dremarquis

Hi all, this pic just came up on my screen saver and it doesn't look like the other King pics i have (compare it to the second photo). It doesn't really look like a landlocked to me, but it also looks different than a lot of the kings i've caught. thanks for your input, dre

Good luck out there tomorrow! I'd really appreciate a report, dre

I'm hoping to fish from my boat for the first time in 2015! Any updates are appreciated, dre

i know a guy who actually sits in his boat watching his fishfinder in simulation mode!!! Now that's needing a fix in a bad way! dre

Hey Les, That's a beautiful mixed catch. I am jonesin for some fresh fish! Way to stick it out...glad you got rewarded for it! dre

With the warmer weekend, i was thinking about hitting Canandaigua out of Onanda. Then it occurred to me that, like last year, it may be frozen. Can anyone confirm or refute that? thanks, dre

speaking of soft plastics and other weird things in lake trouts' stomachs, my buddy and i fished canadaigua out of woodville about 2 weeks ago. Marked ZERO bait and only a few fish, but managed to boat 4 lakers. This salamander and large front body of a soft plastic were in a 6 lb laker's stomach. Caught the fish down 180 - are those salamanders that deep? Can anyone tell me anything more about the salamader? dre

Thanks everyone! dre

oops, i thought the pic was attached. it is now thanks, dre

Hi all, My dad took me fishing my entire childhood, but he wasn't a hunter. I began deer hunting when i was 25, and i've always hunted solo. Thus, i am not the most skilled or successful deer hunter. In the past 17 years, i have taken 41 deer, and this is probably my best to date (i have others with longer tines, or wider, but something about this one is really cool to me). It feels like quite an accomplishment because i got it on state lands. I had put a climber up the day before way back in a swampy area and i think other hunters pushed him my way. Got him at 1:30, after having sat in stand since 6am. Does anyone have a sense of his age? thanks, dre

Pete, we haven't met in person, but like others have said, your posts are so well-written that i feel i know you! what port have you been heading out of for your laker jigging? I tried for a few hours last week out of sandy creek and couldn't find any concentrations. I was looking in 50-70 fow because my 48 degree temps were as shallow as 50 that day. best, andre

I changed rigger balls and lowered them more slowly and fished Lake O for 5 hours without a tangle!!! I went out of sandy creek saturday from 4-9p. Only managed one bite (45' down over 350 fow) on a glow frog - a 20# king. i wanted to thank everyone again for the helpful advice!!! dre

I changed rigger balls and lowered them more slowly and fished Lake O for 5 hours without a tangle!!! I went out of sandy creek saturday from 4-9p. Only managed one bite (45' down over 350 fow) on a glow frog - a 20# king. i wanted to thank everyone again for the helpful advice!!! dre

that's an incredible fish!!! And to have caught it from shore with that rod and reel - kudos to you man!!!! I bet you were shocked out of your mind when you saw that jump - what were you targeting/fishing for? dre

Thanks again everyone. I still need a few things clarified for me. First, where can i buy the crimps needed for the setup Tom recommends? Second, what is the red, egg-shaped object between the ball and the swivel (in Tom's diagram)? Third, i want to try to re-set the eyes in my rigger balls so they hang horizontally. I know lead is toxic, so should i NOT drill new holes in the balls in which to set new eyes? How would you recommend i re-set the eyes, because they broke when i tried to bend them forward and unscrew them. thanks very much! dre

thanks very much for the advice. I will try to more the eyes forward on the ball (if i can't, i'll get a new ball), add a swivel between the ball and the release, and also lower the ball slower. Again, thanks so much - you guys rock! dre

thanks very much for the advice. I will try to more the eyes forward on the ball (if i can't, i'll get a new ball), add a swivel between the ball and the release, and also lower the ball slower. Again, thanks so much - you guys rock! dre

Thanks to everybody for their replies. I do keep the rod loaded as the ball goes down - perhaps I have too much pressure when I do that. I also let the ball down very quickly - I have manual not electric downrigger's. I never stop or go neutral with my Riggers out. Attached is a photo of my set up and the problem tangle. My booms are 40 inches my rods are shorter than most - they are 7 feet but I've used them for years and this problem just started happening My releases swivel very freely around the cable and as I said earlier the downrigger balls appear to track nicely And the tip of my ride is further out and behind the downrigger cable

Thanks to everybody for their replies. I do keep the rod loaded as the ball goes down - perhaps I have too much pressure when I do that. I also let the ball down very quickly - I have manual not electric downrigger's. I never stop or go neutral with my Riggers out. Attached is a photo of my set up and the problem tangle. My booms are 40 inches my rods are shorter than most - they are 7 feet but I've used them for years and this problem just started happening My releases swivel very freely around the cable and as I said earlier the downrigger balls appear to track nicely

I am repeatedly having trouble with my fishing line getting tangled in my downrigger cables. I use 20# braid for my main line, and Black's downrigger releases. I hope i can make clear what my problem is, so that one of you might troubleshoot it for me. Here's the problem in more detail (it doesn't happen all the time, i'm guessing about 1/3 of the time on Lake O, and much, much less on the fingerlakes): When i wind up my rigger, my fishing line is still in the release, but the line between the release and my rod is wrapped 20-30 times around the rigger cable - wrapped so many times that if a fish hit, it couldn't release. I know this happened the other day because my 20# flouro leader was broken off and the braid was wrapped around the rigger cable. I can't imagine how this is happening. When i watch my ball a few feet below the surface, it seems to track well. Has anyone had this problem and/or know how to fix it? I wonder if the more powerful currents on Lake O are contributing to this, but i bet most of you don't have this problem. many thanks, andre

I had my 1986 evinrude 90 hp worked on by Hank (by far the best boat mechanic i've ever had - i drive 90+ miles from springwater because he is so good). Since he's right near Lake O, i thought i'd check out the motor and do a bit of solo fishing. Before i could get my second line in the water, this king nailed a glow frog spoon 100 down over 200 fow. I ended up with a few others, but none this big. That day, as well as yesterday, i am having trouble with my fishing line getting tangled in my downrigger cables. Unlike most folks, i use shimano curados on casting rods for my downrigger rods - i love catching big kings on light gear! I use 20# braid for my main line, and Black's downrigger releases. I hope i can make clear what my problem is, so that one of you might troubleshoot it for me. Here's the problem in more detail (it doesn't happen all the time, i'm guessing about 1/3 of the time on Lake O, and much, much less on the fingerlakes): When i wind up my rigger, my fishing line is still in the release, but the line between the release and my rod is wrapped 20-30 times around the rigger cable - wrapped so many times that if a fish hit, it couldn't release. I know this happened the other day because my 20# flouro leader was broken off and the braid was wrapped around the rigger cable. I can't imagine how this is happening. When i watch my ball a few feet below the surface, it seems to track well. Has anyone had this problem and/or know how to fix it? I wonder if the more powerful currents on Lake O are contributing to this, but i bet most of you don't have this problem. many thanks, andre

thanks for confirming my thought that it was an out-of-place king carcass andre

Hi all, What do you think this is. I would have thought a king, but i saw this near the boat launch at hemlock lake. I suppose it could be a brown, but i don't recall teeth like that, plus the gums are black like a king. My boot is size 12 - i 'm guessing the fish was 15-20# - would be a heck of a brown out of hemlock! I suppose someone could have caught a king from Lake O and brought it to hemlock to give folks like me a kick. thanks, dre