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I've got a pair of Mag10A's purchased new in 1988...... still working fine. Slow but steady.........

both kings came on spoons.......Last hookup of the day came on flasher/fly, but that fish was lost and most likely a laker.....

60 - 120 fow, 45 to 65 down.......

We fished yesterday out of Wilson 12:30 – 5:30. It was pretty rough early in the trip, so we spent most of the day with planer boards and stickbaits in 8 – 12 fow. We took 4 browns, 1 coho, and a huge smallmouth in there…. Then about 3:30 the lake started laying down and we went out to 60 fow and zig zagged from 80 – 120 fow for the rest of the trip. Once we found some Niagara river water we started marking more fish, and we landed 2 kings out there……. One real nice one…… maybe 23 lbs…The other maybe 13 lbs… the color on them was just beautiful…… that purpleish, blue silver…… man I love spring kings…..

cool footage..... thanks

It's called plasti-dip or plasti-cote...... and you can get it from HomeD or Lowes..... They look great, but the coating is kind of fragile and if you store the torpedos between outings or fish for lakers in the mud they get shiny again......

Nice job and congrats.........

in the blink of an eye.....they're in college.....

If you want loose singles from salmon skeins, take a hunk of the skein and place it into hot water that's between 110 and 115 F. Agitate the skein with your fingers to seperate the eggs from the membrane.... the membrane coagulates at this temperature, and the eggs can be messaged out...... as soon as their loose, get them out of the hot water and into some cold water....... then, once their cool, drain and treat them with any of the purchased cures, or one of the home recipes you can find on the web...... seperating singles from the skein is easy and effective using this method.

Saw a pike doing this today at Oak Orchard Creek...... He was totally oblivious to us, and within nettin' distance of the boat while under way......

Nice Report Skipper..... the boat looks battle ready! rod holders everywhere!

Tank ..... it was a great night to be out..... didn't see you down there..... we spent most of the night pretty much in front...... 28+ is a great fish. bigger than anywe've done this year........ so far..... We're getting down to the end. Looking at the board, maybe we should be fishing for lakers!!! Not that there's anything wrong with that....

Fished with gokudl3 tonight from 5 til 7:45....... All spoons, we never fished SDs/flys or meat........ 2 kings around 20, 2 browns, 1 atlantic, 1 steelie, 2 shakers..... The thermocline was a very narrow band, about 50 down over 60 to 90..... we never fished deeper than 90 fow...... best picture was 70 - 80 fow.... a little W to E current, but not unmanagable... spoons that took fish were gobie patterns, coyotes, & frogs........ down speed about 2.2...... wire divers at 135 to 150, and riggers from 40 - 67 all took hits.... nice night.... tons of bait on the graph, but not many fish were marked..... but they were there.....

Very nice...... congratulations!

Now, tell us the story!

Wire divers were slow for us yesterday too Matt ........ We got a couple hits after making the diver leads crazy long..... made me wish I was familiar with running slide divers.....

Nice Report, thanks....

Fished with Doug (gokudl3) this weekend.....We fished inside last night and this morning........ Friday night, 2 matures (26 and 27 lbs), 1 shaker, 2 browns.... The kings took a SD/Fly off a wire diver & rubbermeat behind a chrome dodger 95 down. Saturday morning produced 10 browns (to 12 lbs), one really dark king (18 lbs), and 2 steelhead. One steelhead on rubbermeat, and everything else on a variety of spoons (gobies / coyotes / gators were good)........... We spent the majority of the time inside 100 fow, and were never deeper than 150.....

The NNE wind was kicking in as we were leaving in the early afternoon today...... Lets hope we don't get too much of it and end up with a scrambled lake come monday......

Nice Report Matt...... we saw you while running in from 450 - 480...... should have stayed inside..... 2 shakers, 1 2-year old, and 1 steelie...... pretty slow for us....

Things to change when you're not getting bit...... more or less in this order.....

1. Speed

2. Lead (length)

3. Size (lure)

4. Color.......

Joe ..... I think Narby's has the FB, and Captns Cove has Erie Dearie..... The vacuum packs of ED look like the strips are very thin, and the pack I got had no scales on the pennants.....?????

No Thanks YT!........

My skiff ain't nearly as thirsty as whatever's pushing your ship around!

Deepwater fishing out of Sandy has been good to us for the past 2 trips. Riggers from 70 to 115 have taken steelies to 10 lbs and Kings to 25 lbs...... Wire divers out 260 to 310 are also taking fish...... green yecks, glo Savants, and Green or White SD's with green flies...... We've been fishing 425 to 475 fow. Except for filling the tank today, it's been big fun.....

I'm considering a 3 - 5 day backpack adventure for bears up in the Adirondacks this fall........ done plenty of BP hunting out west, and thought I should give it a try closer to home this year.... No Montana Tag ..... Anybody have experience with this, or have some advice on an area to try, or what to look for in an area? It would be the early season........ Thanks.

Not sure I'm interpreting your problem right....... but last year, my down speed display would increase with increase in boat speed up to about 2 mph on the DS, then it would read slower with increases in boat speed... I got a heavier cannonball (Changed out a 10 for a 14), and reduced the cable blowback, and that seemed to solve the problem...

This year, I'm using 12 lb torpedoes and couldn't be happier with them......

KSC.......

The Wilson launch is the same.....

Olcott has a beautiful launch facility, and it's only 7 miles (or so) to the E of Wilson..... If you're looking for a wonderful launching/loading experience, you'll find it in Olcott...

Short trip out of Wilson this morning. We ran 9 mi NNW and trolled N for about an hour before seeing lightning and calling it quits. It was fun while it lasted...... We boated 2 fish on 2 hits...... 1st a 23lb king hit a chartreuse Savant on a wire diver at 165 ft. 2nd an 8lb steelhead took a green Yeck, down 60 off a rigger... The king was starting to show some color.......Plenty of bait and some fish between 400 and 450. The temp probe showed 50 down 65, some current, but not so much to be troublesome..... wish we could have stayed longer.....

Hey Matt .... not sure what port you're fishing out of, but deepwater is better than shallow..... You might consider Dunkirk or Barcelona, as opposed to Buffalo...... been reading about some decent success with copper bladed harnesses....

Mike

One unfortunate guy was struck and killed in a small boat in Presque Isle Bay (Erie Pa.) back in the late 80's early 90's..... he was killed, and knocked out of the boat... and I believe divers recovered the body later in the day.....I also seem to remember that there were 2 young girls on the boat who were uninjured by the lightning bolt. The boat was within several hundred yards of a grain storage silo complex and a power plant (with stack) .... so he wasn't exactly the tallest thing around. You should do everything you can to up the odds, but lightning doesn't always follow the rules....

Once saw a Tstorm south of Rochester while walking on the Charlotte pier...... everyone on the pier had their hair standing up on end in a big sphere..... We ran for the car, but no lightning ever struck the pier area.....