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My fishing buddy caught one on Chautauqua fishing for muskies. We thought for sure it was a musky, we had a follow then he figure-eighted and it hit. Boy were we suprised!

Vince click on the "private messages" icon at the top, message sent.

The Crusher spoon and Jake model will find more play for your customers. Excellent paint jobs that hold up well.

Mr Kingslamon, you actually have an excellent platform to fish the pro/ams. I own a 23' 1988 trophy, and also have a limited budget. You need two other partners and an observer. The total cost for a pro/am weekend for my crew is $150.00 per person. I pay the observer gas reimbursement based on his/her car's fuel economy, plus some beer, plus a meal and offer to sleep in the boat ($80.00 approx.) Other expenses shared are gas to tow the vehicle, entry fees, launch fees, ice, boat gas, slip for weekend. This figure works pretty good, and I can tell you it is the best $150 you will spend all year. You got to pay to play......at anything. Eighteen holes of golf with cart......around $50.00. Sports leagues........hundreds etc. etc. It all how you chose to spend your dollars. Of course if you win big steelhead or big king or place well, you have a chance to actually make money......but don't count on it. Now my boat sleeps three comfortably, so we save on lodging if we fish the eastern events, but we chose to fish only the western events only and mostly commute from home.

Try the 2.75" model, might do the trick. Rapala replacement hooks are the best. Pin's work great on stream steelhead, bluefish, Spanish Mackerral.

It must be a light penetration thing, but it seems no matter what time of year the lakers are 80-90' down on the fingers.

I have a couple of ugly sticks w/rollers that I like.

I can't believe the fish was only 6 years old!!!!!! I bet a lot of gobies went to feed that pig.

Well done production. You must have hired someone to film and produce the video?

Ray, it has been one year and I am still waiting.......don't hold your breath. If sending packets is a problem, maybe packets should be made available to all teams AT THE PRO/AM events.

Jack, it is not to say don't buy copper. I have four set-ups. If I was just fishing for fun and not tournaments......they never would see the light of day. IMO, there are easier ways to fish away "stealthy" from the boat. Make sure you try one first. I will bet you will not be impressed with the fight the fish gives on copper, and if you are fishing catch and release.......forget it.

I think you should back up a little. Copper would be the last thing I equip my boat with. I can think of a ton of other things to help you put fish in the boat. I would consider two more downrigger rods to stack or two more diver set-ups or a couple of leadcore set-ups or a planer mast/otter boats or a thumper set-up....etc. etc. before copper. Copper is not some magical fishing secret.....it has been around since the turn of the century. You can achieve the same depths with pinch-on weights or torpedo divers without the hassle. Copper is a folly most of us get into when there is nothing left to buy or try. You have seen a lot play on this site and others because copper has become "new" again for a lot of people.

Paul, you could come up on the 24th, but the place will be empty. The event is for the 27th-28th in Lockport.

You can catch some browns thru the ice in harbors like Olcott as the fish fall back after spawning. A radiotagging study I read showed browns will move in and out of rivers and streams, but as the water temp in shore reaches 40 degrees, fish will migrate deeper to warmer water. Look at the surface temp map on the NOAA site and you will see the warmer water is out in the middle of the lake. In the spring, everything reverses as warm rain will warm the shallows and bring the bait and browns back tight to shore. Start the end of March probing piers, stream and even ditch mouths with run-off. Good fishing from shore til probably mid-april.

Hook the treble to the edge of a glass of Coca-Cola, and let the spoon dangle in the drink. Leave over night. Wipe clean in the morning.

They are truly screwed in Haiti.....wow.....wait until the second week when people start to run out of food. My donation went thru the Red Cross site. They have it set up to go to Haiti and not into their general fund.

.....exactly! There has to be penalties for cheating so severe, no one will risk the penalty. Make it fraud (criminal offense), give the commitee authority via entrance application to have the authority to sanction fines for cheating. But you still have to give people the benefit of the doubt. By saying the closed comm. rule format is unenforceable in effect you are saying nobody can be trusted. The more I think about it.....the more I am offended.

So as I am slogging thru 2' of snow today in a vain attempt to find a Grouse that has yet to be eaten by a Coyote, I spot a deer bedded in some pines. The deer has no idea I am there. I think to myself how easy the twenty yard shot would be. But you can't shoot deer now (esp. with birdshot) because.......there is a season.....rules. There is nothing to stop me from shooting this deer, dragging it past my inquisitive daughters out sledding, butchering it and placing it in my freezer except for the fact there are rules that I am aware of. Then I think to myself, deer poaching is really unenforceable unless someone calls in a complaint. Based on the logic of the Pro/Am commitee that closed communication is unenforceable, we should not have deer seasons or limits because poaching is trully "unenforceable".

Gander Mountain in Tonawanda

5 minute epoxy over the copper knot. Works great.

That was a good site Glenn, that explains it better.

I don't know, according to the Raymarine site I think I got it correct. Confusing.

The way I understand it, the two frequencies can be used simultaneously on a split screen because at different frequencies they won't interfere with each other. The lower frequency 50 KHz will show deeper objects better, but with a narrower cone. The 200 Khz has a wider cone and shows stuff up higher.

Sometimes it is a little thing. For example, I changed a treble hook on NK that was bent. I changed from a stainless to a black owner hook. Never took another fish on that lure until I put a stainless hook back on. If your dead rigger was at a different level, maybe the current was less at that depth so your spoon was not kicking as strong as the upper rigger. Little things make a difference. Scent on the lure, the swivel, the hook, the speed of troll for the lure and depth your are running, the current you are running into, light penetration, water temp etc. etc. etc. Enough variable to keep the puzzle interesting for the rest of your life.

It is not a level playing field if I don't own a cell phone or have the same connections as other teams. I understand the "you can't enforce it" arguement, but what happened to gentlemen's agreement to follow the rules? What about ethics? What about giving someone the benefit of the doubt? If there is evidence of cheating as witnessed by an observer then bring in the lie detector test and confirm it, and kick the S.O.B.s arse out of all future tournaments. Make the penalty soooooo friekin' huge, it won't be worth the chance. What is the point of HAVING OBSERVERS if we are not actually using them for their intended purpose?