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Right, the arm with tubing clicks down onto the line. The sharp pointy thing helps secure the line when the arm/tubing clamps the line and is located in the central housing where the line passes through to the other side of the diver.

A word of caution if you are clamping on mono. The little pointy triangular rumble strip that helps secure the release pressing against the line will crimp and weaken your mono. I ground those sharp rumble strips down with a dremmel tool and increased the release hold by putting a small piece of 3M double sided tape down so the release arm pinches the line down into the tape. No slippage.

Thanks for the report. Looks like a road trip is in order. I have never fished West of the Catt. Are fish near the harbor at Barcelona or do you have to go hunting for them?

Good stuff! Was this event promoted or do you have all the boats you need or want? I would be interested in helping out next year if you need more boats. I used to volunteer for the wounded warrior program out of Sodus that Nick used to run. Unfortunately, that event was discontinued.

Yep. 1.5 setting on inside. I run a four pack of slides. Mags on inside. Standards on outside. To help avoid divers getting together, I run standards on 40 lb wire and mags on 30 lb wire (gains separation). I also set them exactly the same by laying them out on the lawn to confirm all my leaders are the same length, the mono leader I clamp onto is the same, the small piece of braid between the mono and wire is the same. Each side is run the same distance back so they fall together, and the opposing side may vary but not much. For example a spread of four divers might have two port side divers (a standard and a mag) both out 250’ out and two starboard divers (a standard and a mag) out 275’. In conditions of extreme changing down currents, like near the red can- Niagara Bar, I will pull the two inside divers before I turn 180 to go back over my line, otherwise, I can leave all 4 divers in the water and turn completely around without tangles. Slide divers are great in that they don’t spin on themselves so you can bass flip a standard outside the inside mag when resetting.

There is another meaning of the acronym “POS” crypto bot.

East winds all week ….

I think on years of no ice coverage, the emerald shiner migration into and out of the upper river doesn’t happen. The local East homebody Walleyes have to go roaming to look for food as a result.

Sounds like if we don’t get the SW winds cranking, maybe mid-July the Ohio fish get here. I was hoping to get into them in June ahead of the LOC summer derby. Better reports on Ontario

Thanks for the report. Sounds a little more promising

Beauties.

Any updates? Ross Robertson’s bigwater podcast episode with Dr Chris Vandergoot discussed a delay in big spawners getting to the Western shoals this April. I think this means the fish will be late getting back East.

Your boy looks exhausted after all those fish!

Browns are pretty much homebodies compared to salmon. They are more like a walleye in terms of habitat and hunting strategies. Warmer more Eutrophic water with a flow nearby and you can probably find them.

I have been smelling skunky weed coming through my car vents while commuting to and from Buffalo since marijuana possession was decriminalized. Just another day in paradise for me.

Nice!

I haven’t heard too many walleye reports this year other than a decent night bite out of Dunkirk. In a lake with tens of millions of walleye swimming around I would have thought I would hear more chatter.

Great stuff. It would appear that you were able to keep your fish alive in a live well then release them after weighing? Kudos!

Different things come to mind here. As suggested, two different methodologies in determining temps by the two maps. I believe GLERL defines surface temps from readings at the 30’ down level which you are comparing to the infrared map. Any NE wind on Erie can push the warm surface water away from Buffalo at the head of the Niagara, causing cooler water to be pulled into the river. Also, the down current in most of Niagara County waters is out of the NE sliding under the warm Niagara flow. We always have easy to reach cool waters even during the peak summer months.