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  1. I haven't been on lake O this season so I checked the board to see what was going on. I don't fish weekends because of the crowds, so I hit I Bay about 530am. the lake looked good for a 16ft. boat so out we went. want out to 75fow and checked temp.with hand held gage,52deg. down 10ft. 52deg.30ft.down. setup two riggers and two divers,spin doc. and flies on divers and spoons on the riggers.Set riggers at 29-40ft.down, wire out 100 --150ft. Worked out to about130fow and back in,nothing. changed spoons and setup 45-60ft down, hit 150fow and 60rod fires,my partner sat there and said is there something on that rod. He needs more training. :lol: . Oh well,we got out to about 180fow and the 45ft, rod fires,I grabbed this one and hand it to him,he got it in, about a 3or4lb steelhead.We pulled lines at 9:00am to beat the crowd, at the dock. Nice morning to be out.Beautiful sun rise.

  2. I had an American angler for over 15 years and just wore it out. cleaned a pile of perch with it, it still works but I can't get the blades in it any more.I'm now using a Rapala heavy  duty, more power,small V8. So far so good. If I just use it on Eyes it will last me for ever. :lol:

  3. I fished Oneida Lake  this weekend with my son, we didn't do that well, three eyes two perch and a few gobes. I was trying to figure out how to kill them I decided to drown them so I hooked one up to a black and purple jig and cast it out to drown,boy it was pulling hard for a little fish,wait a nice eye eat it. can you believe that, guess I'll  have to find a better way to kill them. LoL.

  4. Back when I fished the rivers for bass and eyes I caught several carp on black and gold spoons and spring  trolling in lake O I caught them on black and gold stick baits and the lures were in there mouths so the had to chase them.

      Fishuntrapper,  funny your friend drove to Toronto to by corp when two of my friends from Fulton netted carp and stored them in ponds till they had a tanker truck full and then ship them to Canada. :puke:   That was in the seventies also.

     

      I tried smoked carp, it tasted like any other smoked fish.

  5. Depends on how rough you are on a cooler. The price points on coolers are mainly based on longevity in rough service. Yeah, they'll all toot their horn on ice keeping ability, but what that comes down to usually in any cooler is how you load it , pre cool it, how many times a day do you open it, and available shade for storing it with ice.

    Yeti advertises too much. End of story, because that costs big bucks. Bottom line costs are affected hugely by this.

    There are coolers out there as good with out the notoriety. Even Coleman or igloo doesn't advertise as hard, and they are alright for ice chests, just most are not as durable and you might buy more than a couple in a lifetime. End user costs go up in that case, and you might have bought a much more robust make, and had it for a couple of generations, so it becomes a hand me down for your offspring! Put it in your will! Lol!

    Seriously though, that is the consideration on the price of a Yeti type ice chest for me. Not that you need to pay for advertising, but there are many as good and some better, that don't jump out of the Saturday morning hunting and fishing shows, or take a whole page or two of full color ads in your favorite magazine to entice you in their product.

    Here is one that I considered an investment worth every penny, and you don't find them advertising all over the place.

    I bought a Grizzly brand ice chest, and you can't hurt this thing in any activity short of throwing it in a very hot fire for a couple hours. It will last a lifetime, and the hinges and latches are part of that consideration. I have an Igloo as well and it has been a decent cooler for years but the plastic latches have broken and I dropped an ice block in it once and it busted a hole in the liner!...not good! Water gets in there and bye bye insulation. Fixed it with some 4200 epoxy...seems ok, but you know you can't do that all the time.

    The Grizzly is very tough. It's no light weight. It will hold ice as long as the Yeti claims, the lid is tight with rubber refrigerator gasket and has nice heavy rope handles or rigid grips either to help you pick it up...with a friend..if it is a large one of 120 quarts or more. Mine is heavy, but those roto molded type of coolers all are heavy. This has very nice rubber feet on the bottom and you can't make it slide around. That has its advantages and disadvantages. I found if I want the cooler to slide into the pickup bed...nope...not gonna. Gotta get up in there and pick it up! Lol!

    The cooler drains from either end with very large screw in plugs. Inside is made for freezable ice panels to slide in, and can be used for separating foods. These things however have not been very cheap. I understand the science of the liquid gel that is colder than ice but, it's pricey.

    Oh, and of course it's made to frustrate a bear that knows what a cooler is. It can be pad locked shut! Lol..now if the bear gets really smart and has a lock pic...hmmm.

    So check the Grizzly, it's a lot less than the Yeti, as good as without the expensive ads. More than a Coleman or Igloo.

    Others I have looked at and as good as are Orca, Pelican, Engle, and a few others, but for the price you absolutely cannot beat a Grizzly. Mine came from Amazon, and had a great price for its value.

    Also check the grizzly factory site for specials. I think they even have some blems that are functionally OK, but may have a color pigment off or something with the finish that wasn't passed by inspection. You could get the value of roto molded cooler for quite a bit less.

    Mark

    Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

    A full one is allways the best.

  6. Thanks bob. I tore it down and cleaned it today looks repairable have to see what the welder thinks about it

     

    I had a lower unit welded,it didn't work and it would have been cheaper to replace the housing to start with. If the crack runs after welding you well lose oil and fill up with water and tear up the gears and leave you dead in the water.

  7. The webcam shows a few people out there, but I'd be careful. This late season ice is the most dangerous of the year.

     

    Thanks Gator,I was only kidding about going out.

  8. Back in the 90ies a friend who lived on the north shore of Oneida Lake spotted a white buck in a horse coral, he watched through fall till deer season opened and it disappeared till spring, then later in the summer it was seem with a brown doe and a white fawn.Thats a big piece of woods,and its fairly flat and hard to hunt and got a lot of snow. When I retired I lost track of the guy who was watching them so I can't tell if there is any whites left in that area. I have seen white deer outside the fence on Rt 414.

  9. That's the first report I've heard from Oneida. The talk on Iceshanty is that only Big Bay is safe. I'm sure that's changing constantly as this winter weather (finally!!) keeps up, but I know there was a bunch of snow there recently, too, and there's probably only limited safe access. I guess it's good to know somebody is getting them... 

      I talked to my son who lives on Oneida lake this evening, he said there was one hut out of Lewis Pt. this afternoon and could see where others went out, also there were tracks going out from the east end but no one was out there this evening.

    the ice is clear of  snow, should be good for the week end.

     

     He didn't check the ice so anyone going to try it be safe,take a big buddy and send him out first.LoL :lol:

  10. I'll second the lightfields also out of hasting barrel. Can be pricey but they group like no others I've shot out of my 20ga rem 1100.

     

      I'm for the Lightfields, 12ga 1187 with hasting barrel. the gun will shoot 2inch group at 100yds, me I'm not sure about.

    Have a safe hunt and don't forget to have some orange on.there's a lot of rifles out there now and at 300yds you might look like a bear in that tree. :(

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