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  1. Gill-T
    You can transport your cooler via car as long as your observer stays with the cooler and the cooler stays closed
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    These are not 12" fish, they are YOY and tiny. Would be difficult to have a "tag" not alter the survivability. I wish they would stop handling them all together. Charter captains will hate me for this, but I think they should suspend the Pen projects until they figure out the disease process. Hatchery-to-piers....dump them in at night and walk away. Especially after cold winters, the band of warm water along the shoreline is very tight. Every Brown and Coho in the system is probably waiting to eat the baby salmon.....never mind the hordes of Lake Trout waiting just outside that shoreline band. Perhaps, instead of asking our baby Salmon and Steelhead to try to make it thru the gauntlet of waiting predators present in such a tight window of warm water in early spring, we wait until the end of May to release the fingerlings when the predators have begun to disperse lake-wide (water temp permitting). Just some thoughts.
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    Mostly late summer Steelhead off dipsys. Will catch big ones. At Steelhead speed a sutton will spin out. Northern King 28 size work well.
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    Here are some. R&R's, Michigan Stingers, Northport Nailers
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    DJ, I will run a longer 4' leader to a spoon because it has its own action. Both Steelhead and Kings will hit the set-up.
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    I use a Weldon pad release attached with a stainless split ring to a "dog snap" (no PIA shower ring). The pads hold great and I am a nut for metal anything over plastic. The dog snaps are heavy so they slide down the planer line easy. The heavy snap "show" small browns and cohos that are too small to pull the line out of the release. The snaps make it true one-handed endeavor which speeds up the process of setting out a line with cold hands.
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    My contacts in Canada told my of a 5-6 mile long school of YOY alewife on the surface over the "blue zone" in late August 2013. That would place them in the zone for steelhead to go crazy over the fall and winter of 2013/2014. Emeralds are WAY down in numbers but I have been finding steelies with gobies in their stomachs which are suppose to be a good source of Thiamine and counteract the Thiaminase effects of alewife ingestion. ?????? lots of questions.
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    Bottom coat?
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    Maybe hooking up a scotty pad on the back of a rigger ball and attached to the lower jaw of a fish to send them down? Of course they would need enough energy to wiggle free once down at depth.
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    You ain't kidding! First attempt on Sunday had group after group fly over the meager 6 decoys we had out and hover just out of range. VERY WARRY BIRDS. We were REALLY well concealed.
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    I am new to this game. I didn't know they were even around in huntable numbers. I have obtained permission to hunt geese on a farm where there are good numbers landing in corn stubble and clover. My question is what is the minimum amount of decoys I am going to need to have success?
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    I believe that is the 8" model. Guys did well last year with the 8" version. I would say if you are going to run some long 3-fly twinkie meat rigs use the 11.5 model. Flies I would lean towards the 8" model.
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    Fish are stocked in the river. You can catch some as high up as whirlpool. Most are caught drifting a minnow or spinner worm harness behind a three-way. Drifting the area in front of the green-can (buoy) off Fort Niagara you will have pickin's of many species until the moss shows up at the end of May. Sheephead, Bass, Lakers, Steelhead, Browns, Walleye and occasional Coho or King even. You really need a bow mount electric motor to do it right and keep your boat over your bait.
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    Dave Wilczak of R&R tackle is bringing back his popular fish-shaped flashers "Assassins" with a bang! Usage of extended glow blades with UV color and flasher tape placed just right will make this product a sure hit that always sells out. Check out Dave's website mytacklebox.com and see for yourself how Dave has "hit it out of the park" with the product design. Dave is working hard to have some of these available at the LOTSA show, otherwise, these will only be available thru the website.
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    .30-.30

    Gill-T replied to iceman05's topic in Hunting Equipment

    The new Hornady Levolution ammo for the lever guns make it a 200 yard gun now. I rifle hunt with Marlin 30-30 topped with a Leupold 2x7 scope exclusively. I would not use another rifle to hunt eastern whitetails. The gun mounts to the shoulder faster than anything out there IMO. Almost negligible recoil and relatively cheap ammo. Great gun. I do like the feel of my older Marlin compared to newer models. On the bench with the Hornady ammo it shoots 1" groups.
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    Question, how long do you let a dog heal from raw pads before allowing them to run again?
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    Hit some state land yesterday to grouse hunt and look for new deer hunting areas. I could not believe the fresh scrapes and rubs all over the place.
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    Sorry for your loss. My grandmother taught me how to clean the first bird I every shot. Farm gals....god bless-em.
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    A couple of thoughts on the season. I predicted a great opening southern gun opening weekend due to the timing and the cold temps. WOW was I wrong! Very few shots rang out on the state land I was hunting on. Nobody in our group put a tag on a buck. More disappointing was the lack of big buck sightings throughout the whole season including bow by everybody I have talked to. The biggest buck I saw was the cull buck I shot during bow season. Reasons?.....a few things come to mind. First, with outdoor TV growing, more and more guys are sitting in comfortable treestands and not moving deer with deer drives. Better options for scent-free camo clothing means less pushing deer when walking to the stand. Second, we had a bad winter that probably had a negative effect on deer numbers AND antler growth. Third, is more of a question......has some of the diseases effecting western deer present in NY and we are not aware of it? To date the DEC states that none of the CWD or EHD problems have been detected here but there is always going to be a lag between when a disease hits and when it is discovered (see also WTF happened to the kings this year?).
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    Micromanagement minute: I don't know how easy it is to get into your slip, but with a boat that size you may want to narrow your search to twin screws. Trying to back a 30' boat into a slip in heavy winds with clients watching might be too interesting for onlookers for my taste.
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    There is something sublime about spending a summer day catching kings with high blue skies, 80 degrees, cracking a victory beer after the first fish is boated, then ending the day with a jump in the lake. There is little in life that compares.
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    Those hooks are probably Lakers.
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    Young does that are coming into their first estrus.
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    Ugly Stick lite action one-piece rods. They double as my rigger and/or leadcore rods for salmon. They are cheap, they torque way down on riggers to get out of the way, and they are almost indestructible. Cabelas sells them so you can use your cabelas points to buy them.
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    Isn't that why you are down there Ray? Diver down! You all suck! The difference between men and women is men can bust each others balls and not take offence. Start acting like men.....men.
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