dremarquis

everyone - thank you so much for all your input - you guys ROCK! Sk8man wrote: I think that because of a variety of real life situational factors not taken into account in most of the chart info I've seen (e.g. directional current forces/speed, type of attractor and lures combined with a diver etc.) a lot of the info on the charts is questionable at best. I think Les is right on with this, but i still like to have some charts as a reference point, and steelydan and others really helped me out thanks again, dre

Hi all, i had my first 2 trips of the year on lake O yesterday and today and they were great (by my standards). Sat - went our of sandy creek and caught 6 kings (up to 32#) and 3 steelies (up to 10#) 400-500fow and some on wire dipsey (size #1) on a 0 setting out 300 feet. today i went out of i-bay and got 4 kings - all low to upper 20s - around 200 fow all on on wire dipsey (size #1) on a 2 setting out 330 feet. the dive charts i have stop at 150 feet of line out does anyone have a dive curve/depths for the #1 dipsey (ideally for settings 0, 1, 2, & 3) and also ideally for wire - i know the charts that come with the dipsey are less deep that the same feet out with wire. if you don't have such a chart, can you estimate how deep a wire dipsey (size #1) on a 2 setting out 330 feet is? and a wire dipsey (size #1) on a 2 setting out 330 feet? thanks very much, andre

HI All, i mostly fish the fingerlakes but like to hit Lake O at least once each year for some bigger fish. I usually fish out of sandy creek. my experience is that the bite is usually very early and then not much else happens after 9:30 or 10a. Is that your experience too? I'm wondering if i should fish all day or do what i normally do (fish from first light till 10 or 11a then call it a day) thanks, dre PS - from reading the posts, it seems the temps have been moving a lot - any idea what depths the kings are now/tomorrow?

thank you VERY MUCH!!!

does anyone have the dive curve for Rapala Taildancers (especially the 30' taildancers, but also 20' & 15')? i have the 6th edition of Precision Trolling, but i think that was published before Rapala came out with the Taildancer. if you could post or email me a PDF of any of those dive curves (the 30' is what i want the most), i would really appreciate it! thanks, andre

So i took the laker with the lesions to the region 8 DEC and Pete (forgot his last name) talked to me. I am very disappointed with the whole thing. He said he didn't think it was anything serious, probably a virus with a secondary infection (which manifested as the 3 lesions). I asked him if he'd take the fish to do pathology work on it and he said he wouldn't because they don't have a lab there! I am surprised they wouldn't send it to a lab to determine whether or not it was something serious or not. Let's hope he was correct and it wasn't anything too serious. Gambler - where did you catch the 34# laker? dre

I was fishing Canadice yesterday and caught a 3-4# laker that had 3 nickel-quarter size lesions on it. I fish Seneca a lot, so i know what lamprey marks look like, and i am quite sure these were not from lamprey. I don't have time to post pics at the moment, but i put the fish on ice and am taking it to DEC in a few minutes. 2 sick fish from hemlock and canadice in a few days has me a bit concerned.... dre

why can't they use the old docks? i launch out of woodville a lot and the docks seemed fine to me. I'm glad they extended the ramp, but what was wrong with the docks? dre marquis

it needs a dredging for sure - i ruined a prop last summer going about 2 mph - hit a pile of rocks