Slimy Hooks

Nick, My phone is back in working order...After discovering I had no rice I cranked the heat up in the house and threw the phone in front of a vent...A few hours later it was warm, toasty and operational...Give my cell phone a call please as I never know when i'll be home...

Thanks for the advice Nick, I will give it a shot...Good luck on the water and i'll talk to you later...

If you want to fish for kings in late April through May, you cant beat the Niagara Bar, Wilson and Olcott for spring kings...By far the best king action on the lake at that time of year...

I appreciate the work you put into this great site BlueEye... Nick, I soaked my phone yesterday while I was fishing and it was ruined...If you called about the reels yesterday that's why I did'nt answer...I've sent you a PM with my number...

Props to LOU for the fastest I have ever sold anything...

I have 4 SG27LC's made by Daiwa that I would like to part with...Reels are in great shape and will be for quite a long time...I only used them April through May and they sit the rest of the year...Wanting to get rid of them due to lack of use and I want to upgrade to all Tekota's in the future... 120 bucks will have me part way's with them and its a good time for a new troller or anybody to get a bunch of good reels for less than the price of 1 Tekota... I really dont want to ship and I am located in Rochester and willing to meet up and exchange...Send me a PM if your interested and we'll take it from there...

Jason of trout-n-about told me about that episode when I saw him at the Oak earlier this week... I was in complete shock that he actually saw a few people do this...I was nervous shooting the rapids in my 12 foot inflatable and those guys floated down on a air mattress... :shock:

Thanks again for those brown eggs...They've been packed and frozen and just await a designated time to fish to be unthawed...

They really are that much better than howies... Cant beat the quality, color combo's and the tournament rigs are deadly especially coming rigged with 50 pound Seaguar, double hooks and rattle chamber/e-chip... That being said i've caught a lot of fish with howies when I first started using flies but since coming across atomik flies I hardly ever put a different fly in the water...

We were using atommik flies... The one in the beginning that gets zoomed in on is the original hammer fly...We were also using the Pro-Am fly which is a killer plus many other's that all do a great job at fooling fish...

If you have a use for those fish and are'nt breaking any laws, keep as many as you can use... I've thought as well that you do kill a bunch of fish but it's your choice...I used to kill a ton of fish for other people and myself, but I am a fishermen that wants as many fish around as possible so I stopped... I've seen many catch and release advocates very poorly take care of there fish once they land them and they probably beat and injure to death as many fish as you have been keeping and eating...Anger's me more to see people mis-handling fish than keeping them as the guy playing catch and release might damage a dozen or more fish thinking they survived while the guy who wants a few to eat might take a few and get them home quick to prepare them... Personally i'm lucky to touch a fish when I go because I get them to the water line reach down and pop the hook out with forceps and get splashed in the face by the fish I just let go...Never out of the water, never touched, never dragged onto land and that's a guaranteed healthy release... Keep doing what you want within the regs and eff the people that are bashing you...

Nice video Mark, one which I dont remember watching...Still kicking myself for day one...

Was not pleasant having my finger stuck in the wedge of the hook with that coho flopping around...I am very lucky I did'nt get the barb buried in my finger with the fish still attached...

If you have the time I recommend scraping them off the skein...Warning, it SUCKS and i've spent 3 hours scraping eggs off 1 fish's skein...Some are far easier than others but it really could take you hours... There is nothing wrong with just tying the skein into sacs, but the skein membrane will turn white on you faster than the eggs themselves and I am completely against whitening of my eggs as they become less effective...Just means i'll tear it off the hook for a new sac a lot sooner than a no skein sac... You can put a day or two worth of eggs in a sandwich bag, suck the air out an seal, followed by a tight wrapping in tin-foil and straight to the freezer...I've been told not to freeze pre-tied sacs as during thawing some eggs break and your sacs wont come out as the way you put them in...

Tie them in sacs like you would salmon eggs...Instances where I use trout eggs over salmon are in clear water conditions and for finicky fish...I'll use salmon eggs if the water is off-color or if I find the fish really dont care what's being drifted in front of them... Some places I have found they have preferences...The Genny for example runs usually on the stained side and with very, very few browns spawning there all the steelies see are king eggs so that's what I use...

Its a real shame people are actually using those things...I've found 3 down there, seen 2 more stuck on the floating thing and saw 2 other's stuck in fish... To bad the hook did'nt rip out of the king they snagged and come back and hit'em in the face...

I walked down the Seth Green trail and fished from shore... I was out today in a drift boat with a friend and a new acquaintance who had never been to the Genny before...Started plugging the holes and the water was so slow it would hardly move the plugs and it was tough fishing but we mangaed to land a steelhead and lose 2 kings...Then we went to the "pond" and enjoyed the salmon festivites...

Fishing in the Genny has been out-standing but I am fishing the "pond" below the dam as well as the falls...Fished it 9 out of the last 10 days and worst so far has been a 4 PM to dark trip landing 4 or 5 kings and the best days we cant keep track of the numbers...Some nice steelhead and coho's are kicking around as well...Cured skein under floats has been my ticket to success... I actually beat the guide to the spot when he arrived and he did ask if I minded sharing so I said no problem, it's all yours and left them alone to the spot and went to fish the "pond" and had my arm almost torn off by kings... I saw the DEC Sunday and Monday so they are around and the officer's I spoke with on Sunday said this is not their district but they were called in due to the heavy pressure of the salmon run... A nice rain would be nice to get some new fish and rejuventate the ones already in...Still seeing some pretty fresh fish but no fungus covered ones yet...

Last Sunday on the way out we hugged the Irondequoit Pier and had 10-13 FOW until we got towards the end where it came up to 3 FOW, then we were pretty much at the lake and it dropped right off again...

I have'nt heard of waxing the planer line before but I would think wax would stick to the release and make it harder to send out...I could be completely wrong and missing out on a great idea but i'll keep my tow lines un-waxed... I've never used any lubricant to a planer line and usually dont have any issues unless the wind is blowing hard up the angle of the tow-line as it push's the line and release back up... Some people use heavy braided line and the releases slide fast and easy if I remember correctly...

Exactly what Gamber mentioned...

Great job!!! Happy that we were able to help...

Thanks for another shot of your fish and it makes me believe more-so that the fish was damaged... No offense and I was'nt going to mention it but I would think an advocate of catch and release would try to not hold a fish by the gills??? I am sure you took care of the fish but it does'nt take much gill damage to kill them... I practive very careful catch and release...When I fish on my boat I employ a no net law unless we are keeping fish but my boats small enough that I can reach over and grab'em and while in the tribs. I rarely even touch the fish I just landed...Grab the hemostat's and quick grip and twist and they splash me in the face on the way out...

Both riggers and flat-lines... Spoons should be run off the riggers to get them down, and J's can go anywhere... My best depths for j's are 5-12 feet down around the mouth of the river in 20' of water or so and I stagger leads from 25' being my deep one out to 75' as my high rigger...Flat lines for me are back 100' to start... I think kings are pretty "ballzy" and sometimes dont mind the boat so I keep a short lead rigger and they like diver's out 30-40' and my best rigger depth and lead for J's has been down 8-10' back 25-30'... You can run a spoon off a flat-line with some weight added 6-8 feet above, and run them from 2 feet down to 2 feet off the bottom with leads anywhere from 25-75' with a rigger...I start short and lengthen as I go... Cover the water top to bottom and remember j's dive so gotta watch them near the bottom...Its a big pain trying to keep them near but not on bottom especially up-river...

Salmonite hit the nail on the head...You can try regular sized spoons as well, j-11 rapala's and basically any other type of crank-bait you might think would work...