Pete Collin

Holy cow are they stacked in there!

Hello All, I lost one of my inline planers this spring. Went online to find a replacement would cost about $40 delivered. Not worth it! There is nothing to them! So a little time in the shop, and I have a perfectly functional mirror of an original. Even used a CNC to carve a wooden mold for that slidey lead weight for the bottom. You don't need a CNC to make the form, but I am learning how to run CNC machines so it came in handy. On its test flight, I put it in the water and thought, "Oh man! It's floating funny! What did I do wrong?" The problem was that a fish bit right away! The new board helped me get a 10 fish day on Lake Ontario. The highlight was when I cranked in my lines at quitting time, one lure was being followed by a salmon! Maybe I should fabricate a mast and reels for a proper big setup. Have a good and safe season everyone!

Les, was that an American eel that you caught? I once tasted eel that a chum got ice fishing. They actually are delicious, and eel sushi is proof. A finger lakes guide once cooked lamprey and said it tasted surprisingly good.

Have I ever seen anything special while fishing? Gotta choose only one or two stories.... Some of them I have already written about on this forum. There was the time I was flyfishing Sandy Creek. Some days you drive from bridge to bridge and find all of the good spots too crowded to join in. It looked too mobbed to bother getting out of the car. But a thunderstorm was looming, the purple/black clouds and advancing thunder claps sounded pretty ominous. The whole batch of fishermen skedaddled once the maelstrom hit, soaking rain coming in sideways. In just a few minutes of slammed car doors and starting engines, I was the only guy parked by the bridge. I could see wakes and splashes in the run upstream. It was obvious there was a ton of migrating fish before me. So I ignored the lightning that seemed way too close for comfort, and waded into casting range. It's a phenomenon that an approaching storm front will send fish into a frenzy, seen it a hundred times. Can't imagine why those brown trout weren't terrified by the constant bright flashes and thunder that must have rumbled the stones beneath them. Instead, they bit on any fly I could drift into their roiling mass. It was amazing. I caught and caught and caught spawning browns, some of them pretty big. The storm was so intense that there must have been some actual danger standing up to my knees in water waving a stick in the air. But I thought the reward was worth it, I could die with a smile on my face! I thought about that scene from Fantasia where The Sorcerer's Apprentice was standing on a craggy mountain top, directing lightning bolts at his will. I felt that way except each jolt came from a fish. That scene played out right up to sundown. I was actually sad when it faded to darkness, that the most intense session of stream fishing had come to a close. At sunrise the next morning, everything changed. The storm brought in a cold front that shut the fish down, they couldn't be budged. But what a time, having mother nature herself sweep a loaded stream clean of human competition, and usher in a cosmic bite just for me.

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Hello. I am on the market for a 7 foot medium action spinning rod. Preferably one with an IM6 blank, a cork handle and many guides. I'll even take a blank if you have one.

Wyoming County, Letchworth Park area

That's 4 hours away from me! Too bad.

where do you live?

Where do you live?

I'm on the market for replacement rigger weights. I will even buy some releases if you have them.