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Some of you may remember Rebel G-finish on their stickbaits in the early 90's. Great pearlescent color, but the paint would come off in chuncks. I used to run the jointed version on a four rigger set with long leads and catch Kings down 50' or so in June. I think the attraction of spoons over sticks is if there is any weeds or fleas on the front of a stickbait.....it ain't going to catch a thing. Also, there is not a whole lot of flash/pull from afar so you have to know you are over fish.

I have noticed on Youtube video clips that the fly leaders on Lake Michigan and west coast fisherman are REALLY long. I was wondering if this is a trend others can verify as effective on Lake O? Some of the west coast meat rigs looked like the leaders were 5-7' behind the flasher!

Depends who you talk to. Mostly, I have heard 20' down per 100' of copper. However, the guys who put out the last edition of the trollers's bible list 400' copper at 48' down, 300' at 42' down I believe. There seems to be a discrepency with figures maybe due to drag/diminished return.

I have patient who worked for the sanitation department in Buffalo. He stated because much of the pipes in the facility on the river is PVC, so they can't treat the sewage in the winter due to freezing condtions. The result is direct dumping into the river during the winter. If you had seen the overhead modis of Lake Erie before the freezing, you could theorize that most municipalities up-lake are doing the same by the turbidity of the water. Toronto and Hamilton are growing by leaps and bounds. Nutrient loading is not a problem going foward in Lake O. I wonder if the Canadians could put up an electric barrier in the Welland canal to prevent the asian carp from entering Lake O?

I was wondering when the discussions where going to start on lake O . You CANNOT paint all lakes with the same brush. Ontario gets influx of alewives from the seaway, and has plenty of green water. The bait along Niagara and Orleans county is there all year. I would be interested to know from some of the older fishermen how the bait is holding up on the east end and north shore. I can attest that the lake has gotten warmer and the bait may be condensing in the cooler waters on the west end where I fish, therefore, giving me a false sense of security on the state of the lake. Maybe some others can chime in about the "state of the lake" in other ports.

I grew up fishing carp lakes in my neighborhood, at the cottage on Lime Lake, and anywhere else walleyes were not available to fish for at night. Corn, doughballs, and like Gambler chum'em with floating bread. Love the "poor-man's salmon". Great fight, and you can fish in a relaxed way, on a dock with a twelve pack in warm weather at night. I was trying to garner interest at the pro/am events to have a carp contest at night. Every event has carp in the marinas,however, nobody took me seriously (there is a suprise!). I would think it would be a blast drinking beer, shooting the ****e, harassing fellow contestants, and running fish up to the weigh station. Anyone interested?????? Anyway, one of my fondest fishing memories was carp fishing. On the dock at Lime Lake with my brother, a can of Delmonte corn and a twelve pack of Old Milwaulkee. I decided on this particular evening to abandon my usual light gear for my heavier downrigger equipment to see what the battle would be like with a tight drag and heavy line. After about the sixth beer or so, I must have forgotten to leave free-spool on my Diawa Sealine reel and while my head was turned talking to my brother, I heard a splash and saw my rod moving out to the middle of the lake! Without hesitation I dove off the end of the dock in the direction of the wake my rod made. At full extension, I had a Matrix (movie) moment where as I was above the water, I could see the moonlight glistening off the chrome reel parts as the rod was traveling about one foot below the surface. I had guestimated the distance to jump perfectly as my outstretched hands land on the rod handle which I grab as I hit the water with beautiful bellyflop. The raucus of the splash, the screaming drag, and my brother's hysterical laughter woke up everyone around us. As the neighbors come pouring out of their cottages to see what the hell all the noise is about I could hear them say "aw its just the Kahler boys fishing again" ......good times

When a fish is on a copper rod, there is never a 90 degree angle with the wire to the rod tip. The bend in the rod produces the wide arc needed to reduce the fatigue on the wire. I think the twilli tip site may be over-hyping the effects of their product on their site. I do think the tips help with SS wire when the rods are not deployed or when you are standing over a fish smiling and the dipsy is just dangling free at the end of the rod bouncing around.

Misspelled prayers sent to you and your fam.

I like 50/50 italian bread crumb/flour, deep fry, and use cocktail sauce for dipping. I don't use egg, just water to wet the fillet then roll in the mix. Now I am hungry just thinking about it!!! I have made some fish chowder recipes with Bluegill that have turned out great.

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.