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Tried to scratch a few walleye on Chautaqua on Sunday during the afternoon. Trolled #30 jets off boards, one downrig, one three-way bottom rig with spinner rigs without success. After an hour/half of watching rods, we decided to save the day and anchor. North wind blowing so we hit the north side of Long Point near the marker buoy with the transom over 24' FOW. My brother and I hammered HUGE Bluegills, pumpkinseeds and a few whites for a nice little fishfry. Pieces of worm ahead of a little piece of Berkley gulp.

Anyone have the results?

Yep! When the fish are active, they are the rods popping.

I run mono divers in spring on #30 Big Game with mini-disks or size #0 dipsys off the big boards.

Never had much luck either in East winds, so usually I don't fish. During tournaments you have no choice, so fish the temps which usually change. In the spring and early summer east winds usually roll colder water west so I end up fishing higher. One of these days, I will get an O2 sensor and record what happens during an east wind reversal. I imagine the cold deeper water that rolls up has less dissolved O2 so it makes the fish lethargic. I don't have proof it happens but I witnessed hundreds of Lakers at the bar surfacing and gulping air during an east wind one spring.

Nothing beats a "one-man parade."

I guess the word has gotten out.......your flies apparently catch Chinooks .

Ok, I got a nice ding in my propeller from a log I hit doing 35 mph on blast-off at Orleans pro/am. I assume a ding in the propeller will cause an unbalanced/ wobble issue that may effect the health of the lower unit? Do I go with aluminum which is cheaper and will break when hiting something, taking a page from Nascar bodies to protect the drive, or do I go for speed and durability with a stainless prop? Who knows what?

Beautiful

I could make a joke here about your girlfriend grabbing the throbbing rod running down the chute....but that would be too easy and I am a gentleman (not really).

Beware of "Flea Nose"....a condition caused by accidentally wiping you nose when you have fleas on your hand. You will smell the stink all day. Try at least #30lb line to keep the fleas away.

I am sure 38 degree water exists in the Lake. It buoys around like a blob in a Lava Lamp. I know the transects cannot possible predict the temperature of all the little pockets across the lake, but GENERALLY I find them accurate on a grand scale. With that being said, I have never noticed the blue lower layers absent from the temp transects. Usually there is some ice water showing up somewhere in the lake even into August.

For anyone whom does not believe in global warming, check out the temp transects for Lake Ontario. It is not even July yet, and the coldest water is a balmy 44 degrees. Looks like I am going to have to buy another one of those $100 20 lb sharks .

......and as the sands of time pass.....so begins the days of our lives. Will Richard be able to go fishing? Will he find his lost steelhead box? Keep us posted on the soap opera lol.

Some thoughts I had passed onto Paul included that if we really want to grow the events and have better payouts....we need to get involved. All of us contestants have a stake. Many of us are small business owners and in our circle of friends and contacts there are national/international corporations and businesses we should be tapping into for event donations. A simple letter to call in some favors coupled with passing on the name of the company contact to Pro/Am officials might go a long way to increase corporate partnership.

You lost me at the cheap looking plastic release arm. Nice concept however.

Nobody has a "right" to their waypoints, and nobody can possibly know the other guys' waypoints so for god's sake LEAVE waypoints out of the equation and look up to see what is going on around you!!!! Common sense SHOULD prevail. If everyone is trolling in a east-west direction in crowded conditions, and you want to troll in a north-south direction, then use your riggers only.......don't act all suprised and pissed off your 600' copper got caught in someone's dipsy. The act described above should never had happened among two fishing vessels. Blow-boats well that is a different story.

I don't know if those are sweedes. That looks like a Canadian mullet on that one dude.

I guess most sailboaters would not qualify based on the competency clause

Have the western challenge cup standings been posted anywhere?

I believe you can night fish after 12:01 am, so PLENTY of time for fishing. It is more of a beer league....low stress and fun. I might have to try it one of these times. I like the idea that I could try night fishing, come in, get breakfast, go out and fish some more.

From the thruway up #98.

I remember it being near an overpass past Capt. Cove I think? Mapquest is not showing the correct location and I need to give directions to my Observer. Anyone remember route numbers off #98?

Where is the captain's meeting friday? I will be coming down Rt. #98 from the thruway. Thanks in advance.

Get the stainless and never have one break again.