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  1. Gill-T
    One year in.....I like the micro-lead. I think if I was fishing walleyes I would stick with standard cheaper core (more lift/fall). With salmon I want more depth, strength and longevity so I have been switching to Tuf-line microcore.
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    The ELOTSA meeting at the hatchery on the 15th should be interesting.
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    Make sure you hike down into Bryce. One of my favorite places on earth. Been there three times and I would go again tomorrow. Make sure you drive thru Zion. Pink Corral sand dunes is fun on a jeep tour to see the sand features and dinosaur tracks (private tour). Lake Powell is awesome! Highly recommend renting a boat and spending some time there. Good striper fishing. Stop in Kanab and see the huge mule deer mounts at the muleycrazy.com home base. Ha! this thread was hijacked!
  4. Gill-T
    http://www.offshoretackle.com/resettable_diving_weights.html. Not sure how you can put these in the middle of your copper and have it work as intended.
  5. Gill-T
    I grew up hunting in Arkport in one of the most deer infested areas of the state. Our camp evolved from shoot any buck to only eight pointers or larger to only 120 class bucks or larger with a fine of $400 per incident if your buck didn't measure up. Needless to say we saw the fruits of our labor with deer in the 140 class taken every year. However, the stress of the fine broke up the group and my life is less interesting because of it. My advise would be no legal antler restrictions. Our group was one of the first involved with QDM and we got many area landowners to come along. Rising water floats all boats. Get involved. Talk to neighbors. Show them facts. Ask them the last time they shot a 120 class or larger buck? We don't need any more regulations. I saw with my own eyes, seven pointers shot and left with an empty shell near the body where someone thought they had an eight pointer and left it because of hill rules. Hunting should not be stressful. It should be relaxing with moments of sheer adrenaline. I also want the ability to cull a stupid racked scrub with bad genes!!!
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    THANK GOD!
  7. Gill-T
    You should have posted it on Halloween
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    Rob, I have seen this early rutting activity around dropping acorns in the big woods. Scrapes in September are tells of these areas. You should see every buck in the woods pass your stand as more and more bucks lay down their scent it will become the hub of rutting activity. You have a money spot.
  9. Gill-T
    The idea of the tadpole is gain depth and reduce felt weight once tripped. With copper the idea is stealth with no object near the bait. So the two together counter act their intended design. The tadpole would be noticeable ahead of the bait and the weight of the copper would cancel out the benefit of the tripped tadpole's reduced felt drag. If you want to add depth to copper and still maintain it's stealth, put a snap weight on the backing once you let out the copper.
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    I have heard others say that the SST's don't shoot well in 20 gauge but I do not have personal experience. The SST's do shoot well in my 12 gauge Ultra Slug.
  11. Gill-T
    Really cool stuff. That is a huge ship....glad it is 500' down and not inshore!
  12. Gill-T
    We are not the only ones. Saw this on Spoonpullers. http://m.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/article_7fa0ca04-ccd3-50d3-839a-4f8369e5f59d.html?mode=jqm
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    I have often wondered what you would catch with a fully deployed Lake Ontario spread of downriggers, dipsys and copper. I would think the tunas, kingfish and barracuda would love a flasher and fly.
  14. Gill-T
    Look like all clipped pen-reared fish
  15. Gill-T
    Time to get out the waders and micromanage the shoreline cover while the water is down....ie stack some rock piles.
  16. Gill-T
    Find some non-ethanol fuel stations. Use SeaFoam gas treatment to help get rid of the carbon build-up. Hopefully, there is nothing internal wrong with engine.
  17. Gill-T
    Scale down on wire size and go to a torpedo style. You could also tailor your gear to troll slower ie. flasher/flies and thin flutter-style spoons that run well at 2 mph. If you could master meat fishing which is a slow presentation that does well with a "thin" spread, you could compete with the big boys under the right conditions. http://www.afwhiseas.com/product-p/r135ta-4.htm
  18. Gill-T
    "Just my two pennies....and please keep in mind there's a big difference between disagreeing vs. telling someone they are wrong........" Chris Yes you are correct! Sorry for the angina.
  19. Gill-T
    Dr. Chris you are dead nuts wrong. There are fish offshore all the time. The difference is the fleet had to go chase them because the inshore bite was non-existent compared to other years. I have to believe we lost most of the three year olds somehow. Didn't mark them on my fishfinder, not seeing them on the piers and now trib guys are going to find out the hard truth. Why did a bunch of our three year olds run last year at age two?.....who knows? Did something happen at the hatchery or in transport?......someone probably knows. Did VHS in Gizzard shad die-offs the last two springs effect this years class of matures?......someone should know. Would VHS in Gizzard Shad die-offs in spring bath our pen-reared kings in virus laden water?.......someone better figure that out.
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    You were just prepping the fish for when it runs the gauntlet up the creek and obtains numerous hooks and "flies" and such on it's back.
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    One of the worst seasons for age 3 salmon I can remember. Thankfully, there were other species around to fill the void.
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    Curved Kyped jaws that are hardening daily. Nipping verses eating/engulfing bait. Except the challenges of catching salmon this time of year as par-for-course. I will say that you can do little tweeks to make the hooks stick.....such as extending your J-plug or trolling fly trebles back a little further to stick those short strikers.
  23. Gill-T
    ELOTSA
  24. Gill-T
    Please provide GPS coordinates of that 12 pointer so I can check on him for you.
  25. Gill-T
    What type of fish do you see in those depths?
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