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I know a guy if you need help.

Rick, how is the device for checking on muskrats chewing on cables?

I would try to jog your memory of any women you may have wronged on 7/14. That coincidence seems a little strange.

It is a design flaw of all boats that we must rely on a $150 bilge to secure a very expensive piece of machinery. The day I decided to no longer slip my boat, a great weight was lifted off my chest. I have two auto bilges and an on-demand third and I still have reoccurring dreams I am on my boat sinking.

Good heads up. Good weekend to play around on Lake Ontario with the derby going on and an equally great bite.

Nice report shorthanded

Never got deeper than 52’

Two man limit in two hours off the Catt. Three way rigs and riggers on bottom with worm harnesses. One short eye and 13 large sheep as well. Nice to be at fish cleaning station before all the boats came back. Zero perch.

Did Bandits keep the short fish off the line?

Only one fish over 30 lbs in the Canadian Derby so far. This is a lakewide phenomenon.

Those ladders seem like were adhesive poor from the start. No tackiness.

This could be a thing of beauty but instead it has wings like a flying fish.

Yep, that is the way to do it. Alt WTP tape is fine for flashers due to large surface area but I run into trouble with ladder backs and eyeball stickers mostly.

Let the good times roll! Guys in Dunkirk today limited out in short order as well. Summer school is upon us.

Agreed. I will also make releasing cuts on the tape to reduce surface tension over curves and bends.

Agreed, I buy WTP when I can. WTP just doesn’t have much variety.

I do a lot of customization of baits with various tape companies. I get frustrated at times by the lack of adhesion supplied to products I purchase. What does everyone use to make tape stick better? I tried rubber cement and it ain’t working.

Right HB2, 48 degrees in 1985 is still the same as 48 degrees in 2024 -they are probably occupying the same preferred temps. They are done growing by the time they hit the streams so warmer trib temps should have no bearing on fish sizes unless smaller fish tolerate warmer water better than larger fish and therefore survive to spawn -passing on their genes.

The answer may be as simple as the natural reproduction is happening in smaller, better quality streams that favor smaller fish sizes in order to navigate low flows and/or evade snatching attempts by anglers.

A little more money and international interest with Tunas but there is much to learn via research. Much of what could be learned by studying the shrinking king size issue might have a benefit to our own health and wellbeing. For example, what if nanoplastics entering the food chain is negatively effecting the reproduction in king salmon? We might want to know that bit of information. Again, this is a hypothetical example but salmon are a great indicator species of what is going on in the environment.

I would add their weights are way down as well.

After taking out some aggression on my finger getting him out of the trap, he met his fate in a steam pot. His downfall was the snakehead carcass in the crab trap