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  1. Gill-T
    She has gone Isothermic. Kings going to take a little nap for a couple of months. Looks like the timing of Isothermy is similar to last year so.........get your leadcore set-ups ready for spring.
  2. Gill-T
    This is the latest in the "got-to-have" materials.... lateral scale mirage that looks UNBELIEVABLE. Looks "purple" from the side but changes so many colors at different angles with a scale pattern that gives the pattern realism. Trying to get Tom Allen to produce these as I could not find the material in a banded form making it tedious to band each indivigual strand myself on double-sided tape. If you would like to see this material in a fly you should flood Tom Allen's PM box with requests ...hehehehe . First pattern is just the Mirage, the second is an Aqua-crinkle (little boy blue) over the mirage. The material is available in non-banded form at Cabelas...and it aint cheap. There is a "mountain-dew" looking version that the boys in Oswego might find interesting. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Hareline-Lateral-Scale-Tying-Material/1791654.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch.cmd%3Fform_state%3DsearchForm%26N%3D0%26fsch%3Dtrue%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3Dlateral%2Bscale%2Bflashabou%26x%3D10%26y%3D11%26WTz_l%3DHeader%253BSearch-All%2BProducts&Ntt=lateral+scale+flashabou&WTz_l=Header%3BSearch-All+Products
  3. Gill-T
    Agreed. My flies have four large 12mm beads and 30" leaders... more of a scoot and glide rather than a whip action.
  4. Gill-T
    Great video aid.....and very clean cuticles for a fisherman!
  5. Gill-T
    Balloon knot of course.
  6. Gill-T
    Don't horses sleep standing up? How could they be bedded?
  7. Gill-T
    Anybody watching the Challenge Cup format for bass think how awesome it would be to have a total weight tournament with similar format/live updates? Could you imagine the stress on the fleet when a 30 lber is announced? Maybe a Lake Ontario leg and a Lake Michigan leg?
  8. Gill-T
    Jeepers. We had an incident in WNY Town of Amherst where the deer/bait shoot program resulted in a woman with children in the house reporting bullets entering thru walls on the 2nd story of her house! The shooting is done by Amherst Police officers. The incident lead to a shotgun-only policy. Someone please explain to me how a bullet can end up going thru a 2nd story of a house? There are no hills or terrain in Amherst. People behaving badly making it harder for us to get permission to hunt.
  9. Gill-T
    An unfortunate occurrence with antler restrictions will be some waste. A hunter who thought he was shooting an eight pointer only to find the deer had no brow tines will leave the dead deer rather than face a fine (just an example). I have witnessed this play out on QDM managed properties where fines were levied to members shooting "subpar" bucks. The best plan continues to be voluntary QDM with verbal agreements between adjacent landowners if possible. Agreed we don't need anymore rules levied by the state.
  10. Gill-T
    I call them rod movers because if you want to get some rods moving put one of them out. An orange double crush spiny with cutdown 3" fly on a 4 or 5 color will catch fish every time out.
  11. Gill-T
    Most of us don't change all our spoon hooks to Owners. Owner is a quality hook and I use them but I started using extra old spoon hooks on flys and actually saw an increase in land ratio esp.with a hook that had a longer shank and a kirbed down point. Most of the hooks I speak of are the old Fishlander spoon hooks. I think a shorter shank is more likely to cam back and forth and loosen. Also keep In mind there was a lot of nipping going on with the fly bite last year with negative or neutral fish from the goofy lake conditions and numerous East winds.
  12. Gill-T
    Sad day.....sorry buddy.
  13. Gill-T
    Agreed! Well put together lecture and awesome food. Thanks to fellow LOTSA members for putting on a great event.
  14. Gill-T
    Mexico Bay to Wilson.....pick a port as it doesn't really matter that time of year.
  15. Gill-T
    In April I start seeing them with regularity after the first little subtle drop in the bottom seen on your fishfinder. This depends port to port esp. if there is sand bottom but I would use 30' as my inside edge and 80' as my outside edge to target. In April, the 50' band of water holds a lot of fish. Typically, I catch them all over the water column at that time of year....from a 4-8 colors of leadcore to short copper, divers, riggers...everything. You may not need to dredge them off the bottom until May/June. As others have said, think 2 mph or slower. Pull off the trebles on your spoons and put a single hook on them or use a thin-gauge metal spoon that can troll down to that slow speed.
  16. Gill-T
    Ah Baitrigger you are missing out. If you are not bending the cup on a Michigan Stinger Mag you are missing bites.....just an example. Conversely, I don't touch a Stinger Stingray size....works perfect to me
  17. Gill-T
    Every spoon has it's sweet spot. Bend them, try different hooks, different swivels etc. etc. and find the result you like. I remember seeing Capt. Jerry's Evil Eye modifications in the water for the first time. Jerry makes an evil eye walk-the-dog side to side in a snapping motion to get browns to bite.
  18. Gill-T
    I guess I should have been more specific. If I am using a spoon such as an NK with a split ring, I put a barrel on the split ring.
  19. Gill-T
    Depends....If you are fishing Steelhead at high speeds, then a NK 28 with its stock split ring will allow for more spinning which is ok with the species. If you are fishing browns, you will be fishing slower with lighter line leaders. Fish will have more time to inspect your bait so have as little unnatural dangling and clanking off the end of the spoon the better. Target browns and the standard is a duolock snap to the lure to a lighter line leader to a small barrel swivel. Browns don't want spinning spoons but seem to prefer side-to-side waggling. Guys will go further increasing the darting snapping motion by adding a bigger treble or deepening the cup (bend) in the spoon.
  20. Gill-T
    No because the color scheme is similar to how Whitetails disappear. Dark on top where the light is brightest, green sides and a light bottom will flatten the imprint and make them less visible.
  21. Gill-T
    Good call on the black/green/white. Your streaker count will go WAY down.
  22. Gill-T
    Thanks for the replies. You answered my question about needing a big spread. I don't have the space to store anymore outdoor stuff and don't want to make the investment either.
  23. Gill-T
    Information confirms what we all have noticed.....adult Lake Trout are on the uptick. The south shore has a world-class Lake Trout fishery......they really need to paint a rosier picture in their assessment. I would love to take one of the biologists on staff working on the project fishing off Niagara County in March/April as they might change their negative vibe. Very difficult to evaluate the Lake Trout population in a lake as big and deep as Lake Ontario with the sampling methods and at the times of the year they are conducting the sampling.
  24. Gill-T
    Under $500...Hummingbird.
  25. Gill-T
    Finally the weather has allowed a good overhead shot. Looks like the river is still running muddy. Won't be long before Erie freezes and she clears. Looks like the Niagara flow has "normalized" out in the lake.
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