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Chinook, Thank you. I do not recall what spool it came on, but we have not had any flaws in the wire we received. We have all positives to say less the little bit more of fleas gathered. Our guess(really Team member Mark's) is there are more strands with more places for those fleas to get their tiny little legs and tail into.

Team Liquid Plumber would like to thank A-TOM-MIK, Dreamweaver, and Torpedo Divers for their 1st place finish in the AM division at the Oswego County Pro-Am this past weekend. 8 of the 10 fish(10th fish was reeled in by the observer, who had a fishing license, after boxing out with our 9) were caught on an A-TOM-MIK fly/Dreamweaver Spin Doctor combination discovered during prefishing. The majority of the bites came on the dipsy rod with the new 19 strand Torpedo Diver wire we recently purchased. Of course all of the fish were caught on Tom's flies. For those of you who want to know, the new 19 strand wire from Torpedo Divers does not kink easily, it does not "curl up" like the 7 strand, it is very easy to work with, and it is easier than the 7 strand to undo tangles due to its limpness. The only negative is it does gather more fleas than the 7 strand, not really bad, but the 19 strand does gather more than the 7 strand. Like we said though, this rod was hooked up most often. Thanks to all who helped make this event happen as well as all the sponsors and we look forward to next year's event.

Prefishing: Thurs - 1 fish Fri - 4 maybe 5 or 6 legal fish Not 1 fish over 6lbs in 2 days, but we had a game plan to go from covering water from 40ft to 600ft in 2 days. Sat - boxed 6 including BIG fish for the Pro/Am with a few unders thrown back Sun - could only manage 4 in the box with 1 being a laker It was tough fishing and the name of the game for us was fishing "shallow" with lead cores and riggers. DW Super Slims put several key fish in the box both days, but the BIG fish came on a NK 28 blk/silver spooked with glow/purple. On Sun, we did find big schools of bait with big arches in 120-160FOW and set up with our favorite King program but no takers so we headed back to the skinny water. We managed enough fish to claim 3rd place in the event, BIG fish for Sat, and the West End Cup! We would like to thank all involved in holding the event and especially thank Dreamweaver and Northern King as their spoons put the necessary fish in the box. We had NK special deliver a spoon to us that worked great the weekend before in Niagara, but unfortunately did not catch fish in these conditions. The same DW Super Slims(PK Special and Jawbreaker) that worked in Niagara produced again. See everyone at Oswego! Team Liquid Plumber

We were happy the fish stayed there. We actually did better the week before! Below is a picture of the winning browns. Missing from the photo is the big fish of the tourney, just over 12lbs. Fish Wish Taxidermy is mounting the big fish as part of sponsoring the event. Team Liquid Plumber

Nice. I am curious, did you catch that largemouth in the harbor or out in the lake?

Team Liquid Plumber placed 3 fish in the Spring LOC to start the year off. A fourth fish was on the leaderboard, but was eventually bumped from the top 20. We would like to thank A-Tom-Mik and Dreamweaver as their products were part of our success. A DW Spin Doctor and an A-Tom-Mik fly combo is a deadly BIG fish catcher. Acknowledgements to Storm as well as their products played a role too. We would like to also thank Yvan and everyone involved in the Scotty King of the Lake tournament held in Wilson. It was a very well run tournament and we look forward to fishing them in the future. Team Liquid Plumber did not fare well in this tournament as we boxed with an avg of 10lb fish the first day and did not fish the second day due to conditions. Below are the fish weighed in for the LOC. 5th Place Brown caught on Dreamweaver spoon 8th Place Brown caught on Storm Thunderstick Jr. 11th Place Salmon caught on DW Spin Doctor with A-Tom-Mik fly Salmon bumped from leaderboard caught on DW Spin Doctor with A-Tom-Mik fly Another photo of 11th place salmon

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Yankee, It has a 52" shaft. Also forgot to metion the "Lift Assist", which makes raising the motor so much easier. Let me know if you are interested. I do occassionally fish the Tues night Conesus tourny and have spoken to you there before if you would like to see it. I am not attending tonight, 8/19.

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This was my first Pro-Am. I fished with an experienced team in the Am division. The experience was two-fold consisting of excitement and enjoyment as well as disappointment and discouragement. Having fished the LOC derby the last ten years or so and many bass tournaments, I was eager to fish the Pro-Am. But on Sunday as we placed our sixth fish in the box after 1/2 hour of fishing, my enthusiasm was gone. I felt as though our team did not have the opportunity to do our best due to the rules. At the weigh-in, I heard many of the other teams were not satisfied with the rules and it seemed that they were not given the chance to fish to the best of their ability either. Of course you can not satisfy everyone all the time with the rules, but the teams should be allowed to perform their best on game day. Other than being disappointed by having to keep our small fish, I had excellent time and enjoyed fishing with my friends.