats back on the lake.

You know it Gray, a rabbit's foot, lucking penny, or should I say "Looney" while in Canada, definately something since even the Canadian's weren't catching anything. I know, it must have been my superior guiding experience and knowledge of the bay that did it, yeah, that's it.

Trip north of the border this past weekend for some hard water walleyes. Bite was very slow and while I did not get a bite all day, Unkel Jim and his son Tyler did manage to pull two monsters through the ice. Tyler's was 12.5lbs and Jim's 11lbs.

Another group to write to in addition to our politicians is the Conservation Fund Advisory Board, which can be found at http://www.dec.ny.gov/about/566.html. Here you can also read the minutes of this advisory board meetings and see the concerns and where some of the money is spent, if you can believe it. However, this advisory board is suppose to be representing "us", the hunters and fisherman, so I would recommend writing to them as well.

The problem is that the stamp has nothing to do with supporting the fishery or the lake, but rather some "general fund" item unrelated to fishing altogether. If the stamp were specifically to support and improve our salmon and trout program most would probably support it but NY doesn't work that way. They want fisherman to pay more so they can support some other budget item, not fishing. I'm totally against it for this reason. Stand by, the more concerning issue looming is the support of the trout and salmon stocking program. They stopped the pheasant program, you know they are looking at others.

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Stormfront, We were out of Oswego yesterday and did not have to go far to get into a few fish. 160 to 175' FOW 80 to 100 down west of the chute when leaving Oswego harbor. Downspeed was around 2.4 but currents were raising heck with our down probe so we based our speed more on a thumper rod. We did 5 kings on green spoons, green-glow SD/green flys, several more bites with no one home, and one lost at back of boat. Bite was early the slowed by mid morning. I would start here.

Bump Deal fell through, units are back up for sale. Reasonable offers will be considered.

Reasonable offers welcome...

Hi Clarke, Had these from the old boat that I sold last year but wanted to hold onto them until the 3 cannons that came on the new boat proved out. But actually, I did buy 3 new Cannon 5HSs this year, and put the telescoping booms on them from the Cannon Mag 10s I took off, so they're virtually 10HSs now. So, it's time to move some more items that I don't need. Lou

(2) Big Jon Downriggers with: Extended booms Dual Rod Holders Fixed mounting plates with thumb screws for mounting rigger to plate. Does not include any hardware for mounting plate to boat. Photos below. Riggers are in good working condition. Asking $500 for the pair. I am located in Greene, NY (approx. 25 miles north of Binghamton, 11 miles east of Whitney Point). Shipping is extra. Ph: 607-240-1645 call pretty much anytime, but I may have to call you back if I'm tied up at work or give me a pm.

Word back from Cannon today. If you break the little wire antenna off from the bottom of the probe, throw the unit in the garbage as it is not repairable. :x Guess I'll be putting my Depth Raider onto the boat in place of the Cannon Speed-N-Temp unit. In my opinion, as there are those that will probably disagree with me, the Cannon Speed-N-Temp is not well designed, especially for robustness, is clumbsy to use, and can be finicky, plus is more expensive then the Depth Raider. I have used both units now, and the Depth Raider wins hands down.

I hear ya Ray. It's pics like these and the hundreds more taken this season that help get me through the winter when I can go at it again.