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I don’t like seeing my downrigger balls on the screen blocking some images. I love my Hummingbird CHIRP images.

I would add this year there was increased competition on the plankton community from the smelt rebound. Probably a combination of factors at play. Some of the anecdotal thoughts running through my head..... 1). Less kings stocked 2). More Smelt competition? 3). Another invasive in the plankton community? I noticed a lot more orange fillets in the past few years ( blood red invasive shrimp effect?) 4). Mild winters but slow to warm up springs

My fixed cheater is similar to Les’s except I use an Offshore OR-16 red clip to place on downrigger cable and my sliding swivel has poly tubing over clasp to protect the main line. I do raise the rigger and take the cheater off instead of popping the line off the release

Sounded perfect

The surface temp chart was updated today

Did you try a chartreuse kitchen sink?

If the head is square cut then probably a Howie fly. Purple mirage over crinkle UV. Cabelas has them.

There are no temp transects maps being put out by GLERL at the moment, and adding to the problem is the surface temp map has not been updated since 5/26/21. I got burned on Monday spending 1.5 hours looking for the temp break off Wilson that did not exist anymore. Fishing has gotten harder!

Going to be a LONG month!!

The sustained heat coming in the forecast will help things set up and the bait to suspend. Reminder we are in June. Get the honey-do list done in time for July.

Sensitivity was cranked up Bruce. Nobody was within miles of me.

Some are pushed way inside, some are pushed into the warmer Niagara flow, some are pushed way out, and many are pushed to the bottom. Below is bottom zoom picture from today. Bait and kings pushed back into their winter pattern. Saw a weird thermal layer showing half way down on graph also.

I would say you were in the right place. Bait and hooks. Perhaps a little East wind blues is all.

Talking to some of the old-timers over the years, on Canandaiuga they fish the points/drop offs with slip sinkers and sawbellies. Very similar to how they fish southern reservoirs for stripers and catfish

2016 I believe was the largest but had the benefit of previous classes of fish getting whacked by the bad winters of the previous two years so there was plenty of food and no real die off.

Raccoons hug trees. I like that omelet eating idea.

Last weekend we found a similar situation and spent time over “clean” water with no bait and few hooks just to find those hungry fish coming out of winter pattern and lagging behind the bait migration. It was the only way to keep rods moving. Those inside fish are stuffed.

Looks like the lake blew up with wind at 10:30.