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I was off the pier off olcott last night. Lots of fish stuck around the piers jumping....waiting for rain. Last light was busy, but died after an hour.

I want to use it this weekend.

My never used Okuma Convector is having issues. When I pull drag the line guide does not move thereby when you start reeling again it makes the line coming off the spool out of synch with line guide. Anyone have a quick fix?

Don't get discouraged about your skills. This is the last run of reduced stocking numbers due to weak egg collection four years ago. If I were a betting man, your greatest chance at matures will be in front of the Salmon and Oswego rivers......and to a lesser extent Olcott. Remember, due to low egg counts the DEC came to Burt and fertilized eggs in Eighteen mile creek water......maybe more imprinting????? Matures can be very finicky. Fish the prime times of morning and evening even when it is still dark. To fill in the gaps, the offshore steelhead bite is good all September into October.

Sounds vaguely like your fishing technique.

I used to place all my stuff in a bag with pine boughs in. On my way into my stand I would snap off pine branches and rub them on my clothes as I walked. Thought I was pretty smart smelling like a pine tree.......but I kept getting busted! Then one day while watching my dog roll in bird crap it hit me.......when you wipe something on your person the smell is magnified to the 100th degree. I could not smell the bird crap in the lawn, but once it was on my dog's neck.........whew! I could smell him from 15 yards away. I believe you don't want to smell like anything.....if possible. Wash your clothes in free-and-clear unscented laundry detergent and keep external wear in a separate bag. Use fresh undergarments and long johns for every hunt (washed in free-and-clear). I use NO cover scents. I shave my head anyway, but noticed I stopped getting busted when I started buzzing my armpits also. I use unscented over-the-counter "Secret" deodorant. I shower before every hunt....so twice a day for morning and evening hunts. HUNT THE WIND. All these crazy tricks mean nothing if your set-up is all wrong. Use drainages to hide your movements and scent as you come and go to your stand. Ok Ray you can start the jokes.

I have taken two elk with a 7mm mag. All I can say is WOW. Small opening going in and a MASSIVE hole coming out the other side. I agree with the premise of taking both. Very easy when winded at high elevations to do something silly......like dropping your rifle down a rock slide I have seen a bent barrel from a horse falling over on a scabbord also. Take both.

The eyes are stocked in the lower river. The fishery is really just getting started. I wish they would stock more.....great structure and bait in the lower river.

Mark, I don't know if you have seen the DEC video of the water below the peace bridge, but it is LOADED with walleye. Scary water with rocks waiting to wreck your prop. The Detroit River is a fairly smooth bottom. Below the Peace Bridge you have huge jagged slag boulders. The area above the bridge is a more even shale bottom, but tough to find an anchor hold.

Tournament out of St. Catherines this weekend so the bar will be VERY crowded.

Call Big Jon, maybe they will service you by getting you some new boards. Never hurts to ask. I also use the amish outfitters spectra......no problems.

Looks like they are heading for the rivers. Tim, the spoons are in.

Consider King Starboard.

Try the evening bite in close.

Had a day back a decade ago where we landed three kings in one day with the hooks buried somewhere under the chin or belly. My thought was these fish were rocketing up through the downrigger spread of spoons from below trying to stun the bait? I have seen other species esp. in the ocean perform the move. I also think there is something to the hardening kype mouth not holding hooks, plus fish have seen baits all year and are more likely to nip than rip.

Yes, no problem. You want the dipsy closer to center to stay out of the coppers so you can loose the ring and put them on a 1 setting. Mag dipsys will dive even steeper with less troubles (mag dipsys NOT a size# 1 dipsy with a mag-ring).

Paul, I would love to hear the story behind the fish. Looks foggy, so fishing inside? Give us the goods!! Congrats

Make no bones about it.........if the locals say they are getting fish with a red eye sticker on the back of a spoon.......I am going to put a red eye on the back of the spoon!!!! I will never believe that a fish with a brain the size of a pea actually "thinks" about the eye thing before biting. The moment of the strike is a reaction that happens in a flash. The eye in the back of the spoon is more of a color thing than anything. As Ray says speed and LOCATION are more important than what color or where you place the eye sticker. There should be no hurt feelings in a healthy discussion about fishing......it is just fishing.

Mark, when it is foggy inshore, usually a good sign of upwelling. Head out until you see the surface temp change. Usually, that means setting down past 350' out of Olcott and trolling north from there.

Happy B-day Ray, you were right about the air conditioner capacitor. Now get out there with your reverse-eye spoons and catch some fish

Here is my Lake O three- spoon value pack for all species 1). Michigan Stinger in Black Widow or Black Wiggler for Brown Trout 2). Dreamweaver SS or regular in Steelhead Candy for Steelhead 3). Michigan Stinger in Stingray or Mag size - NBK-green for Kings

Yes Ray they swim around my baits and bite the swivel . What a load of crap that theory is. Now the Spot-tailed shiner has a dot on it's tail, so maybe that is why inshore Brown fishermen esp. at the Oak swear by putting the eye on rear. I have never seen underwater footage of ANY species of fish swimming around a bait to hit it head first. Bait is always fleeing. Caught from behind and then swallowed head first IMO.

Get a green pattern, an orange pattern, and a black on white pattern. Hard to go wrong with NK's, Michigan Stingers, Dreamweaver SS, Northport Nailers, Silver streaks

Will see water next weekend. I probably put 150 hours into this project.

NiiiCCCEEEE! You are loving that bath water lately.