RodBuster

Kings are usually scarce til about mid april or later.

Here is my setup for what it is worth... 14 lb trline xt with 10 lb seaguar leader. Leader tied to mainline with small BALL BEARING swivel. The swivel serves two purposes. Obvious is preventing twist in case your stickbait get hung up on itself or debris and starts to spin. Second is it may prevent a piece of grass or pther debris from makiong it down to your lkure. I run all floating stickbaits on the boards. f9 or F11 or similar bombers, thundersticks or rebels. Reason for flaoting is if you have boards out and find a pocket of fish you can turn on them and the slack board sticks will float up. If you run direct flat lines there will be no slack and you could run spoons. No need to get down more than a couple of feet, because you might want to scratch the shoreline. Find the colored water and the edges are good. troll 2 to 2.5 mph. Usually the more colored the water the brighter the lures need to be. After a couple of hits on a ceretain color load up on that color. Also I run 100 pulls (about 16 inches per pull) on clear or flat water and shorten to 50 feet if colored or choppy. 75 pulls for in between. The shorter the better if you are having positive results. Also, i have had little success in "gin clear" water. Spend time prospecting for colored water before you set up. BTW sorry for mispellings. I know how to spell but dont know how to type..... can someone tell me how to spellcheck?

L&M, I epoxy the slot to elimate the problem of another line getting caught up inside the release. I have seen no evidence that the hole I am using is getting a groove in it from the planer line (Releases are at least 10 years old and maybe more like 15). Also, I like them being permanently attached to the line, that way i don't have to fumble around trying to hook them in or keep track of a bunch of them. I don't understand your logic about using tape. If your objective is to remove every time, that tape would have to be placed on the groove every time you snap one on the line.

Hookedup-I use Clipper releases. They work very well. I epoxy the slots closed and thread them through the hole onto the planer line. Skyn-you are an important businessman and you haved to go to meetings while I fish.......

Finally made it out after one cancelation and one dry run. After the blow this weekend the lake was either muddy or real green water as far as one could see. Fish were in the green water, none in the muddy water. Hard to find a hot spot as the colored water was wides spread. Most fish in 10 to 15 ft of water, then found a pocket of green water in close. Hot Steel, Orange, and Firetiger. Action was not as fast as some of the reports from last week, but we scratched out a dozen or so. Only one decent fish. Surely not like the pictures from last week. Here is a picture of a real pretty brown and a student who played hookey today.

We attempted to launch at Sodus today and the cold weather the last few days iced it up. Chunk ice clogged the entire channel and the coast guard launch was frozen. But, with the way the wind was blowing I suspect by end of day it may have blown out of there. We went west and must be either hughes or Pultneyville was open because there was one boat out there. Based on clear water we bagged it.

Gert, I just received an email (4 08 PM) from Shameless and here is what he says: "I checked along the shore on my way home today. There was ice floating all along the shore as far as I could see and there were a few places where the wind or current had caused lines of ice chunks to form that went out from shore as far as I could see. I wouldn't take my boat out there yet and I assume no one else would either. I will report on the message board when it starts to clear." I will probably postpone. If i change my mind later tonite i will post. BTW if you do go consider a work around if the chute gets clogged....like letting someone off at the pier and then motoring to hughes, pultneyville or bear creek. That was my back up plan.

Shameless, thanks for the pictures. This looks a little more ominous than I would like. Did all that ice build up occur in the last few days with the cold weather? I guess we wil see what tomorrow brings.

I know from experience that the icebergs at Sodus are hard on Transom Mount transducers, tore mine off a number of years ago.

Skyn was asking on my behalf. We are going wednesday....so maybe we will see you there. You get there early and make us a path...... Thanks for the replies.

This workin stuff stinks.....I wish I was out there today!

You could proably catch them right now. My earliest trip has been about Feb 15th. Boards and a pocket of colored water is the ticket. My boaty is out of storage (Fished Seneca yestetrday) so if this weather keeps up I may venture north in the next couple of weeks. Its good to find out if your particular port is ice free before you go. Just post the question here and the locals usually give you a good report on the launch conditions.

I am looking for a new cover for a 17' Alumacraft. I would like to be able to travel with the cover on, especially in the winter when road salt can get in the boat. I don't want a cover that can "chaff" the side of the boat when it flops in the breeze. Let me know your experiences and which covers work the best for that application. Thanks

I just picked up a 2007 Alumacraft Navigator Sport with Full Windshield, Pasenger Console and Full Stand-Up Canvas. I removed the console on the passenger side. Basically, I made the boat into a CS Model. If someone has a CS model and would rather have full windhsiled this will do the job. I marked every part when I removed it so reinstallition should be a couple hours. (Screws and about 16 pop rivets) There may be a minor amount of modification to the side plate on the CS model to make it mesh with the new console. I have detailed pictures of the parts showing how they go together. A minor amount of wear just above the glove box, just faded the grey paint to black. The clear acrylic in the canvas should proably be replaced, but the canvas itself is decent. I can send more pictures to anyone interested. I would like $590. If you have the bubble windshield for the CS model and would like to trade i will knock $50 of the price.If you want to come to my garage i will help you install it.

Run either fish weights or fined weights and slightly bend the fins to cause the weights to track slightly away from the boat. You should have no problem once you get them adjusted properly.

I think this boat is gone. i talked wityh the guy back in early september and it was being sold the next day.

My question is for those that said fleas stick to the braid. is it because of the diameter or the surface make up of the braid? What if you used 100 lb braid which is equal to #30 mono????

You have stated in both cases the line snapped. So, first i don't see where changing swivels will make a difference as that is not the point of failure. In my opinion 30 pound line is a little too light between a dipsey and flasher. Remember it was 30 pound line when new. A couple of hits will fatigue the knots and any abrasion will also weaken the line. Maybe the 50 pound line on the fly was fatigued or compromised in some way. My suggestions are to use at least 40 pound line between the dipsey and flasher, use a snubber, AND change lines often. Check the line to the fly every time you bring it in, and don't be afraid to retie.

Good...everyone should fish inside for kings the rest of the tourney and leave those poor steelhead alone!!

Just do a search of my post from last year. They actually did get in my lines. The way they approached my boat was 100% inappropriate. I like the comment by one person that said they approached, identified that you were not a threat and left. if it was only that easy to identify a non threat......

I was told by a friend whom visited one of the local Baha dealers that they (Baha) had a fire and were not going to rebuild. Is this true? Although I don't own one I always thought that someday I might

Atta boy

Directions: From 14 North turn left at the 1st redlight on east 4th street. Go over the canal and make your first right. Boat launch Road. 200 yds ahead on your left. From 414 when you see campers on your left take the first left after the campers. Boat Launch Rd 200 yds ahead on left. Frpm 14 south go through about three redlights. At Main intesection turn right onto east 4th street. See above.

Well, i got some of those UV colors at Bass pro. Can say they catch fish but they are not real durable. The entire rear hook pulled out on a 6 pound landlock, just as we were getting ready to net it. Must be they don't have the wire like the Rapalas