Pete Collin

https://fiddleheadfocus.com/2017/04/25/sports/sh-mainelyoutdoorscol-17-17/

Long Time Fisherman, here is a link that shows the kind of flies I use.  I tie my own.  You'd have to mail order them from places in Maine or New Hampshire.

Yes I use small spin doctors with New England style tandem hooked trolling flies. Have caught all salmonids that way.

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I live in the middle of my village and it's hard to grow anything on my lawn!  Deer are voracious, and they know where they're safe during hunting season!

With each video, I'm whittling away at New York's tree species.  Our forests are pretty diverse!

I go with the fluorocarbon fuse.

My best lures all season. 

Hello All,

Forgive me for the off topic video.  But I had a very unusual summer, and, among other things, I got some good aerial shots of the Finger Lakes!

Here's a video somebody did back in 2009 on Keuka.   

I put up a video once before showing the tackle, tactics, and you can see me catch one in real time.  The only difference between LO and the finger lakes is that in the fingers, cranking the jig really fast back to the boat will get strikes, not so in the big lake.  Here's a link:  

Hello All,

Hasn't been a very fishing- filled year for me. But a good Saturday forecast moved me to invite an old chum along for some Laker Jigging.

Steve hadn't caught Lakers that way, and was game to try. Usually I like to scout the fish before inviting people, but I probably won't get that many trips so we chanced it.

Luckily, the fish were a short distance from the launch. We set up shop an I quickly landed a nice 33 incher. It took a while for the fish to warm up, but there were plenty under us the whole time. Eventually Steve got a 32 and 33 incher for himself. He was tickled, said they were the biggest he got. Won't be too hard to get him out again!

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Hello All,

This will be a unique summer for me. I contracted with a helicopter company. We are flying the power lines, marking hazard trees along the right of way. Will take all summer. So I won't get to fish much, but I sure get some breathtaking views of the Finger Lakes!below is the south end of Canandaigua, Bluff Point, and Seneca.

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Nice job Brian!

One winter I bought a kit to make panther martin and mepps-style spinners.  I made dozens of them, it gave me something to do through the winter, and I had a good batch going into the fishing season.  One of my first trips out, I left the damn box full of them resting on the bridge over East Koy Creek and drove away without them.  I bet you I made somebody's day!  Nice job looking for the owner.

Gator, I have been out once out of Sandy and was skunked!  Of course I want to go again.  Lots of summer left.

Hello All,

Many of you are woodlot owners.  Last week I met with a client who had a landowner's worst nightmare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_aWV-pZcmY

That's the biggest NY smallie I have ever seen photographed!

Will you go the next step and install sets of treble hooks?

8 minutes ago, chowder said:

What in God's name do Lakers have to do with Coronavirus? Can't we have a discussion with out it turning into some kind of idiotic tea party forum?

During an election year, they have robot programs going around muddling up message boards with nonsense.  Best to ignore it.

1 hour ago, FishingFool34 said:

This song isn't for everyone... also it's NSFW, more of a gag/funny song.  Definitely fits the water theme requirement of the OP though...

Lonely Island - I'm on a Boat

FishingFool, that song is perfect.  I often think about it while fishing, because the song is bragging about how great your life is.

An instrumental but a goodie.   

Nobody gets to fish as much as they'd like.  And here we are, midwinter, with weeks or months to go before our first launch.  My favorite kind of video or post is one that really puts you on the water.  Images or descriptions that are so vivid you are transported to the lake or stream.  This can be hard to do, despite the producer or author's best intentions.  That's why the really sublime videos are rare.  But they are out there if you look.

29 minutes ago, GAMBLER said:

Not a grass carp. This is a grass carp.



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Why do I hear that in Paul Hogan's voice?

Looks like a whitefish.  Can't tell if there is an adipose fin.

Hello All,

I must be becoming an old guy because I am always marveling at what technology allows us to do.  

Today I exchanged pleasantries with Jimmy Houston.

As a kid, I would never miss any fishing TV show as they came on the air.  In the beginning were Roland Martin and Bill Dance and Virgil Ward, followed in the '80s by Jimmy Houston and Jerry McKinnis.  I idolized all of them, even trying on their southern accent for size while on the water.

The YouTube fishermen have driven all of the fishing programs off the air, it seems.  It's a good thing, really.  Because the modern internet ones are more diverse and personalized, and the overt tackle company shills can be avoided.  But I came upon ol' Jimmy H.  on youTube, who puts out regular features.

It's interesting that he doesn't seem to have a big viewership, his subscribers being a fraction of those that some of the more ambitious younger guys have.  But his southern charm is still there and seems like a happy grandpa toodling around with boats and rods and pets.  I noticed that he freely engaged with his viewers in the comments section.  So I wrote him a paragraph of well wishes and got a warm reply.  Young people today probably won't appreciate how cool I find this to be.  Youtubers have avid fans, but approaching them isn't hard - I have met and befriended several of my favorite producers of online video.  But if you told me as a kid how easy it would one day be to interact with a guy who I regarded the same way as some kids looked at Carl Yastrzemski or Larry Bird - I would have flipped! 

On 12/1/2019 at 3:39 PM, bluegiller said:

This is very cool I miss him ..I have a couple of his paintings and carvings..every time I stopped to see him was an adventure, you never knew what he might be up to or what he might say. There will never be another like him ever. Thanks for sharing this I brightened a rainy crappy day for me.

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Bluegiller,

Would you consider putting up pictures of your paintings and sculptures?  I'd love to see them.