W.W.IV.

Check your recept before you leave the store, things marked 3-4$ on the shelves are 7-8$ at cash out.

Missdemeanor, I've still got the Mac-Jac hand held temp. probe and still use it, same as fish hawk.

I remember trolling next to Misty blue out of Oswego, for some reason most every time we past

 

each other I'd hit a double solo of corse,he was good luck for me. Boy it was a night mare fishing Oswego back then in Aug. Sept. that was real combat fishing,if you never fished it in the early days you don't know what a crowd is.

I fished the pro am at Willson with Screw Louie back when that was the only pro-am, we even took home money,we may have done a better place if we hadn't gone out that night, boy was I in bad shape the next day. Wow those were good times.

Hey guys don't forget the C-B radios, they were the thing before the boats got bigger and we went to VFH.

DandyGlows, Michigan squids with license plates, north port mailers, tiger plugs..... And the list goes on.... Anyone have the fish hawk hand held wheel with cable and a temp probe you rubberbanded to a herbie weight? Lol

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Missdemeanor, I've still got the Mac-Jac hand held temp. probe and still use it, same as fish hawk.

I remember trolling next to Misty blue out of Oswego, for some reason most every time we past

each other I'd hit a double solo of corse,he was good luck for me. Boy it was a night mare fishing Oswego back then in Aug. Sept. that was real combat fishing,if you never fished it in the early days you don't know what a crowd is.

I fished the pro am at Willson with Screw Louie back when that was the only pro-am, we even took home money,we may have done a better place if we hadn't gone out that night, boy was I in bad shape the next day. Wow those were good times.

Field and Stream has them.

A little more east end history.  During the shutdown in 78 I believe please correct me if I got the year wrong.  Two brothers who owned a saw mill on a small creek  east of the nuclear plant  decided they were going to raise there own kings.  So they did, it was "Old Hickory" and his brother some of you may remember Old Hickory he passed away at 96 about 6 years ago.  Anyway he and his brother raised these kings for at least  4 egg cycles before they were found out and asked to stop.

 

Every year since 1980 there has been a small late October, early November run off kings to this particular creek what a very cool legacy these two men have left the Eastern Basin.  Certain veteran captains would hold out knowing this run would stage in the area as well.

 

I with held the name of this creek to protect the innocent!!

Hey I rember Old Hickery,he and his brother were very active with the DEC and the fishery, I think he was the first president of ELOSTA, I went to the first meeting and was a member into the 90ies.

Sorry to hear he pass,hope he had a big one on when he died.

I remember reading in the paper that they planded to stock kings in the lake in the late sixties.

 Wow that got the blood flowing,I had a 16ft. lonestar with a 35hp Johnson,I fished the lake for bass and perch back then.I got a hand crank Riviera from a old timer on the Finger lakes and bought a Larance green box. Some time around1970 the first run of salmon came into the Salmon river.

Not manny had a clue about catching them, me either. I don't think I got any the first season.I don't think I got the speed right till I got a speed gage,it was a pice of wire with a weight on one end and a

pointer and a halfmoon shapped piece of tin on the other mounted on the side of the boat.you put the weight in the water ,the hand pointed to numbers on the plate. If you hit a fish you checked the number on the plate,that was your speed. We gave snaging a try at night, got out of work at 12:30am and headed up to the river they had the water flow down and the river was full of fish, seven of us took 35 salmon that night,it was fun thats not fishing.Some one took a 48lber out of the river, I think that was the record and still holding. Those were the good old days. Boy am I old.

Well if the riggers were mine and they had boards in them I would switch the board from the good one to the bad one and see what happens, all you can lose is time.

Good lord, if I started the day out like that I would have been afraid to leave the dock.

Glade your day turned out better.

Nice work Kayaker, I fished the same water yesterday morning,one hit on the diver and it got off.

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You can use a standard dipsey as a slider,we did it  years ago before the sliders came out. about 40 years ago. We used some kind of a big Jon in line release but I can't remember how to set it up, sorry.

THOSE LOOK LIKE THE OLD WALLEYE WORNRIG.

Thanks guys... As always a wealth of information.  I think I will opt to run something out the chute and stick with the 2 riggers and 2 dipseys... As much as people get bit on the dipsey's I am still not convinced that they work!!!  All those fish last week and they were all off the riggers... hahahha...

Try  stacking the smaller dipseys on your top line 10-15ft. above the ball out about 40-50ft.

put the stacked rod in the outside holder and bottom rod on the inside holder. It shouldn't interfear with your wire dipsey. Its a good setup when the temp. is deep and you know where the lures are.

I've taken a lot of fish that way, take your time and think about what your doing and you won't have a problem getting them down.  Good luck

Those are some good eaters, congrats to your plan, certainly worked out. 18 fish is really going to town not to mention solo!! Way to go!!

I fished Oneida over the week end got some eyes and some of  those tasty sunfish, there huge.

The gobies are in big time,that should screw things up.

Got out this morning around 7am till10:30, like kayaker said, ice water at 60-70fow. Worked 125fow to 15fow. Eating skunk agin.

Glad to hear your back at it W.W.I.V. Don't feel bad my uncles just got back from LakeO' they took my cuisin along who's dad is a semi-pro bass fisherman they fished Chaumont Bay Sackets Harobr Cherry Island. They fished for 3 1/2 days with 3 guys and caught 54 fish 1 was a 10# drum, no large mouth all smallies. The first day they fished Chaumont Bay and boated 27 thinking they were going to have great fishing but each day the fishing got worse boating 19 and the last day they fished from 7:am till 2:pm catching 8 fish Saturday. They only fish artificial soft baits and no trolling all casting.

I'm just glad  to get out, catching fish is a bonus, I would have tryed in closer but the water was so thick with mud it would take the finnish off the spoons.

I haven't posted in a while, bad health kept me off the lake but I'm back at it.

Left the dock about 7AM and headed east, had trouble getting throught the mud out to about 75fow

had some nice color out to about 90fow then it cleared up. I set up in about 125fow and worked the top 50ft, two riggers , two wires and a three color core.I ran all spoons,changed up several times and worked between 125fow into 70fow. About 10AM some nasty looking clouds were comming down the lake shore so I cleared lines and headed in.I got all the dirt and dust off the lures but  never had a hit.

The lake was nice with the south wind so I had a good ride and missed the rain.Its nice to get out there again.    Mike.

Other way around...sliding down the banister I guess..splinters are tough to remove too!^_^:wacko:

Thought I was the only one that couldn't stand the smell of pine-sol.

Got another thought, I dumped a box full of toads in the boat, the can eat a lot of flys in a hurry, just have to watch where you walk.

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I saw this on face book, flys don't like PineSol. Mix50\50 PineSol and water and wipe everything down with it, like your boat. If it doesn't work at least you will have a clean boat.

I know the feeling it's been mucho years since I stream fished and I been trying to visualize how I did it but coming up with a blank, it used to work neat, it fit any size minnow you wanted to fish, I was thinking about incorporating a stinger on my worm harnesses

pap,If you find the Eyes in the weeds, 6-8 fow you can slide the two hooks together shorten your leader and do a careolina rig with a bullet sinker and cast your rig and swim it through the weeds.

  Hey potsie, hope this helps you with your lure making.

W.W. I.V. I like the idea of the sliding hook, very ingenious, I used to make a minnow rig up something to that nature, I never thought of it to incorporate that in a worm harness, thanks for sharing!! That would work great for those short crawlers and the ones that hang past the hook 2"s

Hey pap, about 100yrs ago a friend showed me how to tie that finger lake sliding minnow rig. tryed to remember how but couldn't so I went to the shrink wrap.

Use a stiff fluro, I use 18-20# the harness will stay straight and I use the black colored quick change clevis by Northland they spin nice and you can change blades no problem, I like to make 3 hook harnesses. A charter we took explained why he liked the three hook ones, he claimed it keeps the worm strait and only the tail end dangles and you stand a better chance with short bites on three hooks and also for the hooks I use #2 red circle hook, you can buy all the fancy beads at a supplier or what I do is buy the floats and I use my daughters beads they have 100's in these necklace and bracelet kits, same stuff, glow in the dark beads and colors galore!! Good luck it's fun catching an eye on a harness you made.

I've been rigging with17teen lb leaders and two hooks,the top is a slider, it keeps the worm strait by sliding the top hook up or down. I slide about 1\4" of shrink tubing over the hook shank, then slide the leader through the tub and the eye of the hook about 2 " and shrink the tub down with a sodering iron till its tight, slide the hook down the leader and cut off leader where you heated the tubing, about 4" . I don't think its any better than a three hook rig, its just my thing. Love those quick change Clevises. Gota check out the hobby shops and check out some beads.

i wish i could post pics of boat but its hard on this phone i figured out what to do with riggers thanks to some pics by lil ripper and figured out where i can mount my 4 down eastern rod holders exactly for that reason. 2 for solo 2 for when have company and they will allow me to still fish seth green rigs and serve as rod holers for flat lines when needed. i also mounted some pvc to front sides of front seat for core or coppers on boards or other flatlines as needed thanks everyone for the help will try to figure out how to post pics when boat is finished. and there will be plenty of lakers and hopefully some kings caught out of it this summer

I run a 16ft. Lund and fish solo often, let go of the wheel for long and your going in circles. I can use my bow mount electic with the foot peddle to controll the boat when setting lines or fighting fish, workes well.Have a good summer.

yes flashers catch more fisher men than fish lol keep putting them down and have fun

Thirty or so years age we would put out two or more dogers and flys and run spoons clean,most of the fish would come on the spoons,So of course we pulled the doggers and put down more spoons and that ended the bite.The doggers drew the fish in and they hit the spoons so keep running them.

                                                                                                                                       Mike.