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Try trolling north - south or nw/se this will at least give you the opportunity to see what's out deeper (also helps your lures run better with the strong currents from the Niagara). If you have a small boat then don't venture out too far weather permitting, fuel needed to get back are concerns. Use the search feature of this site to answer specific questions you might have and if you can't find what you need then create a post. Dipseys, leadcore, copper, riggers will all help get your presentation down to the fish. Good luck and when you have that 20 king day please post some pics.

Glad your enjoying the tweets, a lot of work went into the project and getting so many top notch captains to share their years of experience and wit with the fishing community. The site features many options for the locations of the captains, click on their pic next to the tweet and it will take you to their website, same with the little birdie on the right. They usually list their home port there with directions. You can select the area of interest by the flags above the tweets, east, central west etc. or select individual Capts. tweets to display once you know who you want to follow. Some of the newer phones transmit the gps coordinates from where the tweet is made and a map tweet in red will be displayed the basic or NOAA overlay map will show exactly where they are. If the captains are fishing in a tourney or not at their home port they might indicate that at some point but most are still learning to use their thumbs and learning to tweet so you're patience will be needed. Congratulations to all involved in the project for utilizing a new technology to enhance the fishing experience with the most immediate reporting of fishing conditions and information available.

Happy B-day Rob, hope all your kings weigh your age!!

Hi John, Welcome to LOU, great to see all the hard work you have organized going on north of the dotted line. Thanks for giving us the updates as many of us are unaware what goes on with MNR and Canadian sportsman groups. Keep up the good work.

Racheal Ray called and wants to interview Bob for his friend Peter Pumkin's Pickled Pacific salmon recipe. Good job Dave ropin' that cowboy, some reel excitement there! As always, good work on the oak pens and for keeping At the Oak going Bob, no matter how you say it.....

2hr 40min 10 sec. will stan have to wait 3 more hours on the left coast?

Good work Stan, you're a rock star now!! Win the 1st one cause it will get tougher and tougher as it grows.

No beer at Yankee Stadium this year They lost the opener.

I prefer spoons, only one set of trebles to deal with, can vary depths and action with speed and lead length. When using sticks I'll remove the front trebles and re-tune. Lots of choices out there, choose wisely, it's cheaper.

It should be no problem, as WB said it will gunk up the plugs over time because the oil mixture will not burn completely at low rpm and the residue will accumulate and foul the plugs. Keep a spare set handy, would not recommend leaning the mixture because of the lubrication needed to motor out and back from the fishing grounds. If the troll plate slows you down too much you can cut off some metal from the bottom of it to lessen the drag. Do not engage the plate until you are stopped and the gradually increase the rpm till you reach trolling speed. Remember to disengage before motoring in, they will bend. In lieu of a trolling plate you might also consider dragging sea bags or what we use to use were 5 gallon buckets with a hole in the bottom (cheap and they float so they won't get under the boat), just drag one on both sides of the boat to get speed down and rpm up.

Ray, he definitely is breaking that rule and should be reprimanded, I've seen the beta testing and said "WOW!! I hope this don't get anyone fired", that's why he posted the warning.

If you have planner boards they will help in getting your line away from the boat and increasing the width of your spread. This helps you cover more water thereby increasing your opportunity for success. If you're just running flatlines off the sides of the boat rods flat, then get the lures out about 200 ft +, this gives fish that are on top that you spook off to the sides with your boat time to get back behind the boat again. Watch your speed and lure action and use slight turns not a straight line troll to give the lures a chance to get in and out of the boats' wash zone. For lure choice, look at the water color and back round, the bait should blend in with it just as real bait would, ie: green water green lures, clear water black and silver, bright days bright colors dark days dark colors. Set the drags very loose with the clickers on so a strike will get your attention then apply a little thumb pressure on the reel to set the hook, trout have soft mouths and sharp hooks will penetrate easily. As far as depth goes this time of year the near shore waters warm first and attract bait which attracts the fish, look for temperature changes for your top lines or mud lines from outflows from feeder creeks. For Seth rigs can't help, don't use em myself. Good luck!

Hadn't heard of it till now, still don't think you can match the life span of SS wire with even a super plastic. Let me know in a few years if you had to replace it, don't think I could get Jerry to switch anyhow.

You highlight some valid concerns of about what a suitable downrigger cable replacement should be but be but I don't think this product was designed for that purpose or they would advertise it as such. It may be stronger line than mono but it wasn't designed to be stronger than ss steel cable or last longer. Wouldn't want to trust a temp probe or 25 lb. weight on that either. Weather and sunlight will weaken it over time and the plasticisers that give it strength will break down. Most blow-back is caused by the type of weight and the drag on it, not so much by the line. For the cost of it compared to SS cable, I'd say it isn't worth it. Someday a strong, silent, stealthy, hydrodynamic cable will be invented but I'm still waiting.

a microsoft certified information technology professional (MCITP) is this a course a RIT? I thought it was an Apple college.

The umpire of Sandy Creek Capt Pat has found his way around the sun once again. Happy birthday Pat, sit back with some Crunch n Munch and enjoy the day.

Welcome to the LOU and RIT, great site here and great school. This site is the result of an RIT masters student, fisherman.

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jk, I wouldn't recommend dipsies for kayak fishing, they need a constant tension to be an effective presentation and if you stop or slow they sink. There are plenty of other ways to get lures deeper that are simpler to operate in the limited amount of space you have to work in. You are already as stealthy as you can get in a kayak so take advantage of that in your set. The main reason dipsies are effective in the larger boats is that it gets the bait out and away from the boat noise and footprint,(downrigger set) neither of which applies to your vessel. Try floating body bait lures with different lip sizes for different depths. They have better action at a wider variety of speeds. You should not venture too far from shore in a kayak on the big lake where you would need any more than that anyhow. Be safe.

I believe the DEC has been controlling the population by oiling the eggs on their nesting grounds. So drastic action is not needed any longer as it once was but persistence will get the job done. I know they were a major reason for the decline of small mouth bass but recent studies show their diet is now 90% gobies, so they may actually be helping on another front. (unless you're a goby fisherman) I thought a cormorant recipe would be funny but when I googled it, it brought me back to a LOU article: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4167 Here is some other potentially useful information - lead, oil or new dipsey retriever excerpt from: http://www.ypte.org.uk/animal/cormorant/65 Cormorants and Man Cormorants have sometimes been persecuted by fishermen because of the belief that they eat huge quantities of fish, especially in rivers where they were supposed to prefer young salmon and trout. However, research has shown that cormorants seem to favour flat fish and eels, taking only small amounts of the more saleable fish. In the Far East, some fishermen make use of the cormorant's expertise, by training it to catch fish for them. A collar and lead is attached to the bird's neck and the collar is just tight enough to prevent the cormorant from swallowing a captured fish. The fisherman retrieves the fish from the bird's beak, only loosening its collar now and then to allow it to swallow a fish. As with many sea birds, cormorants are affected by oil pollution, caused by shipwrecks or by ships which discharge their oil at sea illegally. Diving birds such as guillemots, razorbills and puffins have been most seriously affected by oil pollution, but cormorants have also suffered when fishing in the location of an oil slick. Oil clogs their feathers, they are unable to fly and swim and, as a result, they drown. Birds may also die of poisoning if they swallow oil.

The Short-eared owl, Northern harrier and Upland sandpiper will be happy about this too!!!

Welcome to the site Tom, thanks for looking out for our interests in the political arena. Please feel free to keep this community up to date with the latest information on that front and look for support here if you need phone calls or petitions to get the point across with our representitives. Also feel free to post up some fishing reports from up youir way.

Happy Birthday!!! Hope you're wintering well and enjoying the stream bite. Hope you have another great year at Sandy Creek, I'd tell you to tie one on for your birthday, but you'd just end up with another fly pattern. Enjoy!!

Here's a previous post that could also help with your re-spooling viewtopic.php?f=3&t=742