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Valuable lesson this video regarding eye safety. You do this long enough there will be a spoon coming back at your at subsonic speed. ALWAYS wear sun glasses or other protective eyewear! Wearing a cup is optional in my boat.

The Catt. had a nice run of huge emeralds this spring. Could be with the late spring the bait ran into the warmest water close by and spawned quickly and left. The perch have baby gobies in them coming off the Catt.

I noticed there has been little bait/ Emerald Shiners this year in the Niagara despite frozen lake cover over the winter. The usual mass migration of shiners up the river back to the lake drives the Peace Bridge area bite. My worry is with no bait, the Walleye will not be around. Is anyone catching walleyes day trolling around Buffalo or is everyone down at Barcelona?

I am the master of my own domain.

I went to school up there. If I remember correctly the waters below the Massena dam has big walleye and muskies. Not sure since 911 if you can fish below the spillway or not.

Root canal! $$$$

I suck.

Right...you don't want to deal with the results of taking a little blue pill while in a kayak....it may change the balance of the vessel.

Nix the flashers and run spoons right now if you want numbers.

2nd leg of Pro/Am going on so you probably will not see many reports. East winds in June typically make fishing tough and me chase walleye on Erie. Best advise would be to check the NOAA charts and follow the warm water.

X2. If I wanted to fill my boat with fish in June I would run as many leadcore as possible esp. if you go offshore.

Tough task for a redass Paul . I don't envy your position.

You need 1000' of wire. If your dipsy is out 300' late summer you need 500' of back up in case you get a big one. With you new to wire consider getting torpedo 19 strand at the Slippery Sinker as it is more user friendly. Also, Wes has twilli tips for your rod. Gently flame the stock tip with a lighter until you feel the epoxy loosen. Pull off the tip and clean the rod surface. Heat up rod epoxy stick and apply to the tip, slide the twilli tip on. Have your dad hold the spool of wire with a stick thru the spool as a spindle and using oven mitts apply tension to the spool. Wind the wire on tight. After all the wire is on the reel tie on a heavy swivel (use a spin doc swivel). Go down to the school and tie off on a chain link fence and walk all the wire off the reel. With the rod tight walk and reel all the wire back onto the reel as this step will lay the wire perfectly back onto the spool. You are ready to catch a hog. Check out the LOTSA site or Captain Ernie's Fish Doctor web page on how to tie a wire knot.

I like the Sodus format Rod. For me it is a destination tournament that makes it tough. Some day when the kids have their drivers license and can tow themselves around I can get away for three days. See you at the Healing Waters event.

The number of entrants seems low. I for one would like to see the AM division come back. If the committee wants to allow teams to get experience and gain confidence with the end game of joining the pro ranks then have the same rules as the pros. Starting at any port at any time after 12:01 with a three fish limit and no observer is NOTHING like the pro division. Have an am division with a 12 fish limit and same start and finish time is more of a proving ground. Bring back the prestige of the am division!