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I use fish thief snubbers on Ontario with regular divers on wire . Litebite slide divers on Erie , Reg slide divers on braid for high spoon divers on Ontario

My first choice is black and my 2nd choice is black . Having said that I just realized my small divers on the browns rods are red (port) and green ( starboard). I’m sure there are plenty of theories out there but imho I’m not sure it’s a game breaker

In-line boards take all the fun out of browns and walleyes because you have to size the rod to handle the drag of those little boards not the fish that you are fishing for ( a lil better with eyes just because you are typically going slow enough that inline board drag is somewhat reduced but an eye fights less than a brown so you aren’t much further ahead).I had a 16’ boat with a mast and big boards for 15 years. I would strongly recommend going that way. The fact is that a small open boat can often provide easier access to a dual planer mast and stowing boards than some big boats allow.

Welcome aboard. Lot of experience collected here. Ask away

Just saying- as a university trained scientist this looks like goobly gook to me . I can’t make head or tail of it.

The Hudson has endured a lot of contamination over the years. It is also a major spawning habitat for both herring and striped bass. We should all be proactive about pollution as it affect our environment and we should also be proactive in making intelligent choices about posting negative and perhaps unscientific material as it concerns technology choices. We desperately need to make progress on climate change issues. Any of us who rely on the fisheries from Lake Erie to Long Island Sound are between a rock and a hard place . This isn’t going to change for the better by burying our head in the sand and wishing for a bygone era when the bulk of the damage was actually being done. - Tight Lines

Most people release them anyway. I did trips out of Kingston for years, rather doubt you’ll see that fishery closed

How are these “Pirate” spoons being marketed? I don’t see them for sale

New ownership at NK. Supposedly they are sending me some of their new glow Mag spoons to try so we’ll see what we see

I'll be going that way after fishing at Port of Rochester today but I find it hard to believe that the USCG launch is iced in . Ive fished out of there a lot of winters that were way colder than this without much trouble. If you were gonna go to Ginna then Bear Creek is a lot closer.

Good to know Glen. Guys think they are meeting me at Port of Rochester so... Probably best to stick with someplace I've been fishing this winter anyway. Taking the outboard Crestliner to Hanks after fishing for R&R under the floor

Yar, it was never good before either. Tie the boat off to that iron railing and then drop down into her and then as bad or worse coming in, especially with a lil surf coming in. Come to think of it I don't think Ive ever launched out of there when there was a dock in.

Anybody with timely info please chime in . Thanks