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You can keep trebles on floating/diving baits. Legal.

Try the smaller sized hot'n'tots

Look at the Shimano Charter Specials. Built for great lakes trollers in mind, and they carry them at Cabela's.

Stan, our fish AVERAGE 7 lbs so take our suggestions and downsize a little. If you are looking to stock up in the off season look at the Stinger Scorpion or Stinger size, Dreamweaver SS, and the smaller Northern Kings, Northport Nailers and Evil eyes (Eppinger). Anything with orange on it will work. Below 40' red becomes gray, so I like orange glow past 40'. Chartreuse would be a second color of prefrence. 2.8 mph is a good average steelhead speed, depending on the spoon used. Slower 2-2.5 with evil eyes, SS, Michigan Stingers and faster for heavier Northern Kings, and NP Nailers. I have fished similar lakes to you when I lived in Colorado, and I know the Kokanee and trout would love the orange 6" spin doctor or orange dodger with a small coho/peanut fly.

Guys, don't forget Buffalo harbor and the Niagara. November, the fish move inside the breakwall at Smallboat Harbor. Niagara fishing is world class with guys trolling with braid/wire or ripping giant tubes in the holes.

I will post a picture of what I did to my Cannons before running #20lb sharks. The weak points are the lexan bases and the lexan end assembly. So before my $100 20lb shark hit the water, I upgraded to the stainless bases, upgraded the pully, added a second pully, and attached a compression spring to the end pully. No problems reported and the compression spring worked as intended....when on a wave surge you can see the spring elongate and the wire engages the second pully transfering the load off the end assembly onto the second pully. My friend lost grip of the shark once this summer when deploying, and it free-fell the last 1' into the water without breaking the wire.

Torture, pure torture!!!! How many more months?

Kremer, what about the waitresses at the Black North restaurant?......they were memorable

I like the Cannon coffee colored wire.

Thanksgiving weekend.....take your pick. Good bets are below Burt Dam, Oak Orchard Dam, Oswego River Dam, Salmon River......any tributary will have browns, steelhead and occasional salmon. Primary bait is salmon eggs fished under a bobber.

I don't know RR, those look like they might be rainbows lol

Congrats Redman on your light line triumphs.......next you should head up to the dam and try your #8lb rig under the dam. When you hook up, make sure you announce to everyone you are using 8Lb line. You should get a warm reception .

Green on green 3/4 oz glow cleo with 12 lb line. Line size does not matter at night and you will snap off 3/4 oz cleos with 8lb or even 10lb when casting.

With this rain event, the run will just be starting at the dam young jedi

Try 2.5-4'. I like longer leads because spoons have thier own action. I also use smaller 3.25" spoons.

I don't like any east wind for pier fishing, but if I was fishing tonight I would fish between the piers because the high seas will probably push the fish in tight where they might see if the conditions are good enough to shoot the creek. My guess is they will not like the low flow and stop and hang between piers giving you opportunity. Can't catch-em if you aint fishing. Let us know how you did.

If you are looking at a 22-25' boat then you will want a 9 hp or greater kicker.

I would look at the new Thompsons coming out. Penn Yans are an excellent platform as well. Consider what the future is going to look like.....you know gas prices are going to go up again. Despite some recent oil finds offshore of Brazil and the middle east, "experts" have said that from the year 2020, the amount of oil in the world will peak. So from 2020 on availablitiy will start a slow death decent and prices will only go the opposite direction. With that in mind, the Striper with a gas-sipping outboard may be cheaper to run. There are pro/cons to each engine type. I/O's are easy to maintain and cheaper to replace. You also get more fishing space out the back than outboards. You can help the gas-guzzling problem by getting a small kicker and have the best of both worlds. If you are using the boat to go offshore deep, ocean fishing, or pulling skiiers occasionally......maybe the outboard platform is what you need.

You could buy a lot of stinkbait for $86,000.

For sliding releases down the line.....the amish boards are going to best the otter boats due to a tighter line, however, I run my otters in all wave heights without worrying about them doing the old reversal/cross to the other side FUBAR that can happen with collapsables. I catch a lot of my fish in the spring on minidisks off the otters. The action the otters get in waves does add action to the baits and does result in more fish IMO. Each board type has it's time and place. For inshore browns with light stickbaits......the amish will perform better. For stringing 3-4 baits off one side for walleye......the amish boards. For everything else.....I like my otters.

Not ALL creatures have butt-love Ray.

I thought we were in good shape this year with all the rain we had this summer, but here we go again with no rain in two weeks with temps in the high 70's. Hopefully the Salmon River hatchery managers keep the flows high to allow fish to come up to the ladders. I was wondering why these fish spawn in the fall, since they spawn in June in Alaska? Would there be any way we could delay the hatching cycle to allow fish to spawn/run latter in November and December when stream temps and water levels are more ideal?

What the hell was going to pair up and mate with that thing! Jerry, we should have gone to Michigan on Saturday.

Why not ice it and weigh it in the next day? Is that against the rules?

Been fishing it since a young lad. One rod with a egg sack/skein on the bottom or under a float. The second rod I am hucking jointed orange rapalas, hot'n'tots or a spoon during the day, then a glow cleo at night. The fish bite or come into the pier in waves at about 4 hour intervals so be prepared to spend some time exercising your shoulder. I can't do "all-nighters" like I used to (ask my wife), so I will go out in the evening one hour before dark and fish until 11:00 or I will arrive at the pier at 2:30 am and fish until one hour after sun up. Ten foot spinning rod with 12# test mono with at least a 225 yards capacity reel. Best times are after the lake turns over bringing cool water in tight. Light N or NW winds are best followed by W then S or SW winds. I don't fish any type of east wind.....they just don't bite. Best weekends lately have been the second and third weekends in September. The old days, we used to catch fish as early as the third weekend in August.