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Break strength of Flouro 15lb is like 10lb mono. Lose the fluoro all together IMO. At 56' down you don't need it.

The problem with not having clear lightening parameters is it becomes a money issue. A 30 M Trojan having spent xxx #'s in gas getting to the sacred fishing grounds will not want to pull lines and come to port.....esp. if fishing time is lost. But what about one of the crew members who has young kids and a family at home and feels pressured not to say anything to the captain? Make it clear and safe. Call boats to port and give us our lost time back. I am sure every Captain's license course covers lightening safety.......many of us failed to cover the tenant that the captain is RESPONSIBLE for the crews' safety....radar towers be damned. For the record we pulled lines at 10:50 am when the shat hit the fan, so there was lots of time left in the day. The rain continued but the lightening stopped around 12:00????

Double Willis Knot

Leave the boundries as is. I would like to add that for the safety of contestants, if lightening is seen EVERYONE should be pulled off the water to a safe harbor until such time boats can return with time added. I was shocked once again at the Niagara event that I was the only one who pulled rods and came in early (no I had not boxed yet ) In pro golf, if the tournament officials see one lightening bolt, play is delayed until safe. Unfortunately, money makes people make poor decisions and maybe we need oversight to protect us from our own stupidity.

Someone other than my mother read that article? (she wanted four copies).

East is the least! On Lake O the cold water from mid-lake rolls west and will chill water temps. If I had to fish an East wind I would launch at Youngstown not Olcott. Fish will head into the warmer Niagara plume. If you are not marking fish, they are probably high in water column and not registering on the graph. On the east wind the game is often high/low. The cooler temps push active fish high. Conversely, I will find fish over deeper water drop down 200' +++++ and are mostly inactive. Generally, I stay home with an east wind.

Order the 1/2 keel or it will sink to the bottom when your string breaks.

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NOAA has always had it's moments but this weekend......... . I will forever take online information with a grain of salt.

How deep where you fishing? I found Kings on Sunday out over 400' but they were down 200-300'.

What can I say.....June fishing can be tough because East winds still happen. Fish are finicky when the wind blows one way one day then the opposite direction the next day. Thank you NOAA once again for your inaccurate information. Saturday the weather called for light winds in the afternoon so we made the run from the Oak to west of Wilson. It nabbed us the big fish for the AM's but that pounding we took coming back to port........well my back will not forget it anytime soon. NOAA site for temps showed warm water offshore for Sunday, so we tried a deep steelhead program for awhile. There were some DEEP kings out there ....below 250' that we tried to tease. Fish were finicky. Many lost fish due to light biting. All fish caught were barely hooked. Again NOAA was wrong, the warmer water was 180'-ish. With temps getting cooler as we went north....we turned around at 425' FOW. I love wasting time during tournament hours . Congrats to the winners......this really ended up being a tournament which favored the team with a good inside waters program......something I need to work on.

Appears there were plenty cases of men behaving badly. From the loud swearing and threats over a friggin' piece of paper......which you didn't have to sign, to a team yelling the "N" word across Olcott harbor, rule infractions etc. etc. Maybe we should follow the format of the Wilson Harbor Invitational and make these an invite only event.

.......and there it is.....open communication at its finest.

"Mooning" is not communicating unless the cheeks are moved back and forth in a morse-code fashion OR if there is visual discharge.

Now I know why you bummed a cigarette from Ray.... Happy birthday.

Looking at the weather blowing up out west heading our way has me worried about the Pro/Am on Sat. Come on NW wind keep that crap away!!!!!

Pick good weather days. When fishing slows hook them up to tethers and have them jump in the water. Give 'em some snorkels and masks. My two girls need fish every 15 minutes or forget it, so I target small fish in temp with spoons. Don't forget the inner tube for towing, ipods, video games.

Brian has it right. If you let out a dipsy too fast without enough resistance it can do a 360 and twist the line such that it won't release properly. Mags need even more resistance because they will want to deploy faster due to the extra weight.

On solo trips in the evening I am fishing for big kings. One rigger deep, one diver way back 300' + with flashers/flies during the summer July-August. This time of year two riggers cheated ....all spoons. You can get crazy and fix a cheater with a rubber band 10' above the down line then throw a free slider on top to give six lures in the water. Usually here on the west end you can usually catch fish with two riggers cheated and have all the action a solo job can handle.

I concur with Chris. This is a great way to make contacts and learn fishing Lake O. That being said....this late in the game and people still looking for observers. Last year I had a young lady aboard as an observer. Fishing out deep intially on Day 1, we were taking fish early. However, the seas started building and my observer was getting quiet and GREEN. I ended up leaving fish to come closer into calmer waters. The observer is another X-factor on smaller boats that unfortunately could determine your outcome.

I have worked thru the night coming up with a proposal. After careful editing and re-editing the rough draft, my proposal is such......" There is no communication between boats during tournament hours. Anyone caught communicating will be DQ'd and will not be allowed to participate in future events." My consulting fee is in the mail

Yes rolmops there is always a lot of INITIAL interest, but when people hear the three day commitment.......they back out. I think you may see the open division gather more interest and the top amateurs roll into the pro division on this point, but it has not happened yet.