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I can't resize the photo, but I believe what you caught is a Chain pickeral

I don't think the fish care guys. Do you think they swim over to the wire and see if it is 20 or 30 lb, silver vs camo etc. The only issue is depth fished. Above 100' down fish #30. If you are trying to target below 100' it is going to have to be a mag dipsy with #20 wire.

Now that is a great deer Ray.

I don't know what to think. Is it possible there are mountain lions in NY.......sure. A neighboring property owner "swears" she saw a mountain lion cross the road next to her house during the summer months in back to back years. I have hunted the area for twenty-seven years and have NEVER even come across a footprint of a mountain lion, so I remain skeptical. Now, about twenty years ago I came across a dead coyote that died in a failed stream crossing which was LONG before coyotes were confirmed repopulating the southern tier and everyone thought I was nuts.......so who knows? A few years ago, we were driving out of the mountains of Virginia on route to the NC coast, I witnessed on the road dead what appeared to be a Mountain Lion. What was the line in Jurassic Park....."nature finds a way".

I am an avid hunter....but I wonder how anyone could shoot a bear...they are part human and part black lab. Great photos, my daughters and I had a chuckle over them.

Good luck Chad . Just don't end up on "America's funniest home videos". On your wedding night to make the evening last longer just keep thinking about Ray in his buffy suit...............scratch that.

I thought the last picture was Brett Farve doing another blue jeans commercial? I got to get my eyes checked.

Yes I see the glow eye down low now....that is a skunk with a very bushy tail. I thought it was a porcupine sitting on it's haunches with it's hands up near it's mouth...tough to see.

I love the Porcupine posing for the picture. Was that the woodchuck from Caddyshack?.....looks familiar. When I come up to hunt Jerry you are not going to put me in the stand with the black cat hanging around?

How can I get a hold of some of those Loco spoons?

Looks like you have a little problem.

There are going to be some hate e-mails in your box from Charter Captains on the east end.......keep up the good work Tom.

On sale right now for $2.99 at Cabela's. Got some for spring Coho.

Goose and duck are similar......cook too long it tastes like liver. Keep it rare and you have roast beef. Cook with skin on.

You can always set up in Olcott harbor, anchor and fish for Kings. More of a night-bite thing.

Thats one to let walk. 1.5 yrs old.....good genetics.

PM Reddog on spoonpullers.com, he experimented this year with wire off riggers with a rubberband release to combat our fleas which build up on mono bad for a few weeks every summer. I am a little leary of wire and releases, and I think Randy (reddog) had some issues with the wire breaking. I would use an aftco roller release off the swivel going to your downrigger ball. Your terminal tackle would be wire to a plastic bead to a swivel to an eight foot leader of mono to your flasher. Play out your leader, snap the wire into the release and draw the rod down tight so the bead contacts the release, then send her down. You could also try a small mono loop off the swivel connecting the leader to the wire. Place the mono loop into a black's type release with the release REALLY tight for that depth. Make sure your battery don't die bringing up your ball from 300' LOL

Power pro 250 lb instead of cable. Power pro braid on the rods....both in the name of less drag. 20 lb shark downrigger weight or I know somewhere guys from salmon university fishing deep in the ocean claim to be using 16 Lb pancakes to run two downriggers super deep. Your speed looks good at that depth. You don't need to hit them on the head, only have enough flash in the water to make them come up to you.....so big 11" flashers with double glow. Keep going over them....when they become active, you will see little streaks upward towards your bait. Looks like bait at 250'? with fish on the bottom at 290' so you probably need to be at least 270' down......now that IS DEEP!! If you find a source for super heavy pancake weights let me know....all I can find are #14 lbers. Have you tried deep saltwater jigging tactics over that structure?

El Crapo right now. If we get some warm water back on this end of the lake the offshore steelhead fishery will be good all fall.

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name: ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):09-18-10 Time on Water:12 pm - 5:30 pm Weather/Temp:PS Wind Speed/Direction:SW 10-15 Waves: 2-4' Surface Temp: 62-57 Location:Wilson to Microwave LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: 3 Total Boated:2 Species Breakdown:Kings, Steelhead Hot Lure: DW steelhead candy, DW SS acid rain Trolling Speed: Down Speed: 2.5 mph Boat Depth: 150-220 Lure Depth: 20-50' ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS I was a little worried about the two week roll over screwing things up......and well, all the bait and fish that were in last week are gone. I did not mark a single bait ball. Tough to find water in the 60's. Tried an East troll from Wilson to the Microwave, picking up three hits in the first hour. One short steelhead on a mini disk off the otters, and two 2-year old Kings off dipsy 125' back. As we went East....or deeper....or closer, the water was getting colder and the screen blanker. Decided to pull rods and head west into the Niagara water west of Wilson. Once there we found better temps in the 60's, but the weed matts were unbearable! Lets just say the fishing was SLOOOOOW. ====================

At 250' you will want the #20 lb shark weight with powerpro downrigger braid!!

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name:Gill-T Hooker ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):9-12-10 Time on Water:2:30pm-6:30pm Weather/Temp:Partly cloudy/60's Wind Speed/Direction:10-15mph west Waves: 2-4' Surface Temp: 62 Location: Wilson-Olcott LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: Total Boated: Species Breakdown: Hot Lure: Trolling Speed: Down Speed: Boat Depth: Lure Depth: ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS After seeing the Canadian north shore roll over from NW winds during the week, figured the temps would be screwed up on south shore. Checked NOAA site temp transects and couldn't believe 50 degree water on top for most of the deep zone. Not wanting to break out the 2 color, pointed the boat north out of port watching the surface temp go from 63 degrees out of Wilson to 59 degrees once we hit 220' FOW, turned back around and started at 188' with 60-62 degrees. I thought the cold onslaught would push all the fish out of the blue zone into the warmer Niagara current, and that is exactly what we found. I think every bait pod and all the steelhead were pushed out of the deep. Bait everywhere with steelhead and small kings to 8lbs in the mix. Made one pass from a little east of Wilson to just east of the microwave tower in 188-220' FOW and we had all the action two people and four rods could muster. Down temps 50 degrees at 45', riggers set at 33', 43' cheated. Dipsys set at 110-125'. Down speed 2.8. Hot lures DW steelhead candy/custom tape, DW mixed veggies/custom, DW SS moody blue. After our east troll, we decided to troll for some darkies off Olcott. Spent a couple of hours trying to tempt kings to bite J-plugs and flasher/flies. One release was all to show for the inside bite. Only saw one other hook up. Down temps in front were ideal with 50 degree water on the bottom all the way into 23' FOW. ====================

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With an intact adipose fin those could be natural repro. fish and because they spent more time in a river system eating zooplankton and other invertebrates instead of food pellets in a hatchery they start small and stay small. I caught some little kings approx. 15" in the Two-Heart river in the U.P. where nat. repro rules the day. These fish were in spawing pods with males and females all similar in size with spawning colors.