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The NW winds today will usually push the warm surface water into shore where it tumbles and mixes uniform warm temps deep. If you start inside, drop your baits deep near the bottom. If you head out in a NW heading, you will want to start raising your baits as you go. By the time you hit 300', think about the 40-60' band of water primarily. If you don't have a speed and temp, a good indicator of temp is where the bait is showing out there. Good luck.

Rick, we need to introduce your buddy to my buddy in the DEC. The stuff going on right now with the DEC is unbelievable. When the top positions are political appointees with no outdoor experience other than looking at bird feeders in the morning, bad decisions will be made. The head of the DEC has been on record as stating he would just as soon do away with the DEC!!! Politicians look at the dept. as waste of taxpayer dollars because they cannot quantify an economic benefit. Now that tourism is the number one industry in New York, you would think Albany could see the light regarding the WORLD CLASS fishery we have with the great lakes. Instead, they pay new recruits 35-40,000 per year to live in Long Island, while state troopers who get less training come out earning 70,000. The State has halted DEC recruitment classes at the acedemy for the last two years with no end in site. Older officers are seeing the writing on the wall and retiring fed-up. My greatest fear may be coming true that the imprint machines designed to test natural reproduction may be used one day as ammunition to cut stocking. I have tried sounding the alarm before, requesting members e-mail politicians how important the DEC and our natural recources are, but had not received any replies to my posts. Believe it!!!! this crap is real. Get on the phone, computer etc. and make some noise!

Happy B-day Ray. Thanks for the laughs you have provided......all the while helping us feel better about our spelling skills. Now go rub up and down half naked against a dead bear.

With the warm temps of recent years, pier fishing times have been pushed back. Try the second and third weekends in September. Keep an eye on the weather......if you get the lake to roll-over due to a NE blow and cooling night temps, they can be on the doorstep probing the shallows in late August-labor day. The river water temps usually are too warm to run at that time so they don't stay long. Earliest date I caught a salmon off a pier was August 23rd, but that was after a NE blow in the late 80's. The temperatures have definitely changed.

If you have braid diver set-ups with line counter reels, you don't need wire this weekend, but if you are looking for future purchases, it is good to have a couple of wire set-ups. For Steelhead, head out deep with 400' being a good starting point. Fish 40-60' down. A good spread with your erie gear would be 6 to 10 colors of leadcore off boards, a pair of dipsys and two downriggers cheated. You will have all you can handle with just those rods. If you want Kings, you will want to drop flasher/flies down on the dipsys to reach 60-80' levels. Wes at the slippery sinker can hook you up with some flasher/fly combos. If it is too rough to get out deep, there are good steelhead numbers 60-80 deep between Olcott and Wilson right now as well. Good luck.

If bleeding... keep them, otherwise, they usually swim away if not dragged for awhile.

I agree the matures are coming. Reports of matures off Weller this weekend, the north shore went quiet with bigs, and I finally caught a big boy. Now if I can catch a big one anybody can! Plenty of bait in tight, but more importantly, there is some bait showing at the critical first drop area out past 150'. Saw some hooks on the bottom in 180' levels. This weekend it should start to break, we have the only cold water in the entire lake here on the west end.

Great to hear your dad got out!!!!

Why don't we just have the observers carry a greater role? In the end it is up to the observers to blow the whistle on rules violations. The observer could be charged with making sure the boat is back between the piersheads at the correct time, no funny business was conducted with fish ie. stretching to make longer lol, no "best chancing" the fish with the net, and that the captain does not communicate with anyone else. This is not rocket science.

Yep, try a flasher and fly.

Good way to counter gobies is to keep your bait off the bottom. Gobies will not leave the bottom. Get some minnows, send them down, touch bottom, and get them up quick maybe 3' above. Bass will see them.

It looks like it could be the same deer....same main frame, and the bases look the same. Body size....maybe 3.5 yrs old? Jerry, I think if you could hold your itchy trigger finger off him one more year you would have a true trophy animal. Great main frame and bases to support a BIG rack in the future. I would love to see the trail cam pictures of him next year!!!! May god give you the willpower to let him walk this fall if he is under your stand lol .

Fishing Report Your Name / Boat Name:Gill-T Hooker ============== TRIP OVERVIEW ============== Date(s):7-30-10,7-31-10 Time on Water: Weather/Temp:awesome Wind Speed/Direction:none Waves: none Surface Temp: 74 Location: LAT/LONG (GPS Cords): =============== FISHING RESULTS =============== Total Hits: Many Total Boated:Many Species Breakdown:One Brown, four pig steelhead, and a crapload of small kings,one 26 lb'er Hot Lure: clear spin Doc, Dreamweaver SS leopard frog, silver streak old yeller etc. etc. Trolling Speed: Down Speed: Boat Depth: 60-70' Lure Depth: 38'-55' ==================== SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS ==================== Nice start to the weekend. First, out on FishStyx (Tim Bromund's boat) on Friday night. Fished a good inside screen with success on skippies and a target brown. This morning out again solo trying some different rigs out. Suprised to find some nice steelhead in tight. Good bait picture, but the big boys don't know the bait is hidding in close LOL. The water column is flooded with small kings (all adipose clipped). Nobody trolling inside, everyone offshore looking for the bigs. Went back this evening to quench my thirst for a major. Double deep six diver on wire out 350' took a 26 lb King on a spinny/fly out over 186'. More small kings and another steelhead inside 70'? I can't believe how many steelhead are in tight right now.

Browns out front, steel and small kings out deep. If you want big boys there are reports on the canadian side of kings off Weller and their weather buoy, so they should be cycling back around the south shore if the bait comes back. Will be out all weekend. Hopefully, jeremy will tweat about some kings this morning out front.

Tighten your releases, make sure you gain slack line quick after a downrigger release, bow to the king on jumps, knuckle the star drag lighter when they turn and burn close to the boat, troll faster for reaction strikes without the chance to nip, sharp hooks, keep dipsy rods low to keep the diver and fish in the water - on jumps the dipsy acts like a counter-weight to dislodge the hook. On leadcore, copper, wire and braid no JERKY/ROD PUMPING, you will tear out the hooks-----slow and steady wins the race, don't try to net a hot fish....let them tire a little.

I think more deer are killed in the month of May than any other. If you drive thru Pennsylvania at that time of year it is astonishing at the amount of dead deer ( about every 2 miles). Usually they are does that are hit. Not sure if they get goofy when they are still carrying young (late droppers), or its the old expression " the grass is greener on the other side of the road", or if they are getting bit by bugs. Maybe because they are milk ladden they need supplements to their diet, like road salt.

Not sure what type of knot you are using, but there are some problems with light line tying to the large swivel on a dipsy. You can combat this by tying the leader to a smaller swivel and then snap that swivel to the large barrel swivel on the dipsy......this is nice because when you are done chasing browns, you can just unhook the whole leader and store it.....or what I like to do is tie a improved cinch knot, but wrap the line twice thru the barrel swivel before you start twisting, it will reduce the chance the knot will slip. Set drags light. Wire and braid have zero stretch. You should NOT be using anything rated at less than 20lbs for the MAIN line, otherwise you will loose dipsys.

I have mixed feelings. I am a avid bowhunter that had to put my time in to learn the trade and be successful. The learning curve and the joy of accomplishment would have been reduced had I started with a crossbow. However, what no bowhunter wants to discuss is bowhunting involves losing game animals due to poor shot placement, moving targets, those pesky twigs, buck fever etc. and anything that would help reduce the deer herd with a reduction in wounded animals should be considered. I might try a crossbow during gun season to fill my doe tags and keep the hill quieter ( to not run off the big guys).

Jerry, I think you are going to have a monster six point. Good deer to cull.

I would say 3.5 years old based solely on body size. A good one to let walk, should be a beauty in a couple of years! Looks like he will have lots of sticker points and may grow 11-12 points.

I got to agree with Shade somewhat on this one. Over the years I have met many Pro contestants and even consider them friends, however, I have NEVER asked where they are fishing, what they are using, or placed a call during a tournament about location of another boat. The reason I enjoy these tournaments is the chess game. For me it is matching wits with the fish with the current weather conditions and the time of year. I don't chase pro boats, because to me finding my own fish is SOOOOO much more rewarding. Live or die in the standings, I know the decisions made are mine and mine only.

Define what species you want to fish for, especially if you are running only two rods. Lakers are deeper, rainbow and landlocks higher and browns higher still. If you are dropping down to fish lakers, try a heavier downrigger weight and go deeper to the 80' level and beyond (80' good starting point). Lakers love the bottom, so try there. Try a little higher for the other trout species. You may be above active lakers and below active rainbows and browns. By targeting one species, you can put two rods in the preferred zone and cover water more effectively. Lure selection for each species is different as well, so by targeting one/two similar species your presentation will be consistent with proper running speed for the type of lure used.

What Tim means is........ he likes to use both holes

Kwickfill has non-ethanol american gas. When you go in, make sure you thank them for not putting ethanol in the gas, and explain that is the reason you chose that station.

For you Barcelona guys, I have never fished there. Do most fish to the west towards Erie? How is the trashfish situation? I spent an exhusting morning last Sunday off the Catt. cleaning perch and silver bass/white perch off the lines that it really took the fun out of fishing. Barcelona intrigues me because of the Laker, steelhead option. Hey, 1.5 mph wormharness speed is the same speed lakers like dodger and flies.